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How to update your AHCJ Freelance Directory profile

Association of Health Care Journalists

For example, health policy, public health, health disparities, news stories or pediatric health, parenting, magazine writing, investigations. Make sure your affiliation reads Independent Journalist. Scroll down to areas of expertise. List topic areas and/or writing styles youre most skilled in.

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Equity-based naloxone distribution can save lives while reducing health disparities

University of Minnesota School of Public Health

public health crises, due in part to the unregulated drug supply, stigmatization and criminalization of people who use… Continue reading → The opioid crisis remains one of the most tragic and destructive U.S.

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How can the US maintain COVID-era reductions in economic and health disparities?

Berkeley Public Health

More than 75 years of transformational research and hands-on social impact for a better world.

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Medicare Advantage Poses Challenges to Health Care Cost-Effectiveness and Equity

The Health Care Blog

With the Medicare Modernization Act, a “conservative” policy dedicated to minimizing the federal budget has cost the Medicare program significantly more than expected, as private health insurance corporations reap growing profits from Advantage members and the government, in the form of CMS reimbursements and rebates.

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Study exposes critical need for more research on health disparities in treatment of chronic conditions

University of Minnesota School of Public Health

based studies of interventions targeting racial and ethnic disparities in adults with chronic conditions found that few studies evaluated the effectiveness of such interventions in reducing gaps… Continue reading → A review of U.S.-based

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Why Kaiser bet on Cone Health for its N.C. expansion

NC Health News

We already know exactly what we got from the fee-for-service world, said former Triad Healthcare Network executive director Steve Noerr during a 2020 Duke health policy webinar. Over the course of her lifetime, she said, Cone went from being an adversary where discrimination was an issue to a vital partner in expanding health care.

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We Hold These Truths

The Health Care Blog

BY KIM BELLARD. It’s July 4 th – Independence Day for those of you who remember your U.S. There’s already too much talk about loss of rights , political tyranny , militias , even succession , and I don’t want to wade any further into those troubled waters.