Public Health

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

Pitfalls of mass testing for COVID-19

Joshua A. Lieberman, Steven M. Lieberman, and Lori A. Bourassa

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

High air ambulance charges primarily in private equity-owned carriers

Loren Adler, Kathleen Hannick, and Sobin Lee

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

A Supreme Court decision to strike down the ACA would create chaos

Christen Linke Young

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

External Article

Silver-loading likely to continue following federal decision on CSRs

Aviva Aron-Dine and Christen Linke Young

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Reports

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Assessing and improving the government’s response to the veterans’ opioid crisis

John Hudak

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Lisa Collinsworth (R) holds her baby son Luke during a visit with him at Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, West Virginia, October 19, 2015. Picture taken October 19, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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All in the family: A comprehensive approach to maternal and child health in the opioid crisis

N. Jia Ahmad, Joshua M. Sharfstein, and Paul H. Wise

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Gail Dufault, the Transitional Healthcare Coordinator at the Barnstable County House of Corrections, prepares a dose of Vivitrol at the prison in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts September 2, 2014. Barnstable is believed to be the first jail in the country to launch an intensive voluntary recovery program for opiate-addicted inmates with the use of Vivitrol, an injectable non-narcotic drug that blocks receptors in the brain and bars addicts from getting high off heroin and other opioids for about 25 days, at a cost of about $1,000 a shot. Picture taken September 2, 2014. To match Feature USA-HEROIN/PRISONS/ REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW DRUGS HEALTH)

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State approaches to tackling the opioid crisis through the health care system

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Bradley D. Stein

Monday, June 22, 2020

April 24, 2017; New City, NY, USA; Michael Murphy, chief of operations for the Rockland Paramedic Services, demonstrates how to administer narcan, an opioid antagonist, April 24, 2017 in New City. Mandatory Credit: Tania Savayan/The Journal News via USA TODAY NETWORK

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Reducing barriers and getting creative: 10 federal options to increase treatment access for opioid use disorder and reduce fatal overdoses

Beau Kilmer

Monday, June 22, 2020

A 41-year-old man found unconscious after overdosing on opioids in the driver's seat of a car, with the engine running and the transmission in drive, puts his hands over his head in the back of a Cataldo Ambulance at a gas station in the Boston suburb of Malden, Massachusetts, December 2, 2017. A used syringe was found in the car with the victim, who was revived with 10mg of naloxone. REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEARCH "SNYDER OPIOIDS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC13F461C890

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The role of despair in the opioid crisis: Lessons from the science of well-being

Carol Graham

Monday, June 22, 2020

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How budget flexibility tools help address social determinants of health

Stuart M. Butler, Timothy Higashi, and Nehath Sheriff

Monday, October 5, 2020

Order from Chaos

Taiwan’s unlikely path to public trust provides lessons for the US

Rorry Daniels

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

After 3 months of absence due to Coronavirus, the students return to class. Christian Estrosi, visits the Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire in Nice and distributes masks to the students.Apres 3 mois d absence en raison du Coronavirus, , les lyceens retournent en classe. Christian Estrosi, visite le Lycée Guillaume Apollinaire a Nice et distribue des masques aux lycéens.NO USE FRANCE

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Unsafe school facilities reinforce educational inequities among marginalized students

Alejandro Vazquez-Martinez, Michael Hansen, and Diana Quintero

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

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