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Blogbeitrag#121. Mai 2024

A New $250 Million Approach to Addressing Health Care Patients' Food Insecurities

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Professor and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Senior Fellow Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, has become the Scientific Leader of a new national 10-year, $250 million research and advocacy program designed to find cost effective approaches to improving health through greater access to healthy food for patients with […]

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Blogbeitrag#216. Mai 2024

Voids in Scientific Evidence Slow Efforts to Curb Firearm Violence

Efforts to address the rising public health crisis of firearm violence are being stymied by the lack of scientific evidence about which current laws and proposed policies are–or are not–effective interventions. That's according to a May 3 virtual seminar of top experts convened by the University of Pennsylvania's Leonard David Institute of Health Economics (LDI) […]

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Blogbeitrag#39. Mai 2024

The Population Health Calamity Evidenced in U.S. Life Expectancy Statistics

ALSO SEE: Companion photo story from the event In a keynote address at one of the country's foremost research centers for aging and health, demographer Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD, emphasized that most people don't fully appreciate how seemingly dry life expectancy statistics say a lot about a nation's health and healthcare-related policies and practices. And, […]

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Blogbeitrag#49. Mai 2024

Photo Report from the Population Aging Research Center 2024 Retreat

The University of Pennsylvania Population Aging Research Center's (PARC) 2024 Retreat on May 3 brought together an interdisciplinary group of academics whose work exemplifies the organization's reputation as an international leader in research on the structure, organization, health, and well-being of aging human populations. The event's 22 podium presentations and session posters covered the gamut […]

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Blogbeitrag#52. Mai 2024

Penn Study in Navajo Nation Boosts Guideline Heart Failure Drug Uptake by 53%

A team led by LDI Senior Fellow and Perelman School of Medicine faculty member Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH, at a Navajo Nation hospital in New Mexico has developed a simple intervention that increased the uptake of guideline-directed heart failure therapy drugs by 53%. Titled "Telephone-Based Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Optimization in Navajo Nation: The Hózhó Randomized […]

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Blogbeitrag#625. April 2024

Exploring the Policies That Are Closing Rural Hospitals

Begun as an egalitarian crusade of the Truman administration in 1946 to create a loose network of small hospitals for populations across the country's remote regions, the rural hospital movement has never faced threats to its existence as dire as those confronting it today. And that situation continues to worsen as fragmented—and often contradictory—federal and […]

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Blogbeitrag#722. April 2024

Fixing Medicare's Problem of Inadequately Coordinated Care

In an April 11 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, University of Pennsylvania Professor Amol Navathe, MD, PhD, said that Medicare's current fee-for-service system is a key factor in producing fragmentation in care, particularly for patients with multiple chronic care conditions. "The focus isn't on producing more health, just on producing more health […]

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Blogbeitrag#89. April 2024

Eileen Lake and Salimah Meghani Named to International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame

University of Pennsylvania Nursing School Professors and LDI Senior Fellows Eileen Lake and Salimah Meghani have been named to the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. They will be inducted at the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing's 35th International Nursing Research Congress in Singapore in July. The annual Sigma Theta Tau Hall […]

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Blogbeitrag#98. April 2024

Despite Broad Efforts, U.S. Health Equity Gap Continues to Grow

Despite broad efforts since 2009 to increase the availability of health insurance and access to health care for underserved populations, low-income people are remaining sicker than higher-income people and that health inequity gap continues to grow. That's according to José Escarce, MD, PhD, the guest speaker at the April 2 annual Leonard Davis Institute of […]

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Blogbeitrag#101. April 2024

Scott Jelinek Wins Society for Pediatric Research Award

CHOP's School Jelinek Wins Award for Research Work with LGBTQ+ Youth

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Blogbeitrag#1128. März 2024

Sindhu Srinivas and Adi Hirshberg Honored by American Heart Association

Penn Medicine obstetrical physicians and researchers Sindhu Srinivas, MD, MSCE, and Adi Hirshberg, MD, were awarded the 2024 American Heart Association's Edward S. Cooper Award at the 2024 Philadelphia Heart Ball on March 23. They were honored for the Heart Safe Motherhood digital system they developed to improve care for pregnancy patients at high risk […]

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Blogbeitrag#1227. März 2024

Why the U.S. Needs a Creatively Rejuvenated Health Care System

Debunking an often-heard knee-jerk declaration that "the U.S. health care system is the best in world," LDI Senior Fellow and University of Pennsylvania Vice Provost for Global Initiative Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, told an audience at an annual Penn lecture series that much of U.S. health care is failing its patients and burning out its […]

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Blogbeitrag#1318. März 2024

Adding Diversity to Your Research Process: A New System

Insufficient diversity in clinical trials and other research cohorts is widely recognized as one of American health care's greatest problems and one that continues to skew scientific data and conclusions in ways that disadvantage enormous numbers of people. It's a problem that has been the subject of endless national discussions, debate, investigations, analysis, and general […]

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Blogbeitrag#148. März 2024

Medicare Hospice – Exploding in Size But Riddled with Quality Concerns

Since its launch 41 years ago, the Medicare Hospice program that covers the costs of care for terminally ill patients has exploded in size. One-fourth of Medicare spending now goes to hospice care as half of all the people who die are Medicare beneficiaries using the program. In 2000, there were 500,000 hospice users. There […]

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Blogbeitrag#156. März 2024

Medicare Payment Reform Saves Money on Surgeries But Puts More Work on Unpaid Home Caregivers

Alternative payment models have been touted as a solution to reducing U.S. health care costs. Indeed, some have argued that the Affordable Care Act's focus on alternative payment strategies—which hold providers accountable for the cost of care—is helping to flatten the famously steep curve of U.S. health care costs. Now, a first-ever study that quantifies the […]

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