Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New ...
Jan 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 ...
Homelessness And Health: Factors, Evidence, Innovations That …
On a single night in 2023, 653,104 people experienced homelessness in the United States. 1 Minoritized populations—including Black, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander people and gender and sexual ...
Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health …
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
Jan 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 ...
Health Policy Topics - Health Affairs
Topics in Health Affairs journal, Forefront, briefs and other content cover a wide swath of health policy matters and health services research. Fields range from economics to political science to ...
What’s Next For Public Health? | Health Affairs
Jan 23, 2024 · Prevention is secondary to clinical care by a large margin: Public health’s share of total health expenditures in the US rose from 1.36 percent in 1960 to 3.18 percent in 2002, and then fell to ...
The ACA’s Individual Mandate In Retrospect: What Did It Do, And …
The 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 Legislation enacted in December 2017 effectively repealed that requirement, starting in 2019.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...
Integrating The US Public Health And Medical Care Systems To …
The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to the country’s difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first months.
The Health Effects Of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage
Jun 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 ...
Achieving Health Equity: Closing The Gaps In Health Care …
Aug 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...