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Quarterly Article
June 2024 Kanika Arora, Douglas A. Wolf,
This study finds that offering paid sick leave and paid family leave, when combined with job protection, could support potential family caregivers. More
June 2024 Caitlin Murphy, Ann Rossier Markus, Rebecca Morris, Kay Johnson, Sara Rosenbaum, Laurie C. Zephyrin,
Managed care is how Medicaid agencies principally furnish maternity care. For this reason, the contracts that Medicaid agencies enter into with managed care organizations have attracted strong interest as a means of improving maternal health access, quality, and equity. However, limited research has documented the extent to which states use these agreements to set binding expectations across the maternal health continuum and how states approach the task of maternal health contracting. More
June 2024 Tasleem J. Padamsee, Courtni Montgomery, Stefan Kienzle, Jeremy B. Straughn, Andrea Elmore, Deborah L. Fulton-Kehoe, Beryl Schulman, Thomas M. Wickizer, Gary M. Franklin,
Context: Unsafe prescribing practices have been among the central causes of improper reception of opioids, unsafe use, and overdose in the United… More
June 2024 Beena Bhuiyan Khan, Victoria Gemme, Ethan Chupp, Aparna Higgins, Corinna Sorenson,
Context: To date, uptake of value-based payment (VBP) arrangements for medical products and knowledge of their design and impact have been mainly… More
May 2024 Larisa Svirsky, Dana Howard, Martin Fried, Nathan Richards, Nicole Thomas, Patricia J. Zettler,
Context: Opioid treatment agreements (OTAs) are documents that clinicians present to patients when prescribing opioids that describe the risks of… More
May 2024 Cason Schmit, Brian Larson, Thomas Tanabe, Mahin Ramezani, Qi Zheng, Hye-Chung Kum,
Context: Recent legislative privacy efforts have not included special provisions for public health data use. Although past studies documented support… More
January 2024 Michal Shimonovich, Mhairi Campbell, Rachel M. Thomson, Philip Broadbent, Valerie Wells, Daniel Kopasker, Gerry McCartney, Hilary Thomson, Anna Pearce, S. Vittal Katikireddi,
Context: Whether income inequality has a direct effect on health or is only associated because of the effect of individual income has long been… More
January 2024 Timothy W. Levengood, Rena M. Conti, Sean Cahill, Megan B. Cole,
Our scoping review provides a roadmap of the questions being asked about the 340B program and an initial synthesis of the answers. More
January 2024 David A. Kindig, Yasmin Mohd Ariffin, Hannah Olson-Williams,
This study finds that every percent of evangelicals in a county is associated with 4.01 more premature deaths per 100,000 population and 0.13% fair/poor health. More
January 2024 Holly Chung, Katherine Cullerton, Jennifer Lacy-Nichols,
A comparison of lobbing spending and spending trends among four industries that affect public health. More