Department of Health Policy and Management
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News
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Off the Cuff: What don’t we know about the causes of gun violence? Almost everything.
No other high-income nation in the world comes close to America’s firearm death rate. In 2014, the most recent year for which there are government statistics, 33,599 people were killed by guns.
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Where there’s a hospital monopoly, private health care costs more
A new study has found that health care costs for those with private insurance varies wildly across the U.S.—and that much of the variation has do with how much market…
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Experts discuss similarities, differences between U.S., India health systems
December 14, 2012 — It should come as no surprise that the health care systems of the United States and India differ in many ways, but what may be surprising…
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Public health and the U.S. economy
[ Fall 2012 ] How the next U.S. president can stack the deck in favor of people’s health and wealth in 2013 With the November 2012 elections on the horizon,…
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Can cost-effective health care = better health care?
[Winter 2010] Cost-effectiveness research pinpoints best values for limited health care dollars—and the results may surprise you An interview with Harvard School of Public Health’s Milton Weinstein offers some revealing…
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Employer health incentives
[Winter 2009] Employee wellness programs prod workers to adopt healthy lifestyles A Massachusetts man lost his job at a Scotts Miracle-Gro lawn and garden center in 2006 when a routine…
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A simple checklist that saves lives
[ Fall 2008 ] Fighter pilots use checklists to avoid deadly errors. Why not surgeons, too? So complex was the new B-17 bomber introduced during World War II that a…