Health Policy and Regulation
by Talia Lewis | Aug 26, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction Regardless of their political and policy environments, including the presence or absence of Medicaid expansion, states are increasingly supporting a variety of interventions to address health-related social needs (HRSNs) due to the proven and promising...
by Talia Lewis | May 13, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Respirators used in U.S. health care settings, including disposable filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs), full face respirators, reusable elastomeric half mask respirators (EHMRs), and powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs), must be approved by the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 29, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Health care organizations are grappling with myriad challenges—including mounting labor pressures, inflation, and a shifting payor landscape—that demand immediate attention. However, as pressing as these concerns may be, the imperative to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 8, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Each day in the United States, more than 300 people are shot by a firearm, and more than one-third of them loses their lives (CDC, n.d.a). This includes people who die as a result of homicides, suicides, unintentional shootings, shootings by law...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 6, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Rapidly rising drug overdose rates in the United States during the past three decades underscore the critical need to prevent overdose deaths and reduce the development of opioid and related substance use disorders (SUDs). Traditional public...
by Madeleine Deye | Sep 6, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the Ninth Annual DC Public Health Case Challenge (1), a student competition held in 2022 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement in the Health and Medicine...
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 Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
The adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to socioeconomic and health disparities in the United States, with a disproportionate impact among low-income persons and communities of color. However, these disparities documented over the...
by Madeleine Deye | Jan 21, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
It should not be more difficult for health care providers to prescribe life-saving medications that treat opioid use disorder than to prescribe addictive opioid pills themselves. Yet, that is the reality clinicians face today. Fortunately, there is an opportunity to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Over the last decade, some of the digital technologies that have profoundly transformed industries from banking to media have, at last, arrived in health...
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