The covid pandemic has spotlighted the often-unseen role of public health in Americans’ daily lives. And the picture has not all been pretty. What is public health and why is it so important — and controversial? Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, explains the basics. Then, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Lauren Weber of KHN join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss what could happen next.
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As students return to campus, schools across the country are taking steps to enforce public health advice to keep people safe from covid. In deeply conservative South Carolina when elected officials tried to stop that, a professor took on the establishment and won.
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California is embarking on a five-year experiment to infuse its health insurance program for low-income people with billions of dollars in nonmedical services spanning housing, food delivery and addiction care. Gov. Gavin Newsom said the goal is to improve care for the program’s sickest and costliest members and save money, but will it work?
The Medicaid-funded program operates on the notion that fixing patients’ legal ills is a vital part of their medical care.
Read the full post on Becker's Hospital Review – Healthcare News
Read the full post on Becker's Hospital Review – Healthcare News
Read the full post on Becker's Hospital Review – Healthcare News
Read the full post on Becker's Hospital Review – Healthcare News
