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Ohio Health Value Review-February 2023 May 5, 2023
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.
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In January, HPIO released a new Health Value Dashboard policy brief titled “A closer look at outdoor air pollution and health.” Among the findings in the brief are that the physical environment, which includes outdoor air quality, has a much stronger correlation with the overall health of a state than access to care or healthcare system performance. The figure below shows the strength of the relationship between domains in the Dashboard and population health, indicating that the physical environment (including outdoor air quality) is strongly connected to a state’s overall health, only surpassed by public health and prevention.
HPIO hosted a 30-minute webinar to highlight findings from the brief. For more details and to watch a recording, visit: https://www.healthpolicyohio.org/webinar-outdoor-air-pollution-and-health/
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Health value resources
Population health and healthcare spending
- 2023 Early Childhood Dashboard — Groundwork Ohio
- 2023-2027 State Oral Health Plan — Oral Health Ohio
- State Strategies for Controlling Health Care Costs: Implementation Guides — Commonwealth Fund
- Congressional District Health Dashboard — Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health
- 2022 March of Dimes Report Card — March of Dimes
Social and economic environment
- Tenant-based Housing Voucher Programs Improve Health Outcomes — Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
- Do Social Isolation and Neighborhood Walkability Influence Relationships Between COVID-19 Experiences and Wellbeing in Predominantly Black Urban Areas? — RAND Corporation
Physical environment
- Health Value Dashboard Fact Sheet: A Closer Look at Outdoor Air Pollution and Health — Health Policy Institute of Ohio
- Prenatal Pollution Exposure Linked to Lower Cognitive Scores in Early Life — University of Colorado via Neuroscience News
- Long-term Exposure to Multiple Ambient Air Pollutants and Association With Incident Depression and Anxiety — JAMA Psychiatry
Access to care
- CMS’ New Policy Framework for Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstrations — Commonwealth Fund
- What Happens When COVID-19 Emergency Declarations End? Implications for Coverage, Costs, and Access — Kaiser Family Foundation
- Unwinding Medicaid’s Continuous Coverage Requirement: State Communication Strategies — National Academy for State Health Policy
Healthcare system
- State Perspectives to Advance Health System Transformation through Multi-Payer Initiatives — National Academy for State Health Policy
- Health Care’s Increasing Focus on the Drivers of Health — Commonwealth Fund
- Anchor Institutions: How Hospitals Can Hold Local Economies Down and the Case for Reforming Community Benefit — Center for Community Solutions
Public health and prevention
- Centering Equity in the Nation’s Public Health System — Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Lessons From Chicago And Columbus: The Consequences Of Underfunding Public Health — Health Affairs
Health equity
- Final Recommendations of Eliminating Disparities in Infant Mortality Task Force 2022 — Ohio Department of Health
- Research Shows How Communities Are Prioritizing Health Equity — RAND Corporation
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