Georgia Health Policy Center
Issue Briefs
Cancer
Framework for Community-based Cancer Prevention and Control
An outline of the framework for designing a community-based cancer prevention program, tips offered for how to best use it, and suggests additional information and resources for communities that wish to tailor it to their own unique needs and priorities.
Child Health and Well-Being
Influenza Vaccinations Among Pregnant Women in Georgia: The Provider Role
Georgia’s data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) reveal several reasons why women do not receive influenza vaccinations during pregnancy. The majority of reasons could be addressed through patient education by the health care provider.
Influenza Vaccination Coverage among Pregnant Women in Rhode Island: The Importance of the Prenatal Care Provider Role
Rhode Island's data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) demonstrate that health care providers play a critical role in the acceptance of influenza vaccine by pregnant women.
Emergency Department Use by Children on PeachCare, Medicaid
Do children enrolled in PeachCare or Medicaid visit EDs more often?
Georgia's Youth: Overweight and Under-Active
A statewide assessmen of the physical fitness and physical activity levels of Georgia's 5th and 7th graders.
Children's Oral Health in Georgia: Progress and Opportunities
An analysis of the oral health of children in Georgia.
Children in Georgia’s Juvenile Justice System Uninsured Children in Georgia Why Do Young Teachers Leave Teaching? Child Care Child Care: Benefits for Low Income Children Dental Care Parental Involvement in Early Childhood Education Special Health Care Needs Kinship Care Child Care: Needs of Working Mothers Child Care: Georgia and the Region School Health Why Provide Health Care to Children In Schools? Finding Health Insurance: Coverage After College Georgia’s Foster Care Children and the Medicaid System Preventing Overweight Children – A Brief for Foundations Children's Oral Health in Georgia: Progress and Opportunities PeachCare Issue Brief Non-Profit Hospitals, Tax Exemption, and Community Benefits
The result of an investigation by the Child Policy Initiative at Georgia State University the case files of 84 children who would have been affected by Senate Bill 76. This bill would have prohibited Georgia courts from committing children under age 13 and detaining children under age 11 to the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ).
An examination of how the implementation of PeachCare for Kids, established in 1999, led to significant declines in uninsured children in Georgia.
A critical look at the issue of why new teachers leave public teaching within the first six years and where they go.
An examination of the issue of quality child care and its importance to preparing young children for school and work, especially disadvantaged children who are at risk for academic and social problems.
A look at the impact of the Legislature-approved Georgia Early Learning Initiative (GELI) upon the outcomes for low-income children
An examination of the inadequate access to dental care that presents a major problem for Georgia’s low-income children and the frustration that ensues.
An examination of how parental involvement in their children’s pre-kindergarten is associated with improved academic success.
A focus on children with special health care needs who incur enormous health costs and use services from many state agencies in an environment with minimal coordination or accountability.
A focus on the phenomenon of “kinship care” which refers to circumstances in which children are in the primary care of a relative because their own parents are not able or willing to raise them.
A focus on the need of low-income working mother to secure quality child care for their children.
An examination of a recent analysis comparing Georgia to other southeastern states across a range of demographic and child care system indicators.
A focus on the effort of the “A+ Education Reform Act of 2000” (A+) to augment funding for school health personnel. Prior to implementation of this Act, Georgia lagged behind the rest of the country as one of very few states that did not directly fund school nurses or require health personnel in schools
A focus on the fact that Georgia’s children are less healthy than their counterparts in most other states.
An observation from the unique perspective of a Graduate Research Assistant on the issue of uninsured and students who leave school and enter the world of work.
An examination of the phenomenon of foster children who fare surprisingly well in access to health care when compared to other Medicaid children. Utilization of some services by foster children in Georgia defies national trends.
An examination of evidence-based intervention related to nutrition and physical activity from several perspectives: policymaking, health communications, and behavioral and environmental changes.
This brief summarizes a five-year collaboration between the Georgia Health Policy Center and the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health, Oral Health Section.
"PeachCare for Kids: Consequences of Disenrollment and Alternatives." This brief provides background on PeachCare and its funding problems, and it highlights the consequences of temporary disenrollment from PeachCare coverage and alternatives Georgia might pursue.Community & Public Health
Research Associate Heather Devlin explores the recent literature on non-profit hospitals, tax exemption, and community benefit laws and their implications for Georgia. (January 2009)
Certificate of Need: Within the Broader Context of Health
This brief addresses the issues related to Certificate of Need within the broader context of Georgia’s health system, highlights key issues from the research and stakeholders’ views, and provides insight into questions Georgia legislators are asking about Certificate of Need. (March 2007)
Community Health Systems Development
Improving Rural Health: How Healthy are Rural Georgians?
An examination by the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia on the health status of rural Georgians. The fact that Georgians living in rural areas are not as healthy as those living in urban areas is a major source of concern as is the fact that no county in Georgia has an “excellent” health status.
Long-Term Care
Georgia Baby Boomers and Long-Term Care
A survey of 800 Georgians over age 55 shows most Baby Boomers have done very little planning for their future long-term care needs. The survey was conducted in October 2006 by the Georgia Health Policy Center in support of Georgia’s State Plan on Aging. The survey results highlight areas where state policies and programs might be needed to help the baby boom generation – and their families – plan for the years ahead.
Peer Support Programs for the Elderly in Georgia
An examination of the feasibility of establishing a peer support program for the elderly transitioning from institutional setting to community settings.
Rebalancing Georgia’s Long Term Care System
A focus on the need for Georgia to rebalance its long-term care service delivery and financing systems.
Collaborative Communiqué: A publication of the Georgia Collaborative to Improve End-of-Life Care
Public television has recently focused on the great divide between the kind of care Americans say they want at the end of life and what our culture currently provides.
Private Policy and Grants Management
Improving Rural Health: How Healthy are Rural Georgians?
An examination by the Philanthropic Collaborative for a Healthy Georgia on the health status of rural Georgians
Public and Private Insurance Coverage
The Uninsured in Georgia - 2008
A report on the health insurance status of Georgians
Finding Health Insurance: Coverage After College
A focus on the unique perspective of a Graduate Research Assistant the issue of uninsured and students who leave school and enter the world of work.
Georgia Health Care Access Forum
A focus on the Forum of August 2003 which brought together local and state lawmakers and leaders from their communities to study the condition of Georgia’s uninsured and to rainstorm about better ways to meet their health care needs.
Expanding Health Care Access with DSH: Georgia’s Indigent Care Trust Fund
A documentation of the Georgia Health Policy Center’s review of the primary care requirement of Georgia’s Indigent Care Trust Fund (ICTF) – Georgia’s mechanism for administering federal disproportionate share hospital dollars.
“…1% of Medicaid Members Generate 23% of Expenditures…”
An argument for case management is presented which offers a strategy to reduce Medicaid expenditures without denying essential care to those in need.
Understanding and Reducing the Number of Uninsured Georgians
The more than 1.5 million Georgians who lack health insurance cost all Georgians more than $1.5 billion in cost of care each year. However, the impact of the uninsured extends beyond cost of care. It impacts the quality of life for all Georgians.
Trauma Care
Trauma Care in Georgia Building a Better System
A focus on the need for Georgia to build a coordinated, regionalized, and accountable trauma system.