The Rise of the Superbugs

We need to treat antibiotics as a natural resource that can be depleted with overuse, or run the risk that drug-resistant bacteria will grow faster than our capacity to fight them.

Learn how you can prevent superbugs from taking over the world

Each and every one of us has a responsibility to protect the arsenal that we have—those antibiotics that are still effective—to fight deadly pathogens.”

—Ramanan Laxminarayan, executive director of RWJF grantee Extending the Cure, which seeks solutions to antibiotic resistance

30%

Increase in drug-resistant bacteria between 1999 and 2010 #Superbugs

Improving Care, Reining in Costs

An expert panel proposes a framework for reform focusing on more innovative, patient-centered care while also bending the curve of health care cost growth.

Improving Care, Reining in Costs

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We found that the most important common ground was on supporting better care for patients, and our plan needed to span the entire system to achieve that goal, with specificity about changes that can start happening now.”

Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt

Reforms would net $300B or more in savings in next decade, save at least $1 trillion over 20 years

Diminishing Benefit

Fewer people are getting health insurance through work—a trend that began more than a decade ago. Health insurance exchanges and other options under the Affordable Care Act should help many obtain coverage.

Diminishing Employer-Sponsored Insurance Benefits

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40%

of Americans do not receive #healthinsurance through a job

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Numbers Tell the Tale

Nearly 12 million fewer Americans receive their health coverage through their job, or a family member’s job, than did in 2000.

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    Lessons From Boston

    RWJF Clinical Scholar Jeremiah Schuur, MD, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, helped treat many of the Boston Marathon bombing victims. Here's what he learned.

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    Lavizzo-Mourey Joins Foreign Policy Magazine's Power Elite

    Foundation President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, is one of the 500 most powerful individuals on the planet, according to the first-ever Foreign Policy Power Map. (Link may require registration.)

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    Reaching Toward Improved Local Health

    How can you change the culture of health in your community? Where do you begin? An April 30 webinar can help you learn how to start the conversation.

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    Nurses Shatter the Stereotype

    Nurses represent the largest segment of health care professionals and are the people who provide the most direct care at the bedside. What many people don't realize is that nurses also are working to provide, shape and improve health care in a wide variety of settings. Nurses are researchers, administrators, educators, soldiers, and more.

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    Changing the Way Obesity Prevention Savings Are Measured

    Current methods used to estimate costs and savings of federal legislation don't account for billions of dollars in potential long-term savings from policies that would prevent or reduce obesity, according to a new report.

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    Controlling Medicaid Spending: Are Per Capita Caps the Answer?

    A new policy brief from Health Affairs and RWJF examines the feasibility of per capita caps, the history of the proposal, and its prospects in the future.

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