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Quarterly Article
May 2025 Kate McEvoy, Hannah Maniates,
Medicaid has both greatly advanced the scope and integration of mental health and substance use disorder services among payers and remains a work in progress with respect to scaling and funding these services across the country. More
April 2025 Rachel Donnelly, Mateo P. Farina,
Mental health (e.g., anxiety, depression) continues to be a major public health concern in the United States that impacts millions of individuals, their families, and communities. Approximately 21% of adults 18 years and older, or 55 million adults, reported symptoms of recent depression in 2022, demonstrating the wide reach of mental health challenges. More
April 2025 Jonathan Purtle, Amanda I Mauri, David Frederick,
In this article, we provide an overview of emergent models for funding crisis systems in the United States and the policy and service contexts related to these models. Our review assesses the status of crisis system financing recommendations proposed by Hogan and Goldman proposed in 2020 and complements prior reports about financing crisis services. More
April 2025 Briana S. Last, Jane M. Zhu,
See all articles in the special issue, Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges Facing the United States: What Can State Policymakers Do? Access… More
April 2025 Brendan Saloner,
This Perspective examines the role of Medicaid in the innovation of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. In 2023, an estimated 49 million Americans met criteria for an SUD and more than 100,000 people died of a drug overdose. Compared with the general population, people with SUD experience worse self-rated health, a higher burden of other chronic diseases, and more hospital care. More
February 2025 Bomi Kim Hirsch, Kiersten Frobom, Gillian Giglierano, Michael C. Stevenson, Marjory L. Givens,
Over the past 50 years, population health researchers have made significant progress in clarifying the empirical and theoretical relationships between socioeconomic conditions and health disparities particularly for social constructs such as race and ethnicity. More
October 2024 Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Marco Thimm-Kaiser, Adam Benzekri, Ruth S. Shim, Francis K. Amankwah, Sara Rosenbaum,
In the context of the Ending Unequal Treatment findings, this article discusses the imperative of a representative health care workforce as a core element of any strategy for overcoming the persistence of health and health care inequities as well as options for future programmatic and policy action in the face of race-conscious admissions bans. More
August 2024 James René Jolin, Barak Richman, Ateev Mehrotra, Carmel Shachar,
This article explores a menu of possible incremental policy measures that could expand access of interstate telehealth to key patient populations. More
August 2024 Thelma C. Hurd, Fay Cobb Payton, Darryl B. Hood,
Artificial intelligence is being embraced as the solution to mitigate differences in health and health outcomes. More
July 2024 Briana S. Last, Erika L. Crable,
Demand for behavioral health services in the United States far outpaced supply before the coronavirus pandemic, but the past several years have… More
