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Climate Change Global Health Health Care Practice / Quality Public Health
December 2024 Lawrence O. Gostin, Alexandra Finch, Adi Radhakrishnan, Eric A. Friedman,
In every major global health milestone in our lifetimes, the United States has been at the forefront—from smallpox eradication in 1980 and the… More
December 2024 Mary Louise Gilburg,
This year, our 5 most-read publications (not including Milbank Quarterly articles) included the Primary Care Scorecard; a brief with recommendations for improving health care market oversight at the state level to help sure more sustainable health care costs and higher quality; a blog on the impact of a Supreme Court decision that opened the door to more legal challenges to federal regulations; and more. More
December 2024 Alan B. Cohen,
In this issue of the Quarterly, readers will find an engaging mix of articles, beginning with two Perspectives and original scholarship on a range of policy topics. More
Primary Care
December 2024 Agnes Grudniewicz, Ellen Randall, Lori Jones, Aidan Bodner, M. Ruth Lavergne,
This scoping review explored how comprehensiveness in primary care is conceptualized and defined in order to map its attributes in support of being able to more clearly and precisely define this key concept in research, practice, and policy. More
Adi Radhakrishnan is a Legal Fellow at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. More
December 2024 Adriana Cadena,
State Medicaid agencies may soon face significant state and federal budget cuts and policy changes. As the policy and fiscal environment changes, the… More
Adriana Cadena joined the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) campaign in early 2022 and has led the growth of the PIF campaign to a robust national… More
December 2024 Christopher F. Koller,
Saying “no” is hard. It makes others unhappy, so people avoid it when they can — whether they are telling kids or constituents they can’t get… More
Reproductive Health State Health Policy
December 2024 Paula M. Lantz,
Since the 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, abortion law in the United States has been a complex maze of… More
Public Health
December 2024 Sandro Galea,
The recent US federal election has occasioned a substantial amount of reflection on the part of a broad range of sectors. Public health is no… More
