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Ohio Health Value Review-August 2022
November 10, 2022
August 2022
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
Both homicides and suicides have substantially increased in Ohio over the past two decades and firearms have been used in a greater percentage of those deaths, analysis from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio has found (see graphic below, created by HPIO in March).
Between 1999 and 2020 (the most-recent year in which data is available), suicide deaths in Ohio increased 49% from 1,102 to 1,644 and homicides increased 123% from 450 to 1,004.
The percent of homicides in which a firearm was used has also risen steadily over the past two decades. In 1999, a firearm was used in 57% of homicides, and in 2020 that percentage increased to 82%. In 2020, a firearm was used in 54.9% of suicides.
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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
- Data Snapshot: Death Trends among Working-age Ohioans — Health Policy Institute of Ohio
- Varied Health Spending Growth Across US States Was Associated With Incomes, Price Levels, And Medicaid Expansion, 2000–19 — Health Affairs
- Health Costs Associated with Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Postpartum Care — Kaiser Family Foundation
- Pain in the Nation 2022: U.S. Experienced Highest Ever Combined Rates of Deaths Due to Alcohol, Drugs, and Suicide During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic — Trust for America’s Health
- States Leverage COVID-19 Relief Funding to Improve Accessibility for People Living With Disabilities — Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Social and economic environment
- Could Health Plan Co-Opetition Boost Action on Social Determinants? — American Journal of Public Health
- States Face a $48 Billion Child Care Funding Cliff — Bipartisan Policy Center
- County-Level Social Vulnerability and Emergency Department Visits for Firearm Injuries — CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Association Between Community‐Level Violent Crime and Cardiovascular Mortality in Chicago: A Longitudinal Analysis — Journal of the American Heart Association
Physical environment
- Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities — RAND Corporation
- How heat waves affect our physical and mental health — The Hill
- Three Local Policy Solutions That Can Advance Park Equity — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Communicating Statistics on the Health Effects of Climate Change — New England Journal of Medicine
Access to care
- How State Medicaid Programs Serve Children and Youth in Foster Care — National Academy for State Health Policy
- Are Financial Barriers Affecting the Health Care Habits of American Men? — Commonwealth Fund
- State Medicaid Managed Care and Access to Rural Behavioral Health Services — National Academy for State Health Policy
- Older Black and Latinx Adults Talk About Affordability Challenges — The Commonwealth Fund
Healthcare system
- 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance — The Commonwealth Fund
- Investing in Primary Care is Essential to Achieve State Goals — and How Investments are Structured is Crucial — Center for Health Care Strategies
- Pediatric Emergency Department Visits Associated with Mental Health Conditions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Public health and prevention
- The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2022 — Trust for America’s Health
- The Public Health Workforce: Looking for a Diagnosis — de Beaumont Foundation
- Symptoms of Mental Health Conditions and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers — CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy with Research — RAND Corporation
- What Would a National Public Health System Look Like? — Governing
Health equity
- Quality Data Plays Key Role in Defining and Addressing Health Inequities — Pew Charitable Trusts
- Disparities in Health Care Spending and Utilization Among Black and White Medicaid Enrollees — JAMA
- Diversifying Medicaid’s Leaders to Better Address Health Equity — Center for Health Care Strategies
- Changes in Medicare Home Health Use During COVID-19 and the Implications for Health Equity and Caregiver Availability — The Commonwealth Fund
To see the most current edition of the Ohio Health Value Review click here
August 2022
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
Both homicides and suicides have substantially increased in Ohio over the past two decades and firearms have been used in a greater percentage of those deaths, analysis from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio has found (see graphic below, created by HPIO in March).
Between 1999 and 2020 (the most-recent year in which data is available), suicide deaths in Ohio increased 49% from 1,102 to 1,644 and homicides increased 123% from 450 to 1,004.
The percent of homicides in which a firearm was used has also risen steadily over the past two decades. In 1999, a firearm was used in 57% of homicides, and in 2020 that percentage increased to 82%. In 2020, a firearm was used in 54.9% of suicides.
Click to enlarge
Health value resources
Population health and healthcare spending
- Data Snapshot: Death Trends among Working-age Ohioans — Health Policy Institute of Ohio
- Varied Health Spending Growth Across US States Was Associated With Incomes, Price Levels, And Medicaid Expansion, 2000–19 — Health Affairs
- Health Costs Associated with Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Postpartum Care — Kaiser Family Foundation
- Pain in the Nation 2022: U.S. Experienced Highest Ever Combined Rates of Deaths Due to Alcohol, Drugs, and Suicide During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic — Trust for America’s Health
- States Leverage COVID-19 Relief Funding to Improve Accessibility for People Living With Disabilities — Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Social and economic environment
- Could Health Plan Co-Opetition Boost Action on Social Determinants? — American Journal of Public Health
- States Face a $48 Billion Child Care Funding Cliff — Bipartisan Policy Center
- County-Level Social Vulnerability and Emergency Department Visits for Firearm Injuries — CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Association Between Community‐Level Violent Crime and Cardiovascular Mortality in Chicago: A Longitudinal Analysis — Journal of the American Heart Association
Physical environment
- Environmental Racism: How Historic Redlining Continues to Affect Communities — RAND Corporation
- How heat waves affect our physical and mental health — The Hill
- Three Local Policy Solutions That Can Advance Park Equity — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Communicating Statistics on the Health Effects of Climate Change — New England Journal of Medicine
Access to care
- How State Medicaid Programs Serve Children and Youth in Foster Care — National Academy for State Health Policy
- Are Financial Barriers Affecting the Health Care Habits of American Men? — Commonwealth Fund
- State Medicaid Managed Care and Access to Rural Behavioral Health Services — National Academy for State Health Policy
- Older Black and Latinx Adults Talk About Affordability Challenges — The Commonwealth Fund
Healthcare system
- 2022 Scorecard on State Health System Performance — The Commonwealth Fund
- Investing in Primary Care is Essential to Achieve State Goals — and How Investments are Structured is Crucial — Center for Health Care Strategies
- Pediatric Emergency Department Visits Associated with Mental Health Conditions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic — CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Public health and prevention
- The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2022 — Trust for America’s Health
- The Public Health Workforce: Looking for a Diagnosis — de Beaumont Foundation
- Symptoms of Mental Health Conditions and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers — CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy with Research — RAND Corporation
- What Would a National Public Health System Look Like? — Governing
Health equity
- Quality Data Plays Key Role in Defining and Addressing Health Inequities — Pew Charitable Trusts
- Disparities in Health Care Spending and Utilization Among Black and White Medicaid Enrollees — JAMA
- Diversifying Medicaid’s Leaders to Better Address Health Equity — Center for Health Care Strategies
- Changes in Medicare Home Health Use During COVID-19 and the Implications for Health Equity and Caregiver Availability — The Commonwealth Fund
To see the most current edition of the Ohio Health Value Review click here