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Talking Health: A New Way to Communicate About Public Health
PHRASES
Public Health Reaching Across Sectors (PHRASES), an initiative jointly launched by the de Beaumont Foundation and HMS, informed and inspired Talking Health, published by Oxford University Press. Ruth Katz, HMS executive director, co-authored the [read more]
A ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Needn’t Shoot It
AFFIRM at the Aspen Institute
Chris Barsotti, program director of AFFIRM at the Aspen Institute, describes his experiences as an emergency physician and gunowner in this Wall Street Journal op-ed and calls for a public health approach [read more]
Budgeting for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Improving the Federal Scorekeeping Process
Health, Medicine & Society
This report highlights consensus recommendations emerging from an HMS convening that brought together former Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Office of Management and Budget leaders. Their conclusion: Structural changes to current [read more]
Reducing the Health Harms of Incarceration
Aspen Health Strategy Group
This Aspen Health Strategy Group report offers five big ideas for tackling systemic issues at the intersection of incarceration and health. Action steps to reduce the harm: repeal the Medicaid exclusion for [read more]
Breakthrough Cures, Blockbuster Costs: Future Directions
Health, Medicine & Society
Published by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and HMS, this report examines advanced therapies—biomedical breakthroughs that often treat rare conditions and can transform or even save a patient’s life—that tend to [read more]
