Resources

Promoting Data Sharing Approaches by The Topos Partnership

This report—as well as the accompanying Toolkit, both produced with generous support from the Data Funders Collaborative—is intended to help communicators talk about and promote a wide range of data sharing, with broad audiences. The goal is to ident

Charting a Course for an Equity-Centered Data System: Recommendations from the National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems

National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems

This paper explains the Commission, the foundational white papers, defines terms, describes the Commission approach, and outlines the guiding principles of a modern, equity-oriented public health data system and what that system does. This includes a

ONC Health IT Standards Bulletin

ONC Standards Bulletin 2021-2

Race and ethnicity data are important for many uses, such as informing effective treatment and patient care, improving healthcare outcomes, research, and, identifying and eliminating health disparities to improve health

Variation In Health Outcomes: The Role Of Spending On Social Services, Public Health, And Health Care, 2000–09

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Although spending rates on health care and social services vary substantially across the states, little is known about the possible association between variation in state-level health outcomes and the allocation of state spending between he

The Future of Nursing

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly compl

2021/2022 Prevention Resource Guide

The 2021/2022 Prevention Resource Guide recognizes that there are actions we can take as a society and within communities, organizations, and families to address the root causes of child abuse and neglect. The child abuse prevention guide seeks to hi

Seven Ways Business Can Align with Public Health for Bold Action and Innovation

This report presents seven practical steps that businesses can take to strengthen partnerships and improve the health of their employees, communities, and the nation. With support from the de Beaumont Foundation, these recommendations were informed b

State Public Options: Comparing Models from Across the Country

This issue brief outlines some of the problems states are seeking to address with their public option proposals, reports the proposals’ current status, categorizes the public option proposals into archetypes, and identifies important issues for Calif

Social Determinants of Health and Medicaid Policy Recommendations

As the federal-state program providing access to essential health care to over 77 million low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults, and people with disabilities, Medicaid has a unique opportunity to address the social risk factors

A Social-Return-On-Investment Analysis Of Bon Secours Hospital’s ‘Housing For Health’ Affordable Housing Program

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Community health programs aimed at addressing the social determinants of health often face challenges demonstrating their impact through traditional economic evaluation methods of return-on-investment analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis,

Ready or Not,2021: PROTECTING THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH FROM DISEASES, DISASTERS, AND BIOTERRORISM

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The Ready or Not report series provides an annual assessment of states’ level of readiness to respond to public health emergencies. It recommends policy actions to ensure that everyone’s health is protected during such events. This 2021 editio