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Here’s How Public Health Messaging Can Help With the Next Phase of the Pandemic
As COVID-19 cases increase and officials warn of a potential new surge, confusion still bedevils our public health messaging.
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Will the Rise of Work From Home Improve Our Health?
As the pandemic becomes endemic, major companies have announced varying polices about the future of remote work. Matthew Kahn argues that government and industry should accommodate WFH or hybrid plans because the benefits are manifold.
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Value Defects In The Health Services Sector
As of 2021, US health care expenditures exceed $3.8 trillion. It’s no secret that health care is nearly as wasteful in spending on value defects—behaviors that needlessly reduce quality, negatively impact the patient experience, or add to total costs of care—as it is in delivering clinical benefits.
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Racial Disparities in Accessing Treatment for Substance Use Highlights Work to Be Done
Older Americans are increasingly seeking treatment for substance use disorders with older Black Americans who start treatment being much more likely to have their treatment terminated and not finish compared to white adults.
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Who Is Really Driving Up Insulin Costs?
In the long term, capping insulin payments at $35 a month is just shuffling the deck rather than changing the game of insulin costs.
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Before Prescribing Opioids, Draft a Deprescribing Plan
To get past the allure of continued and often troublesome opioid use patterns, patients and doctors need a plan in hand before the first opioid is ever used.
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Stabilizing Health Care’s Share of the GDP
Since 1960, health care’s share of the GDP has risen by an average of 2.2 percentage points per decade, as compared with an average increase of 1.1 percentage points per decade in 15 other high-income countries since the early 1970s.
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Injuries Due to Medical Error are Common. They Could Be Prevented by Reducing Complexity
Research shows that medical error is the third leading cause of death worldwide.
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Knowledge Translation and the Opioid Crisis
Rapid solutions to the opioid crisis remain elusive. Prescriptions for opioids have decreased. Yet, supply limits have not reduced fatalities. Demand-side interventions have not fared any better.
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The High Cost of ‘Free’ Covid Testing
Insurance companies will inevitably pass the costs of free tests on through higher premiums or reduced benefits.
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