by Straton Mwashighadi | Aug 12, 2014 | Commentary, Perspectives
An elder’s blessing began the workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, and it was critical in grounding the entire day. While we did not know the meaning of...
by Straton Mwashighadi | Jun 5, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
It is now widely recognized that health outcomes are deeply influenced by a variety of social factors outside of health care. The dramatic differences in morbidity, mortality, and risk factors that researchers have documented within and between countries are...
by Straton Mwashighadi | Apr 10, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In Los Angeles County, California, a promising new model for violence prevention and health promotion, rooted in cross-sector collaboration, has implications for how public health agencies serve communities. Safe Summer Parks programs were developed as violence...
by Straton Mwashighadi | Mar 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The key to the long term survival of the health care reforms being implemented under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has little to do with the enrollment websites that have attracted so much attention and everything to do with transforming the performance of the...
by Straton Mwashighadi | Feb 6, 2014 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Texas’s health will more likely be transformed through an obscure set of health care reform measures called the Medicaid 1115 Waiver/Texas Healthcare Transformation and Quality Improvement Program than through the much-publicized Affordable Care Act (ACA). The...
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