Disparities in Antibiotic Use Across the U.S.
The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy recently released findings on antibiotic use in the United States. While overall antibiotic use declined between 1999…
Read MoreOp-Ed: Is All Policy Health Policy?
The October issue of Health Affairs focuses on health disparities, which are prevalent in the U.S. They stem from several different causes, and solving them…
Read MoreMeasuring Health Care Quality: Does It Make a Difference?
The Commonwealth Fund recently reported that the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality’s efforts to measure quality improves doctors’ care. So far, it seems that just the fact that…
Read MoreMove Up or Move Out? A Lower Poverty Neighborhood May Improve Your Health
Moving to Opportunity, a 1990s US department of Housing and Urban Development program allowing randomly assigned families the chance to move out of poverty stricken neighborhoods…
Read Moret’s Complicated: Injectable Contraceptives and HIV Transmission in Africa
For policymakers involved in developing regions, no issues are more urgent and confounding than those concerning improving the health outcomes of women and children and…
Read MoreThe Necessity (and Difficulty) of Rationing
The Institute of Medicine recently recommended that the federal government explicitly include cost in the criteria for deciding which health benefits must be covered by…
Read MoreA Junk Food Tax?
When I think about what we’ve done to mitigate the effect of our love for junk food in America (praise corporations for using less salt…
Read MoreWhat Have You Done For Me Lately? Health Care Reform and Deficit Reduction
My colleague Matt is right that the key to bringing the deficit under control is reducing entitlement spending. But while Social Security has problems that…
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