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RESEARCH BLOGS
Creating the Virtual Integrated Health Care Delivery System
by Ken Thorpe and Lydia Ogden
Health Affairs
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/10/05/creating-the-virtual-integrated-delivery-system/
POLICY BRIEFS
IAPS faculty and staff are continously developing policy briefs on important topics that impact reform in public policy. Below are recent policy briefs we hope will be of interest.
Coordinated End-of Life Care Improves Wellbeing and Produces Cost Savings-NEW!
Weighty Matters: How Obesity Drives Poor Health and Health Spending in the U.S.
Design Matters: Worksite Health Promotion ROI Closely
Linked to Evidence-Based Programming
What Accounts for the Rise in Health Spending?
Changes in Healthcare Spending Among Children in Georgia: Important Shifts in Coverage, Payment
Structures, Service Consumption and Health Status (Executive Summary)
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
December 10, 2008:
U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Hearing
Prevention and Public Health: The Key to Transforming our Sickcare System
February 14, 2008:
Economic and social consequences of inadequate investment in public health programs, particularly those targeting chronic diseases.
May 14, 2009:
Delivery Reform: The Roles of Primary and Speciality Care in Innovative New Delivery
Models
IAPS FACT SHEETS
Health Expenditures Fact Sheet: How America Spends Its Health Care Dollars
Unhealthy Truths Fact Sheet: Six Unhealthy Truths Tell the Story of Chronic Disease and Its Impact on Health and Health Care.
OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN ANALYSIS (July 22, 2008)
Making Health Care More Affordable: Estimated Savings from Care Coordination,
Lifestyle Change, and System Redesign in Senator Obama’s Health Care Plan
by Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D.- Click here to read Dr. Thorpe's analysis
THORPE
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Thorpe, KE. 2008. Emerging Health Care Reform Issues in the US Presidential Debate. Health
Economics, Policy and Law 3:1-5
Thorpe, K. E. 2007. Reframing the debate over health care reform: the role of system
performance and affordability. Health Aff (Millwood) 26 (6):1560-2.
Thorpe, K. E. 2007. Vermont's Catamount Health: a roadmap for health care reform? Health Aff
(Millwood) 26 (6):w703-5.
Thorpe, K. E., D. H. Howard, and K. Galactionova. 2007. Differences in disease prevalence as a
source of the U.S.-European health care spending gap. Health Aff (Millwood) 26 (6):w678-86.
Culler, S. D., A. Atherly, S. Walczak, A. Davis, J. N. Hawley, K. J. Rask, V. Naylor, and K. E.
Thorpe. 2006. Urban-rural differences in the availability of hospital information technology
applications: a survey of Georgia hospitals. J Rural Health 22 (3):242-7.
Davis, D. A., P. E. Mazmanian, M. Fordis, R. Van Harrison, K. E. Thorpe, and L. Perrier. 2006.
Accuracy of physician self-assessment compared with observed measures of competence: a
systematic review. Jama 296 (9):1094-102.
Florence, C. S., A. Atherly, and K. E. Thorpe. 2006. Will choice-based reform work for
Medicare? Evidence from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Health Serv Res 41
(5):1741-61.
Florence, C. S., A. Atherly, and K. E. Thorpe. 2006. Will choice-based reform work for
Medicare? Evidence from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Health Serv Res 41
(5):1741-61.
Howard, D. H., S. D. Culler, B. G. Druss, and K. E. Thorpe. 2006. The relationship between ex
ante mortality risk and end-of-life medical costs. Appl Health Econ Health Policy 5 (1):37-44.
SALTMAN
BOOKS:
J.Magnussen, K. Vrangback, and R.B. Saltman, eds., 2009 forthcoming. Nordic Health Care Systems. Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education.
B.Rosen, M Shani, and R.B. Saltman, eds., 2008 forthcoming. Health Systems- Are We in a Post-Reform Era? Israel National Health Institute, Tel Aviv.
R.B. Saltman, V. Bankauskaite and K. Vrangbaek, eds. 2007. Decentralization in Health Care: Strategies and Outcomes. European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies Series, Open University Press/McGraw-Hill Education, London, 298 pg.
MAJOR ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS:
R.B. Saltman, 2008. “Decentralization, Re-centralization and Future European Health Policy.”
European Journal of Public Health 18(2): 104-106
R.B. Saltman, 2008. “Adopting Household Health Security as a Health
Reform Strategy.” Social Theory and Health 6(1): 54-59.
R.B. Saltman, 2007. “Human Capital and Health Security: Pursuing Horizontal Integration of Health-Related Services.” Proceedings: 30 Years of Korea National Health Insurance: Celebrating Past Achievements, Planning for the Future, National Health Insurance Corporation, Seoul, pp 303-317.
R.B. Saltman, H. Dubois and Mukesh Chawla, 2006. “The Impact of Aging on Long-
Term Care in Europe and Some Potential Policy Responses.” International Journal of Health
Services 36(4): 719-746.
OGDEN
Poorhouse to Warehouse: Institutional Long-Term Care in the United States
Lydia L. Ogden; Kathleen Adams
Publius: The Journal of Federalism 2008; doi: 10.1093/publius/pjn030
http://publius.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/pjn030?ijkey=gKbQFkBQyYSO7zF&keytype=ref
>>> SEE ACCOMPANYING SLIDES: Slides explain visually how spending has skyrocketed and who’s paying; along with the trouble ahead, giving the support ratio (working adults to retired adults consuming care).
Ogden L, Adams EK. “From Poorhouse to Warehouse: Institutional Long-Term Care in the United States.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, January 2009 (in press).
Ogden L, Ogden J, Mthembu P, Williamson N. “Impact of HIV on Women Internationally” [conference summary]. Emerging Infectious Diseases (online journal) http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no11/04-0624_01.htm November 2004.
Ogden L. “The Politics of Institutional Responses: CDC and the Controversy Over Maternal and Newborn HIV Testing.” In: Emerging Illnesses and Society. Packard R, Brown P, Berkelman R, Frumkin H, eds. Johns Hopkins Press, 2004.
Valdiserri R, Ogden L, McCray E. “Accomplishments in HIV Prevention Science: Implications for Stemming the Epidemic.” Nature Medicine 2003 9(7): 881-886.
Valdiserri R, Ogden L, Janssen R, Onorato I, Martin T. “Aligning Budget with U.S. National HIV Prevention Priorities.” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 2004, 10(2): 140-147.
Ogden L, Shepherd M, Smith W. Applying Prevention Marketing. CDC: Prevention Marketing Initiative, February 1996.
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