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Appendix A: Related Reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Pages 343-352

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From page 343...
... . 2011 For the Public's RECOMMENDATION 2: The committee Health: The Role of recommends that the Department of Health and Measurement in Human Services support and implement the following Action and to integrate, align, and standardize health data and Accountability health-outcome measurement at all geographic levels: a.
From page 344...
... 2012 Primary Care and RECOMMENDATION 1: To link staff, funds, and Public Health: data at the regional, state, and local levels, HRSA and Exploring Integration CDC should join efforts to undertake an inventory of to Improve existing health and health care databases and identify Population Health new data sets, creating from these a consolidated platform for sharing and displaying local population health data that could be used by communities. 2014 Capturing Social and FINDING 5-1: Four social and behavioral domains Behavioral Domains of health are already frequently collected in clinical and Measures in settings.
From page 345...
... 2015 Vital Signs: Core This report provides a detailed analysis of Metrics for Health measurement of individual and population health and Health Care outcomes and costs, identifying fragilities and gaps in Progress available systems, and considering approaches and priorities for developing the measures necessary for a continuously learning and improving health system. It notes, "Substantial disparities exist among and within subpopulations in the United States with respect to the relative impact of each of the domains of influence on health and health care, including disparities by race, ethnicity, income, education, gender, geography, and urban or rural populations.
From page 346...
... In times of economic hardship in the United States, more children with mental disorder–related disabilities will qualify for benefits because they meet the income eligibility threshold. Children living in poverty are more likely than other children to have mental health problems, and these conditions are more likely to be severe.
From page 347...
... RECOMMENDATION 2: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Institute of Education Sciences, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and private philanthropies should fund research focused on developing guidance for policy makers and program administrators and managers on how to scale effective parenting programs as widely and rapidly as possible.
From page 348...
... The consortium should also offer support to communities, including technical assistance. RECOMMENDATION 6-4: Through multi-sectoral partnerships, hospitals and health care systems should focus their community benefit dollars to pursue long term strategies (including changes in law, policies, and systems)
From page 349...
... Health care programs account for more than one-third of total federal expenditures on children but are not properly accounted for in the SPM poverty measure. CONCLUSION 7-3: Evidence suggests that paid family and medical leave increases parents' ability to continue in employment and has positive impacts on children's health, although it might also reduce employment among women potentially eligible for such leave.
From page 350...
... 2019 Vibrant and Healthy CONCLUSION 5-1: The current health care system Kids: Aligning focuses mainly on clinical goals and addresses the Science, Practice, multiple other determinants of health in fragmented and Policy to and highly variable ways. Despite high-quality Advance Health clinical care, the health status of America's children Equity and young families is far worse than in comparable developed countries.
From page 351...
... RECOMMENDATION 5-3: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state, tribal, and territorial government Medicaid agencies, health systems leaders, and state and federal policy makers should adopt policies and practices that improve the organization and integration of care systems, including promoting multidisciplinary team-based care models that focus on integrating preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care with a whole-family focus, development of new practice and payment models that incentivize health creation and improve service delivery, and structures that more tangibly connect health care delivery systems to other partners outside of the health care sector.


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