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Strategies to Achieve Alignment, Collaboration, and Synergy Across Delivery and Financing Systems: Closing Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women
Webinar

Closing Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Woman

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This webinar highlights and evaluates the effectiveness of the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service (MAMA) program’s four major components:

  • Health home care management model
  • Peer and community support
  • Flexible funding for non-medical services
  • Advanced health information technology platform

The MAMA program is an innovative, multi-sector initiative that seeks to address the constellation of social factors that contribute to adverse maternal and infant outcomes, including housing instability, food insecurity, untreated mental health conditions, domestic violence, and substance abuse.

Brief

Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

Publication

“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations

This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.

Publication

Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022

This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs