Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Author: Kameron Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP
Kameron Matthews MD, JD is a board-certified family physician and currently serves as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care at the Veterans Health Administration in Washington DC. She earned her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and her law degree from the University of Chicago.Abortion: Controversy and Compromise
A brief from the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University posits that the proposed limitation on coverage of medically indicated abortions within health care reform legislation will have industry-wide effects.
The Big Apple’s fight over calorie content
The New York City Health Department sought to address the obesity epidemic by requiring certain restaurants to publicize nutritional information. The federal Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1989 mandated the inclusion of nutritional information on all packaged foods, but Continue Reading …
Health Benefits of Primary Care
A study from 2007 quantifies the health benefits that primary care provides. For every extra primary care physician added over 4 lives can be saved. In the 1940s and 1950s more than 50 percent of all physicians in the United Continue Reading …
21st Century Medical Education
Medical education is at a crossroads. While the health care workforce requires rapid expansion to accommodate the aging Baby Boomers, medical schools are tasked with inculcating ever-expanding scientific knowledge in the same limited four-year timeframe allotted to physicians of generations Continue Reading …
Health care for Immigrants
Though some Americans may believe that immigrants are a burden by utilizing the health care system, research has shown that immigrants have less access to health insurance and use fewer health care resources than citizens. This study sought to further Continue Reading …