article thumbnail

Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)

The Health Care Blog

The MedPac team should also think about the Social Determinants of Health realities in that same context. There is a growing awareness in health care policy circles that many people in our communities and country have been damaged in a number of ways by Social Determinants of Health factors and issues.

article thumbnail

Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part two)

The Health Care Blog

Those Medicare Advantage members are getting best levels of care now because the actual care that a high percentage of those patients received before enrollment happened when the negative social determinants of health factors were defining and creating their actual care settings in their communities.

article thumbnail

IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

Watch full recording of 25th anniversary event here Click here to view a gallery of images from the day Recent public health milestones Smoking Ban - Ireland became the first country in the world to ban smoking in public places under the 2004 Public Health Act; Northern Ireland followed suit in 2007.