Research

EHF's research uncovers invaluable insights about health policy and systems, and puts forward real, actionable pathways to deliver advances in health for all Texans. Our research activities and initiatives provide important tools to address health disparities and improve health outcomes across the state.

We’ve produced and funded hundreds of reports focused on health from all angles: non-medical drivers of health, Medicaid expansion, health insurance coverage, rural health, COVID-19 in Texas, the impact of the Affordable Care Act, life expectancy in Texas neighborhoods, early childhood brain development, and much more.

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New EHF poll shows growing health care affordability and access crisis in Texas
Almost 7 out of 10 Texans say they skipped or postponed medical care in the past year because of cost, including check-ups, treatments, and filling prescriptions. Those are just some of the worrying results of a new statewide Episcopal Health Foundation poll on health care affordability and access in Texas.
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Learning with Communities as they Discover Solutions for Nutrition Security

Aetna and EHF joined forces to explore food security using the Positive Deviance Approach, which uses solution discovery to address complex social challenges. Instead of asking, “Where is food insecurity the worst and how do we fix it?”, solution discovery asks, “Are there people who consistently have healthy food even though they’re living in the same circumstances where others do not?”

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