News Search: Health Policy and Management
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First Ladies and their senior advisors from countries across Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East will participate in this high-level executive leadership program.
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Gaps persist in hiring enough U.S. public health workers and health departments continue to face challenges in recruiting new employees.
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A Q&A with Thalia Porteny, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
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Aging and Healthy Longevity
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Warning letters from Medicare safely cut prescribing of a powerful but risky antipsychotic.
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The conference covered topics from artificial intelligence to alternative medicine and quality care to communications.
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Lack of respectful maternity care in the U.S. culminating in mistreatment in childbirth is a regular occurrence.
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Significant underdiagnosis and undertreatment of postpartum depressive symptoms were found along with stark racial and ethnic inequities.
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Maternal and Reproductive Health
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Public health occupations in health departments around the country pay substantially less compared to workers in the same occupations in the private sector.
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A pair of first-year Columbia Mailman master’s students volunteered at a recent health fair in Staten Island.
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Several key public health occupations lack a classification code that the U.S. Labor Department would need to count the number of public health workers serving in the nation’s frontline biodefense.
