Publications
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READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
RWJF Awards Grant to ABFM Foundation for Collaboration with Stanford and US Census Bureau to Support Research on Using Social Determinants of Health Indices to Adjust Payments to Physicians
Submitted on: December, 2021
It is with great pleasure that we announce the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has awarded a new two-year grant to support “Testing the predicting power of social determinants of health indices on outcomes to improve Medicare payment,” a research collaboration between the American Board of Family Medicine Foundation (ABFM Foundation), the Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences (Stanford PHS), and the U.S. Census Bureau. The period of the grant began on December 1, 2021 and will carry through November 30, 2023.
Read MoreIt’s still too early to ease mask mandates in schools
- Emmeline Ha, MD
Submitted on: November, 2021
(CNN)More than a year and a half into the Covid-19 pandemic, the US finds itself facing a new set of parameters: We now have Covid-19 vaccines available for those 5 years of age and older, we have information at our disposal about the effectiveness of mask usage for reducing the risk of disease spread, and we better understand the effect the pandemic can have on children. But while things feel like they are getting better, it is important to remember that the pandemic is not over, particularly since the rise of the Delta variant. We still have over 1,100 Covid-related deaths in the US per day. And as of November 11, children represented over a quarter of all weekly reported Covid-19 cases, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Read MoreIncreasing Transparency for Medical School Primary Care Rankings—Moving From a Beauty Contest to a Talent Show
Submitted on: November, 2021
The U.S. News & World Report (US News) annually ranks educational institutions on several criteria that affect many readers’ views of their institutional reputations. One critic of the US News rankings recently declared the medical school rankings a “beauty contest.” We agree and set out several years ago to persuade US News to shift the source of its data and diversify the foci of its medical school rankings to reflect a broader range of social mission metrics. We focused this effort on US News’ “Best Medical Schools: Primary Care” ranking because of the ongoing erosion of the primary care physician workforce and because, for some schools, it is a specific social mission.
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