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Two takes on the Oregon Medicaid study
In a study dubbed the “Oregon Health Insurance Experiment,” researchers compared clinical outcomes among two groups of adults in Oregon—half who were on Medicaid and half who weren’t. The newest findings from the study, published online May 2,…
HSPH student Ali Chisti aims to improve health—and health care access—in rural Oregon
May 6, 2013 -- Three years ago, Oregon native Ali Chisti, MPH ’13, Carson Scholar, was on course to become a private practice neurosurgeon, studying medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. During the summers he…
Dr. Ruiz goes to Washington
[ Spring 2013 ] From California’s impoverished Coachella Valley to HSPH to Capitol Hill When Raul Ruiz was growing up in California’s Coachella Valley, his parents—both migrant farm workers—couldn’t afford health insurance, so they relied on home remedies and nutritious…
Years of preparation helped Boston respond to Marathon tragedy
The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing killed three people and injured 264—20 critically—but every patient who was transported to a hospital survived the tragedy. One reason is that Boston is a “medical mecca,” with an unusually high…
Expanding Medicaid lowers rates of depression, reduces financial strain, but no improvement shown in physical health
For immediate release: May 1, 2013 Boston, MA — New findings from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment show that Medicaid coverage had no detectable effect on the prevalence of diabetes, high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, but substantially…
HSPH students study electronic health records in China
April 2013 — In January 2013, 12 HSPH students travelled to the Minhang District in Shanghai, China to study how electronic health records were implemented. The Winter Session trip was sponsored by the HSPH China Initiative.
Patients with surgical complications provide greater hospital profit-margins
For immediate release: April 16, 2013 Boston, MA -- Privately insured surgical patients who had a complication provided hospitals with a 330% higher profit margin than those without a complication, according to new research from Ariadne Labs, a…
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…
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…