Related press releases – Health Policy/Systems

Press releases related to health policy and health systems from the HSPH news office:

• Expanding Medicaid lowers rates of depression, reduces financial strain, but no improvement shown in physical health (May 1, 2013)
• Patients with surgical complications provide greater hospital profit-margins (April 16, 2013)
• Poll finds bipartisan public support for creating state insurance exchanges despite continuing party divisions over the ACA (January 25, 2013)
• Checklists in operating rooms improve performance during crises (January 17, 2013)
• New poll shows U.S. public supports continued investment in Federal Nutrition Assistance Program (December 5, 2012)
• Polls of voters portend conflict between Obama Administration and State and House Republican leaders over implementation of the Affordable Care Act (November 28, 2012)
• Comprehensive Polling Analysis Finds That Likely Voters Rank Health Care as the Second Most Important Issue in Their Presidential Vote Choice (October 10, 2012)
• Expanding Medicaid to Low-Income Adults Leads to Improved Health, Fewer Deaths (July 25, 2012)
• Poll: Many Sick Americans Experience Significant Financial Problems And Report Their Care Is Not Well-Managed (May 21, 2012)
• Simple, Low-Cost Checklist Dramatically Improves Practices of Health Workers During Childbirth (May 16, 2012)
• Routine mammograms may result in significant overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer (April 2, 2012)
• No improvement in patient outcomes seen in hospitals with pay-for-performance programs (March 28, 2012)
• Despite increasing concerns about high health care costs, new survey finds little support among Americans for decisions that limit use of high-cost prescription drugs and treatments (December 22, 2011)
• Overall hospital admission rates in U.S. linked with high rates of readmission (December 14, 2011)
• Policy makers should prepare for major uncertainties with Medicaid expansion (October 26, 2011)
• Retirees and those near retirement have different views of golden years (September 27, 2011)
• International survey highlights great public desire to seek early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s (July 20, 2011)
• Medicaid increases use of health care, decreases financial strain, and improves health for recipients (July 7, 2011)
• Patients at small, isolated, rural hospitals in U.S. more likely to receive lower quality of care compared with other hospitals (July 5, 2011)
• Support for Massachusetts landmark health reform law rises in 2011 (June 5, 2011)
• When it comes to quality, new poll shows Americans give U.S. health care low grades (April 12, 2011)
• Americans remain divided over health reform with an uptick in public opposition as GOP ramped up repeal campaign (January 25, 2011)
• Poll analysis shows prospective voters for Democratic Congressional candidates and prospective voters for republicans hold starkly different views on what the next congress should do about new health care law (October 28, 2010)
• Medical liability costs in U.S. pegged at 2.4 percent of annual health care spending (September 7, 2010)
• Global health leaders advocate for expanding cancer care in developing countries (August 16, 2010)
• Dean Julio Frenk, Prof. Sue Goldie to discuss global health diplomacy at Harvard Kennedy School (December 3, 2010)
• Economic downturn takes toll on health of Americans with heart disease, diabetes or cancer, poll finds (November 18, 2010)
• Poll analysis shows Americans have conflicting views about spending on the nation’s public health system (November 9, 2010)
• Poll analysis shows prospective voters for Democratic congressional candidates and prospective voters for Republicans hold starkly different views on what the next Congress should do about new health care law (October 28, 2010)
• Medical liability costs in U.S. pegged at 2.4 percent of annual health care spending (September 7, 2010)
• U.S. hospitals making only modest gains in adoption of electronic health records (August 26, 2010)
• Global health leaders advocate for expanding cancer care in developing countries (August 16, 2010)
• More than two billion people worldwide lack access to surgical services (June 30, 2010)
• Employers took many measures to protect employees and avoid business impact of H1N1 flu outbreak (June 22, 2010)
• Review of Polls From H1N1 Pandemic Shows Key Reasons Most Americans Skipped Vaccine Were Worries About Its Safety and Lack of Concern About Illness (May 19, 2010)
• Health care reform support depends on individuals’ perceptions of what’s good for them (November 4, 2009)
• Most Massachusetts practicing physicians support reform law (October 21, 2009)
• Majority in Massachusetts still support health reform law (September 28, 2009)
• Hospitals slow to adopt electronic health records (March 25, 2009)
• Surgical checklist reduces deaths by more than 40 percent (January 14, 2009)
• Mass. poll: More than two-thirds of respondents support health reform law (July 15, 2008)
• WHO, HSPH collaborate on surgery checklist to prevent injury, infection, death (June 24, 2008)
• Even before tomato scare, poll finds U.S. public distrustful of food safety (June 12, 2008)
•  Affordable cigars, snuff offset drop in cigarette smoking; experts call for tax hike on these tobacco products (June 10, 2008)
•  Poll: Americans criticize quality of Iraq War veterans’ care (May 25, 2008)
• Republicans, Democrats disagree on whether U.S. health care system best in world (March 20, 2008)
• Four in 10 Americans have trouble paying for drugs, or skip prescriptions or cut pills due to cost (March 4, 2008)
• Widening U.S. disparities in health not inevitable (February 25, 2008)