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| Date | Author | Post Title | Post Summary | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2011 | Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D. | Hiding in Plain Sight: Seeing the Person Beyond the Patient | High-quality, cost-effective health care delivery is all about targeting: the right care, by the right provider, at the right time, in the right place, and for the right cost. It sounds straightforward, almost easy. The challenge to getting it right is understanding the range of variables in a person’s life that drive health care use and costs. | Chronic Disease | Medicare |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Joanne Kenen | Finding The Sweet Spot Where Geriatrics, Palliative Care, and System Integration Intersect | Dealing with the hard stuff – the very sick, the complex, the dying – is the essence of quality health care in an aging society. | Aging | Chronic Disease | Hospitals |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Charles Roehrig, Ph.D. | What is “Sustainable” Health Spending? (Part I) | There is surprisingly little consensus – and not even much being written – about what growth rate would be “sustainable”? Defining sustainable growth and establishing a credible target is one of our top research priorities. | Health Reform | Medicare |
| Nov 29, 2011 | Laura Segal | Healthier Americans for a Healthier Economy | Preventing disease is one of the most common sense ways to improve health in America. But it is also a major factor for improving the economy. | Chronic Disease | Obesity | Public Health |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D., Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. | After CLASS: A Long-Term Care Insurance System | Let’s not capitalize on or mourn the loss of CLASS for too long. We have work to do – and we do not have the luxury of time before forging ahead. | Aging | Health Reform |
| Nov 17, 2011 | Danielle Marshall | Boosting Creative Play Through Loose Parts | The use of open-ended play materials is as old as play itself... having seen the rich experiences that develop as children engage in play with open-ended materials it is hard not to advocate for their increased use. | Women & Children |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Joanne Kenen | The Politics of Prevention | If there’s one thing everyone in Washington can agree on it’s that prevention is good. And that’s about as far as the agreement goes. As for the rest of it – who is responsible for prevention, how to define prevention, what is the government’s role in prevention, how much to spend on prevention and when to spend it – is not so clear, and wrapped up in the bitter politics (and difficult economics) of the day. | Health Reform | Public Health |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 2) | In many cases the health care system has determined that certain people are incapable of understanding their health issues and making their own decisions. | Aging | Health Disparities |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | The Biggest Health Disparity of All: Control (Part 1) | A recent study confirms elderly and minority customers get higher-cost hospital care than other more affluent white customers and are more often exposed to harmful, even deadly outcomes. | Aging | Health Disparities | Health Reform |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Beth Costello, M.B.A. | Can Partnerships be Mobilized and Sustained to Improve Community Health? | In your community, do block groups, farmer’s markets, city planners, community clinics, emergency services, and departments of health work elbow-to-elbow, or do they act in organizational silos? Improving population health was an important aspect of the Affordable Care Act, which led to the emergence of new community-based strategies that were launched in part from the public health campaign. | Public Health | Public Health Preparedness |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Gloria Eldridge, Ph.D. | CLASS Act Gone, But Costs of Aging Remain | The Obama Administration abandoned the Community Living Services and Supports (CLASS) Act last month. This public long-term care insurance program was slated to be the country’s first attempt at dealing with an aging Boomer population that is in denial about what it costs to grow old in America. | Aging | Health Reform | Public Health |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. | Evidence-Based Interventions: Replicate or Adapt? | Carefully done research on small numbers in a few settings will not be enough to guide practical implementation of process redesign. | Aging | Chronic Disease | Hospitals |
| Oct 25, 2011 | Zack Cooper | Our (Limited) Policy Toolbox for Slowing Health Care Spending Growth | Nearly every developed country is under substantial pressure to slow the growth in health care spending. However, as we have seen, while virtually every country has pledged to spend less, few have been successful. | Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Danielle Marshall | Running, Chasing, Fleeing: Why We Need Rough and Tumble Play | If we can look past our fears that rough and tumble play breeds aggression, we can focus on its merits. | Public Health | Women & Children |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Rochelle Sharpe | Are Health Apps the Cure for Anything That Ails You? | The store offers a mindboggling array of creative apps, including ones that calculate calories burned during exercise, create soundtracks to help people fall asleep, and display pictures that can elicit memories from Alzheimer’s patients. If the store doesn’t offer something for what ails you now, it probably will soon. | Information Technology | Public Health |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | Note to Consumers: The Rules in Health Care Are a Little Different | Because consumers don’t realize that the price of health care products and services is set very differently than prices in other markets, it leads to perceptions and behaviors that can be expensive and even dangerous. | Health Policy | Public Health |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D. | Health Care Law Subsidies: A Tale of Two Cities | The 2010 health care law will conjure up a strange brew of inequities as it comes to a boil in 2014. The mechanistic, one-size-fits-all health insurance subsidies, for example, will generate serious questions about the law’s fairness. | Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Oct 6, 2011 | Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D. | Are We There Yet? A Look at the National Long-Term Services and Supports Scorecard | So many fundamental activities crucial to our daily lives can be measured with certainty and confidence, but not so in health care—and certainly not when it comes to aging and long-term services and supports. | Aging | Chronic Disease |
| Oct 4, 2011 | Joanne Kenen | Innovations in Caregiver Support During Hospice | A look at at three research projects aimed at developing something that may work—something that may improve end of life care for both the patient and the family. | Chronic Disease | Information Technology |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Laura Segal | Ten Years After September 11th and Anthrax | September 11, 2001 shook the country to our core. On the heels of experiencing the unimaginable, the field of public health was thrust onto the front lines with the anthrax attacks – and was changed forever. | Public Health | Public Health Preparedness |