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Health Care Systems and Policy
Around the world, health care systems are struggling to deliver high-quality, high-value, patient-centered care in the face of limited budgets and rising medical costs, combined with rapid changes in the practices and organization of health care providers.
At the Yale School of Public Health, our experts are uncovering the factors that shape current practices, along with pioneering innovative approaches from unique interdisciplinary perspectives.
Over the past several decades, our faculty have conducted path-breaking research that examines:
- The impact of health-insurance reforms on health care quality
- The scope and effects of variation in health care prices
- The role of enhanced medical consumerism in shaping health-system performance
- The development of innovative approaches to assess patient experience, deploy feedback from patients to make health care more responsive, humane and better in quality
- The consequences of public policies that incentivize or regulate aspects of the health care system
- Innovative methods for assessing the cost-effectiveness of new policy approaches
- Health care and mental health outcomes
- Leveraging physician networks to improve quality of care and outcomes
Recent Publications
2024
- Factors influencing adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.Villanueva P, McDonald E, Croda J, Croda MG, Dalcolmo M, Dos Santos G, Jardim B, Lacerda M, Lynn DJ, Marshall H, Oliveira RD, Rocha J, Sawka A, Val F, Pittet LF, Messina NL, Curtis N. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2024 Dec 31; 2024 Mar 6. PMID: 38445666.
- GPT-4 Performance for Neurologic Localization.Lee JH, Choi E, McDougal R, Lytton WW. Neurol Clin Pract. 2024 Jun; 2024 Mar 27. PMID: 38596779.
- Potential underreporting of treated patients using a Clostridioides difficile testing algorithm that screens with a nucleic acid amplification test.Guh AY, Fridkin S, Goodenough D, Winston LG, Johnston H, Basiliere E, Olson D, Wilson CD, Watkins JJ, Korhonen L, Gerding DN. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 May; 2024 Jan 25. PMID: 38268440.
- Digital Interventions to Support Lung Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review.Odole IP, Andersen M, Richman IB. Am J Prev Med. 2024 May; 2024 Jan 20. PMID: 38246408.
- Structured interdisciplinary bedside rounds improve interprofessional communication and workplace efficiency among residents and nurses on an inpatient internal medicine unit.Schwartz JI, Gonzalez-Colaso R, Gan G, Deng Y, Kaplan MH, Vakos PA, Kenyon K, Ashman A, Sofair AN, Huot SJ, Chaudhry SI. J Interprof Care. 2024 May-Jun; 2021 Jan 12. PMID: 33433262.
- Mortality and morbidity ramifications of proposed retractions in healthcare coverage for the United States.Pandey A, Fitzpatrick MC, Singer BH, Galvani AP. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Apr 30; 2024 Apr 22. PMID: 38648491.
- Long COVID Characteristics and Experience: A Descriptive Study from the Yale LISTEN Research Cohort.Sawano M, Wu Y, Shah RM, Zhou T, Arun AS, Khosla P, Kaleem S, Vashist A, Bhattacharjee B, Ding Q, Lu Y, Caraballo C, Warner F, Huang C, Herrin J, Putrino D, Michelsen T, Fisher L, Adinig C, Iwasaki A, Krumholz HM. Am J Med. 2024 Apr 23; 2024 Apr 23. PMID: 38663793.
- Dyadic care to improve postnatal outcomes of birthing people and their infants: A scoping review protocol.Choy CC, McAdow ME, Rosenberg J, Grimshaw AA, Martinez-Brockman JL. PLoS One. 2024; 2024 Apr 16. PMID: 38625992.
- Firearm storage practices among military veterans in the United States: Findings from a nationally representative survey.Nichter B, Hill ML, Fischer I, Panza KE, Kline AC, Na PJ, Norman SB, Rowcliffe M, Pietrzak RH. J Affect Disord. 2024 Apr 15; 2024 Jan 26. PMID: 38280567.
- Effectiveness of a bivalent mRNA vaccine dose against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection among U.S. Healthcare personnel, September 2022-May 2023.Plumb ID, Briggs Hagen M, Wiegand R, Dumyati G, Myers C, Harland KK, Krishnadasan A, James Gist J, Abedi G, Fleming-Dutra KE, Chea N, Lee JE, Kellogg M, Edmundson A, Britton A, Wilson LE, Lovett SA, Ocampo V, Markus TM, Smithline HA, Hou PC, Lee LC, Mower W, Rwamwejo F, Steele MT, Lim SC, Schrading WA, Chinnock B, Beiser DG, Faine B, Haran JP, Nandi U, Chipman AK, LoVecchio F, Eucker S, Femling J, Fuller M, Rothman RE, Curlin ME, Talan DA, Mohr NM. Vaccine. 2024 Apr 11; 2023 Nov 14. PMID: 37973512.
- Characterization of accelerated approval status, trial endpoints and results, and recommendations in guidelines for oncology drug treatments from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network: cross sectional study.Mooghali M, Mitchell AP, Skydel JJ, Ross JS, Wallach JD, Ramachandran R. BMJ Med. 2024; 2024 Apr 5. PMID: 38596814.
- "It's Like A Partnership": Exploring the Primary Care Experiences and Patient-Defined Goals of People Who Use Drugs.Dunham K, Rivas C, Medina Blanco P, Kolod B, Salvati C, Clark K, Sue KL, Hagaman A, Weiss JJ. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Apr 5; 2024 Apr 5. PMID: 38578536.
- "We Take Care of Our Young, No Matter What," Experiences of Engagement in HIV Care Among Black Mothers Parenting Dependent Children in Southwestern Pennsylvania: A Retrospective Descriptive Qualitative Study.Mangum LC, Aidoo-Frimpong G, Alexander I, Waddell A, Whitfield DL. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2024 Apr 4; 2024 Apr 4. PMID: 38574350.
- Validation of a Rule-Based ICD-10-CM Algorithm to Detect Fall Injuries in Medicare Data.Ganz DA, Esserman D, Latham NK, Kane M, Min LC, Gill TM, Reuben DB, Peduzzi P, Greene EJ. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Apr 3; 2024 Apr 3. PMID: 38566617.
- Characteristics of Patients With Initial Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) That Are Associated With Increased Risk of Multiple CDI Recurrences.Guh AY, Li R, Korhonen L, Winston LG, Parker E, Czaja CA, Johnston H, Basiliere E, Meek J, Olson D, Fridkin SK, Wilson LE, Perlmutter R, Holzbauer SM, D'Heilly P, Phipps EC, Flores KG, Dumyati GK, Pierce R, Ocampo VLS, Wilson CD, Watkins JJ, Gerding DN, McDonald LC. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2024 Apr; 2024 Mar 6. PMID: 38577028.
- Study protocol for the implementation of Centering Patients with Fibroids, a novel group education and empowerment program for patients with symptomatic uterine fibroids.Noel NL, Abrams J, Mudafort ER, Babu A, Forbes E, Hill L, Hill CC, Valbrun TG, Osian N, Wise LA, Kuohung W. Reprod Health. 2024 Apr 1; 2024 Apr 1. PMID: 38561795.
- Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers: Evidence from administrative data in China.Wang T, Sun R, Sindelar JL, Chen X. Econ Hum Biol. 2024 Apr; 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 38340649.
- A Guide to an Iterative Approach to Model-Based Decision Making in Health and Medicine: An Iterative Decision-Making Framework.Kunst N, Burger EA, Coupé VMH, Kuntz KM, Aas E. Pharmacoeconomics. 2024 Apr; 2023 Dec 29. PMID: 38157129.
- Healthcare and Social Needs Assessment and Response Quality Among Black Men.Bharmal N, Sack E, Guo N, Alejandro-Rodriguez M, Holmes JC, Modlin C, Pfoh ER. J Community Health. 2024 Apr; 2023 Aug 27. PMID: 37634220.
- Pulmonary Hypertension and the Risk of 30-Day Postoperative Pulmonary Complications after Gastrointestinal Surgical or Endoscopic Procedures: A Retrospective Propensity Score-Weighted Cohort Analysis.Tatsuoka Y, Carr ZJ, Jayakumar S, Lin HM, He Z, Farroukh A, Heerdt P. J Clin Med. 2024 Mar 29; 2024 Mar 29. PMID: 38610760.
- Evaluation of Strategies for Transitioning to Annual SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Campaigns in the United States.Wells CR, Pandey A, Moghadas SM, Fitzpatrick MC, Singer BH, Galvani AP. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Mar 26; 2024 Mar 26. PMID: 38527289.
- Quantifying gaps in the tuberculosis care cascade in Brazil: A mathematical model study using national program data.Emani S, Alves K, Alves LC, da Silva DA, Oliveira PB, Castro MC, Cohen T, Couto RM, Sanchez M, Menzies NA. PLoS Med. 2024 Mar; 2024 Mar 21. PMID: 38512968.
- Impact and cost-effectiveness analyses of vaccination for prevention of respiratory syncytial virus disease among older adults in Ontario: A Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study.Shoukat A, Bawden CE, Röst G, LeBlanc JJ, Galvani AP, Langley JM, Moghadas SM. Vaccine. 2024 Mar 7; 2024 Feb 16. PMID: 38368226.
- Spatial pattern of isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis and its associated factors among a population with migrants in China: a retrospective population-based study.Zhang H, Sun R, Wu Z, Liu Y, Chen M, Huang J, Lv Y, Zhao F, Zhang Y, Li M, Jiang H, Zhan Y, Xu J, Xu Y, Yuan J, Zhao Y, Shen X, Yang C. Front Public Health. 2024; 2024 Mar 6. PMID: 38510351.
- Patients' Reasons for Using Out-of-Network Mental and General Medical Health Providers.Busch SH, Kyanko K. Psychiatr Serv. 2024 Mar 6; 2024 Mar 6. PMID: 38444357.
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Centers and other resources
- Yale Institute for Global Health (YIGH)YIGH serves as the focal point for research, education, and engagement with global partners to improve the health of individuals and populations worldwide.
- Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics (CIDMA)CIDMA aims to optimize the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of vaccination strategies and other health interventions by quantitatively evaluating and informing public health policies.
- Public Health Modeling UnitThis renowned program uses mathematical representations of disease spread, healthcare processes, and human behavior to make better public health decisions and predictions.