FSI’s researchers assess health and medicine through the lenses of economics, nutrition and politics. They’re studying and influencing public health policies of local and national governments and the roles that corporations and nongovernmental organizations play in providing health care around the world. Scholars look at how governance affects citizens’ health, how children’s health care access affects the aging process and how to improve children’s health in Guatemala and rural China. They want to know what it will take for people to cook more safely and breathe more easily in developing countries.
FSI professors investigate how lifestyles affect health. What good does gardening do for older Americans? What are the benefits of eating organic food or growing genetically modified rice in China? They study cost-effectiveness by examining programs like those aimed at preventing the spread of tuberculosis in Russian prisons. Policies that impact obesity and undernutrition are examined; as are the public health implications of limiting salt in processed foods and the role of smoking among men who work in Chinese factories. FSI health research looks at sweeping domestic policies like the Affordable Care Act and the role of foreign aid in affecting the price of HIV drugs in Africa.
The United States devotes significant resources for the provision of health care, yet quality is often elusive or lacking. In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality launched a collection of evidence reports to bring data to bear on quality improvement (QI) opportunities. This new series, Closing the Quality Gap: Revisiting the State of the Science, consists of eight reports that continue the focus on improving the quality of health care through critical assessment of relevant evidence for selected settings, interventions, and clinical conditions.
The emergency department (ED) is an important source of care in a community. ED encounters can reflect aspects of community health, such as access to care, care coordination, quality of community-based care, underlying disease burden, availability of community-based supportive services, and other community resources.
This project focuses on identifying, evaluating, and developing measures of care coordination activities. Care coordination is the process of connecting the many different participants in a patient’s care – including the patient and any informal caregivers – to ensure that the right people have the right information at the right time so that patients receive high-quality, high-value, patient-centered care.
HERRIN LABS RM 251
Stanford, California 94305-5020
Lucas MRS Imaging Center
1201 Welch Road, P093
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, California 94305-5484
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Alway Building
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Stanford, California 94305
Psychiatry Department
401 Quarry Rd MC 5723
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300 Pasteur Dr, Room H-2230 MC 5281
Stanford, California 94305
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(Until July 1, 2013)