How Do You Improve Health Equity for Older People With Serious Illnesses?
One answer is payment reform. In the Journal Of The American Geriatrics Society, Dr. Brystana Kaufman and team provide 4 key considerations when designing value-based payment models, an increasingly used healthcare payment method for older adults.
Healthcare Workers Experience Moral Injury
Using data from the HERO Registry (Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes), Emily O'Brien, PhD, and colleagues found that healthcare workers during COVID have experienced moral injury—when actions conflict with beliefs—at similar rates to vets who served after 9/11. Read more in Helio
Clinicians and Children Report Symptom Burden Differently
Clinicians & children with cancer report symptom burden differently: clinicians consistently downgrade symptoms. Dr. Bryce Reeve & team find enhancing the child’s voice through surveys can improve cancer care and identify effective treatments
Lesley Curtis, PhD, Honored With Faculty Award
Dr. Lesley Curtis is one of three faculty who received the School of Medicine's 2022 Excellence in Professionalism Award. Congratulations!
Breast Cancer Research Has Implications In and Beyond Africa
Dr. Tomi Akinyemiju and team study breast cancer in Nigeria to understand the drivers of biologically distinct forms among women of African descent. In a recent podcast, hear how their findings could have important implications within and beyond the African continent. Listen now
Third-Party Tools Gather Your Personal Health Information
If you think health sites keep your information private, think again. PopHealth's Eric Perakslis and Andrea Downing from the patient privacy group, the Light Collective, discovered just how frequently they share your data. Read more in Wired
What is North Carolina's Booster Shot Status?
COVID booster shots have been on the decline in North Carolina lately. Duke Pop Health's Dr. Emily O'Brien explains why she believes this is the case. Watch now on CBS17 News.
Dr. Courtney Van Houtven Elected to National Academy of Social Insurance
Congratulations to Courtney Van Houtven! She is one of 48 distinguished experts recently elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance, a nonprofit that increases public understanding of how social insurance contributes to economic security.
Mammography Overdiagnosis in the U.S.
Dr. Marc Ryser’s group produced a defensible estimate of overdiagnosis in U.S. mammography practice that should help develop better guidelines and policies. Check out how they came to their conclusion in MDedge Hematology & Oncology.
Getting to Universal Health Coverage
The goal of any health insurance system is universal coverage. In a new blog post for the Brookings Institute, Dr. Shenglan Tang and team compare the different routes China and Vietnam have taken to get there and lessons learned.