Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies ...
Jan 21, 2021 · Prices on existing, branded drugs have increased substantially during the past decade, limiting affordability and access. 37,41,42 And even in circumstances where the benefits are unclear or ...
Homelessness And Health: Factors, Evidence, Innovations ...
Structural And Individual Risk Factors. Homelessness arises from an interaction between structural factors, such as the shortage of affordable housing and deficiencies in the social safety net ...
Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples,
Definitions. People of color is a term used to refer to African Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Native Hawaiians/other Pacific Islanders.Racism ...
Integrating The US Public Health And Medical Care Systems To …
The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to the country’s difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first months.
Pricing Universal Health Care: How Much Would The Use Of …
Our review of the utilization effects of past coverage expansions suggests that a first-dollar universal coverage expansion would increase ambulatory visits by 7–10 percent and hospital use by 0 ...
What’s Next For Public Health? | Health Affairs
Jan 23, 2024 · Prevention is secondary to clinical care by a large margin: Public health’s share of total health expenditures in the US rose from 1.36 percent in 1960 to 3.18 percent in 2002, and then fell to ...
Health Policy Topics - Health Affairs
Topics in Health Affairs journal, Forefront, briefs and other content cover a wide swath of health policy matters and health services research. Fields range from economics to political science to ...
The Health Effects Of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
Jun 1, 2017 · Abstract. An emerging body of literature suggests a positive association between legal same-sex marriage and improved health outcomes. For decades researchers have reported that lesbian, gay ...
Principles And Policies To Strengthen Child And Adolescent Health …
Oct 5, 2020 · Key principles are to put children first, engage all parts of society, recognize the power of prevention, emphasize equity over the life course, and commit to supporting implementation. Exhibit 1 ...
Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults
Jan 21, 2021 · Social determinants of health. Quality of care. In 2018 the US population ages sixty-five and older numbered 52.4 million, with older adults representing 15.6 percent of the population. 1 By 2030 ...