Tag: Health Care

  • Health

    The confused future of health care

    At a Kennedy School panel on the future of health insurance, the analysts disagreed on many key points, but did agree that any new national plan, if there is one, will take time to create.

  • Health

    Inequality runs deeper than health law

    The Affordable Care Act has narrowed health disparities along class and race lines, but not nearly as much as needed.

  • Health

    The costs of inequality: Money = quality health care = longer life

    National health insurance is just a first step to solving the divide between America’s well-off healthy and its poorer, sicker people, Harvard analysts say.

  • Health

    Ministering to health

    Ministers of health from around the world came to the Harvard Kennedy School this week as part of a leadership workshop, co-sponsored with the School of Public Health, to improve health leadership globally.

  • Campus & Community

    Linking health policy to people

    Maia Fedyszyn, who is receiving a master’s of science in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health, has a passion for health policy to improve the lot of everyday people.

  • Health

    Making lung cancer pricey

    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talked tobacco taxes and health care reform Monday during an appearance at the Forum at Harvard School of Public Health.

  • Campus & Community

    Provost’s other hat: Teacher

    As provost, Alan Garber spends his days tackling Harvard’s administrative concerns. This semester, he has stepped back into his old role as a teacher, leading a freshman seminar on health care policy that has given him a fresh take on the University he helps lead.

  • Health

    Cutting costs, buoying health care

    A Harvard Medical School lecturer and former head of the federal agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid shared his experiences pushing for improved health care quality, saying that teamwork, cost curtailment, and a focus on patients are keys to success.

  • Health

    Closing the care gap

    Models of low-cost, high-quality health care are cause for hope that disparities in treatment between U.S. whites and minorities can be closed, said speakers at a University-wide symposium on Oct. 11.

  • Arts & Culture

    Market dominance

    Free-market thinking now pervades most facets of everyday life. In “What Money Can’t Buy,” rock-star lecturer and philosopher Michael Sandel asks readers to consider what they really value — and whether some things shouldn’t come with a price.

  • Nation & World

    Battle won, but more to come

    Harvard School of Public Health analysts probe the importance of the Supreme Court ruling upholding national health care, and explain the law’s next challenge: the November election

  • Health

    Win for Obama, but no let-up in debate

    The U.S. Supreme Court decision on Thursday upholding the basis of national health care reform is far from the last word on the topic, Harvard faculty members said, and merely raises the curtain on act two: November’s general election.

  • Campus & Community

    Innovations in American Government finalists named

    The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School on Nov. 9 announced the finalists for the Innovations in American Government Award.

  • Health

    Too much variety

    More choices for Medicare beneficiaries may not always be better, according to Harvard Medical School research.

  • Health

    VHA vs. Medicare: And the winner is …

    A Harvard Medical School-led study shows that cancer care provided by the Veterans Health Administration for men 65 years and older is at least as good as, and by some measures better than, Medicare-funded fee-for-service care obtained through the private sector.

  • Nation & World

    Accompanying the underserved

    “The road from policy development to implementation is usually long and rocky, one that must be trod with companions,” Paul Farmer, University Professor and co-founder of Partners In Health, told Harvard Kennedy School graduates on May 25.

  • Health

    Using medical technology wisely

    A former White House official says health care technologies are ready to serve medicine, but the challenge will be ensuring that such innovations do not deepen existing disparities in care.

  • Health

    Debunking a myth

    Studying dead women’s cut-up bodies was not what Katharine Park originally set out to do. But a trip to Florence opened a new chapter in the scholar’s life.

  • Nation & World

    Chronic condition

    Panelists discussed the impact, failures, and future of health care reform at a Harvard Kennedy School event on Feb. 23.

  • Campus & Community

    HBS’s Herzlinger addresses House Republican Conference

    Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently addressed the annual House Republican Conference retreat in Baltimore regarding health care.

  • Campus & Community

    Strong finish

    More than 100 Harvard undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff ran in the annual Brian J. Honan 5K on Sept. 12.

  • Campus & Community

    Six grad students named Rappaport Fellows

    Six Harvard University graduate students are among the 13 local graduate students who will spend the summer working in key state agencies as Rappaport Public Policy Fellows.

  • Campus & Community

    Tom Harkin presented with HSPH’s Healthy Cup Award

    The Harvard School of Public Health’s Nutrition Round Table recently presented Sen. Tom Harkin from Iowa with the third annual Healthy Cup Award on May 18.

  • Health

    Money not cure-all for health care

    Analysts from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School for a think tank on health care reform.

  • Health

    When cost-cutting backfires

    Chronically ill elderly patients, when asked to bear a higher share of health care costs, cut prescription drug use and office visits. Consequently, they were hospitalized more often, according to a Harvard Kennedy School study.

  • Nation & World

    Understanding health care reform

    With the debate on health care reform slowing after its passage, media outlets now turn to explaining how the massive legislation will be implemented.

  • Nation & World

    HBS’s Herzlinger on health care

    Podcast interview on health care reform with Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  • Campus & Community

    Farmer’s Tiyatien Health wins mental health competition

    Tiyatien Health, a social justice organization co-founded by Paul Farmer, the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health at Harvard Medical School, was named the grand prize winner in the Ashoka Foundation’s “Rethinking Mental Health: Improving Community Wellbeing” competition, which seeks “the best solutions to improve mental health in communities around the world.”

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Medical Study Links Lack of Insurance to 45,000 U.S. Deaths a Year

    The Harvard study found that people without health insurance had a 40 percent higher risk of death than those with private health insurance — as a result of being unable to obtain necessary medical care.