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Ohio Health Value Review- February 2022 May 9, 2022
To see the most current edition of the Ohio Health Value Review click here
February 2022
The Ohio Health Value Review is a quarterly electronic update from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio designed to strengthen connections between public health and healthcare partners in Ohio and highlight opportunities for different sectors to work together to improve health value in our state. 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 graphics
In December, the Health Policy Institute of Ohio released a series of policy briefs that explore the health impacts of tobacco and excessive alcohol use and apply lessons learned from tobacco and alcohol policy to upcoming decisions about recreational cannabis legalization. The graphics below, from the policy brief on the health impacts of excessive alcohol use in Ohio, displays the upward trend in liquor sales and alcohol-involved deaths in Ohio over the past two decades.
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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
- Healthcare Affordability State Policy Scorecard — Altarum
- Overview of States’ Health Care Cost-Growth Benchmark Programs — National Academy for State Health Policy
- Consumer Choice in U.S. Health Care: Using Insights from the Past to Inform the Way Forward — Commonwealth Fund
- Toolkit: New Legislative and Medicaid Models to Lower Drug Prices — National Academy for State Health Policy
Social and economic environment
- Measuring What Matters: Social Drivers of Health — Commonwealth Fund
- Capturing Value in Social Health: Lessons in Developing the Business Case for Social Health Integration in Primary Care — Commonwealth Fund
- State Actions To Prevent And Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences — National Governor’s Association
Physical environment
- Infrastructure Law Could Advance Health Equity — Pew Charitable Trusts
- Associations of Air Pollution on the Brain in Children: A Brain Imaging Study — Health Effects Institute
- National Roadway Safety Strategy — U.S. Department of Transportation
- America’s Rental Housing 2022 — Joint Center on Housing Studies
Access to care
- States Plan for the End of the Medicaid Continuous Coverage Requirement — National Academy for State Health Policy
- Demonstrations to Limit Retroactive Eligibility in Medicaid Lack Evidence and Threaten Access to Care — Commonwealth Fund
- How Does Cost Affect Access to Care? — Kaiser Family Foundation
Healthcare system
- How does the quality of the U.S. health system compare to other countries? — Kaiser Family Foundation
- Public Payment Rates For Hospitals And The Potential For Consolidation-Induced Cost Shifting — Health Affairs
- Does Vertical Integration Improve or Imperil U.S. Health Care? — RAND Corporation
Public health and prevention
- Bolstering the Public Health Infrastructure in the Wake of COVID-19 — Commonwealth Fund
- Policymakers Must Act to Bolster Public Health Data Collection and Reporting — Pew Charitable Trusts
- The U.S. Equity-First Vaccination Initiative: Early Insights — RAND Corporation
- States Address School Vaccine Mandates and Mask Mandates — National Academy for State Health Policy
Health equity
- A Racial Equity Framework for Assessing Health Policy — Commonwealth Fund
- Charting a Course for an Equity-Centered Data System — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Strategies for State Title V and Medicaid Programs to Promote Health Equity for Children of Color with Special Health Care Needs — Boston University School of Social Work
- Fair and Square: How to Effectively Incorporate Social Equity into Cannabis Laws and Regulations — SSRN
State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) priority topics
The newly distributed 2020-2022 SHIP, facilitated by HPIO under contract with the Ohio Department of Health, lays out specific steps to achieve measurable improvements on three priority health outcomes. Below are resources that address those priority areas.
Mental health and addiction
- Integrating Early Childhood Mental Health Policy to Grow Healthy Kids & Families in Ohio — Groundwork Ohio
- Mental Health Resource Guide for State Policymakers — The Council of State Governments
- Comparing Older Adults’ Mental Health Needs and Access to Treatment in the U.S. and Other High-Income Countries — Commonwealth Fund
- State Policy Changes Could Increase Access to Opioid Treatment via Telehealth — Pew Charitable Trusts
- Lowering the Barriers to Medication Treatment for People with Opioid Use Disorder — Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania
- Beat the Stigma campaign — Ohio Opioid Education Alliance
Chronic disease
- Inability to Access Health Care Due to COVID-19 Among Medicare Beneficiaries — The American Journal of Managed Care
- The Case for Optimism in Post-COVID Chronic Care Management — Patient Engagement HIT
Maternal and infant health
- Resources to Help States Improve Maternal and Infant Health — National Academy for State Health Policy
- New guidance to implement 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage, up from 60 days — Center for Community Solutions
- View Each State’s Efforts to Extend Medicaid Coverage to Postpartum People — National Academy for State Health Policy
- A Roadmap to Strengthen Your State’s Prenatal-to-3 System of Care — The Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at The University of Texas
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