Dec 19, 2017 | Announcements, Medicaid Working Group
CHAS Fellows Tamara Konetzka and Prachi Sanghavi were each awarded NIH funding for their projects associated with the Medicaid Working Group. Funded through the National Institute on Aging (NIA), Dr. Konetzka’s project will examine the effects of care setting on...
Dec 16, 2017 | Journal Publications, Medicaid Working Group
Increased life expectancy and the aging of the baby boomer generation is projected to create a surge in demand for long-term care in coming years, yet current policies for planning for such care are already deemed inadequate. In this study, CHAS Fellow and Working...
Dec 14, 2017 | Journal Publications
HIV-status disclosure can help with risk reduction, but it also carries with it ethical dilemmas regarding privacy, stigma, and self-protection. For populations which are already subjected to multiple types of stigmatization, these concerns are especially powerful....
Dec 1, 2017 | Journal Publications
In an effort to better understand the experience of administering HIV testing in dental care settings so as to ultimately be able to promote the practice on a grander scale, CHAS Committee Member Harold Pollack and colleagues qualitatively interviewed 37 dentists and...
Nov 27, 2017 | Journal Publications
CHAS Fellow Anup Malani and colleagues discuss the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its failure to substantially improve health care for minorities. As the authors explain, de facto segregation continues as evidenced by hospital usage statistics; just 20% of U.S....
