HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS

HEALTH SPENDING: MOVING FROM THEORY TO ACTION

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
9:00 am – 3:00 pm Eastern
National Press Club – Washington, DC
REGISTRATION OPEN

Eighteen months ago, Health Affairs teamed with the National Pharmaceutical Council and Anthem, Inc., to launch a multi-year project to promote an evidence-based conversation about health spending. To continue the discussion, Health Affairs and the National Pharmaceutical Council are hosting a forum that will address:

The pressures presented by soaring health costs on individuals, employers, and government
Strategies among payers and others to promote cost-effective care
Efforts currently underway to bring costs under control

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GRANTWATCH

Screening For Social Needs: What Do Parents Think?
By Suzanne Brundage (7/30/19)

Public Agenda was commissioned by United Hospital Fund to conduct focus groups on what parents of low-income children in the New York City metro area think about screening for social determinants of health at their pediatrician's office. Although parents had some reservations about discussing sensitive topics, they were still enthusiastic about discussing factors that shape their kids' health and well-being. Three foundations fund this UHF initiative.
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Lessons In Philanthropy: Three Decades Of Improving Health In Kansas
By Steve Coen (7/24/19)

The leader of the Kansas Health Foundation (since 2008) reflects on his 31 years of working at the statewide foundation and looks to retirement. For example, he says, the foundation saw a need for health data and for leadership skill-building in the state, and so the KHF created the nonprofit Kansas Health Institute, which focuses on health policy, and the Kansas Leadership Center. Read more >>

Engaging Youth To Advance Community Health, Equity, And Safety
By Marian Mulkey and Adiel Suarez-Murias (7/10/19)

Engaging and supporting youth as allies to advance community health, equity, and public safety is an approach that funders and practitioners often overlook. Yet youth are at the front lines in experiencing poor conditions, and these young people have a long-term stake in community well-being. Engaging young people benefits those involved. Also, available evidence suggests that this approach can improve community outcomes. Read More >>

Building Consumer Engagement In Health Care: From Transactional To Transformational
By Ann Hwang (7/2/19)

The Consumer Voices for Innovation program, funded by a legacy grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies, strives to build consumer engagement in health care. The program's first phase funded advocacy groups in six states. It succeeded in bringing consumer input to delivery system reform initiatives at the state level, such as Medicaid ACO models, managed long-term services and supports programs, and programs for dual eligibles. It also created communities of consumers. Read More >>

The Ethics Of Population Aging: Precarity, Justice, And Choice
By Nancy Berlinger and Mildred Z. Solomon (6/27/19)

Bioethics has contributed greatly to enhancing the rights of patients to guide treatment decisions near the end of life, but the field has fallen short in addressing population-level concerns that aging societies now face, say these authors from The Hastings Center. With foundation funding, the center is looking at how social determinants of health may lead to "unequal aging" and at the ethical choices about dying that are important to people facing dementia. Read More >>

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