Perspectives

Achieving Latino Equity in Medicine, Nursing, and Dentistry Education: Accelerating the Path Forward

by Jenna Ogilvie | May 9, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Health professions are increasingly acknowledging legacies of racial/ethnic prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion. These legacies stem from institutional or sectoral policies, regulations, procedures, and behaviors that create and mutually reinforce...

Can Preferentially Prescribing Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers (ARBs) over Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs) Decrease Dementia Risk and Improve Brain Health Equity?

by Madeleine Deye | May 9, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Currently, there are no effective disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) (National Institute on Aging, 2021). In this context, considerable attention has been given to prevention of ADRD. The 2020 report of the Lancet...

Human Health and Equity in an Age of Robotics and Intelligent Machines

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 21, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Advances in robotic technologies and intelligent machines will transform the way clinicians care for members of our community within a variety of health care settings, including the home, and, perhaps of far greater importance, offer a means to create a much...

The Promise of Population Health: A Scenario for the Next Two Decades

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 21, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

In my 1997 book Purchasing Population Health: Paying for Results, I was either bold or foolish to make the following predictions about how the next two decades of work and progress in improving population health might proceed (Kindig, 1997): Phase 1 (1998–2002):...

Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity through Transformed Systems for Health

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 14, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”—Goethe   Introduction People and the communities they are a part of—defined as “groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity . . . or similar situations to address issues...

Sixth Annual DC Public Health Case Challenge – Reducing Disparities in Cancer and Chronic Disease: Preventing Tobacco Use in African American Adolescents

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  In October 2018, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) held the sixth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health...

Leveraging the Urgency of Economic Disparities Driven by the COVID-19 Pandemic to Strengthen the U.S. Safety Net

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to socioeconomic and health disparities in the United States, with a disproportionate impact among low-income persons and communities of color. However, these disparities documented over the...

Buprenorphine Prescribing through Telemedicine and Telephone Evaluation: Time for an Overdue Update in Policy

by Madeleine Deye | Jan 21, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

It should not be more difficult for health care providers to prescribe life-saving medications that treat opioid use disorder than to prescribe addictive opioid pills themselves. Yet, that is the reality clinicians face today. Fortunately, there is an opportunity to...

Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     Over the last decade, some of the digital technologies that have profoundly transformed industries from banking to media have, at last, arrived in health...

Health Product Manufacturers and Innovators COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     ABSTRACT |  United States health care spending consumes nearly a fifth of the GDP [1]. While, in many respects, the U.S. health care system is enviable and...