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ArticleHealth services research2020

Pivoting from decomposing correlates to developing solutions: An evidence-based agenda to address drivers of health.

Austin B Frakt, Ashish K Jha, Sherry Glied

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Article in Health services research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Austin B FraktVA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0795-5462
Ashish K JhaBrown University School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6602-6444
Sherry GliedNew York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York City, New York, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health is influenced by many factors outside the health system. This is often expressed by decomposing contributors to health into factors that sum to 100 percent. In this commentary, we assess the (few) strengths and (many) limitations of such decompositions. We conclude that they fail to be useful for policy guidance. We conclude by proposing an alternative approach to assessing how various factors affect health: evaluations of interventions.

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Health PolicyHealth Status DisparitiesEvidence-Based PracticeHealth BehaviorHumansSocial Determinants of Healthdelivery of health careeconomicspolicypublic healthquality of health care

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PMID32776528
PMCPMC7518812

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