Coverage and Access
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 6, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In rural western Massachusetts, a coalition with members from many sectors of the community has been working for more than a decade to support youth well-being and reduce youth substance abuse. In that time, youth drinking, cigarette smoking, and marijuana use...
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 5, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Individuals make decisions about health and well-being every day. Many of those decisions involve using and understanding numbers, and most of the decisions are made quickly, at home or at work, as a person goes about a daily routine. Even with adequate time,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 21, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Accountable Care Organizations The fragmented nature of the delivery and financing of health care in the United States, coupled with misdirected incentives dominating the payment structure, has driven national expenditures to be the highest in the world for...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 14, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
“The ultimate test of [health] policy is whether or not it adds to the well-being of the population served.” Robert G. Evans and Gregory L. Stoddart [1] Introduction In “A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians,” Marc Lalonde, the Canadian Minister...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 6, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Today, team-based health care is no longer an innovation or even a choice. Increasingly, providers are using a team-based approach to deliver care, and the complexity of health problems facing many Americans, combined with the specialization of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 31, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background Patients of low socioeconomic status (SES) are at higher risk than patients of greater means for hospitalization for conditions that can be addressed in the ambulatory setting (Kangovi et al., 2013; 2014). Patients of low SES are twice as likely as...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 31, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background Similar to the national rates of high blood pressure, data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System indicate that the New Hampshire rate of hypertension is just over 30 percent (CDC, 2013; New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 29, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background Morbidity and mortality resulting from influenza have remained high in the United States despite efforts to vaccinate high-risk populations, leading public health officials to expand their vaccination recommendations to include schoolchildren (Fiore...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 29, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background Poor health is both a cause and a result of homelessness. According to the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (2008), people who are homeless are three to six times more likely to become ill than those with stable housing and three to four...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 1, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
“Health disparities are the physical embodiment of inequity in opportunities. And these inequities in opportunity have been socially created, which means we are all a part of creating them and that we can now play a role in actually changing them.” —Jeanne...
