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April 10, 2020

The Out-of-Pocket Health News Digest

For our last Out-of-Pocket newsletter this semester, we have compiled a list of health policy resources to help you stay informed during the summer. Our hope is that you will find a few newsletters, podcasts and books that are enlightening and educational.

This compilation is produced by the HPSA Education Committee: Sharoni Bandyopadhyay, Matthew Dunn, Payton Watt and Courtney Zott.

Newsletters

E-newsletters are an easy way to get the latest news in health policy delivered straight to your inbox. The following news publications offer daily or weekly updates in domestic and/or global health news.

Podcasts

These podcasts feature health policy experts as they discuss the latest in health care or delve into a particular topic on a daily, weekly or biweekly basis.

America Dissected is a biweekly podcast by Abdul-El Sayed. Season 1 provides an in-depth analysis of topics in health policy, while Season 2 covers the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.

An Arm and a Leg is a weekly podcast co-produced by Kaiser Health News and focuses on health care costs.

The Dose produced by the Commonwealth Fund is a biweekly podcast featuring health policy experts as they discuss domestic and international health policy issues.

The NACCHO Podcast Series produced by the National Association of County and City Health Officials features conversations from health policy experts as they tackle health policy on a county and city-level.

Public Health on Call produced by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health produces a daily podcast on emerging public health news.

What the Health? produced by Kaiser Health News is a weekly podcast covering the latest news in health policy.

Books

The following book recommendations cover a range of topics, from the intersection of criminal justice and mental health to escalating health care costs to the opioid crisis.

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less by Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live and Die by Keith Payne

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner

Code Blue: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex by Mike Magee

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again by Eric Topol

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

Healing Politics by Abdul El-Sayed

Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth

The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know by Yngvild Olsen, Joshua Sharfstein

The Price We Pay by Marty Makary

Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care by Uwe E. Reinhardt

Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - and the People Who Pay the Price by Jonathan Cohn

Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health in America by Mary Otto