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Graphic Interlude!
We don't often post raw links or pictures without commentary, but the last few weeks have involved a few great ones that we couldn't pass up.First: via the new Washington Post Wonkblog (congrats on the...
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Leading Health Indicators: Indicative of What, Exactly?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of posts contributed by Andrew Wickerham, who attended the 139th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association this week in Washington, DC.Think back...
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A Pie In the Sky, Stuffed With Vaccines
We at New Health Dialogue are emphatically not anti-vaccine. The development of vaccines for smallpox, polio, and dozens of other diseases has produced an incalculable reduction in human misery. The...
View ArticleLet’s Stop Being Passive About Fighting Obesity
November 15, 2011 It's time to embrace the same tactics that worked against smoking. Shannon BrownleeNovember 15, 2011Everybody knows obesity is a massive problem in the U.S. It rivals smoking in terms...
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Summarizing the Research: Asset Effects for Children with Disabilities
During one of our recent events, Sheldon Garon of Princeton University and Ray Boshara of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis referred to the weak household balance sheet as one of the core economic...
View ArticlePaving Paradise
January 9, 2012Charles KennyJanuary 9, 2012It's just a guess, but I doubt concrete would rank high on a list of the world's most loved materials. From Belgrade to Brixton, the antiseptic, brutalist...
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Loss Leaders, Ahoy!
In her latest installment at TIME Ideas, Shannon Brownlee takes on hospitals that use marketing tactics like offering free screening tests to patients to generate revenue and find new recurring...
View ArticleDon't discard shared decision-making!
Austin Frakt, health economics blogger extraordinaire at The Incidental Economist, has a post up commenting on Kenny Lin's post about shared decision-making and PSA testing. The following is an edited...
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And we're back, with Health Wonk Review!
Apologies for our extended hiatus--we've been hard at work on an extended report, and it hasn't left a lot of time for blogging lately. But we're back, and hopefully we'll be blogging more often in the...
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Values and evidence: There's a difference.
In her latest column at TIME Ideas, Shannon Brownlee takes on the controversy over the Obama administration's birth control rule, and links it to some of the other purportedly moral debates over the...
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Avoidable Care Conference: the schedule is live!
We've been pretty quiet here at New Health Dialogue recently, but rest assured that our blogging will resume apace in the next couple of months. We've been busy working on a few projects, and I want to...
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Big Win for Public Health - F.D.A. Style
In case you missed it, the FDA came out with new rules last week to limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals. While at first glance this might seem unrelated to health issues in humans, it actually...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: A Flood of Fossil Fuel and the Behavioral Economics of Soda Bans
Host Elizabeth Weingarten talks to Steve LeVine about the environmental downside of the impending oil and natural gas boom, and to Jamie Holmes about whether New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda ban...
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Science, Denialism, and Shibboleths
This April the University of Wisconsin hosted a conference called "Science Writing in the Age of Denial." The conference set out to brief science writers on strategies to deal with skepticism toward...
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Advanced Screening of "Escape Fire" in NYC
On Friday August 6th, the New America Foundation will be hosting an advanced screening of "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare." The event will take place in New York City from...
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Profile of Dr. Bernard Lown in the Boston Globe
Boston Globe health reporter Chelsea Conaboy has a brief profile of Dr. Bernard Lown in the most recent edition of the BostonGlobe Magazine. It covers some of the most important moments in a truly...
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A King of Beers?
Concentration of Power Over America's Alcohol Markets is Bad for Consumers. It Also Imperils Constitutional and Moral Balances. December 12, 2012 Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative To read...
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Ideas for a Smarter SNAP
The first article in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, coauthored by Health Policy Senior Fellow Susan Blumenthal, presents a compelling argument that the SNAP program (formerly...
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Productivity and the Health Care Workforce
October 2, 2013Shannon BrownleeJoe Colucci Thom Walsh, Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.[Click here to download the full paper.]Since...
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Productivity Measurement in the United States Health System
October 2, 2013Joe Colucci Rick McKellar, Harvard Medical School, and Michael Chernew, Harvard Medical School Click here to download the full paper as a PDF.Improving productivity in health care is,...
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