Unincorporation in counties as a political determinant of health: An exploration of five states.

Local government policies and practices shape the context of the places that can alter a population's life chances through socioeconomic factors, built environments, and healthcare access. County governments, one of the most ubiquitous U.S.

COVID-19, social determinants, and African American-White disparities: policy response and pathways forward.

COVID-19 translated African Americans' greater social, economic, and health-related risk, reflecting adverse Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), into greater COVID morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality, and it threatened to enlarge the very risks causing greater COVID suffering. However, following a federal policy response injecting trillions of dollars into the US economy, longstanding African American-White disparities in economic well-being, insurance coverage, vaccination rates, and evictions declined. On the other hand, troubling and consequential disparities in k-12 academic achievement and college attendance disparities widened.

State Differences in Children's Mental Health Care.

Objective: This study estimates and compares variation in the probability of child unmet need for mental health care and difficulties accessing care for each state in the United States. Estimates are also generated and compared for three socioeconomic and demographic subgroups nationwide: racial and ethnic group, household income, and insurance type.

Methods: Using a retrospective, cross-sectional design, this study pooled 2016-2019 National Survey of Children's Health data.

Outcomes that Matter to Youth and Families in Behavioral Health Services.

Patient-centered outcomes research helps youth and families using behavioral health services make informed decisions about treatments to help them achieve the outcomes most important to them. However, there are few efforts to identify the outcomes valued by youth and families systematically. This project aimed to support the development of behavioral health services that deliver outcomes valued by families by identifying the outcomes that youth and young adults with behavioral health needs and caregivers say matter most to them.