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Webcasts/Audio/VideoAHCJ webcastsNYC's first lady speaks about mental health care Chirlane McCray, First Lady of New York City and founder of ThriveNYC, discussed urban initiatives for mental health reform as the keynote speaker at the 2018 Urban Health Journalism Workshop in New York City on Oct. 19, 2018. Social determinants, opioids and infectious disease deaths August 2018 Responsible, accurate reporting on addiction Violence as a public health emergency Healthy neighborhoods: Covering new approaches to well-being Where Medicaid stands: From the AHCA to state waivers Medicare: What would it take to add a dental benefit? The long view on lead: Covering the crisis from Flint and beyond Covering consumers: Tackling costs, pricing and access August 2016 Health literacy: How language, context affects disparities May 2016 We will take a look at how the language and information facing today’s population is impacting people’s health across the country with Rima Rudd, a founder in the field of health literacy studies and a leading researcher exploring this aspect of health communication. During the webcast, we explore how health literacy impacts people’s ability to make health care decisions, the impact of technology, and the role of culture in assessing how people view health and treatments. We examine specific language and context, and we’ll discuss how journalists covering health can play a role. Covering the special health challenges of LGBTQ youth December 2015 Despite growing attention to these health challenges, health care providers, insurers, families and even youth themselves are grappling with how to address such disparities. Susan Heavey, AHCJ's topic leader on the social determinants of health and health disparities, discussed ongoing and unique challenges facing LGBT youth with Lawrence D’Angelo, M.D., M.P.H., division chief of adolescent and young adult medicine at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C and director of the hospital's Youth Pride Clinic. Rhiannon Meyers takes you behind diabetes coverage
At the midway point of the yearlong series, she discusses what the series discovered so far. Meyers, recipient of an AHCJ Reporting Fellowship on Health Care Performance, also shares what's to come, including a piece that takes readers inside the operating room for a behind-the-scenes look at weight loss surgery and its effect on Type 2 diabetes. Presentations from 'Multicultural health in the Bay Area: The untold story' Multicultural health in the Bay Area: The untold story was a 2007 AHCJ workshop in San Francisco.
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Video & audio"The answer is yes" D. Anthony Fauci says he considers institutional racism to be a contributing factor to the disproportionate coronavirus death toll for black Americans. Health in Rural America: Innovative Solutions to Address Disparities November 2019 America is facing a complex rural health crisis. Increasing urbanization leaves behind an older, sicker, and poorer population in rural America that may struggle with social determinants of health like access to medical care and healthy meals. These challenges contribute to rural-urban health inequities in rates of chronic conditions like obesity and diabetes. Despite the odds, leaders are leveraging the unique strengths of rural communities to develop and implement promising solutions. This webinar explored disparities in rural health and initiatives designed to close those gaps. Speakers discussed:
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John Oliver, Larry David and Wanda Sykes Give Medical Bias the Last Week Tonight Treatment John Oliver, Wanda Sykes, and Larry David teamed up to help fight reported bias in medical care on "Last Week Tonight" on Aug. 25, 2019. How climate change impacts people of color Treatment overkill #HealthEquity is an issue in cardiology. Doctors, listen to your female patients! Victor Okunrintemi discusses his findings. How one woman survived her mental illness isolated in jail with only the voices in her head for company This clip is part of a much larger multimedia story about mental illness in U.S. prisons, by Gary Harki and team at The Virginian-Pilot. The video features one of the people affected by her experience of having a mental illness and being incarcerated. It accompanies text reporting on her personal experience as someone with schizophrenia who was jailed without care for her condition being provided. She was kept in jail without trial on misdemeanor charges for two years. The Senate Finance Committee examines health care in rural areas, particularly the role and financial sustainability of hospitals in less populated rural and frontier parts of the United States. The hearing, entitled “Rural Health Care in America: Challenged and Opportunities,” looks at payment policies, including with Medicare and Medicaid, as well as access to emergency departments and services. It also discusses the impact of a population that in many cases is older with more chronic conditions and higher mortality rates. Expert witnesses include representatives from the University of Iowa’s RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, NC Rural Health Research Program Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Pennsylvania-based Geisinger’s Glenn Steele Institute of Health Innovation; Midwestern-based UnityPoint Health; and Colorado-based regional health care provider San Luis Valley Health. CBS News’ “60 Minutes” program examines the impact of adversity on children and their development, and the new science and other efforts to understand and address it . The piece looks at the effects of childhood trauma such as post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide risk. The segment, by Oprah Winfrey, also weighs efforts to grapple with such adverse childhood experiences and ‘scores’ health care providers are now using to help address it through so-called trauma-informed care . CBS’s piece was inspired by A Time to Heal by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s John Schmid. Reuters: The painful truth of physician burnout Doctors can also be impacted by the social determinants of health. Reuters takes a look at recent studies about how physician burnout can increase medical errors, suicide rates and other serious issues among doctors providing care. Health journalist Sarah Varney takes a closer look at the impact of housing on individuals’ health. Her December 2017 piece, Giving poor families more choices in where to live can greatly improve health, examines the effects of moving to less segregated neighborhoods and the impact some family relocation programs are having. MSNBC: One Nation Overdosed Jacob Soboroff examines the cause of the deadliest drug crisis in American history. The Hill: America’s Opioid Epidemic: Aging and Addiction With much of the nation’s attention on the ongoing opioid crisis focused on younger Americans, The Hill takes a look at how U.S. seniors are also impacted by drug misuse and addiction. The sponsored panel discussion, broken down in four parts, includes a discussion with U.S. lawmakers, a look at preventing misuse, and strategies to help stem the problem. Speakers range from federal health officials and the National Council on Aging’s senior director to substance abuse experts from Brandeis University and the Pew Charitable Trusts. This PBS series explores various examples of socio-economic and racial inequities on people’s health.. Over four hours, it examines wealth and employment, immigration and ethnicity/race as well as the impact of geography, infant mortality and other factors. From Louisville, Ky., and Greenville, Mich., to the Marshal Islands and the home of the Pima and Tohono O’odham Indians in southern Arizona, the 2008 series still offers reporters an introduction to ongoing issues that still challenge the healthcare sector (and includes an update online). The series website also includes resources such as data tools, handouts and a list of experts on the issues featured. Senate hearing on healthy choices and outcomes The U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee examined the impact of individuals’ decisions choices and behavior on health at an Oct. 19, 2017, hearing entitled “Examining How Health Choices Can Improve health Outcomes and Reduce Costs.” Speakers include Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer Dr. Michael Roizen and Jennifer Mathis, head of policy and legal advocacy at the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, among others. Breaking the Cycle: Health, Poverty, and the Social Determinants of Health Courtney Martin, the co-founder of Solutions Journalism Network, discusses the social determinants of health at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The June 2017 panel, entitled “Deep Dive: Breaking the Cycle: Health, Poverty, and the Social Determinants of Health,” looks at the impact of relationships as well as building systems around social determinants of health. Speakers include Aetna Foundation President and University of Connecticut School of Medicine cardiologist Garth Graham, who formerly led the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, among others. One Nation Overdosed The Health-Care Cost of Homelessness In the past year, Los Angeles has dedicated billions of dollars towards housing the homeless. The effort is, in part, aimed at addressing the city’s exorbitant health-care spending on this population. Housing is now widely understood to be the best health intervention for the homeless population, who experience far more hospitalizations than those with homes. However, a critical step in this new effort is actually connecting the city’s homeless population, many of whom are very wary of services, to the these new resources. What is Resilience? Proximity to clogged highways could increase risk of Alzheimer's, dementia Aspen Forum on Children and Families Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: How 'America's Doctor' sees opioids, gun violence and more Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joined Politico's "Pulse Check" podcast to discuss the role of the surgeon general (starts at the 2:20 mark), why he's focused on getting Americans walking (10:10 mark), how he sees the nation's opioid problem (15:00), how he picks his priorities (24:00) and whether he thinks the surgeon general can truly be independent on issues like gun violence (30:30). The Open Mind: Poisoning America Public health historian David Rosner on origins of the lead epidemic in Flint and beyond. Health Care Consolidation: What You Need to Know The Alliance for Health Reform hosted a discussion about health care consolidation on Dec. 15, 2015. A top Federal Trade Commission official, along with key experts, met with reporters to discuss the recent surge in health care consolidation; the driving forces behind this trend; and the implications for policymakers and enforcers. In 2014, there were a total of 1,299 mergers and acquisitions in the health care sector – a record number, up from 1,035 the year before. That includes a recent spike in pharmaceutical transactions, including inversions, which base U.S. drug companies overseas. Speakers provide the latest information about the roles of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission; efforts by policymakers; the scope and extent of consolidation among doctors, hospitals, insurers and pharmaceutical companies; and implications for consumers and other stakeholders.
A transcript of the discussion is available. Alliance for Health Reform: Quarterly media briefings, which you can subscribe to on YouTube, tackle a variety of health policy topics. The Dec. 11, 2015 panel, for example, looked at the health needs of former federal and state prisoners. Understanding the economic impact of obesity May 2015 Harvard professor Robert Sampson on social infrastructure The resilience of cities depends on the social infracture as well as the physical. Robert Sampson talks about ways to measure the social ecology of urban enironments to help strengthen neighborhoods. Social capital and health: A cautionary tale from Roseto, Pa. Roseto, Pa., was settled by Italian immigrants who were found to have astonishingly low rates of heart disease in the 1950s. Ichiro Kawachi, chair of Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, explains why Roseto is a cautionary tale in regards to social capital and a recession. Harvard Public Health Magazine Extra: Social Capital & Health from Harvard School of Public Health on Vimeo. Social Progress Index 2014 This video explains a new index comparing nations on ‘social progress’ and not just economic productivity: “A broader and more inclusive model of development requires new metrics with which policymakers and citizens can evaluate national performance. We must move beyond simply measuring Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, and make social and environmental measurement integral to national performance measurement. Tracking social and environmental performance rigorously will inform and drive improvement in policy choices and investments by all stakeholders. Measuring social progress will also help to better translate economic gains into better social and environmental performance, which will unleash even greater economic success.” Michael Marmot: Putting fairness at the heart of policy-making
"The U.S. looks a lot like Latvia. You have elected not to use taxes and transfers to reduce child poverty. You as a society have made a decision that child poverty is what you want. I can only assume that's the case. Otherwise you would do what European countries are doing and use taxes and transfers to reduce child poverty." Marmot delivered the keynote address at the Second Annual Symposium on the Social Determinants of Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in April 2013. |
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