Health Affairs
hideHealth Affairs is a peer-reviewed health care policy academic journal founded in 1981. The journal has 10,000 domestic and international subscribers and is highly influential in the field; the Washington Post has described it as "the bible of health policy". According to the journal's homepage, it "is consulted by 55% of staff members on U.S. congressional committees of jurisdiction in health — ahead of JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine". Health Affairs is indexed and/or abstracted in PubMed, Medline, EBSCOhost, EBSCO EJS, ProQuest, Lexis-Nexis; Current Contents/Health Sciences and Behavioral Sciences; and SwetsWise Online Content.
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News tagged with health affairs
International survey of physicians in 11 countries reveals US lagging in access, quality, HIT use
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Fifty-eight percent of primary care doctors in the U.S. report their patients often have difficulty paying for medications and care, and half of U.S. doctors spend substantial time dealing with restrictions insurance companies ...
3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 04, 2009 |
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While many vaccines used around the world today are produced for profit by commercial firms, the private sector accounts for a tiny fraction of the funding for an HIV vaccine: 4 percent in 2008, down from ...
Economist argues that public-private partnerships are a must in creating an HIV vaccine
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT economist Jeffrey Harris argues that while the scientific obstacles to creating an HIV vaccine are great, the lack of commercial incentive poses a major problem.
Industry support of academic life science research may be dropping
Nov 03, 2009 |
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While more than half the academic life science researchers responding to a 2007 survey indicated having some relationship with industrial entities, the prevalence of such relationships - particularly direct funding for research ...
MRI abundance may lead to excess in back surgeries, study shows
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Patients reporting new low-back pain are more likely to undergo surgery if treated in an area with a higher-than-average concentration of magnetic resonance imaging machines, according to research from the Stanford University ...
Food habits of the poor unchanged by NY calories law: study
Oct 06, 2009 |
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A New York City law requiring restaurant chains to display calorie counts has not changed eating habits among poorer people, a study released Tuesday said.
Los Angeles fast-food restaurant ban unlikely to cut obesity, study finds
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Restrictions on fast-food chain restaurants in South Los Angeles are not addressing the main differences between neighborhood food environments and are unlikely to improve the diet of residents or reduce obesity, according ...
Study outlines strategies to test new payment models for health care
Sep 29, 2009 |
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A new RAND Corporation study outlines methods that might be used to test a novel payment system for medical care that would provide doctors, hospitals and other health providers a set fee for treating an ailment such as hip ...
Hispanics appear to face poorer quality nursing home care
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Nursing homes serving primarily Hispanic residents provided poorer quality care compared to facilities whose patients were mostly white, according to Brown University research. Details were published recently in the Journal of ...
Barriers to adoption of electronic personal health records outlined
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Interest in personal health records as an electronic tool to manage health information is increasing dramatically. A group led by a UCSF researcher has identified cost, privacy concerns, design shortcomings and difficulties ...
Seniors in Medicare's doughnut hole decrease use of meds
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Part D who reached a gap in health care coverage known as the "doughnut hole" were much less likely to use prescription drugs than those with an employer-based plan, according to a University ...
Can payment and other innovations improve the quality and value of health care?
Jan 27, 2009 |
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A paramount topic at the moment is value in health care: What should we pay for and how much? Resources aren't unlimited, and desires or demands for health care should be balanced against various realities--including the ...
