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A Reckoning

While not a comprehensive review of the pandemic, this book can provide a useful roadmap for the next serious Administration’s public health leaders who seek to get ahead of impending pandemic threats ...
The authors lay out prominent and pressing threats to public and planet health, though the reader needs to wait until the end to find out what can be done to save our planet and the people who live on ...
How states implement new Medicaid cost-sharing rules created by the OBBBA will have significant impact on program efficiency and enrollee health.
Precision medicine has transformed diagnosis and treatment, yet prevention often remains anchored in assumptions that no longer reflect how risk is acquired across the life-course.
Accelerated approval can serve patients well—but only when surrogate endpoints are reliable and clearly predict outcomes that matter to patients.
As the Japanese population has aged rapidly, Japan’s experience has implications for other high-income countries, including the United States. The aging of Japan’s population, coupled with the ...
Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews John Scott of the University of Washington about his recent paper exploring findings on the financial fallout from traumatic injuries, highlighting persistent ...
Transparency Scorecard to increase visibility into non-clinical dimensions of MA plan performance that fall outside the appropriate scope of Star Ratings.
Daniel R. Arnold ([email protected]), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Brent D. Fulton, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California. During the past several decades, physicians ...
Concerns about low physician participation in Medicaid have long motivated policy reforms, but the extent to which enrolled physicians actually care for Medicaid patients remains unclear. To assess ...
There is an alternative to the One Big Beautiful Bill’s approach of kicking millions of people off their health care and ...
Equitable access to nutritious food is crucial for household health, yet racial disparities in food security persist, often driven by income and wealth inequalities. Guaranteed income programs, which ...