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ArticleHealth services research2017

The Economics of Public Health: Missing Pieces to the Puzzle of Health System Reform.

Glen P Mays, Adam J Atherly, Alan M Zaslavsky

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Article in Health services research, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Development and Scoring of a Survey on Public Health Accreditation Capacity.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Glen P MaysDepartment of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.ORCID 0000-0002-7837-6812
Adam J AtherlyDepartment of Health Systems, Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Colorado-Denver, Aurora, CO.ORCID 0000-0001-6443-0761
Alan M ZaslavskyDepartment of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.ORCID 0000-0003-1072-6043

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The United States continues to experiment with health care delivery and financing innovations, but relatively little attention is given to the public health system and its capacity for improving health status in the U.S. population at large. The public health system operates as a multisector enterprise in which government agencies work in conjunction with private and voluntary organizations to identify health risks in the population and to mobilize community-wide actions that prevent and contain these risks. The Affordable Care Act and related health reform initiatives are generating new interest in the question of how best to expand and integrate public health approaches into the larger U.S. health system. The research articles featured in this issue of Health Services Research cluster around two broad topics: how public health agencies can deliver services efficiently and how public health agencies can interact productively with other elements of the health system. The results suggest promising avenues for aligning medical care and public health practices.

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Community ParticipationDelivery of Health CareEfficiency, OrganizationalHealth Care ReformHealth PolicyHumansPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActPreventive Health ServicesPublic Health AdministrationResearchUnited Stateshealth economicshealth system reformPublic health services

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PMID29130265
PMCPMC5682135

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