Using Evidence to Improve Population Health
An endowed operating foundation that works to improve the health of populations by connecting leaders and decision makers with the best available evidence and experience
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Delaware Moves Forward on Comprehensive Health Care Cost Measures
Massachusetts isn’t the only state making progress when it comes to measuring health care costs. Delaware is also moving forward with its own approach. Delaware’s Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) Kara Odom Walker was tasked with leading this effort. The Fund assisted the secretary’s work by sharing policy lessons learned from the Total Cost of … Read more
Blog: The View from Here
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Global Hospital Budgets in Maryland: When Economics and Altruism Align
“We had more imaging facilities than we really needed. Plus our ER was really crowded. So under a global budget we shut down one of our three imaging centers and converted it into a patient-centered medical home to reduce our ER volume.” I wanted to pinch myself. Was this the fever dream of a crazy-eyed, hopeless delivery system reform devotee or was I really hearing a hospital executive … Read more
A multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy
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“Pay for Success” Financing and Home-Based Multicomponent Childhood Asthma Interventions: Modeling Results From the Detroit Medicaid Population
Researchers modeled the potential impact of an evidence-based multicomponent childhood asthma intervention among low-income children enrolled in Medicaid in Detroit. They found significant potential for Pay for Success, although there are administrative and payment challenges. Federal-level policy and guidance could help. Read more
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Featured Article
From in vivo to in vitro: How the Guatemala STD Experiments Transformed Bodies Into Biospecimens
This study sheds light on the US Public Health Service’s Guatemala STD experiments of the 1940s. The 1,300 people who had been intentionally exposed to pathogens in the experiments also played a role as unknowing secondary research subjects in biospeciman experiments that continued until at least 1957, write study authors Kayte Spector-Bagdady and Paul A. Lombardo from the University of Michigan and Georgia State University College of Law, who analyzed historical documents from that period. Read more