Posts Tagged "health policy"

July 13, 2011|By Marissa Cevallos, HealthKey / For the Booster Shots blog Cancer kills more men than women — some forms more than others, finds a new study. In the new assessment of cancer data, men are more than twice as likely than women to die from lung, skin, kidney and liver cancers. Overall, not including sex-specific or breast cancers, men’s death rates are 1.9 times higher than women’s, according to the new...

While states consider cuts to Medicaid, a new report by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows poor people (many of whom are women) do better when they are insured.

RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM Women’s Health Policy Unit “Stellar Medicine: A Journey through the Universe of Women’s Health” Presented by Saralyn Mark, MD President, SolaMed Solutions, LLC Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine & Ob/Gyn Yale and Georgetown Schools of Medicine Affiliate Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy Senior Medical Advisor-NASA Monday, July 11, 2011 12:30...

Researchers calculated 133,000 deaths attributable to poverty, and said that factors like poverty and segregation kill people the way smoking and obesity do. Social Ills Like Poverty Can Cause Death, Researchers Say

One of the last things I did as Executive Director of the Women’s Health Office was to report policy recommendations about substance abuse and pregnancy to the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee. Some of those recommendations were drafted as legislation and introduced this session: HM13 (Stewart) Gender-specific Treatment Standards HM14 (Chasey) Oversight Memorial SB353(Lopez/WilsonBeffort) Substance Abuse and...