Perspectives
by Laura DeStefano | May 31, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
This commentary is adapted from commencement speeches delivered by Victor Dzau at the University of Pittsburgh and Tulane University. Graduates, as newly minted health care providers, researchers, and educators, you join thousands of others around the globe connected...
by Madeleine Deye | May 23, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction A recent review suggests that 5.03 billion individuals use the Internet worldwide, with approximately 4.70 billion, or 59% of the global population, using some form of social media (Kemp, 2022). While it is challenging to determine overlap across...
by Madeleine Deye | May 17, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
Payment for participation in research—especially clinical research—is a common practice, but researchers often find themselves working in a “black hole” regarding payment. There are no well-described standards for decision-making on payment amounts and forms of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 27, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
Innovations in health care and medicine have been at the forefront of many of society’s biggest challenges. More than 50 years after the founding of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the COVID-19 pandemic has in many...
by Madeleine Deye | Feb 13, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
With the publication of the World Health Assembly’s (2021) Resolution on Oral Health, the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy on Oral Health, and the draft Global Oral Health Action Plan 2023–2030, oral health is now recognized as an integral and...
by Madeleine Deye | Feb 13, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
Surveying the landscape of primary care, the 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care noted the disappointing lack of progress made on the...
by Madeleine Deye | Jan 17, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
The recent 50th anniversary (2020) of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) offered an opportunity to reflect on the breadth of studies that have addressed ways to enhance the health and well-being of children, youth, and families and, by extension, the health...
by Madeleine Deye | Dec 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Executive Overview The health of the U.S. population faces a seemingly intractable shortfall in the prospects for large numbers of people, including and especially people of color, long confronting the consequences of structural racism. Yet, rather than focus...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The United States has shown that higher health care spending does not guarantee better health outcomes. Despite consistently leading the world in health care spending per capita, U.S. population health outcomes are poor (Papanicolas et al., 2018)....
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 14, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
Animals have been used as scientific research subjects since at least the 4th century BCE (Guerrini, 2003). Since then, there has been both support for and objections to that use. Some similarity between nonhuman animals and humans powers the arguments of both...
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