About Health Policy & Management
The Division of Health Policy and Management strives to improve the public’s health by stimulating, coordinating, and conducting high quality research and teaching programs that are focused on improving the organization, financing and delivery of health care services — including preventive, remedial and maintenance care.
Parents forgo treatment for children when out-of-pocket prices rise
In her study, Pinar Karaca-Mandic found that children of parents who pay more out-of-pocket costs use their asthma control medication less often and have more asthma-related hospitalizations.
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When every minute matters
University health sciences researchers have received an $11 million Department of Defense grant to define the best methods for training military combat medics, especially as they encounter the most critical situations: massive bleeding and the need for airway management. SPH professor François Sainfort is the co-principal investigator leading the comparative study of alternative training methods. [...]
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SHADAC Receives Policy Impact Award
The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) awarded State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) the 2012 Policy Impact Award. This award recognizes SHADAC, led by HPM Professor Lynn Blewett, for efforts to improve the federal survey data infrastructure so that data are more useful and accessible and better able to inform state health [...]
HPM Faculty Promoted
Congratulations to Jean Abraham and Kathleen Call on their recent faculty promotions. Abraham was promoted to HPM Associate Professor. Her research specialties include health economics and policy, industrial organization, and applied econometrics. Call was promoted to HPM Full Professor. Her research specialties include access to health insurance coverage and health care services among vulnerable populations, [...]
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