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Community Approaches To Improving Children’s Health: Addressing Childhood Obesity And ACEs In Kentucky
The Battle Plan To Fight Diabetes And Obesity
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Community Approaches To Improving Children’s Health: Addressing Childhood Obesity And ACEs In Kentucky
Investing in children’s health is a sound economic decision with a long-term impact on achieving sustainable human, social, and economic development. The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky’s Investing in Kentucky’s Future initiative was designed as a partnership...
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The Battle Plan To Fight Diabetes And Obesity
From time to time, most strategic grant-making organizations review their programmatic priorities, assessing the needs and opportunities in a given area and figuring out what role a foundation could play in it. When the New York State Health Foundation...
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Good And Bad News For Diabetes Prevention In The Community
The findings from a recent synthesis of the literature about the effectiveness of prevention initiatives focused on reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes among high-risk populations (people already obese or inactive or diagnosed as having prediabetes)...
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Oregon Bridges The Gap Between Health Care And Community-Based Health
It is now commonly accepted that to achieve health, the U.S. health system must address the social determinants of health. While the integration of health care with social services and public health is happening relatively infrequently across the country...
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Tax-Exempt Status For Nonprofit Hospitals Under The ACA: Where Are The Final Treasury/IRS Rules?
Months have now stretched into years, and there still remains no sign of final Treasury/IRS regulations interpreting the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s provisions covering the expanded obligations of nonprofit hospitals that seek tax-exempt status under...
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The Alternative Payment Methodology In Oregon Community Health Centers: Empowering New Ways Of Providing Care
Editor's note: This post is part of a periodic Health Affairs Blog series, which will run over the next year, looking at payment and delivery reforms in Arkansas and Oregon. The posts will be based on evaluations of these reforms performed with the...
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Implementing Health Reform: The Latest Affordable Care Act Coverage Numbers
On February 17, 2014, the White House announced that 8 million Americans have signed up for private health insurance coverage through the health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges. This significantly exceeds the White House’s original goal of 7 million...
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Howard Koh To Keynote Health Affairs Briefing Tomorrow On ACA And HIV/AIDS
One of the least explored yet most important parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are provisions that hold promise for addressing serious health care challenges facing the 1.1 million Americans who are living with HIV/AIDS -- and others like them -...
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Examination Of Health Information Technology’s Disappointing Impact Leads Health Affairs 2013 Top-Fifteen List
Years after promises of large gains from health information technology, evidence of the impact of health IT on efficiency and safety remain mixed, Arthur Kellermann and Spencer Jones report in the most-read Health Affairs article of 2013 . Achieving health...
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Review Of Accountable Care Organization Landscape Leads 2013 Health Affairs Blog Top Fifteen
David Muhlestein's comprehensive look at the growth of Accountable Care Organizations leads the list of most-read Health Affairs Blog posts for 2013. Muhlestein, Director of Research at Leavitt Partners, followed up this post later in the year with...
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Implementing Health Reform: The Risk Pool, Contraceptive Coverage Litigation, And Other Developments
New Year’s Eve festivities did not interrupt the steady flow of Affordable Care Act developments. First, Marilyn Tavenner, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, announced on December 31, 2013, that 2.1 million Americans were now signed...
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Implementing Health Reform: Data Hub Security And Other Issues
As the summer of 2013 draws to a close, the agencies implementing the Affordable Care Act are working diligently at the tasks that must be completed before the exchanges open their doors on (or about) October 1, while opponents of the Affordable Care...
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HA Blog August Top-Ten List Headed By Discussion Of Exchange Premium Variation
A look at the eye-opening variation in premiums in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces tops the Health Affairs Blog most-read list for August. Joel Ario, Adam Block, and Ian Spatz examine the possible factors behind this variation...
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Preventive Care For All Medicaid Enrollees: A Response To Sara Wilensky And Elizabeth Gray
The recent article in the July edition of Health Affairs titled “ Existing Medicaid Beneficiaries Left Off the Affordable Care Act’s Prevention Bandwagon ," by Sara Wilensky and Elizabeth Gray, overlooked several important steps that are underway...
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Implementing Health Reform: Contraceptive Coverage Litigation Moves Toward The Supreme Court
Litigation challenging the Affordable Care Act preventive services rule continues its march toward the Supreme Court. As discussed in earlier posts , the ACA requires insurers and group health plans to cover preventive services without cost sharing. Preventive...
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