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Taking On The Inequities Of Rural Life: Is Life In Rural America Good For Your Health?

Is rural living good for your health? If you’re one of a quarter billion Americans who live in metro areas , you may be conjuring up an idyll of burbling streams and fresh air. But rural Americans are more likely than city dwellers to live in poverty...

Published Thu, Jul 30 2015 10:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Access, Disparities, Children, Aging, Health Philanthropy, GrantWatch, Rural Health Care, Equity and Disparities, Hunger

A State-Based Strategy For Expanding Primary Care Residency

As the health care system looks to improve overall health and reduce unnecessary spending, primary care physicians become increasingly critical. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) recognizes that primary care clinicians have the potential to “ bend the cost...

Published Fri, Jul 31 2015 10:02 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Quality, Hospitals, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Medicaid and CHIP, Health Professionals, GME, New Mexico, Charlie Alfero, Arthur Kaufman, primary care shortage, Federally Qualified Health Center

Breaking Down Health Silos From Baltimore To Aspen

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival . This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World...

Published Tue, Aug 04 2015 10:08 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Medicare, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Organization and Delivery, Medicaid and CHIP, Equity and Disparities, Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, Baltimore riots, B’More for Healthy Babies, fentanyl-related overdose deaths, Baltimore City Health Department, Leana Wen

Expanding Access To Palliative Care Services: The Tide Is Turning

Two recent announcements by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) demonstrate a clear commitment to improving the quality of care for older adults with serious illnesses. Together with the introduction of a bipartisan bill to better train...

Published Thu, Aug 06 2015 8:25 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Palliative Care, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, CMS, IOM, Dying in America, Medicare Care Choices Model, Hospice care

New Health Policy Brief: Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program

A new policy brief from Health Affairs and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) addresses Medicare’s Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program. When a patient goes to the hospital to receive care for one condition but then develops another, the...

Published Fri, Aug 07 2015 9:11 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Quality, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, CMS, Health Policy Brief, Inpatient Quality Reporting, HAC Reduction Program, hospital-acquired condition

The Last Mile In Community Health: Reaching The Hardest To Serve

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series of blog posts by leaders in health and health care who participated in Spotlight Health from June 25-28, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival . This year’s theme was Smart Solutions to the World...

Published Tue, Aug 11 2015 6:57 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Global Health, Quality, Population Health, Organization and Delivery, Costs and Spending, Equity and Disparities, Ebola, Health Professionals, Spotlight Health, Aspen Ideas Festival, Community Health, Wendy Taylor, USAID

Building A Successful Farm To School Movement: One Person, One Plot, One Policy At A Time

What does it take for a school district to be able to offer fresh, local, unprocessed food to its students? Chaffee County, Colorado found that the key ingredients are supportive school district administration, a strong school wellness policy, a food...

Published Wed, Aug 12 2015 6:50 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Children, Innovations in Care Delivery, Population Health, Community Health, Colorado, Kaiser Permanente, sustainability, USDA, LiveWell Chaffee County, farm to school, school lunches

Unpacking The Meaning Of ‘Rationing’: A Response To Dowd And Allison

Bryan Dowd and Kirk Allison are to be thanked for their lengthy treatise on the word “rationing.” It is a term whose interpretation economists have left to politicians -- not invariably models of erudition. Check the subject index of introductory textbooks...

Published Thu, Jun 27 2013 10:44 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Health Care Costs, Competition, Access, Bioethics, Cost

Toward A Scientific Approach To Workplace Wellness: A Response To Ron Goetzel

We thank Health Affairs for the opportunity to respond to Professor Ron Goetzel’s comments on our recent Health Affairs article, “ Wellness Incentives in the Workplace: Cost Savings through Cost Shifting to Unhealthy Workers.” In many respects our article...

Published Mon, Jul 01 2013 10:14 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Health Reform, Nonmedical Determinants, Public Health, Prevention, Politics, Health Care Costs, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Bioethics, Effectiveness

Narrative Matters, The Next Chapter: ‘As She Lay Dying’

Editor's note: With this post Health Affairs Blog launches a new series: “Narrative Matters, The Next Chapter.” Narrative Matters essays often capture part of a larger, ongoing story; in this periodic series of HA Blog posts, Narrative Matters authors...

Published Wed, Jul 03 2013 9:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Consumers, Policy, Physicians, Quality, Hospitals, Personal Experience, Patient Safety

Health Affairs Policy Briefs Examine Child Obesity

In conjunction with its March 2010 issue on child obesity, Health Affairs has prepared a series of policy briefs. The new Health Affairs volume demonstrates that policy leaders can and should take crucial steps to address the obesity epidemic, and the...

Published Tue, Mar 02 2010 8:43 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: All Categories, Prevention, Policy, Chronic Care, Health Care Costs, Children, Obesity

Narrative Matters: Poetry Meets Health Care

This month you might notice something a little different about the Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs . For October, instead of the personal stories about health care that readers typically find in the section, we’re featuring three thought-provoking...

Published Thu, Oct 08 2015 7:30 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Narrative Matters, Elsewhere@ Health Affairs, Featured, Health Professionals, poetry, narrative medicine, patients, Narrative Matters poetry

Palliative Care: Continued Progress But Gaps Remain

The field of palliative care is a relatively recent entrant to the U.S. health care landscape. For those who may not know, palliative care is a new team-based medical specialty that focuses on relief of the pain, symptoms, and stresses of a serious illness...

Published Fri, Oct 09 2015 7:15 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Medicare, Access, Quality, Research, Palliative Care, Population Health, Featured, Costs and Spending, Center to Advance Palliative Care, regulations

What Health Policy Analysts Can Learn From Development Economics

Have you ever wondered why some countries seem completely dysfunctional — enjoying no economic growth or even negative growth and serving as home to millions of people who live on the income equivalent of one or two dollars a day? In 1993, a group...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2015 7:45 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Public Health, Medicare, Quality, Population Health, Featured, Payment Policy, Insurance and Coverage, Costs and Spending, Long-term Services and Supports, CalPERS, Telemedicine, productive activities, rent-seeking, walk-in clinics, John Goodman, Minute Clinic

The FDA Could Earn Over $60 Million A Day From Enforcing The Law

Many clinical trials on medicines and devices are subject to a 2007 federal law that requires the results to be publicly disclosed on a federally sponsored website within a year after the clinical trial is over. The reason for this requirement is simple...

Published Wed, Oct 14 2015 10:27 AM by Health Affairs Blog

Filed under: Hospitals, Featured, Costs and Spending, Drugs and Medical Technology, Health Professionals, Long-term Services and Supports, FDA, reporting compliance, trial results, clinical trials

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