Additional Resources

There are many resources in public health arena which will give the reader a wider understanding of the issues.  Some starting points are listed below:

​WEBSITES:

A 50-State Look at Medicaid Expansion, Families USA, January, 2016.

America's Health Rankings, United Health Foundation

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Community Health Indicators, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Healthdata.gov

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

     Medicaid overview/primer

How Delaware Compares; University of Delaware, Center for Applied Business & Economic Research

National Kids Count; Annie E. Casey Foundation

Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce

PUBLICATIONS:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 2015. 2014 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report chartbook on care affordability. AHRQ Pub. No. 15-0007-6-EF.  

Brooks, T., et. al. 2017.  Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, Renewal, and Cost Sharing Policies as of January 2017:  Findings from a 50-State Survey.  Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. 

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2015. The role and potential of communities in population health improvement: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2015. Vital signs: Core metrics for health and health care progress. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2014. Supporting a movement for health and health equity: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2012. An integrated framework for assessing the value of community-based prevention. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2009. Toward Health Equity and Patient-Centeredness: Integrating Health Literacy, Disparities Reduction, and Quality Improvement: Workshop Summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 

Magnan, S. 2017. Social determinants of health 101 for health care: five plus five. NAM Perspectives. Discussion Paper, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC. 

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. A framework for educating health professionals to address the social determinants of health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/21923. 

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Communities in action: Pathways to health equity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24624. 

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Community violence as a population health issue: Proceedings of a workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/23361. 

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Metrics that matter for population health action: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21899. 

National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. (2013). U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health. Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries, Steven H. Woolf and Laudan Aron, Eds. Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.​