Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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Southern California Health Care Summit: Strategies for Improving the Affordability of High-Quality Care and Coverage
The USC Schaeffer Center and the National Coalition on Health Care are bringing together a distinguished group of health care experts to discuss advances in practice and policy that can improve the affordability of health care – for patients and families, employers, public and private payers, and providers.
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Trends in Opioid Use and Prescribing in Medicare, 2006-2012
More than 1 in 3 beneficiaries filled an opioid prescription annually; about 1 in 10 were chronic opioid users.
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Proven Savings from Pharmacy Transition-of-Care Programs
A USC-led study projects the potential cost savings of expanding outpatient pharmacy care.
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Change in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Blacks experience greater multi-system physiological dysregulation, or cumulative biological risk, which is associated with poor cardiometabolic health and mortality. In this study, the researchers assess race differences in change in risk over four years among older whites, blacks and Hispanics.
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Budget Impact Analysis of a Pharmacist-Provided Transition of Care Program
Pharmacist-provided transition-of-care program shown to be cost-saving and reduced readmissions, according to the study.
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Schaeffer Center Fellow Steven Teutsch Leads Study Panel on Alcohol-Impaired Driving
The committee report suggests lowering the blood alcohol level for drunken driving to 0.05.
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Emergency Department Contribution to the Prescription Opioid Epidemic
Office-based physician visits are contributing a large share to the prescription opioid epidemic, according to a new study.
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Where Patients Get Prescription Opioids: It’s Not Where You Might Think
A new study is a hard look in the mirror for how providers have contributed to the addiction epidemic
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LiveMint: How Inequality Works
Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today, says Angus Deaton
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Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Reform: Balancing Costs, Coverage and Quality
Thursday | November 16, 2017
3:00 PM- 6:30 PM PT
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