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People in Place: Exploring the Demographic Characteristics of Rural America (John Green)
John Green, Ph.D., director, Center for Population Studies, The University of Mississippi, spoke on the panel “Rural health landscape: Meeting…
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AHCJ invites members to run for a seat on the board of directors
Image by FutUndBeidl via Flickr. Each year, members in AHCJ’s professional category elect members for the association board of directors. (Associate and…
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More evidence links speaking multiple languages to better cognitive function in older adults
A study published in the Annals of Neurology indicates that cognitive decline may slow down when people speak two or…
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Explaining the connections between poverty, health
Olga Khazan It didn’t sit right with Olga Khazan, an associate editor at The Atlantic, seeing so many people focus…
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Using data to expose the risks of home births
Markian Hawryluk Markian Hawryluk, a health reporter with The Bend (Ore.) Bulletin and an AHCJ Regional Health Journalism Fellow, describes how he took advantage of new…
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New hospital data release allows year-to-year comparisons
With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services release of new data showing what hospitals across the country charge Medicare for…
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Tips from Texas for covering Medicaid fraud, overtreatment
For the past two years, as a health writer for the Texas Tribune, Becca Aaronson has been covering the state’s…
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Bi-monthly newsletter focuses on health equity news, resources
Health Equity Resources is an impressively thorough roundup of the latest news, research, and events related to health disparities and…
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Costs keep going up for small businesses insuring their employees
Ideastream’s Sarah Jane Tribble took a look at how small businesses that voluntarily cover their workers could be in for…
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Similar Health Policy terms, but very different concepts
We’ve had a few members wonder whether “essential coverage” and “essential benefits” are one and the same. They aren’t –…
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