Experts in health policy research at AIR will participate in discussions ranging from making healthcare more consumer focused to reducing healthcare-associated infections during the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) annual conference, being held September 9-11, 2012 in Bethesda, M.D. ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established the Qualified Health Plan (QHP) Enrollee Experience Survey to provide actionable information to QHP issuers, as well as provide comparable and useful information to consumers about the quality of healthcare services and enrollee experience with QHPs created under the Affordable Care ...
Disparities and disproportionalities in human services and behavioral health care—such as lack of access to prevention and treatment services—can threaten child, youth, and family development and well-being, as well as performance in school and on the job. This Blueprint enables communities and states to develop and implement data-driven strategies through ...
AIR Experts will present at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center and the Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center taking place November 4-8 in Atlanta, GA. This year’s conference theme, “Creating the Healthiest Nation: Climate Changes Health” is designed to ...
Older adults are more likely to fear losing their mental abilities than their physical abilities. But a growing body of research suggests that, for most people, mental decline isn’t inevitable and may even be reversible. It is now becoming clear that cognitive health and dementia prevention must be lifelong pursuits, ...
Experts from AIR presented the Communication Toolkit: Using Information to Get High Quality Care at the third National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media.
Linking health data across multiple sources and health systems provides crucial information to predict, prevent, and control health threats, as well as to inform health policy. AIR is supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in developing a coordinated Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) strategy. PPRL, a process of linking ...
AIR delivers communication and outreach support to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, conducting audience research, developing messages and materials, devising partnership and outreach plans, and providing warehousing and distribution services. ...
Three National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention publications highlight key prevention strategies: one for children and their families, another that targets the role of classroom and school environments, and a third that explores ways in which community-based strategies can contribute to the prevention of school violence ...
Contributing and working alongside Native Nations, AIR has a deep commitment to engaging communities, fostering shared vision and values, building capacity, and developing strategic alliances to achieve sustainable systems change in Indian Country.