Health Care Policy News

WHO's Health Assembly, the world's largest health policy-making body, opened its 66th Session today in Geneva with around 3000 participants from around the world.

The Florida House did the nation a favor by refusing to expand subsidized health insurance to 1 million low-income Floridians, argues Speaker Will Weatherford.

Check out a great new resource on the Massachusetts health care system from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts : the Massachusetts Health Care Delivery System Map .

National health plans so far have announced participation in "fewer than 15 states" to provide benefits under the Affordable Care Act.

The most compelling argument for water fluoridation is about relieving pain and suffering through public health policy.

Lisa Simpson shared four lessons from her medical career with students of the School of Nursing and Health Studies at commencement Saturday.

But modern trade pacts reach deep into our lives in ways that have nothing to do with trade.

Talk to people in Oregon about health care for long and eventually you will be asked something like this: "You've heard the air conditioner story, right?" In this case, it's John McConnell, a health economist at Oregon Health and Science University, doing the asking.

Longtime health care policy advocate Judi Hilman will leave her post as director of the Utah Health Policy Project in July to join a new nonprofit health insurance cooperative.

A law change to allow family members to be paid for looking after disabled relatives will leave many carers with little extra in the pocket, the Green Party says.

Age has little to do with how patients should be treated after suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

The chairmen of two House Ways and Means subcommittees this week pressed HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to address privacy concerns regarding workers who will help consumers buy health coverage through state insurance exchanges .

Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, according to a Viewpoint article in this week's Lancet .

A previous blog post pointed out that one of the drawbacks of any government-run health-care system is that the care you get will depend in part on how much political power you have.

What I call health policy orthodoxy is committed to two propositions: The really important health issue for poor people is access to care, and to ensure access, waiting for care is always better than paying for care.

The content of European Council working party meetings on the EU's tobacco policy review is being leaked to the industry, said an EU source who added that the debate is "hotting up". The tobacco industry receives notes and documents from ministerial meetings on the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive and prepares lobbying materials targeting ... (more)

By Joel C. Cantor [Joel C. Cantor is the director of the Center for State Health Policy and professor of public policy at Rutgers University.

From the Prevention Research Center, Centers for Health Policy, Primary Care, and Outcomes Research, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University, Stanford, CA ; Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom ; School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United ... (more)

Accordingly, Federal Medical Centres , were established nationwide, for the purpose of providing tertiary level health care.

Despite public health progress in cutting calories, as well as salt and fat from fast foods and supermarket products, neighborhood restaurants are still packing big helpings of each into their meals, a trio of studies suggests.