Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
Advance Care Planning
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Physician Use of Advance Care Planning Discussions in a Diverse Hospitalized Population
July 18, 2010 | Journal Article
This article presents a study of advance care planning among minority hospital patients and physicians. The authors interviewed patients to find out what factors might encourage patients and physicians to engage in advance planning discussions.
Key Issues in Health Reform
August 20, 2009 | Issue Brief
Proposed health reform legislation aims to shake up the status quo in the delivery of health care and is raising questions about the role of the federal government, how to lower costs, and how to take care of the most seriously ill.
West Virginia Clarifies End-of-Life Care Laws
June 9, 2008 | Program Result
The West Virginia Initiative to Improve End-of-Life Care encouraged a process of policy change to aid physicians in treating patients at the end of their lives according to patients' wishes and to help patients to make those wishes clear.
Addressing State Policy Issues in End of Life Care
April 3, 2006 | Story
A policy series that reaches 25,000 end-of-life coalition leaders, policymakers and healthcare professionals. The publication advances balanced approaches to pain management policy, consumer protection and professional development.
National Cancer Pain Initiative Resource Center Supports State-Level Initiatives as They Implement Pain Management Practices
January 28, 2009 | Program Result
Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health established the Resource Center, to support the growth and development of State Pain Initiatives.
Conference Explores What Physician-Assisted Suicide Could Mean to People with Disabilities
March 1, 2001 | Program Result
In 1997 and 1998, staff at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., organized two conferences on physician-assisted suicide and what it means to persons with disabilities, along with two training sessions that focused on developing ways of educating people with disabilities on the subject.