Results of the Healthy Food First trial in @jamainternalmed.com today, showing that a food subsidy led to lower BP than a food box for adults with #hypertension and #foodinsecurity
#medsky #episky
#medsky #episky
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A food subsidy led to better blood pressure control than a delivered food box among adults with hypertension and food insecurity. ja.ma/3WxqYlc
Happy to be on Food First Michigan talking about the health harms of #foodinsecuirty , how our weak income supports policies worsen health, and how to use public policy to improve population health
#episky #medsky #econsky
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#episky #medsky #econsky
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This is a really helpful and clarifying post, thank you for it!
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so okay! first piece out from me at Common Wealth
"Beyond Bidenomics: On what is living and what is dead in economic policy"
the argument is that progressives should take credit for the successful parts of the pandemic policy response and build the next Thing
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"Beyond Bidenomics: On what is living and what is dead in economic policy"
the argument is that progressives should take credit for the successful parts of the pandemic policy response and build the next Thing
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Beyond Bidenomics | Perspectives
On what is living and what is dead in economic policy.
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🚨new paper!🚨
In @jamahealthforum.bsky.social with Sanjay Basu and Sadiq Patel @waymarkcare.bsky.social, estimating impacts of changes in Medicaid policy, both for those who lose care and the broader economy
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In @jamahealthforum.bsky.social with Sanjay Basu and Sadiq Patel @waymarkcare.bsky.social, estimating impacts of changes in Medicaid policy, both for those who lose care and the broader economy
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Projected Health System and Economic Impacts of 2025 Medicaid Policy Proposals
This study uses a microsimulation model to understand broader consequences of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation Bill on health outcomes, health systems, and local economies.
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Loved chatting with @hmkyale.bsky.social & @thehowie.bsky.social on #HealthAndVeritas podcast (@yalesom.bsky.social & @yalesph.bsky.social)! We talked Healthy Opportunities Pilots, health inequity as a power problem, & ⬆️ population health via social policy.
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Seth Berkowitz: The Power Problem
Howie and Harlan are joined by Seth Berkowitz, an internist and health equity expert, who argues that we know how to keep people healthier but are lacking the political will and commitment to do so. H...
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Grateful to be on Episode 10 of the Western North Carolina Health Policy Podcast talking about NC Medicaid’s Heathy Opportunities Pilots
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Podcasts & Media — WNC Health Policy Initiative
Learn more about WNC HPI and Key Health Opportunities in Western North Carolina through news articles and podcasts.
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Work requirements should have a work requirement: if they don’t work, we shouldn’t require them!
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I think a key pathway that this has happened in society more generally (in addition to ‘local’ impacts within a firm) has been thru labor political parties getting into government, eg:
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The Democratic Class Struggle
First published in 1983. This book combines a case study of class relations, politics and voting in Sweden with a comparative analysis of distributive conflicts and politics in eighteen OECD countries...
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Just came across this and made me think it was relevant to your original questions as well (in the sense that “heavy” selection might be correlated with more trial engagement effects):
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40266689/
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Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects - PubMed
Trial engagement effects are effects of trial participation on the outcome that are not mediated by treatment assignment. Most work on extending (generalizing or transporting) causal inferences from a...
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🙏🙏🙏 to one of the most important researchers of poverty, income distribution, and it’s consequences
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🚨New Study in Annals🚨
GLP1ra & SGLT2i are the only diabetes meds that reduce heart attacks & death
But can't work if can't prescribe
TLDR
40% Medicaid enrollees have restricted access to GLP1 & 25% to SGLT2i
much state/plan variability
GLP access plateaued in '22
bit.ly/3Y72K2z
GLP1ra & SGLT2i are the only diabetes meds that reduce heart attacks & death
But can't work if can't prescribe
TLDR
40% Medicaid enrollees have restricted access to GLP1 & 25% to SGLT2i
much state/plan variability
GLP access plateaued in '22
bit.ly/3Y72K2z
Availability of Cardioprotective Medications for Type 2 Diabetes in the Medicaid Program | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) are the only type 2 diabetes medications that reduce cardiovascular disease an...
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One of the most interesting books published last year was _EQUAL CARE by @sethaberkowitz.bsky.social. I am finally getting to it now and am extremely impressed by is theoretical breadth, & interdisciplinary integration of medicine and political economy literatures.
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Equal Care
Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State
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Back on my podcasting grind talking about why further #SNAP purchasing restrictions are a bad idea, likely to worsen #foodinsecurity, and unlikely to improve diet quality (we have actual RCT evidence on this!)
#medsky #episky #econsky
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#medsky #episky #econsky
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Podcast: What We Talk About When We Talk About SNAP w/ Seth Berkowitz | Health Affairs Podcast
Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Seth Berkowitz of UNC School of Medicine back to the program to discuss nutrition in the US, the current state of SNAP benefits, and his upcoming paper to be featur...
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Happy to be back on Health Affairs podcast talking about #foodinsecurity and health #medsky #episky
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Podcast: Seth Berkowitz on the Intersection of Income, Food, & Health | Health Affairs Podcast
Health Affairs' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Seth Berkowitz of the UNC School of Medicine to discuss his recent paper that explores a new approach to help guide research and policy at the ...
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Delighted to be part of the @healthaffairs.bsky.social special issue on Food, Nutrition, and Health. With Dary Mozaffarian and Hilary Seligman, we try to unpack the interrelationships between income, food security, nutrition security, diet quality, and health.
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A New Approach To Guide Research And Policy At The Intersection Of Income, Food, Nutrition, And Health | Health Affairs Journal
Income distribution, food and nutrition insecurity, and poor diet quality contribute to diet-related disease, which is a major threat to population health and health equity. Based on our review and synthesis of the empirical evidence, we provide a new conceptual model for understanding the interrelationships among income, food security, nutrition security, diet quality, and health. We identify directions for future research and discuss the policy and program implications of the model. Overall, interventions that address income and food security can facilitate, but do not ensure, nutrition security and better diet quality, although they can improve health in other ways. Importantly, even people who are food and nutrition secure and have adequate income frequently have unhealthy diets. Addressing these challenges will require innovative policies to improve nutrition security, diet quality, and health. Such policies should include efforts to increase the availability and accessibility of Food Is Medicine interventions in health care. Health insurance coverage for evidence-based, clinically indicated Food Is Medicine programs is critical to the success of these efforts.
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This obviously portends very badly for everyone but unironically too much of our response to #foodinsecurity during “normal” times is the same type of ‘learn how to budget’ advice.
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
More and more people are saying this: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Equal Care
Health Equity, Social Democracy, and the Egalitarian State
www.press.jhu.edu
Delighted to be part of the Health Affairs Scholar @commonwealthfund.org Health and Political Economy Collection talking about why social insurance is fundamental for health equity—Especially when our most successful social insurance programs are under attack.
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The fundamental importance of social insurance for health equity
Abstract. People need to consume goods and services that support health, such as nutritious food, medical care, and quality housing, throughout their lives
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Really appreciate the opportunity from @jondavidchurch.bsky.social to write in Merion West about what we need to do to improve population health and #healthequity in the present moment
#medsky #episky
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#medsky #episky
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Getting to Better American Health Outcomes
Merion West is an online magazine for culture and politics.
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“We should think about health inequity not as differences in outcomes across categories of individuals but as structural injustice that harms the health of everyone.”
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Getting to Better American Health Outcomes
Merion West is an online magazine for culture and politics.
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In @jama.com, results from the first 1.5 years of NC #medicaid Healthy Opportunities Pilots. We find evidence supporting the central idea that addressing #foodinsecurity, housing instability, and other health-related social needs can improve health.
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Medicaid Spending and Healthy Opportunities Pilots
This study investigates whether the North Carolina Healthy Opportunities Pilots program addressing health-related social needs may help improve health for Medicaid beneficiaries.
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Could I, shamelessly, recommend this one too: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Equal Care
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