February 2024
Ohio Health Value Review-February 2024
The Ohio Health Value Review is a quarterly electronic update from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio designed to highlight opportunities for policymakers and stakeholders to improve health value in Ohio. If you have questions about the newsletter or have suggested tools or resources you would like to see included in future editions, please contact Nick Wiselogel, HPIO’s Vice President of Strategic Communications.
Health value graphic
Last spring, HPIO released the fifth edition of its biennial Health Value Dashboard. The 2023 Dashboard found that Ohio ranks 44th in the nation in health value, a combination of population health and healthcare spending. That means that Ohioans are less healthy and spend more on health care than people in most other states. Ohio is one of only two states, along with West Virginia, to rank in the bottom quartile in both population health and healthcare spending (as displayed in the graphic below).
HPIO typically releases a Dashboard every other year to coincide with the passage of the state’s biennium budget process. HPIO has made the strategic decision to adjust its release schedule so that the Dashboard is complete before the state budget process begins, meaning work is underway for a 2024 Dashboard, which will be released in April. Future Dashboards would be released every even-numbered year.
Health value resources
The resources below, organized by the domains in HPIO’s Health Value Dashboard, can be used to help improve health value in Ohio.
Population health and healthcare spending
- Hospital Cost Tool 3.0 – National Academy for State Health Policy
- State Policy Trends to Improve Perinatal Health Outcomes – Commonwealth Fund
- Health Cost and Affordability Policy Issues and Trends to Watch in 2024 – Kaiser Family Foundation
Social and economic environment
- Strategies to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Ohio: Promoting positive social norms and intervening to lessen harm – HPIO
- Let’s Get It Right: Consistent Measurement of the Drivers of Health – Commonwealth Fund
- Social Media and Adolescent Health – National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
- Connections between criminal justice and health: Impacts on children and families – HPIO
Physical environment
- Navigating Climate-Related Threats to the Public’s Health – Trust for America’s Health
- December 2023 Climate and Health Outlook – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Climate Change and Health Equity
- Place Matters: Navigating Heart Health Through Place-Based Policy – RAND Corporation
Access to care
- Ohio Medicaid Basics Update: Unwinding of the Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Provision – HPIO
- Ensuring Access to Behavioral Health Providers – Commonwealth Fund
- Medicaid and CHIP Scorecard – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- State Options for Making Hospital Financial Assistance Programs More Accessible – Commonwealth Fund
Healthcare system
- Environmental Scan on Consolidation Trends and Impacts in Health Care Markets – RAND Corporation
- State Options for Making Hospital Financial Assistance Programs More Accessible – Commonwealth Fund
- How community health workers navigate the infant and maternal health space in Ohio – Center for Community Solutions
Public health and prevention
- What Will It Take to Bring Equity to Federal Nutrition Support Programs? – American Public Health Association
- Promoting Mental Health and Well-Being in Schools – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Building and Maintaining Infrastructure beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic – Government Accountability Office
Health equity
- Unequal Treatment Revisited: The Current State of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care: Proceedings of a Workshop – National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
- Incorporating an Anti-Ageist and Anti-Ableist Lens into DEI Work – American Society on Aging
- How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Timeline of Policies and Events – Kaiser Family Foundation
