Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: Journal Club
Fighting against LGBT Discrimination
To promote health for all, providers must advocate against discriminatory legislation like “bathroom bills” that limit transgender individual’s access to public accommodations. In the last year, 16 states debated these bills, while 14 proposed policies limiting transgender students’ rights at Continue Reading …
Unlearn What You Have Learned
The history of employer sponsored health insurance (ESI) is long and colorful. Given the chance, it is a story we would rewrite. Removed of our hindsight, might we actually arrive with a better health care financing system? Few would argue Continue Reading …
Justifying the Charge Master
The price of health care in America is a complex and controversial topic. Many agree that we pay too much for the health care we receive but there is little agreement on what exactly should be done about it. A Continue Reading …
Sugar, Sugar
With increasing rates of obesity across the globe, governments are beginning to take more and more action to reduce the consumption of unhealthy dietary products. In 2014, Mexico took a step in this direction by implementing a 1 peso per Continue Reading …
Thirty Million Outside the “Golden Hour”
In the US, cohesive trauma systems began to coalesce in the 1960s, largely based on the triage, transport and resuscitation concepts derived from WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam War. Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society Continue Reading …
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