Tag Archives: health

Did Labour’s social policies fail or succeed 1997-2010?

Posted on August 15, 2013 by

It’s impossible to begin telling a story without knowing the ending. So after 13 years in office (1997-2010), it is only now possible to write the story of New Labour’s social policy record – what they aimed to do, what … Continue reading →

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Who Gets Health Care Priority? Resource Allocation in a Middle Income Country

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

Adriane Gelpi, a doctoral candidate in Health Policy at Harvard and a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, describes the intricate ethics and politics of health care resource allocation in Chile. This was originally posted on the … Continue reading →

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Ease off the alarm bells: New data on ADHD diagnosis rates

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

The New York Times has a cover story today reporting on the estimated prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder from the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children’s Health (they don’t identify the survey by name). The story is going to get a lot … Continue reading →

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The red rag of health incentives

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

In this guest post, Harald Schmidt from the University of Pennsylvania takes apart the media furore about a proposal  (at least as reported) to cut payments to unhealthy benefit claimants if they didn’t go to the gym – using the insights gained … Continue reading →

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Adding Health Care Spending to the Poverty Equation

Posted on November 13, 2012 by

I discussed the challenges of measuring poverty in the United States in a three part series on this blog last year. The official poverty line is based on pre-tax income adjusted for household size. The main alternative to the official … Continue reading →

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Paul Gregg: new ideas for disability, employment and welfare reform

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

While cuts to benefits and services will affect most people in the UK, disabled people have arguably been ‘the hardest hit’ – but while this makes the newspapers on a regular basis, academics have been slower to try and piece together … Continue reading →

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The Cost of a Disabled Sibling

Posted on August 23, 2012 by

If you have brothers or sisters, then you already know that an important piece of your childhood experience is out of your control. You cannot control whether your siblings are kind or cruel, generous or stingy, and you certainly cannot … Continue reading →

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Life Expectancy in the U.S. is Getting Shorter for the Least Educated

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

The late 20th century brought landmark public health movements to the United States, like the control of tobacco, and medical breakthroughs in the treatment of heart disease and cancer. Life expectancy surged overall, but today the lower educated are still … Continue reading →

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Give George W. Bush Some Credit for this Community Health Success

Posted on August 1, 2012 by

The United States does not have a National Health Service – certainly nothing that we could display with a choreographed song and dance routine – but the federal government does support an extensive network of safety net health clinics. According … Continue reading →

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Inequality Roundup, Stories in the News

Posted on July 27, 2012 by

Today I want to post a roundup of some items in the news that piqued my interest, we have poverty measurement, disabilities, spending on children in the US, Medicaid and mortality, getting high schoolers to go to college, and health/income … Continue reading →

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