| Date | Author | Post Title | Post Summary | Topics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2012 | John E. Courtney, Ph.D. | Healthy Food Choices and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program |
With the rapidly changing economic trends within the United States, participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has ballooned recently. |
Childhood Obesity | Obesity | Public Health |
| May 1, 2012 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | More Information Is Not Always Better: Pulling Consumers Into Active Choices About Testing |
“I’m thinking of getting a full-body CT scan,” Jane said. |
Consumer Choice | Health Policy |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Jesse Milan, Jr., JD, Antigone Dempsey | Dignity Is the Core of the Decent Care Values Approach for Health Care |
As Dr. |
Chronic Disease |
| Apr 24, 2012 | Bruce Allen Chernof, M.D. | Dignity-Driven Care as the Driver to Addressing Health Costs |
The goal of a more effective and efficient system of care is straightforward—better care at lower costs. The path to that goal has proven far more elusive. |
Aging | Chronic Disease |
| Apr 19, 2012 | David Anderson | Meeting the Health Needs of 21st Century Veterans |
After a decade of conflict in Iraq, our troops have come home, producing the largest increase in the number of American veterans since the 1970s. |
Health Policy | Military & Veterans Health |
| Apr 17, 2012 | Laura Segal | Where You Live Shouldn’t Determine How Healthy You Are (But it Can) |
Your health shouldn’t be determined by where you live, but two new reports show that where you live, learn, work and play have a major impact on how healthy you are and how long you live. |
Chronic Disease | Community Health | Public Health |
| Apr 12, 2012 | Jessica McDuff | Reducing Obesity and Achieving Health Equity Through CDC’s New Community Transformation Grants |
It’s been in the news and at the forefront of public health policy debates—childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years and now represents one of the leading public health threat |
Childhood Obesity | Chronic Disease | Obesity |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Kaiser Health News | Physicians Wade Into Efforts To Curb Unnecessary Treatments |
By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News |
Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform | Insurance |
| Apr 5, 2012 | Charles Roehrig, Ph.D. | Sustainable Health Spending Under the Ryan Path for Federal Non-Health Spending |
Background |
Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Robert F. Graboyes, Ph.D. | Health Care Law Blues: They Hear That Train a-Comin’ |
For small business, the 2010 health reform law means higher costs, more red-tape and fewer choices. |
Health Policy | Health Reform |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Catherine Call, Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A. | Getting the Right Medications Before and After Hospital Discharge |
According to the Institute of Medicine’s Preventing Medication Errors report, the average hospitalized patient encounters at least one medication error per day. |
Aging | Care Transitions | Hospitals |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Diana Williams, Keith S. Whyte | Gambling With Your Health—Literally |
Do you love casinos? How about bingo? Do you bet on the NCAA tournament championship? Do you gamble on the Internet? |
Behavioral Health |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Kaiser Health News | The Health Law and the Supreme Court: A Primer for the Upcoming Oral Arguments |
By Stuart Taylor, Jr. for Kaiser Health News How big is the constitutional challenge to the Obama health care law, which the Supreme Court will hear on March 26-28? |
Health Policy | Health Reform |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Danielle Marshall | Playing Smart: Getting Started on Joint Use Agreements |
The City of Niagara Falls was “spending a lot of money to maintain marginal courts where people didn’t want them anyway, and we were getting complaints from neighbors who lived nea |
Community Health | Obesity | Public Health |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Jesse Milan, Jr., JD | The 2012 International AIDS Conference in America: The World is Invited, but Who Will Respond and Who Will Come? |
The International AIDS Conference is coming to the United States this July 22-27 for the first time in over 20 years. |
Chronic Disease | Health Policy | Public Health |
| Mar 13, 2012 | Loren Bell, Stacy Gleason | New WIC Food Package Widely Accepted, But Challenges Remain |
The Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals and nutrition education for low-income, pre |
Childhood Obesity | Health Policy | Women & Children |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Taylor Walsh | Edging into the Center: Health Prevention, Improving the Research Process, and the Placebo Effect |
It is often difficult to discern what is happening on the fringe of things and then decide whether any of it matters. |
Health Policy | Public Health |
| Mar 6, 2012 | Wendy Lynch, Ph.D. | Activating Consumers with Financial Control: Lessons from Health Savings Accounts |
Health Savings Accounts are growing up. No longer an oddity, millions of families have accounts funded by tens of thousands of employers (1). |
Consumer Choice |
| Mar 5, 2012 | Charles Roehrig, Ph.D. | On “the Myth of Runaway Health Spending”: Is the Crisis Really Ending? |
Center for Sustainable Health Spending colleagues George Miller, Ph.D. and Paul Hughes-Cromwick have the following thoughts. |
Consumer Choice | Costs & Economic Analysis | Health Reform |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Janice Lynch Schuster | What Does It Matter to You: Patient Activation and Good Health Outcomes |
A few days into my 68-year old father’s hospitalization for sepsis, his doctors determined the strain of bacteria that plagued him: streptococcus. |
Aging | Care Transitions |
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