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Health Affairs Web First: In 11-Country Survey Of Older Adults, Americans Are Sickest But Have Quickest Access To Specialists

A new survey of the health and care experiences of older adults in eleven different countries, released recently as a Web First by Health Affairs , found that Americans were sicker than their counterparts abroad, with 68 percent of respondents living...

Published Thu, Nov 20 2014 7:00 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Chronic Care, Coverage, Access, Global Health, Aging, Long-Term Care

Behind The Uninsured Numbers, A Diminishing Sense Of Urgency

After a summer of disappointing economic news, the recent Census report on the uninsured was a rare bit of sunshine. The number of uninsured Americans declined by about 3 percent, or 1.34 million, to 48.6 million in 2011. This was the largest one-year...

Published Mon, Sep 24 2012 11:13 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Politics, Coverage, Disparities, Medicaid

Essential Health Benefits: Balancing Costs, Coverage, And Necessity

The much anticipated Institute of Medicine Report on essential health benefits (EHB) was released last week with a series of recommendations that answered some questions and raised many more. The report offers a very important opportunity for researchers...

Published Fri, Oct 14 2011 11:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Health Reform, Policy, Insurance, Health Care Costs, States, Comparative Effectiveness

Health Affairs Comparative Effectiveness Research Briefing Available For Viewing

Video and speaker materials from the Health Affairs briefing on the journal's October issue, " Current Challenges In Comparative Effectiveness Research ," are available on the Health Affairs website . The event is broken out by panel and...

Published Thu, Oct 25 2012 11:52 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Comparative Effectiveness

Profiles Of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leader Awardees

On November 21, Health Affairs released a series of Web First articles profiling the winners of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Young Leaders Awards, which were announced this Fall on the occasion of the Foundation’s fortieth anniversary. The RWJF...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2012 9:24 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Disparities, Innovation, End-of-Life Care

New Health Affairs Issue: Successes And Missing Links In Connected Health

Health Affairs’ February issue focuses on the current evidence and future potential of connected health -- encompassing telemedicine, telehealth, and mHealth. The importance of connected health is sure to grow as more Americans gain access to health care...

Published Mon, Feb 03 2014 1:15 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Payment, Chronic Care, States, Hospitals, Medicaid, Technology, Obesity, Connected Health

Workplace Wellness Programs: A Response To Alan Balch

Editor’s Note: The post below, by Jaan Sidorov, is the third in a debate concerning provisions of Senate-passed health reform legislation governing workplace wellness programs. Sidorov’s post responds to an earlier post by Alan Balch, which...

Published Thu, Feb 11 2010 7:49 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Prevention, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Public Opinion And Health Reform: Looking At Hot-Button House-Senate Differences

Editor’s Note: In addition to S. Ward Casscells, M.D. and Hiliary Critchley (photos and bios above), contributors to this post include Larry Kaiser, M.D of the University of Texas, John Zogby of Zogby International, Inc.; Grace Ren of Zogby International;...

Published Tue, Dec 15 2009 10:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Employer-Sponsored Insurance

Health IT: What We Can Learn From Toys ‘R’ Us

One of the more interesting recent health policy events took place at the Brookings Institution’s Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform. The December 2nd event did not focus on the reform bills in the House and Senate or the horse trading and sausage...

Published Wed, Dec 16 2009 10:29 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Health IT, Health Care Costs

New Health Wonk Review Is Up

It’s March Madness, and over at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s blog, “The Users’ Guide to the Health Reform Galaxy,” Minna Jung serves up the madness of both the basketball court and the health care reform process in...

Published Thu, Mar 18 2010 2:03 PM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Blog

Health Policy Research And Disparities: A Health Affairs Conversation With Lisa Simpson And Darrell Gaskin

Earlier this year, AcademyHealth held its 2014 National Health Policy Conference; Health Affairs was a media partner for the NHPC. In a new installment of our Health Affairs Conversations Podcast series, we talk about the conference, as well as the challenges...

Published Thu, May 22 2014 6:05 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Nonmedical Determinants, Policy, Disparities, Research, Podcast

Not Even Discussed In Private Rooms: Childhood Sexual Abuse and Abuse Survivors

There is a health crisis in this country (as well as worldwide) that adversely affects one-fifth of the US population. Consequences of this crisis manifest in a wide variety of serious disease conditions. Physically it can exhibit as cancer and/or as...

Published Wed, Jan 30 2013 11:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Public Health, Policy, Health Care Costs, Health Law, Children, Mental Health, Research

Assessing The ‘Gang Of Six’ Deficit Reduction Plan

The “Bipartisan Plan to Reduce our Nation’s Deficits” developed by the “Gang of Six (or Seven)”, a group of Senators from both parties, certainly is not something I would brag about before a group of Princeton students who, I routinely tell them, will...

Published Fri, Jul 22 2011 9:12 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Policy, Politics, Physicians, Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Long-Term Care

Health Affairs Briefing: Economic Trends And Quality Trade-Offs

Please join Health Affairs Founding Editor John Iglehart on Tuesday, October 8, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for a Health Affairs briefing at which we will unveil the October 2013 thematic, "Economic Trends And Quality Trade-offs...

Published Fri, Sep 27 2013 10:22 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Spending, Aging, Research

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