Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New ...
WEBJan 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 ...
Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health …
WEBFeb 7, 2022 — 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 ...
Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults
WEBJan 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 ...
Achieving Health Equity: Closing The Gaps In Health Care …
WEBAug 1, 2016 — In the United States, racial/ethnic minority, rural, and low-income populations continue to experience suboptimal access to and quality of health care despite decades of recognition of health dispa...
The Effects Of Violence On Health
WEBOct 7, 2019 — The biological effects of violence have become increasingly better understood and include effects on the brain, neuroendocrine system, and immune response. Consequences include increased ...
Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy
WEBStructural racism operates through laws and policies that allocate resources in ways that disempower and devalue members of racial and ethnic minority groups, resulting in inequitable access to ...
The Health Effects Of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
WEBJun 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 ...
Strategies To Empower Communities To Reduce Health Disparities …
WEBAug 1, 2016 — Strategies To Empower Communities To Reduce Health Disparities. Beti Thompson, Yamile Molina, Kasisomayajula Viswanath, Richard Warnecke, and. Michael L. Prelip. Affiliations. ) is a professor in ...
The ACA’s Individual Mandate In Retrospect: What Did It Do, And …
WEBThe Affordable Care Act required most people to obtain health insurance or pay a tax penalty. Legislation enacted in December 2017 effectively repealed that requirement, starting in 2019. This arti...
The Ten Years’ War: Politics, Partisanship, And The ACA
WEBMar 2, 2020 — In 1975 Wilbur Cohen, the former health, education, and welfare secretary, declared that “Medicare was a breakthrough…. In its 10 years, it has broken the back of the ideological opposition to ...