Children in the United States are dying sooner and are sicker now than they were twenty years ago. Chronic disease is more common.| Penn LDI
Safety net hospital funding from federal, state, and local governments relies on definitions that yield highly variable results.| Penn LDI
A Penn Medicine program to train an inaugural cohort of teens to green their neighborhoods completed a month-long curriculum in late July.| Penn LDI
Mandated nurse-to-patient ratios save lives, reduce burnout, and cut costs. New Penn Nursing brief urges policymakers to adopt enforceable staffing standards.| Penn LDI
A new NEJM piece written by Atheendar Venkataramani explores how public discussion of policies can impact population health, particularly for marginalized groups.| Penn LDI
LDI Senior Fellow Ingrid Nembhard and her team made five recommendations to improve patient surveys in a JAMA Health Forum viewpoint published on May 30.| Penn LDI
A first-ever study co-authored by LDI’s Scott Lorch & led by Michel Boudreaux documented perinatal health care resources in communities prone to wildfire smoke.| Penn LDI