Duke-Margolis highlights 2017 progress, innovation and impact
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Seventy-nine countries are off track to meet ambitious global health targets for maternal and child health, according to an
analysis
by researchers from the Brookings Institution and the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI). If those countries were to recover and accelerate their progress according to the targets, the authors note, 11.8 million lives—1.6 million mothers and 10.2 million children—could be saved.
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A
new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines to what extent and in which ways health care utilization - such as in-patient hospitalizations, emergency department use, and hospital readmission - reflects disease severity, disability, and ability to perform gainful activity. The committee that conducted the study was unable to find an association between health care utilization and disease severity as it relates to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) determination of severe impairment -- an impairment or combination of impairments severe enough to prevent a person from performing any gainful activity regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Donald H. Taylor, Jr, Ph
D
, served on the study panel.
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Amidst the national uncertainty about the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), politicians at the
state level have made headlines by proposing
Medicaid buy-in policies. Little is known about how the proposed policies would be implemented, and those proposing them have often not released details of the structure. Duke-Margolis' David Anderson and Emma Sandoe explain on the
Health Affairs Blog.
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Greg Daniel, PhD, MPH
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was an invited speaker at the National Academies for Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Real World Evidence Workshop on March 6.
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Charlene Wong, MD, MSPH,
Farrah Mandanay, MA
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Megan Moore
presented a workshop on “The use of technology to extend the reach of clinicians for adolescent and young adult clinical preventive services” and two posters on patient-reported outcomes in adolescents and young adults at the annual Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine meeting in Seattle.
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We are pleased to extend a special invitation for you to be our guest at a live* event produced by NEJM Catalyst and hosted by the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy: Patient Behavior Change: Building Blocks for Success. This event, which will be streamed live to an international audience, will feature a phenomenal slate of healthcare leaders and researchers who will share insights on the keys to creating and sustaining behavior change for health.
Learn More and Register
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Convened by the Duke-Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University and supported by a cooperative agreement with FDA, this public event will bring the stakeholder community together to discuss a variety of topics related to eligibility criteria in clinical trials, their potential impact on patient access to investigational drugs, and how they might facilitate the enrollment of a diverse patient population.
Other topics that will be addressed during the public meeting include alternative clinical trial designs that may increase enrollment of more diverse patient populations, as well as opportunities for using data from expanded access trials.
Learn More and Register
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The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy's mission is to improve health and the value of health care by developing and implementing evidence-based policy solutions locally, nationally, and globally.
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This newsletter is published monthly by the Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University.
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