AcademyHealth Senior Manager Danielle DeCosta highlights key takeaways from the AcademyHealth and Commonwealth Fund study tour, including ways the Australian health system has worked to address health inequalities and improve health outcomes.
Nurses play a vital role in the health care system, providing essential person-centered care and support to patients. During Nurses Week, members of the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) and academic nurse leaders highlight the importance of retaining and valuing nurses, the impact of nurse turnover on patient care and health care costs, creating a positive work environment, and the need to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in nursing.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine held a seminar discussing the attacks researchers have faced in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to empower researchers to find safe solutions.
The goal of the study is to examine access to and affordability of abortion care for individuals, especially young people with intersecting marginalized identities, who travel to Massachusetts to obtain care in the wake of the 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state actions taken to curtail access to abortion.
The goal of the study is to assess how state-level health insurance benefit mandates impact affordability and access to services for fertility preservation among pediatric, adolescent, and young adult Hispanic/Latino cancer patients in California.
The goal of the study is to understand the impact of the Maryland Medicaid Doula Program on affordability of doula care and perinatal experiences and outcomes for Black birthing parents and infants.
The goal of the study is to provide specific, community-driven, measurable, and Tribally rooted recommendations needed for meaningful innovation in the Indian Health Service that will result in more affordable and accessible care to Tribal nations and improve health equity.