Today, more and more low- and moderate-income working families (earning 100–400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level) are shifting their children to public insurance.
-
-
Expedited partner therapy (EPT) is a patient-delivered partner therapy used to help prevent reinfection of chlamydia or gonorrhea by providing the patient with extra maedication or a prescription to give to their sex partner(s) who are unwilling or unable to seek treatment.
-
Implicit bias refers to unconscious attitudes that lie below the surface, but may influence our behaviors.
-
Program effectiveness increased considerably between the initial implementation period (2000-2003) and later stages of program operation (2004-2005).
Jul 16, 2019
Home Visiting Programs Address Rural Health Challenges Head On
Maternal and child home visiting programs have long been trusted to bring care right to the door for pregnant women and mothers. In rural...
Jul 09, 2019
Why Redefining the Federal Poverty Level Puts Kids at Risk in 200 Words
Earlier this spring, the Trump administration unveiled its proposal to change how the federal poverty level (FPL) is calculated. By using a new...
Jul 01, 2019
The Role of Medicaid and CHIP is Changing for Working Families. Here’s How.
Over the past several years, working parents and caregivers have increasingly had to make a calculation—how can they fit health care coverage for...
Our clinicians and researchers are performing cutting edge research on the most pressing health issues facing children, adolescents and families today. See more experts.
We realize you can’t ask an important research question unless you’ve asked yourself who are the people you're trying to help and how is that question defined in their lens. Only then can your research produce important policy outcomes.
David Rubin
MD, MSCE
Interests:
Children in America today are facing social, economic, and systems-level complexities that require thoughtful, multidisciplinary solutions – and that’s what we’re all about at PolicyLab.
Meredith Matone
DrPH, MHS
Interests:
