Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Advocacy
Taking A Bite out of the Big Apple
Section 4205 of the Affordable Care Act requires certain restaurants to report calorie information on menu boards beginning March 23, 2011; New York City recently implemented a similar law. On March 31, 2008, an amended New York City regulation became Continue Reading …
The Future of Nursing
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) developed a diverse committee comprised of nursing leaders across the country to study the future needs of the nursing profession. The Committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Continue Reading …
When Politics Trumps Science
As happened following the controversial decisions of the United States Preventive Services Task Force on breast cancer screening, another controversy embroils the independent panel regarding prostate screening. A report last month from the Wall Street Journal describes the recent decision Continue Reading …
Life After Health Reform
The hazards of sickness, accident, invalidism, involuntary employement, and old age should be provided for through insurance. (Theodore Roosevelt, 1912)
A New View on Tobacco Taxation
Economic viewpoints on tobacco taxation typically seek to correct for the externailities imposed upon citizens by tobacco smokers. This new analysis seeks to account for these externalities, plus those incurred by family members of smokers, and assumes that smokers do Continue Reading …
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