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04/14 2011
After the Dust Settles
Budget cuts – especially cuts of a deep and enduring nature – can undermine the sustainability of systems of care. And where will we go as a state in the wake of Arizona’s most recent budget decisions? After the Dust Settles: Arizona’s Emerging Healthcare Landscape is the first of a three-part series that examines various [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Assessing Health Care Reform
The Arizona Bioethics Network webinar in April will address the topic of Assessing National Health Care Reform: Perspectives on Individual and Community Health. James Hodge Jr., Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, will facilitate discussion of a number of challenging topics from a perspective you may [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Duh
A Congressional Budget Office analysis shows that seniors will pay sharply more for their Medicare coverage under the House Republicans’ “Path to Prosperity” plan to reform Medicare and Medicaid. Well, duh. The only way to reduce federal government spending in health care is for beneficiaries and the states to pay more. The only way to [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
Teach for the Test
What do merit pay for teachers and pay-for-performance (P4P) for physicians have in common? Both may lead to “teaching for the test.” A recent study of almost 500,000 patients in the British health system found no evidence that P4P benefited patients with hypertension. Another study found that P4P may exacerbate, rather than improve, health disparities. [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
A Different Kind of Health Plan
The City of Phoenix is circulating the first draft of a General Plan that looks similar to the one put into place nearly ten years ago. That might be reasonable if we didn’t know any more about the relationship between physical environment and its impact on the health and well-being of residents, particularly children. But [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
My Health Care Car
Years ago I had a position that required a fair amount of traveling. My employer provided me with a car and paid for all gas and repairs. I received a new car every two years or 60,000 miles, whichever came first. An acquaintance in a similar position who had to drive his own car and [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
Better News on Kids and Fast Food
But wait! Amid Arizona ranking at the bottom of states on child health indicators comes encouraging news: Young children in the state are eating less fast food than they were two years ago, according to data from the 2010 Arizona Health Survey (AHS) conducted by SLHI. The number of children younger than six years of [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
Children’s Health in Arizona
Is dismal, according to a recent report by the Commonwealth Fund. Arizona ranks 49th in the nation – only Mississippi and Nevada rank worse. The state ranks in the bottom quartiles on 16 out of 20 measures and in the top quartile on only one measure: the percent of high school students not meeting recommended [...] Learn More →
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02/11 2011
Hunger in Arizona
According to Hunger in America 2010, 888,100 unduplicated Arizonans received emergency food in 2009. That’s a whopping 85% increase from 2006. Almost half – 46% – were children under the age of 18. This dramatic increase underscores the importance of funding and sustaining a food safety net. But it also underscores the fundamental economic imperative [...] Learn More →
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01/13 2011
Money and Education
Are often the critical variables when it comes to support for children and families. In a new report drawn from 2010 Arizona Health Survey (AHS) data, Young Children of South Phoenix, researchers noted some of the differences between the predominately Hispanic population (62.3%) in a 12-zip code area of South Phoenix and the rest of [...] Learn More →
