Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
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 …
Warranties in health care
Many products come with warranties from cars to cell phones to refrigerators. Except for the “global surgical period” health care offers no such guarantees. Warranties are a common feature of many goods and services purchased in the American economy. There Continue Reading …
Public Option, Private effects
A recent analysis funded by the insurance industry predicts tough financial times for hospitals if a public insurance option results in significant crowd out of traditionally higher-paying private insurance. In the absence of crowd out, hospitals will have improved revenues. Continue Reading …
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