Chronic Disease
Our work in Chronic Disease
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Louisiana’s Prescription Drug Experiment: A Model for the Nation?
On July 22, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will hosted a conference on Louisiana’s subscription model to expand access to Hepatitis C treatment for the state’s incarcerated and Medicaid patients with the infection.
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Impact of Early Initiation of Antihypertensive Medications for Patients with Hypertension or Elevated Blood Pressure
Initiating antihypertensive medications before experiencing a cardiovascular disease-related clinical event was associated with reduced risk of AMI, stroke and death for all hypertensive patients identified in the new guidelines.
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Book Review: Immunotherapy’s Promise
Jakub Hlávka reviews a new book on the future of cancer treatments that he writes “[offers] a hopeful account of medical research that could, one day, save even more lives.”
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Research Spotlight: Alzheimer’s Disease
Schaeffer Center researchers are analyzing trends associated with a greying population, including AD prevalence and cost, and what these trends mean for society.
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Material–Psychosocial–Behavioral Aspects of Financial Hardship: A Conceptual Model for Cancer Prevention
RCMAR Scientist Reginald Tucker-Seeley presents a model to consistently measure financial hardship to better inform cancer prevention research identify connections between socioeconomic circumstances and cancer risk-related behaviors and cancer screening among older adults.
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Briefing: Return on Investment of Early Intervention in Mental Health Care
Join us for a briefing on what California can learn about investing in mental health prevention and early intervention and mitigating burdensome lifetime costs of untreated mental illness.
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Economic Dimensions of Personalized and Precision Medicine
The book explores recent empirical applications of personalized and precision medicine, as well as the intersection of the scientific, clinical, and economic factors affecting the development of PPM.
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To Help People with Mental Illness, Keep Them in School
In the struggle to help people with mental illness cope with their affliction, a powerful long term tool has been overlooked: school. Seth Seabury and Thomas Insel write on the importance of education in expanding opportunities for patients with serious mental illness.
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Researchers Link Educational Attainment to Reduced Burden of Serious Mental Illness
A new USC Schaeffer Center study shows the return on investing in improving educational attainment for those diagnosed with serious mental illness by age twenty-five, projecting positive impacts on health and economic outcomes.
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A New Way to Pay for Innovative Drugs, Provide Universal Access and Not Break the Bank
Neeraj Sood penned an analysis of Louisiana’s new path to curing hepatitis C among its Medicaid and prison populations. It is the first state to implement a solution proposed by Sood in a National Academies of Sciences consensus report and in a leading medical journal.
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