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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

TODAY ON THE BLOG

QUALITY OF CARE

Cold Water Or Rocket Fuel? Lessons From The Camden “Hot-Spotting” Randomized Controlled Trial
By Eric C. Schneider and Tanya B. Shah

Built on the logic that a fairly small number of individuals have disproportionately high health care costs because they use more emergency and hospital care, the Camden Coalition designed and implemented an intuitively appealing intervention: intensive case management to achieve better coordination of care and remedy the unmet social, medical, and emotional needs that can drive a revolving door of emergency care visits. Read More >>


DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Don’t Throw Cold Water On Health Care’s Hot Spotters
By Shreya Kangovi and David Grande

The Camden Coalition program was at the forefront of the modern movement to link social interventions to health care delivery. Read More >>

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POLITICS

Guns In Political Advertising Over Four US Election Cycles, 2012–18
By Colleen L. Barry, Sachini Bandara, Erika Franklin Fowler, Laura Baum, Sarah E. Gollust, Jeff Niederdeppe, and Alene Kennedy Hendricks

Colleen Barry and coauthors analyzed data on more than fourteen million candidate-related television advertisement airings for national and state races for political office in the 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 election cycles. Read More >>
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTSPAST EVENT:  Health Spending

Eighteen months ago, Health Affairs teamed with the National Pharmaceutical Council and Anthem, Inc., to launch a multiyear project to promote an evidence-based conversation about health spending. Get caught up with the September 2019 event: slides (click on Download Event), video, and podcast. Read journal articles and blog posts in our Considering Health Spending series.

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A CLOSER LOOK—Mental Health Care

There are widespread shortages of mental health professionals in the United States, especially for the care of adults with serious mental illnesses. A Health Affairs article offers four policy recommendations to reinvigorate the mental health workforce to meet the rising demand for care for adults with serious mental illnesses.

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