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Advancing policies that create a more prevention- and primary care-oriented health system.
Improving population health through policies that contain health care cost growth.
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Short takes on health policy issues from Milbank staff and guest authors.
Insights from Milbank President Debra Lubar on state health policymaking.
Reported articles and Q&As on timely health policy issues, as well as foundation updates.
Milbank Memorial Fund and Milbank Quarterly webinars featuring state health policymakers and researchers.
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Alan B. Cohen,
In this issue of the Quarterly, readers will find eight Perspectives and three original scholarship articles on an assortment of topics, including:… More
Seth A. Berkowitz,
This article argues that social democracy requires political contestation but has greater potential than multisector collaboration to improve population health and health equity. More
Caleb Dresser, Zachary Johns, Avery Palardy, Sarah McKinnon, Suellen Breakey, Ana M. Viamonte Ros, Patrice K. Nicholas,
An exploration of opportunities to move the US health care system toward climate readiness through institutional motivators, efforts to address barriers to action, and broad-based engagement of the health care workforce. More
Laura M. Gottlieb, Danielle Hessler, Holly Wing, Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha, Yuri Cartier, Caroline Fichtenberg,
Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More
James René Jolin, Minsoo Kwon, Elizabeth Brock, Jonathan Chen, Aisha Kokan, Ryan Murdock, Fatima Cody Stanford,
Health policymakers have insufficiently addressed care for people with obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m2) in the United States.… More
Jonathan C. Heller, Marjory L. Givens, Sheri P. Johnson, David A. Kindig,
When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More
Ted Cho, Vrushab Gowda, Henning Schulzrinne, Brian J. Miller,
Virtually all modern medical devices now include embedded software, ranging from basic user interfaces and network connectivity to sophisticated… More
Paul Kershaw, Verena Rossa-Roccor,
Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More
Tracy Lam-Hine, Sarah Forthal, Candice Y. Johnson, Helen B. Chin,
Racial inequities in health and well-being began in the United States with colonization and slavery and have persisted as direct consequences of… More
Timothy W. Levengood, Rena M. Conti, Sean Cahill, Megan B. Cole,
Our scoping review provides a roadmap of the questions being asked about the 340B program and an initial synthesis of the answers. More
Cason Schmit, Brian Larson, Thomas Tanabe, Mahin Ramezani, Qi Zheng, Hye-Chung Kum,
Context: Recent legislative privacy efforts have not included special provisions for public health data use. Although past studies documented support… More
David A. Kindig, Yasmin Mohd Ariffin, Hannah Olson-Williams,
This study finds that every percent of evangelicals in a county is associated with 4.01 more premature deaths per 100,000 population and 0.13% fair/poor health. More
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