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Setting health priorities: Strategy versus tactics
Article by HSPH's David Bloom and Elizabeth T. Cafiero, and Michael Chu of Harvard Business School, Psi Impact Magazine, April 2013
Rising death rates at rural hospitals suggest need for improvements
Death rates are rising at rural hospitals that serve many poor and elderly people—and the reason may be their inability to provide the most up-to-date treatment, according to a new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study. Given…
Health care law: Insurance still just a promise
Coverage in the San Angelo Standard-Times, March 30, 2013, quoting HSPH's Robert Blendon
A call for better governance in global health
Given the complex health challenges facing the world today—the continuing threat from infectious diseases, the growing problem of noncommunicable diseases linked with risk factors like obesity and smoking, and health effects stemming from global issues such as climate…
Cutting costs, buoying health care
Coverage of HSPH's Voices From the Field talk with Donald Berwick, February 14, 2013, Harvard Gazette
Study of Oregon health insurance experiment wins award
A study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers that used for the first time a randomized, controlled study design to answer questions about how access to public insurance affects health, health care use, and other outcomes, has…
Debating hospital readmissions penalties and ‘pay for performance’
A federal policy that penalizes hospitals where patients are more often rehospitalized within 30 days of being discharged unfairly targets hospitals that care for the greatest numbers of poor patients, say two Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)…
Getting people the care they deserve
When alumna Bethany Holmes worked in a clinic for deaf patients, she was shocked by how few people could afford the care they need. She set out to change that. January 24, 2013. (4:40) Please click the play…
U.S. governors mixed on Medicaid expansion
There appears to be no clear consensus among U.S. governors regarding the Medicaid expansion as called for in the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—which could deeply affect the future of the U.S. health care system, according to a Harvard…
Consumers may need help navigating health insurance exchanges
Based on a 2010 survey of people who used Massachusetts’ health insurance exchange (“The Connector”) to sign up for a health plan—and who experienced some difficulty with things like understanding and choosing plans—a group of investigators concludes that…