HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

December 23, 2008

links for 2008-12-23

• In Atlanta - cuts to low-income care.
  ...calls for the Grady Health System to require Fulton and DeKalb County patients who earn between 126 and 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines to pay for 40 percent of their care, up to 25% of their annual income.
• Privatizing Medicaid in Florida is helping fewer people, costing more
  The University of South Florida tracked new clients of various Medicaid programs for three years. A report issued in 2007 illustrated managed care's little secret: When time came for the nursing home, most people disenroll from managed care and fell back on regular Medicaid.
• Epidemiology of critically ill children in England and Wales: incidence, mortality, deprivation and ethnicity
  In England and Wales, the admission rate to paediatric intensive care is higher in children from more deprived areas and 36% higher for children from the south Asian population. Risked-adjusted mortality increases in south Asian children as deprivation decreases.
• Data Stream - New Doctors Awash in Debt
  The median cost of attending a year of medical school, including all fees, is now $62,243 at private schools and $44,390 for state residents at public schools.
• Investing in Health Disparities - Newspaper Tree El Paso
  This holiday season reminds me of 12-year-old Deamonte Driver, a young African American who died in the shadows of our nation’s capital last February from a toothache that progressed to a brain abscess.
• In Bangladesh a call to end rural-uraban health disparities