The cost of hypertension, in the US alone is $198 billion each year, according to the CDC. The Health Equity Research Network (HERN) on the Prevention of Hypertension is part of the multi-pronged ...

Methods and analysis A comprehensive health economic model will be developed and applied ... DCE study will be applied to inform the development of the features of the CDC model of service delivery to be implemented across the partner organisations.

To meet this objective, the CMS Innovation Center launched a new health equity initiative in 2022, proposing to: 1) develop new models and revise existing models to promote and incentivize ...

However, these opportunities do not address the limited ability of existing healthcare financial models to tangibly improve health and prevent disease in all populations. Improving health equity, which provides equal access to care regardless of social ...

This article is part of a series of COVID-19 resources on health equity. Marginalized and minoritized patients ... care providers do to address inequities in their communities? CDC recommends health care systems and health care providers can do the ...

Dawes serves as an advisor to The White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, an appointed member of the CDC’s Advisory Committee to the Director and co-chair of the CDC’s Health Equity Working Group, as well as the NIH’s National Advisory Council ...

The purpose of Health Affairs' Health Equity Advisory Committee is to guide ... of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Member, Board of Directors, Public Health Foundation Member ...

The first is applying a health equity lens and being intentionally inclusive. The second, leverage simpler and cost-effective approaches. Three, engage diverse patients to improve digital health literacy and individualize care. Finally, track patient ...

Health, well-being and quality of life depend on many factors, and vary for people depending on where they were born, where they live and where they work. Charlotte Owens, explains how these ...

To overcome these challenges, CMS introduced innovative models like value-based ... especially with the recent focus on health equity. According to the CDC, approximately a quarter of adults ...

As presented in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, this graphic describes concepts and parallel approaches targeting social and structural determinants of health that underpin our integrative population health equity framework.

The CDC will have less data to track the spread of Covid and new variants after the public health emergency ends on Thursday. The U.S. has a fragmented health-care system where the authority to ...

The following resources help to define health equity in a LAM context, highlight specific needs of LAM staff, and provide examples for how these institutions are taking action. “Museums on Call: How Museums Are Addressing Health Issues,” from the ...

The Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems supports ambitious investigative or explanatory projects on systemic racism in health care policy and practice and inequity in treatment, patient experience and health outcomes for Black ...

"The changes that we're discussing today are happening because the end of the Public Health Emergency means that CDC will have less authority to collect certain types of public health data," said ...

with a focus on health equity, inclusion, and reducing barriers to care, bringing his expertise not only from the CDC but also from his role as a physician. In a statement, Goldstein said he would ...

BOSTON -- Here's some encouraging news: the mental health of teens may be improving. According to new CDC data, teen visits to the ER for mental health conditions, suicide-related behaviors ...

CDC researchers track the weekly emergency room visits among those 12 to 17 for suicidal behaviors and drug overdoses, among other mental health problems. They found that by fall 2022, overall ...

Since the mpox outbreak started last year through May 10, 461 mpox cases have been reported in Massachusetts, according to CDC data ... s Department of Public Health. All cases were among ...