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Substance Use Disorder

Patients With Opioid Addiction Describe the Factors That Make Them Quit Methadone

Q&A With Dr. Ashish Thakrar Reveals Policy Gaps and How the System Could Be Improved

By:
  • Dominic Weiss
June 12, 2023
A doctor analyzes the results of a patient's lung function test.

Blog Post

Health Equity

How Race Distorts One Area of Health Care: The Problem of Race-Specific Tests in Lung Care

Using Different Baseline Lung Function for Black and White Patients Leads to Lower Rates of Diagnosis in Black Patients

By:
  • Dominic Weiss
June 10, 2023

Blog Post

Improving Care for Older Adults

Home Health Care Workforce Not Keeping Up with Community Needs

Higher Pay, Paths for Career Mobility, and More Predictable Schedules Could Help Ease the Shortage of Home Care Workers

By:
  • Nancy Stedman
June 9, 2023

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

The Importance of Medicaid Continuous Enrollment Policies for Children and Families

By:
  • Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP
  • Rebecka Rosenquist, MSc
June 7, 2023

News

Summer 2023 Reading: Latest Books From Penn LDI Senior Fellows

By:
  • Sam Schotland
June 6, 2023
A bar chart shows lower anxiety with online education than with standard education only.

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Chart of the Day: An Online Education Platform Reduced Pregnancy-Related Anxiety

Study Finds Lower Worry Around Body Image, Delivery, and More for Low-Income, High-Risk Patients

By:
  • Dominic Weiss
June 5, 2023

Blog Post

Health Equity

Community Health Workers’ Role Grows With Evidence That They Improve Care and Equity

Benefits Include More Access to Care and Lower Costs, but Funding is Limited

By:
  • Mackenzie Bolas
May 31, 2023

Blog Post

Health Care Access & Coverage

Ending UNOS’s Monopoly Over the U.S. Organ Transplant System

First-Ever Change Aims to Improve Efficiency, Survival, and Equity — But LDI Experts Advise Caution

By:
  • Chris Tachibana, PhD, MS
May 30, 2023

News

Health Care Access & Coverage

What Patient-To-Nurse Ratios Mean for Hospital Patient Health and Outcomes

Pennsylvania Legislature Pushed to Take Up Patient Safety Issue It Has Long Avoided

By:
  • Hoag Levins
May 30, 2023

Blog Post

Population Health

Study Finds Home Health Is Another Care Setting Where Workers Use Harsher Language for Black and Hispanic Patients

Patients Described Negatively, Had Much Shorter Visits According to the First Study of Its Kind on Home Health

By:
  • Sam Schotland
May 23, 2023
Sameed Khatana

In Their Own Words

Population Health

Extreme Heat and Health: Understanding the Scope of the Problem

From the 2023 Perry World House Global Shifts Colloquium, “Living With Extreme Heat: Our Shared Future.”

By:
  • Sameed Khatana, MD, MPH
May 22, 2023

News

Health Equity

Paula Chatterjee Receives SGIM Best Published Research Paper Award

Cited for "Significant Contributions to Generalist Research"

By:
  • Hoag Levins
May 18, 2023

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