Infectious Disease

Health Care Payers COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

by Jenna Ogilvie | May 17, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     Introduction and Sector Overview In contrast with other high-income countries, health care insurance and payment in the United States is highly fragmented....

Public Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 7, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     Introduction Gains in life expectancy and quality of life over the course of American history can be attributed to forward-looking investments in public...

What Happens After Disease X: Using One Health to Prevent the Next Pandemic

by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 9, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This is the first time the world has seen a...

Learning from the Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Interprofessional Perspective on Health Professions Education

by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 2, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>       Introduction Health professional educators around the world have demonstrated their ability to respond creatively to challenges posed by the...

Duty to Plan: Health Care, Crisis Standards of Care, and Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>         ABSTRACT | The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care...

COVID-19: An Urgent Call for Coordinated, Trusted Sources to Tell Everyone What They Need to Know and Do

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>         Since 1995, the global community has experienced six outbreaks that the World Health Organization (WHO), as authorized in a 2005 revision of...

Protecting Health Care Workers from Transmissible Airborne Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 13, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>       Health care workers face serious risks to their own health and safety during both routine and emergency work. Airborne transmissible...

Lessons Learned from Immunization Providers: Strategies for Successful Immunization Efforts among Medicare Patients

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 25, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Despite efforts to increase rates of immunization among Medicare patients, especially racial and ethnic minorities, these rates remain well below Healthy People 2020 targets [1]. It is not difficult to conclude that we need to learn more about how and why...

Interventions Aimed at Reducing Antimicrobial Usage and Resistance in Production Animals in Denmark

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Antimicrobial Usage and Interventions: A Brief History from 1950 to the Present Antimicrobials for veterinary purposes came on the market in the 1950s, followed shortly by antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), because of their growth-enhancing effects to...

Alternatives to Antibiotics: Why and How

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  The antibiotic resistance problem is caused by the evolution and transfer of genes that confer resistance to medically important antibiotics into human pathogens. The acquisition of such resistance genes by pathogens complicates disease treatment, increases...