Research
Health services research by Health Policy and Administration faculty focuses on applying approaches from health economics, health management, and population health to three critical areas:
- Reducing health disparities and improving preventive and chronic care systems for vulnerable populations
- Creating financial incentives and information for health systems improvement
- Addressing workforce and management challenges in health care organizations
HPA faculty and students collaborate with others through the many vibrant research centers and consortia at Penn State, including:
- Center for Health Care and Policy Research
- Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems
- Prevention Research Center
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- Population Research Institute
- Center for Healthy Aging
- Children, Youth, and Families Consortium
- Social Science Research Institute
- Methodology Center
These organizations enable HPA faculty and graduate students to collaborate on large interdisciplinary research projects working with other Penn State faculty, as well as research teams around the world. Grant and consulting relationships provide numerous research and experiential learning opportunities for students.
Research News
- Systems thinking tools as applied to community-based participatory research: A case study
- Slow progress on meeting hospital safety standards
- Negative effects of workplace injury and illness on safety perceptions and health outcomes
- Outsourced radiologists perform better reading for fewer hospitals
- Health Services Research Colloquium
- Mammograms on the rise for foreign-born women living in the U.S.
- Efficiency, not cost, drives value of hospital environmental services
- Cancer Survivors Have Lower Employment Rates and Work Fewer Hours
- Cancer Survivors Spend More on Health Care
- Older cancer survivors likely to keep working, HPA study finds
- Scanlon leads initiative to improve care in communities
- Study looks at health care incentives
