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COVID-19 and Underinvestment in the Public Health …

Public health funding in the United States is provided by a variety of sources at the federal, state, and local levels. The variety of public healthSee more

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Public Health Can Help Older Americans Live Healthy and …

WEBPublic Health Can Help Older Americans Live Healthy and Independent Lives. Focus Area: The Health of Aging Populations. Our country’s public health …

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Will Disruptive Innovation in Health Care Improve the Health of

WEBHealth care in the United States is long overdue for an upheaval. At least four health care innovations have been gathering steam—precision medicine, "Big …

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Introducing Health Equity Analysis into State Review of Most …

WEBIn New York, a new law requires that the state incorporate a health equity analysis into its review of proposed health facility changes, especially those that would …

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The Health of US Primary Care: 2024 Scorecard Report — No One …

WEBFive Reasons Why Access to Primary Care Is Getting Worse (and What Needs to Change) Watch a recording of the 2024 Primary Care Scorecard webinar. …

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Improving Access to Primary Care for Underserved Populations: A …

WEBIn a series of five case studies (Grant County, New Mexico; Baltimore City, Maryland; Columbia County, Arkansas; Detroit, Michigan; and Kanawha County, West …

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Immigration and Immigrant Policies, Health, and Health Equity in …

WEBMore than 281 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth, and 15% of the United States population (50.6 million people) are immigrants. 1 As …

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State Health Policy Decisions: What Does

WEBYet, in practice, many state health policy decisions are made in the context of the US federalist system — where the federal and state governments share …

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I. Financing: The United States is underinvesting in primary care.

WEBMedicaid primary care spending has fallen nearly continuously since 2014, from a high of 5.3% to a low of 4.2% in 2020. Commercial insurance spending on …

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Meanings and Misunderstandings: A Social Determinants of …

WEBThe language of the social determinants of health is currently in vogue in US health care. Yet the same words and concepts, such as social determinants of health and population …

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Better Housing Improves People’s Lives—Health Benefits Should …

WEBSherry Glied was named dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 2013. From 1989-2013, she was professor of …

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Navigating the Shifting Terrain of US Health Care …

WEBIf you were confused by the health care terminology used in last week’s Democratic presidential candidate debate, a new Milbank Quarterly Perspective by …

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The Strange Journey of Population Health Milbank Quarterly

WEBJoshua M. Sharfstein is associate dean for public health practice and training at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He served as …

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Primary Care Transformation: Ten Lessons for the Path Forward

WEBWhat fosters sustainable primary care transformation? What stands in the way? These questions are the focus of a Rocky Mountain Health Plans’ Issue Brief that highlights the …

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Policy Interventions to Enhance Medical Care for People With …

WEBPolicy Points: Health policymakers have insufficiently addressed care for people with obesity (body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m 2) in the United States.Current federal …

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To Adjust or Not to Adjust: Health Care Cost Growth Target States

WEBver the last few years, health care cost growth target states had to make difficult decisions about whether and how the dramatic increase in inflation should …

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How States Are Increasing Their Investment in Primary Care

WEBConnecticut’s five-year annual voluntary targets to increase primary care spending to 10% of total health care spend from 2021–2025, which are being developed …

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Who Will Stay Upstream

WEBPaula Lantz, PhD, MS, MA, is the James B. Hudak professor of health policy and a professor of public policy at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of …

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State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century

WEB349 pages Cloth $57.95. This first comprehensive history of the social and political aspects of vaccination in the United States tells the story of how vaccination …

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Developing Sustainable Community Health Worker Career Paths

WEBCHWs are full-time employees of the health system with a total annual compensation range of $53,000 to $66,000 (including salary and benefits) for a fixed 40 …

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10 Ways to Better Understand How Shifting State Policy Contexts …

WEBThe impact of US state policies on population health is increasingly evident. 1 States’ earned income tax credits, cigarette sales taxes, right to work laws, Medicaid …

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Regulatory Realities and Hopes Milbank Quarterly

WEBThe Fund identifies and shares policy ideas and analysis to advance state health leadership, strong primary care, and sustainable health care costs.

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