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Research & Policy Updates

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Health Care Access & Coverage

Adding Diversity to Your Research Process: A New System

Penn Team Creates Guidelines and Best Practices Overview

By:
  • Hoag Levins
March 18, 2024

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage | Health Equity

Do Wealth and Poverty Affect Access to Less-Invasive Cardiac Surgery?

Advanced Care Is Less Common in Neighborhoods with Higher Deprivation, LDI Fellows Find

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
March 13, 2024

Blog Post

Population Health

Children in Poor Communities Experienced a Greater Increase in Obesity Rates During the Pandemic  

The Results Underscore the Social Environment’s Impact on Children’s Health

By:
  • Mackenzie Bolas
March 12, 2024

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

A Big Boost for Patients That Largely Went Away: Telemedicine Made Care More Available During the Pandemic

Now It’s in Retreat. One Idea Is to Create a Federal License to Practice

By:
  • Eric Bressman, MD, MSHP
March 11, 2024

Blog Post

Health Equity

Black Patients Feel Dismissed and Skeptical After Their Experiences in the ED

Penn LDI Study Gathers Personal Experiences to Aid the Dismantling of Structural Racism in Medicine

By:
  • Miles Meline, MBE
March 8, 2024

News | Video

Improving Care for Older Adults

Medicare Hospice – Exploding in Size But Riddled with Quality Concerns

LDI Virtual Panel of Experts Explores the Benefit's Challenges and Potential

By:
  • Hoag Levins
March 8, 2024

Blog Post

Health Equity

How Tools That Measure People’s Disadvantage Can Improve Health and Policymaking

A Workshop of International Experts Spurs Cross-Disciplinary Exchange on the Use of Disadvantage Indices

By:
  • Miles Meline, MBE
March 7, 2024

Blog Post | Video

Improving Care for Older Adults

Medicare Payment Reform Saves Money on Surgeries But Puts More Work on Unpaid Home Caregivers

First-Of-Its-Kind Study Quantifies Cost-Shift from Health Care System to Families

By:
  • Julia Hinckley, JD
  • Hoag Levins
March 6, 2024

News

Health Equity

José Bauermeister Appointed to NIH Council on Health Equity

LDI Senior Fellow and Nursing School Professor Joins Team That Advises HHS Secretary

By:
  • Hoag Levins
March 4, 2024
Dori Abel

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

This Doctor Spends Hours Talking to Insurers. Her Patients Suffer The Most.

Prior Authorizations Were Meant to Cut Costs. Now They Delay Care, Says CHOP Rheumatologist

By:
  • Dori Abel, MD
February 28, 2024

In Their Own Words

Health Care Access & Coverage

FDA Boosted Florida’s Drug Import Plan From Canada, But the Canadians and Big Pharma Probably Won’t Play Along

There Are Better Ways to Achieve These Goals, an LDI Expert Writes

By:
  • Mark V. Pauly, PhD
February 26, 2024

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Children With the Most Health Needs Are More Likely to be Underinsured

Middle-Income Families with the Neediest Children Face the Biggest Insurance Gaps, Study Finds

By:
  • Christine Weeks
February 21, 2024

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