Physician and economist Bapu Jena discusses a pair of interesting new health policy research papers with implications for COVID-19, primary care and more.Â
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Hard to Reach
New data suggest undocumented immigrants aren’t being tested enough for COVID-19. What’s standing in the way, and what’s being done to address it?
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Without Precedent
A new, more conservative Supreme Court is about to rule on its first major cases involving reproductive health and rights.
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It Takes A Toll
What are the public health impacts of police violence and what would a public health response look like?
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Masking Problems
How racism makes wearing a mask in public much more complicated for one black doctor.
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Getting on the Bus
How COVID-19 is threatening one man’s decades-long battle for sobriety and stability.
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Who Gets Care
In response to coronavirus, experts are designing plans to ration resources and determine who should get care before someone else.
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‘Hot Spotters’ on Trial
Improving health and lowering costs for the sickest and most expensive patients in America is a dream harder to realize than many health care leaders had hoped.
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Feeding the Sick
We know good nutrition is tied to good health. But is there evidence that food should be prescribed and paid for like medicine?
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What Brings You In Today?
Health care leaders are spending more time and money trying to improve how doctors and nurses communicate with their patients. Are those efforts working?