Social History Is Part of Medical History
The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) latest report on health disparities drives home a point that many people are already aware of: income and education impact health. Physic…
The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) latest report on health disparities drives home a point that many people are already aware of: income and education impact health. Physic…
On this blog site, I’ve been asked to write about prevention and health reform. And I am going to do that, but not about prevention and the Affordable Care Act, rather about pr…
A few weeks ago, someone recommended TR Reid’s 2009 book “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care”. I trusted the person,…
Last night, Politico broke a story (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45976.html) about using health reform’s new $15 billion prevention and public health fund to pay f…
Recently, the Wall Street Journal made a big splash in the news by reporting that McDonald’s planned to drop health insurance for its workers if it was required to abide by the…
From the bully pulpit of the White House’s Let’s Move initiative to the billions of dollars invested by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), prevention is getting more high-profile att…
One of the most exciting prevention reforms included in the Affordable Care Act is the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. The full Council, which met f…