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Interest In Early Childhood Health Leads To Three Funders Working Together
To Debunk Alternative Vaccine Schedules, Physicians Must Listen Then Respond
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It Is Time To Make Oral Health An Integral Part Of Primary Care
Cesarean Rates: Shifting The Focus From Increases To Variability In Use
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Interest In Early Childhood Health Leads To Three Funders Working Together
For a combined 335 years, United Hospital Fund (UHF) , the Altman Foundation , and the New York Community Trust (NYCT) have provided grants to improve the health and well-being of New York City residents. Although the three organizations have different...
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To Debunk Alternative Vaccine Schedules, Physicians Must Listen Then Respond
“I just don’t think his little body can handle all of those shots,” the young mother said to me at her two-month-old son’s check up. “Can’t we wait until he is older? Or spread them out?” As a pediatrician in the Bay Area, I have encountered a wide range...
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People Post: News of Foundations’ Staff and Board Comings and Goings
It’s once again time to see where your contacts in the world of health philanthropy have come and where they have gone and “meet” some new staffers! The United Hospital Fund has elected Lori Evans Bernstein to its board. She is cofounder and chief operating...
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It Is Time To Make Oral Health An Integral Part Of Primary Care
While health care experts and health philanthropy are becoming increasingly aware that oral health is essential for healthy development and healthy aging, nationwide, there remains an unacceptably high burden of oral disease. Dental caries is the most...
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Cesarean Rates: Shifting The Focus From Increases To Variability In Use
At 1.3 million procedures each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lists cesarean delivery as the most frequently-performed inpatient surgery in the U.S. Both public and private insurance programs pay more to hospitals for childbirth...
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The Moral Imperative To Disclose Medical Error: Doing The Right Thing
Editor's note: For more on Ascension Health's initiative to disclose unexpected events to patients, see Ascension Health’s Demonstration Of Full Disclosure Protocol For Unexpected Events During Labor And Delivery Shows Promise , part of a cluster...
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Inside the Gray Zone: Reflections on Gautham Suresh’s Narrative Matters Essay
Note: This piece was written in collaboration with John. Lantos, director of the Bioethics Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital. “I just caution you that we don’t know what we don’t know.” These words came from one of my senior faculty members at Children...
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Narrative Matters: A Doctor Faces Tough Decisions On Infant Resuscitation
In the October Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay , a neonatologist must decide whether to revive a premature baby on the borderline of viability. Gautham Suresh's article is freely available to all readers; or you can subscribe to iTunes and...
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Medical Homes Work With The Patient At The Center
"Medical home" has become a term of art within the current wave of health reform. It’s in the medical literature, on the internet and embedded in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. There is much debate over what “medical...
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A Tribute To Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
A frequent statement of mine is, "We need public health leadership that cares enough, knows enough, is willing to do enough, and will be persistent." Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was just such a leader, for he was caring; he was competent;...
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From The Health Affairs Archives: An Interview With C. Everett Koop
In 2004, Health Affairs’ Fitzhugh Mullan interviewed C. Everett Koop , who passed away on Monday. The full interview is freely available to all readers, as is a 1998 Health Affairs article coauthored by Dr. Koop evaluating health education programs designed...
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Rising Executive Compensation At Children’s Hospitals Threatens The Public Trust
Editor’s note: The themes discussed in this post are among those discussed in the new book “Unaccountable,” by Dr. Marty Makary. A video trailer about the book is available here. In addition to Dr. Makary (photo and linked bio above), this blog post is...
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It Takes A Village: Caring For Children With Diabetes
Editor’s Note: The January 2012 issue of Health Affairs is a thematic volume titled “Confronting The Growing Diabetes Crisis.” Ariella was a different child, thin and shy, when I first met her about a year and a half ago, just after...
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Narrative Matters: Reporting Child Abuse
In the newest Health Affairs Narrative Matters essay, a seventeen-year-old West African immigrant who’s off to college says her facial bruising was inflicted by her father, and a young pediatrician learns about — and rethinks — the process...
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