The array of funded initiatives within a grant program often have very different activities and project-specific goals. Foundations face the challenge of evaluating diverse initiatives in a meaningful way that tells the story of how the funding mechanism as a whole advances the foundation’s mission. Here, we describe a utilization-focused, participatory approach that the Institute […]
Efforts for health system transformation (HST) are taking place in diverse sites across the healthcare industry, involving stakeholders at many levels. In this context, co-production as an approach to HST is gaining traction, but its impact remains unclear. We compared and contrasted the findings from evaluations of three initiatives that adopted co-productive methods to promote […]
The Trump administration published on October 10 a proposed rule change (PDF) that would increase the chance of an immigrant being determined to be a public charge and therefore being denied legal permanent residency or entry to the US. The proposed rule instructs immigration officials to take a broadened array of public benefits — including […]
As US policy makers tackle immigration reform, knowing whether immigrants are a burden on the nation’s health care system can inform the debate. Previous studies have indicated that immigrants contribute more to Medicare than they receive in benefits but have not examined whether the roughly 50 percent of immigrants with private coverage provide a similar subsidy […]
In health care policy debates, discussion centers around the often-misperceived costs of providing medical care to immigrants. This review seeks to compare health care expenditures of U.S. immigrants to those of U.S.-born individuals and evaluate the role which immigrants play in the rising cost of health care. We systematically examined all post-2000, peer-reviewed studies in […]