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Why Similar Policies Resulted In Different COVID-19 Outcomes: How Responsiveness And Culture Influenced Mortality Rates

10 months ago healthaffairs.org covid epidemiology

Unionization of workplaces substantially increases OSHA compliance – Data from nursing home unionizations over the period 2016–21 shows the unionized nursing homes become substantially more likely to comply with OSHA rules on reporting workplace injury data.

15 months ago healthaffairs.org

The study highlights a widening health and wealth gap between lower-middle and upper-middle class Americans nearing retirement, with the “forgotten middle” facing greater challenges and receiving less policy attention.

16 months ago healthaffairs.org health

Dental Services Use: Medicare Beneficiaries Experience Immediate And Long-Term Reductions After Enrollment

22 months ago healthaffairs.org health

‘I Am Not the Doctor for You’: Physicians Attitudes About People W Disabilities

2 years ago healthaffairs.org

Fentanyl Tests Empower People and Save Lives–Why Aren’t They Widespread? (2021)

2 years ago healthaffairs.org

Unionized nursing homes across the US had 11% lower resident COVID-19 death rates and 7% lower worker infection rates than non-unionized nursing homes

2 years ago healthaffairs.org covid

New study adds to growing body of evidence of financial hardship caused by the US health care system

2 years ago healthaffairs.org

School districts with higher teachers’ unionization rates were more likely to adopt mask mandates. [Data from Iowa]

3 years ago healthaffairs.org

Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US (HealthAffairs: Research Article) ('Estimates suggest that as a result of the implementation of these mandates, more than 200,000 COVID-19 cases were averted by May 22…

4 years ago healthaffairs.org covid

Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing Homes

4 years ago healthaffairs.org covid

In 2018, Arkansas became first US state to implement work requirements for Medicaid coverage

4 years ago healthaffairs.org

Shelter-In-Place orders (SIPOs) reduced COVID-19 mortality and reduced the rate of growth in hospitalizations

4 years ago healthaffairs.org covid

Face mask requirements may have prevented 450,000 coronavirus cases: A study provides strong evidence that states in the US mandating the use of face masks in public had a greater decline in daily COVID-19 growth rates after issuing these mandates compared to states that did not issue mandates.

4 years ago healthaffairs.org coronavirus covid

After the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement began, privately-insured women’s out-of-pocket spending for contraception declined and their use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs)…

5 years ago healthaffairs.org

New analysis estimates that the lifetime economic burden of early-onset serious mental illness is $1.85 million per person

5 years ago healthaffairs.org economic

Study estimates for every $1 spent on HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART), there are $3.50 in benefits globally

5 years ago healthaffairs.org art

After 2011, Germany started regulating the prices of new brand-name drugs for nonrare diseases by determining if they provided additional benefits to current treatments

5 years ago healthaffairs.org

Loss Of SNAP Is Associated With Food Insecurity And Poor Health In Working Families With Young Children

5 years ago healthaffairs.org

Low income women with high-deductible ($1000+) health plans had delays of 1.6 months to first breast imaging, 2.7 months to first biopsy, 6.6 months to incident early-stage breast cancer diagnosis…

5 years ago healthaffairs.org cancer

Medicaid Expansion in West Virginia tripled the number of Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorder who take buprenorphine, suggesting the ACA is a critical tool for responding to the opioid crisis

5 years ago healthaffairs.org

Study shows mothers who received a surprise out of network bill for their first delivery were more likely to switch hospitals for their second

5 years ago healthaffairs.org

Medicaid expansion caused a significant reduction in the poverty rate.

5 years ago healthaffairs.org

Mandatory Health Care Provider Counseling For Parents Led To A Decline In Vaccine Exemptions In California

6 years ago healthaffairs.org california vaccine

Millions Die Each Year From Lack of Access to Quality Healthcare, resulting in Trillions of Dollars in Economic Losses

6 years ago healthaffairs.org economic

Mississippi and West Virginia have the highest rates of vaccination in the US

7 years ago content.healthaffairs.org

Study of 1.7 million US veterans finds reduction in the availability of fast-food restaurants and supermarkets near a person's home are not associated with reductions in BMI

7 years ago content.healthaffairs.org

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has helped to close the gap in health care access between residents of poor and higher-income households, a new study by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers shows.

7 years ago content.healthaffairs.org

Increasing the percentage of elementary school children in the United States who participate in 25 minutes of physical activity three times a week from 32 percent to 50 percent would avoid $21.9 billion in medical costs and lost wages over the course of their lifetimes…

7 years ago content.healthaffairs.org

Use of prescription drugs in fee-for-service Medicaid was lower in states with medical marijuana laws than in states without such laws in five (pain, depression, nausea, psychosis and seizures) of the nine broad clinical areas studied…

7 years ago content.healthaffairs.org