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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, December 26, 2019
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GRANTWATCH Health Conundrum: How State Budgets Can Find The Balance Between Social Versus Medical Services
By Shannon Brownlee, Vikas Saini, and Benjamin F. Miller (12/12/19)
Can the United States bring down overall health care costs by spending more on social determinants of health? The authors say that strategy remains unproven. However, states are the principal spenders on social services. Few studies have directly examined the tradeoffs that states and local governments are making between social services and health care. The authors discuss results of a Lown Institute report—funded by Well Being Trust—on California spending. Read More >>
The Critical Role Of Philanthropy In Researching Solutions To Gun Violence
By Nina E. Vinik (12/5/19)
The Joyce Foundation looks back at 25 years of
funding gun violence research. Grantees have included universities, hospitals, and think tanks. Early research supported by Joyce helped define gun violence as a public health discipline. And, because lack of data was a barrier to understanding gun violence, this foundation and others funded development of a comprehensive data set on all violent deaths in the US. There is more we need to learn, though, says this author. Read More >>
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IN THE JOURNAL
GRANTWATCH
Foundation Funding To Improve Rural Health Care
By Lee L. Prina
The December 2019 GrantWatch column goes along with that issue’s theme, rural health. The column describes results of rural health funding and rural health publications funded by foundations. The column also includes a long list of other foundations around the country that fund in rural health,
which should be helpful to grantseekers. In the Key Personnel Change section, a professor of pediatrics, who is said to be “one of the nation’s leading advocates for rural children’s health,” was named to the board of a foundation. Read More >>
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