Clinicians Positioned to Support Partnerships That Address Community Health
Clinicians can promote community investment by helping to create the data and demand that will catalyze efforts to address the root causes of ill health.
Policy
Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit Policies Should Address Health Disparities
The investigators suggest that community health and health equity become more central goals of Community Benefit, and recommend 4 changes to federal policy that will help prioritize community health needs and foster greater collaboration with key community partners.
Physicians Weigh In on Wave of Fetal Heartbeat Bills Across the United States
Georgia has been added to the growing list of states, including Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi, and Tennessee, that have passed so-called fetal heartbeat bills.
Groups Issue Joint Statement Advocating for Patient Rights in ACA Fight
Seventeen patient advocacy groups have jointly released a statement on behalf of patients with preexisting conditions who utilize services provided by the ACA.
Stricter State Gun Laws Associated With Increased School Safety
Analyzing data collected between 1999 and 2015 in over 45 states, researchers found that 7% of students reported being threatened or injured with a weapon at school.
“Anti-Trans Memo” Threatens Health of Transgender, Intersex Individuals
The authors examine the many potential consequences of new legislation by the US government that legally defines gender as a “biological, immutable condition determined by a person’s genitalia at birth.”
2016 Election: Physician PACs Contributed More to US Candidates Opposed to Firearm Regulation
Despite widespread recommendations aimed at reducing firearm-related mortality, many of the largest physician organization-affiliated political action committees contributed to lawmakers who opposed firearm regulations.
HHS Task Force Issues Draft Report on Best Practices for Pain Management
In a draft report issued December 28, 2018 by the US Department of Health and Human Services-sponsored Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, recommendations for a multidisciplinary approach to pain management were formulated.
Proposed EPA Transparency Rule Will Harm Public Health
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hard at work finalizing a new proposed rule that could affect public health negatively.
Endocrine Society Objects Changes to Title X Family Planning Program
The Endocrine Society has objected the US Department of Health & Human Services’ update to the Title X Family Planning Program.
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