The Lancet Commission on diabetes: using data to transform diabetes care and patient lives

JCN Chan, LL Lim, NJ Wareham, JE Shaw, TJ Orchard… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
Executive summary 2020 will go down in history as the year when the global community was
awakened to the fragility of human health and the interdependence of the ecosystem …

Designing difference in difference studies: best practices for public health policy research

C Wing, K Simon… - Annual review of public …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The difference in difference (DID) design is a quasi-experimental research design that
researchers often use to study causal relationships in public health settings where …

Inequality and the health-care system in the USA

SL Dickman, DU Himmelstein, S Woolhandler - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Widening economic inequality in the USA has been accompanied by increasing disparities
in health outcomes. The life expectancy of the wealthiest Americans now exceeds that of the …

United States health care reform: progress to date and next steps

B Obama - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The Affordable Care Act is the most important health care legislation enacted in
the United States since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The law …

Call to action: rural health: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association

RA Harrington, RM Califf, A Balamurugan, N Brown… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Understanding and addressing the unique health needs of people residing in rural America
is critical to the American Heart Association's pursuit of a world with longer, healthier lives …

Social determinants of risk and outcomes for cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

EP Havranek, MS Mujahid, DA Barr, IV Blair… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
874 Circulation September 1, 2015 references are intended to be illustrative and to highlight
significant knowledge in the field. The premise underlying this scientific statement is that, at …

Health insurance coverage and health—what the recent evidence tells us

BD Sommers, AA Gawande… - New England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Health Insurance Coverage and Health — What the Recent Evidence Tells Us | New England
Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine homepage …

The impact of health insurance on preventive care and health behaviors: evidence from the first two years of the ACA Medicaid expansions

K Simon, A Soni, J Cawley - Journal of Policy Analysis and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The US population receives suboptimal levels of preventive care and has a high prevalence
of risky health behaviors. One goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to increase …

Health and access to care during the first 2 years of the ACA Medicaid expansions

S Miller, LR Wherry - New England Journal of Medicine, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background By September 2015, a total of 29 states and Washington, DC, were participating
in Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act. We examined whether Medicaid …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing the gold standard—lessons from the history of RCTs

LE Bothwell, JA Greene, SH Podolsky, DS Jones - N engl j med, 2016 - academia.edu
Over the past 70 years, randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) have reshaped medical
knowledge and practice. Popularized by mid-20th-century clinical researchers and …