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by Madeleine Deye | Sep 19, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
The Clinical and Economic Impact of Obesity Obesity presents a formidable challenge to health care financing systems. According to the 2017-2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES), rates of obesity among U.S. adults have now climbed to 42.8% (Hales...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 8, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the eighth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/), a competition held in 2021 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the...
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...
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...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 29, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction The health system exists to serve the most fundamental need of society: people’s health and well-being. To do so effectively requires engaging people...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 1, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coupled with the increasing awareness of racial inequity in the United States, as sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, has led to a moment of reckoning...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 19, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction Dually eligible beneficiaries are individuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities within...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 7, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has stressed the U.S. health care system in an unprecedented manner, highlighting both the system’s resilience...
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 17, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction and Sector Overview In contrast with other high-income countries, health care insurance and payment in the United States is highly fragmented....
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 7, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction and Sector Overview Health systems in the U.S. are constituted by a number of different care delivery units and a diverse workforce of...
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