Featured Projects
Some recent highlights of the Research Division's work are featured below:
Priority: Measure the functions and impact of the primary care system on health and
health equity and translate and test these measures in real world settings.
Our body of work on developing a practical measure of interpersonal continuity for
chronic disease management was presented at the North American Primary Care Research
Group Annual Meeting in Chicago in November, 2018. Dr. Gaglioti’s presentation titled "Interpersonal
Primary Care Continuity Among Medicaid Enrollees with Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
Varies Widely Among Racial Subgroups and by Place and is Associated with Lower Health
Care Costs" was awarded the International Prize at NAPCRG. She was invited to present this work at the Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Conference at the University of Exeter, UK.
Priority: Understand complex drivers of spatial, temporal, and subpopulation variation
in health outcomes and processes that impact health inequity and support resilience.
The Research Division’s forthcoming paper in the special Geospatial issue of Preventing
Chronic Disease applies a novel approach to identifying groups of US Counties with
distinct temporal trends of mortality rates.
Priority: Develop measures that accurately reflect the health of populations and the
primary care system.
The research division published a paper in The Journal of Asthma entitled “Individual and county level predictors of asthma related emergency department visits
among children on Medicaid: A multilevel approach,” that identified multilevel factors that contribute to disparities in asthma outcomes
among Medicaid enrollees. This paper found the most significant modifiable factor
contributing to asthma health disparities among a 29-state sample of Medicaid enrollees
was proper use of asthma controller medications.