Sentences with phrase «health affairs»

The first and obvious need is for strong government leadership to coordinate the region's public health affairs.

«The CTSI provides an opportunity for us to strengthen how we integrate basic and clinical research, and to use research informatics and innovative community engagement strategies to better understand how we can manage the health of diverse populations,» said Dr. A. Craig Hillemeier, dean of Penn State College of Medicine, chief executive officer of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and senior vice president of health affairs for Penn State.

New Jersey is 10th in the nation for cancer incidents, said Dr. Brian Strom, executive vice president for Health Affairs at Rutgers and chancellor at the university's biomedical school.

This month the journal Health Affairs published results from one of our new studies that sheds light on this question by combining information from a long - running national survey of communities, «hard» data on health outcomes, and strong econometric methods.

A recent study published in Health Affairs found that the Affordable Care Act has saved women $ 1.4 billion a year on birth control pills alone — showing the clear economic impact that access to no co-pay birth control has had on women's lives.

Dr Palvi Kaukonen, M.D., is a Consulting Officer of Health Affairs at the Department for Social and Health Services, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland and part - time Head of the Department of Child Psychiatry in the University Hospital of Tampere, Finland.

From 2001 to 2010, the risk of death in the U.S. compared to peer nations was 76 % greater for infants and 57 % greater for children and youth age 1 - 19, according to a new Health Affairs study.

«There are adequate, if not overwhelming, reasons to be concerned that the two repositories that are under debate right now are not the only places in the world where live smallpox virus still exists,» says Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Health Affairs at the US Department of Health and Human Services, and head of the US delegation to the Geneva meeting.

pdf 32kb) Article by AFA's Health Affairs Committee that ran in the American Ferret Report.

A 2013 Health Affairs article reports that there's a 15-fold variation of c - section rates among low - risk women, from 2.4 percent to 36.5 percent in hospitals across the country.

A 2011 report in the journal Health Affairs found that an examination of 795 patients at three teaching hospitals uncovered 354 medical mistakes.

This year, the White House and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs announced initiatives to provide healthier menus to 1,100 dining halls at military bases.

Research was supported by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs through the Autism Research Program.

The panelists were Terry Adirim, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Office of Special Health Affairs in the Health Resources and Services Administration; Claire Dunham, L.C.S.W., Senior Vice President of Programs & Training, Ounce for Prevention Fund; Linda Foster, M.P.H., R.D., Project Director, Virginia Healthy Start Initiative and MIECHV.

The new report in Health Affairs calculates the price tag for firearm injuries: $ 2.8 billion a year in American hospital charges and $ 46 billion a year in lost work and medical care.

A study published in the journal Health Affairs last fall found that visits to retail clinics quadrupled between 2007 and 2009.

Last month, however, members of Helms's staff who follow health affairs did not even know about the academy and Lurie reports.

In an interview with ScienceInsider last week, Garrett decried the Obama Administration's failure to appoint a head for the little known Office of Global Health Affairs within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

He goes on, «By identifying senior investigators and uniting them as mentors for the BIRCWH scholars, we have fostered the development of numerous important, multidisciplinary collaborations that cut across the entire Health Affairs campus.

A new study, being released today as a Web First by Health Affairs, examines the effects of pay - for - performance, combined with capitation, in China's largely rural Ningxia Province.

In spite of early concerns that hospitals» economic strengths would lead them to dominate the formation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), a new study published in the June issue of Health Affairs reveals the central role of physician leadership in the first wave of ACOs.

Combining new survey data with past findings about stress and health, a study published this month in Health Affairs estimated that work stress accounts for 10 % to 38 % of this lifespan inequality.

Doctors in states where marijuana is legal write fewer prescriptions for opioid painkillers, a 2016 study in Health Affairs showed.

Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Prescription Medication Use In Medicare Part D. Health Affairs.

Health Affairs explores health policy issues of current concern in domestic and international spheres.

A pair of medical researchers recently published a report in Health Affairs recommending the creation of national standards for representing data related to social determinants of health in electronic health records.

The journal Health Affairs also recently published two blogs on the subject, one from Dr. Karen Davis, former president of the Commonwealth Fund, and another from journalist Bara Vaida.

Articles written by ferret veterinarians and peer - reviewed by AFA's Health Affairs Committee can be found on the group's website, including pieces about adrenal disease, Aleutian disease, cardiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease.

A 2015 Health Affairs study found that hospital costs for women who had no risk factors to complicate childbirth ranged from less than $ 2,000 to $ 12,000 or more.

The study, published in the journal Health Affairs, found that participation in Pepsi's workplace wellness program saved a monthly average of $ 30 per member.

On a related note, the White House and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs announced initiatives to provide healthier fare to US dining halls and military bases last month.

But as we have known since at least 2005, when the Bush Administration started trying to figure what a pandemic preparedness plan should look like and what agencies should lead the response, CDC is not the only player, and there are some very significant pieces of the problem that needed to be taken care of at the Food and Drug Administration, the State Department, the National Security Council, and very importantly, the Office of Global Health Affairs (OGHA) in HHS.

The work was supported by the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs through the Prostate Cancer Research Program under Award No.

The webinar also included remarks on professional development systems from Terry Adirim, Director of the Office of Special Health Affairs in the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, executive vice president for health affairs at Emory, and Donna W. Hyland, president and CEO of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, explained that the new grant, which is the largest single gift ever to Children's, will have an enormous impact on the two institutions, building on the strong partnership between Emory and Children's and leading them to become a major pediatric research hub in the Southeast and the nation.

According to a study published in the September issue of Health Affairs, the number of U.S. households with a Health Savings Account (HSA) jumped tenfold from 2005 to 2012 — reaching 6.52 million and suggesting that consumers are starting to see the tax benefits of these accounts.

In a May 6 paper published in Health Affairs, David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and co-author Nikhil Sahni, a senior researcher in Harvard's Economics Department, point to several factors, including a decline in the development of new drugs and technologies and increased efficiency in the health care system, to explain the recent slowdown.

If you're too nervous or margaritafied to read the whole thing, the invariably wise and poetic Timothy Jost at Health Affairs has distilled the CBO / JCT's take on Trumpcare into a lovely haiku:

Just 20 % of US health systems use EHR data from outside sources, according to Health Affairs.

The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

His academic journal publications include pieces in Health Affairs; Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law; The Responsive Community; Polity; and PS: Political Science and Politics.

The national cost of false - positive tests and overdiagnosed breast cancer is estimated at $ 4 billion a year, according to a 2015 study in Health Affairs.

The findings, published in the June issue of Health Affairs, suggest that this routine linkage of mental illness with violence toward others paints an unfair portrait of those with mental illness, suggesting that most are prone to violence when numerous studies have concluded that only a small percentage actually commit violence.

The findings, published in the journal Health Affairs, suggest that state policies could play a key role in further reducing racial differences in mortality.