Palladian worked closely with NIDA staff to develop the first-ever, easy-to-read website on drug abuse, designed for adults with low reading literacy (eighth grade or below reading level).
Health Care Topic: Health Disparities
Topics: Health Disparities, Health Reform
Jul 6, 2012
If states turn their backs on Medicaid expansion they leave a lot of federal money on the table. They also leave behind many vulnerable, low income constituents—our friends, families and neighbors—who could receive coverage through Medicaid without purchasing private health insurance (to which they may not have affordable, available options).
Topics: Aging, Consumer Choice, Health Disparities
Nov 10, 2011
In many cases the health care system has determined that certain people are incapable of understanding their health issues and making their own decisions.
Topics: Aging, Consumer Choice, Health Disparities
Nov 8, 2011
In many cases the health care system has determined that certain people are incapable of understanding their health issues and making their own decisions.
Topics: Health Disparities, Public Health
Feb 24, 2011
At some point, each of us has been an eyewitness to an injustice or infraction. While it is common to hear grumbles over the country’s current state of affairs, many grievances about the economy, health care, or education reform fail to make it beyond the dinner table or water cooler.
Topics: Health Disparities, Information Technology
Jan 13, 2011
A key component of Public Law 111-5, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, is seen by many observers as having the potential to energize the creation of a national high-quality, patient-focused, equitable, and cost-effective health care system.
Topics: Chronic Disease, Health Disparities
Oct 19, 2010
Better Health, which began in February 2007, involves more than 20 stakeholders including health systems, hospitals, payors, and state and local government. More than 45 participating physician practices—most of which have electronic health records that allow tracking and measurement—take part in learning collaboratives
Jul 20, 2010
While there is debate about the precise rate of prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in the population of service members returning from deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan, few would disagree that the sheer number of first and repeat deployments has placed a high demand on the Department of Veteran Affairs and military mental health treatment systems. Compounding the challenge is the key role played by reservists and National Guardsmen in these wars.
Topics: Health Disparities, Information Technology
Oct 12, 2009
Since 1985, the issue of racial and ethnic health disparities has crept to the center stage of public policy, with a large volume of evidence amassed to demonstrate the presence and impact of these disparities. Today, an overwhelming consensus with respect to research on racial and ethnic health disparities — the existence of disparities and the need to eliminate them — has led some stakeholders to conclude that it is time for a paradigm shift.
