Health-Related Quality of Life in Neurological Disorders Most Commonly Associated With Zika-Virus Infection: A Systematic Review

from Value in Health at https://bit.ly/38hCG9z on June 30, 2020 at 08:45PM Publication date: Available online 29 June 2020 Source: Value in Health Author(s): Rafael N. Miranda, Raphael Ximenes, Gebremedhin B. Gebretekle, Joanna M. Bielecki, Beate Sander, Camila Gonzalez Rosas, Manisha Kulkarni, Marcos Miretti, Mauricio Espinel, Jianhong Wu, Varsovia E. Cevallos

Pandemic Points to Need to Rethink and Reinvest in Health Care Workforce

from AcademyHealth Blog at https://bit.ly/3gb7hIP on June 30, 2020 at 08:33PM Pandemic Points to Need to Rethink and Reinvest in Health Care Workforce The nation has long been grappling with a shortage of well-trained clinicians to provide high quality, effective, and efficient care. Recently, in an AcademyHealth blog post, AcademyHealth members from the Interdisciplinary Research […]

COVID-19 Surveillance

from The Incidental Economist at https://bit.ly/2BURr68 on June 30, 2020 at 08:32PM This video was adapted from a piece published on the blog on May 29th: A precision public health approach to preventing the next COVID-19 surge: It’s time to talk about surveillance, written by Meredith Matone, DrPH, MHS, and Deanna Marshall, MPH.   @DrTiff_PhD

Health Economist and Senior Researcher

from ASHEcon at https://bit.ly/31u62jI on June 30, 2020 at 06:01PM     Position Title: Health Economist and Senior Researcher Location: Center for Professionalism & Value, Washington, DC (or in Lexington)Supervisor: Senior Vice President- Research & Policy TRAVEL: Approximately 10-15 days travel per year Are you a results-oriented health economist or senior researcher that enjoys work […]

Development of a Long-Term Evaluation Framework for the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/2BXuXBt on June 30, 2020 at 05:48PM To provide meaningful and practical guidance on delivering culturally and linguistically appropriate services to health organizations and health care organizations (HCOs), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) developed the National Standards […]

Evaluation of the National CLAS Standards

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/3ikczDB on June 30, 2020 at 05:48PM The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) developed the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (National CLAS Standards) to provide meaningful and practical guidance on […]

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Among Pregnant Women Referred by Criminal Justice Agencies Before and After Medicaid Expansion

from RAND Research Topic: Health and Health Care at https://bit.ly/2ZjJeAC on June 30, 2020 at 05:48PM Background Criminal justice involvement is common among pregnant women with opioid use disorder (OUD). Medications for OUD improve pregnancy-related outcomes, but trends in treatment data among justice-involved pregnant women are limited. We sought to examine trends in medications for […]

The fall and rise of food supplies in Covid-19 India, by Matt Lowe and Ben Roth

from Market Design at https://bit.ly/2AevEG6 on June 30, 2020 at 12:47PM Pandemic lock downs gave food supply a shock in Indian markets, but they have recovered. COVID Lockdown: How India’s Food Supply Chain First Tightened and then Recovered"Food supply shortages, if any, are driven by state level policy making, rather than consumers’ and suppliers’ fears […]

Credit where it is due: Investigating pathways from earned income tax credit expansion to maternal mental health

from Health Economics at https://bit.ly/2NFWoCL on June 30, 2020 at 08:15AM Abstract While earned income tax credit (EITC) expansions are typically associated with improvements in maternal mental health, little is known about the mechanisms through which the program affects this outcome. The EITC could primarily affect mental health through changes in family financial resources, changes […]

Health care in Ukraine

from Healthcare Economist at https://bit.ly/2BpAFfz on June 30, 2020 at 05:00AM Recently I read an interesting book called Moneyland by Oliver Bullough. The book describes how with porous borders facilitated by the internet, the rich can evade taxes, hide assets, and basically pick and choose the international legal system most favorable to their interests. One […]