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Health Care Access & Coverage

Neighborhood Violence Is Linked to Using More Acute Care and Unmet Preventive and Mental Health Care Needs

Study Identifies Connections Between Violence Exposure and Forgone Care Due to Cost

By:
  • Julia Hinckley, JD
October 2, 2024

Blog Post

Four Steps to Ethically Build Apps and Other Digital Health Tools

LDI Fellows Offer Specific Ways to Avoid Disparities and Serve Patients Better

By:
  • Miles Meline, MBE
October 1, 2024

Blog Post

Improving Care for Older Adults

Why People With Dementia Prefer Aging in Place, Despite All The Missing Supports  

Many Patients And Care Partners Don’t Plan For Future Needs Until Forced To Do So, LDI Fellows Find

By:
  • Emma Britez Ferrante and Catherine (Katie) Auriemma, MD, MSHP
September 30, 2024

Blog Post

Population Health

How Low Trust in Government May Hurt Clinical Trial Participation

Evidence from Philadelphia During the Pandemic Suggests Ways To Build Trust

By:
  • Miles Meline, MBE
  • and Mackenzie Bolas
September 26, 2024
Karen Lasater

News

Population Health

How Nurse Staffing Variations were Associated with Hospital Patient Deaths During the COVID Pandemic

New Study Looks Back at Conditions That Speak to Future Hospital Emergency Preparedness

By:
  • Hoag Levins
September 26, 2024

Brief

Health Care Access & Coverage

What Happens When a Multihospital System Buys an Independent Hospital? 

System Acquisitions Increase Prices, Reduce Staffing, and May Affect Quality

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
September 24, 2024

News

Health Equity

Sustainable Funding and Equitable Access for Multimillion Dollar Gene Therapies

Penn LDI Panel Unpacks Barriers and Options for Change

By:
  • Hoag Levins
September 19, 2024

Blog Post

Health Equity

Medicaid Could Become a Powerful Tool to Improve Racial and Ethnic Representation in Cancer Clinical Trials

One Key May Be Medicaid’s Recent Coverage of the Routine Costs for Enrolling in Clinical Trials

By:
  • Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH
September 18, 2024

Blog Post

Population Health

Hospital Settings Can Be a Form of Treatment by Themselves

Patients Need Nature Enriched Rooms With Access to Peaceful, Outdoor Settings

By:
  • Meghan Crnic, PhD and Dominic A. Sisti, PhD, MBE
September 17, 2024

Blog Post

Health Equity

This Parent Screening Tool Seeks to Normalize Gender Conversations by Measuring Families’ Alignment and Distress

Pioneering Tool Aims to Integrate Gender Discussions in Pediatric Care

By:
  • Mackenzie Bolas
September 16, 2024

Policy

Disadvantaging Rivals: Vertical Integration in the Pharmaceutical Market

Briefing: Delivered to the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors

By:
  • Abby Alpert, PhD
September 14, 2024

News

Meet the New LDI Senior Fellows – The 2024 Fall Kickoff

Health Services Researchers from Across Penn Schools Seek Collaborators

By:
  • Hoag Levins
September 13, 2024

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