Increasing evidence that sugar-sweetened beverage taxes work
In Mexico, not only did a sugar-sweetened beverage tax work, it appears to be working more as time goes on.
Insurance Market Stability: The High-Deductible Problem
A number of solutions have been proposed to help lower costs and improve access to care by attracting healthier people to risk pools. Barbara Markham Smith of Health Management Associates, an AcademyHealth Organizational Affiliate, shares her thoughts on the role of high-deductibles in the instability of the Marketplaces.
Adverse Drug Events
Paul Wallace Named Executive Editor of AcademyHealth’s Open Access Journal eGEMs
A national leader in population health research and the use of evidence to improve health care, Dr. Wallace was also an early advocate for the use of electronic health data for delivery system transformation and brings decades of experience to his new role.
Population health can be improved with proper planning and honest assessments
It can sometimes feel like there's nothing we can do to improve population health. That's just not true.
Working Together to Modernize Health Care
AcademyHealth joins an alliance aimed at achieving large-scale connected integration, and transforming the health sector into a health system.
Some lessons about opioids
The Critical Role of Evidence in a Robust and Just Policy Process
Lisa Simpson, AcademyHealth President and CEO, opened the 2017 AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference with the following remarks, focused on how the health care and health policy community can positively contribute to the development of sound policy in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment.
How did banning CFC's in inhalers change children's albuterol use?
A new study finds that the CFC ban, while leading to increases in cost-sharing, may not have led to decreased albuterol use in children.
In Uncertain Times, Health Research Community Convenes Around Anchor of Evidence
A new year, a new administration, and a new congress has presented several questions around the future of health care in the United States. As one of the year’s first conferences focused solely on health care and policy, the AcademyHealth National Health Policy Conference (NHPC) welcomed three members of the United States Congress and over 700 attendees. Below are summaries of some of the most popular sessions.