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TL;DR? Healthy Intersections focuses on the intersection of medical care and public health. Our academic, non-profit, volunteer-run blog is sponsored by the peer-reviewed journal Medical Care and the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association. We are a project of the same editorial team as The Medical Care Blog (since 2014). Our listeners, viewers, readers, and contributors care about clinical care, the healthcare system, and the health policies and public health issues t ...
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This month marks the 10-year anniversary (blogiversary) of The Medical Care Blog, where we focus on the intersection of public health and medical care. To celebrate this milestone, we are dedicating this month's podcast to a blog-focused episode featuring special guests Greg Stevens and Ben King, co-editors of this blog (and absolutely wonderful co…
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This month's podcast features a roundtable on the new Local Climate Impact pilot project from the RTI Rarity team. Special guests Aditya Vadalkar, MS, Bahamin Ayla Akhtari, MS, and Sourabh Deshmukh, MS discuss our project, focused on three domains: climate-related risk, community resilience, and community vulnerability. We also present interactive …
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It's July, 2024. Happy summer! This month, we talk with Emily Parker, a marine scientist and advocate with Heal the Bay, a nonprofit aquarium and institute based in Santa Monica, CA. The video below is an in-depth discussion of ocean health and human health — and how they intersect. Video and transcript at https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast…
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June is Alzheimer's Awareness Month. To recognize the importance of brain health, we hosted a round-table discussion between Dr. Lisa Lines, principal investigator for the RTI Rarity project (RTIRarity.io); Chloe McGlynn, a research public health analyst at RTI; Dr. Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, social epidemiologist and community-based participatory res…
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March, 2024: Four years since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, where are we now? What accounts for more than 1 million Americans dead? We talk with Christina van Hal and Nate Rowan, researchers at RTI International, about our analyses of excess mortality from 2020-2022.
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Welcome to the February, 2024 edition of the Healthy Intersections Podcast! This month, we sit down with David Introcaso, PhD, to discuss the healthcare industry's carbon footprint. Dr. Introcaso is the host and producer of the Healthcare Policy Podcast as well as an experienced researcher. He talks us through understanding the scope of the problem…
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January, 2024: We're kicking off a year of climate action here on the podcast and blog. To start us off, we interview Dr. Imari Walker-Franklin, a research chemist at RTI International, science communicator, and the co-author of a new book from MIT Press, Plastics. We connect the dots between climate change, public health and medical care, and plas…
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On the Healthy Intersections podcast for November 2023, we do a deep dive on structural racism and its effects in the United States. Joining us to talk about the new Structural Racism Effect Index (SREI) is Dr. Zach Dyer, lead author on the analysis. Check out the dashboard at SREIndex.com and the journal article in Health Affairs. A video of our d…
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Welcome to the Healthy Intersections podcast for October, 2023. Today's podcast focuses on the links between suicide and social determinants of health in the United States. Suicide is one of the deaths of despair, along with deaths from drug and alcohol. We will be discussing some key statistics and findings related to this topic as well as discuss…
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Happy fall! This month's Healthy Intersections Podcast focuses on food and agriculture -- a timely topic during the fall harvest months. Healthy food is necessary for overall wellbeing. Yet, climate change is forcing us to confront several realities: Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to climate change Agriculture and the food supply ar…
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This month, we talk with Dr. Amanda Onwuka, a social epidemiologist and health services researcher at RTI International, as well as Jeremy Ney, author of American Inequality. We discuss the epidemic of drug overdose deaths in the US, mental health, and opioid prescribing rates, along with multi-level interventions aimed at preventing addiction and …
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Our July 2023 Healthy Intersections Podcast features the brand-new RTIRarity.io dashboard and focuses on Florida, with Lauren Pierce. Visit TheMedicalCareBlog.com for the video and transcript! And don't forget to subscribe!
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Welcome to the June 2023 episode of the Healthy Intersections podcast! This month, we sit down again with Carol Schmitt, Chief Scientist at RTI International, along with Juliet Sheridan, to talk about another of the RTI Rarity interactive state maps. This time, we are looking at North Carolina. We talk about historical redlining, climate change, an…
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This month, we sit down again with Carol Schmitt, Chief Scientist at RTI International, to talk about another of the RTI Rarity interactive state maps. This time, we are looking at Oklahoma. You can watch the episode, download the audio file, and read the transcript on our blog here. And don't forget, you can subscribe to the audio version here, or…
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This month's HIP features Part 1 of a conversation between Lisa Lines (in her professional role as Senior Health Services Researcher, RTI International, and Director of the RTI Rarity™ project) and her colleague, Dr. Carol Schmitt (Chief Scientist, RTI International). We discuss the interactive map produced by RTI International for Illinois, which …
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This month we recap the blog posts and interview Dr. Daniel Harris, whose recent paper discusses the use of antipsychotics in nursing homes.
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This month's podcast features a round-up of this month's blog posts and a summary of three articles recently published in the journal Medical Care. Head to TheMedicalCareBlog.com for transcripts and links!
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This month's podcast features a round-up of this month's blog posts and an interview with Sungchul Park of Drexel University about his recent Medical Care publication on disparities in ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations. Head to TheMedicalCareBlog.com for transcripts and links!
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In this month's podcast, co-editor Jess Williams recaps blog posts from November and talks about some December journal articles.
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In this month's podcast, Dr. Samy Anand gives an overview of The Medical Care Blog posts published in October and a preview of the journal articles in the November issue of Medical Care. Then, co-editor of the blog, Dr. Gregory Stevens, discusses the results of the midterm election and the results of ballot measures relevant to public health.…
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In this month's podcast, Dr. Samy Anand gives an overview of the Medical Care Blog posts published in September and a preview of the journal articles in the October issue of Medical Care. Then, co-editor of the blog, Dr. Lisa Lines, discusses an article in the October issue in more detail. Please visit TheMedicalCareBlog.com for a transcript of thi…
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Episode 8: Healthy Intersections Podcast: Interview with Dr. Julie Donohue about the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network
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This special podcast episode contains an interview with Dr. Julie Donohue about the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network, MODERN.
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The September podcast recaps blogs and previews journal articles. This month we also talk about the health harms of carceral systems.
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On this month's episode of the Healthy Intersections Podcast, Samy Anand from the Medical Care Section recaps last month's blog posts and preview's June's issue of the Medical Care journal. Some great articles to check out for your summer reading list. Next, Lisa Lines, co-editor of the blog and podcast, interviews Dr. Pia MacDonald, an infectious …
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In this episode of our podcast series, Jess Williams discusses COVID-19 case and hospitalizations with Tami Gurley, an Associate Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Jess also recaps the blog posts published in April and previews some articles published in the May issue of Medical Care.…
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In this episode of our podcast series, Greg Stevens discusses health care provider burnout with Cooper Couch, a practicing physician assistant at an FQHC in rural Colorado. Next, we recap the blog posts published in March and previews an article published in the April issue of Medical Care. Authored by Jae Downing, Kendall Lawley and Alex McDowell,…
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In this episode of our podcast series, Samyuktha Anand, secretary-elect for the Medical Care section, recaps the blog posts we published in February and previews a few of the journal articles published in this month's issue of Medical Care. Next, Lisa Lines, co-editor, discusses an article that was just published ahead of print on March 1: "Develop…
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In this episode of our podcast series, Samyuktha Anand, secretary-elect for the Medical Care section, recaps the blog posts we published in January. Jess Williams, co-editor, interviews NienChen Li about her recently published paper in Medical Care -- a winner of the APHA Medical Care Section Student Paper Award in 2020. Dr. Li's paper is about how…
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This episode includes a review of the pieces published at The Medical Care Blog in December, an interview with Dr. Ben King of the University of Houston College of Medicine, and a preview of some of the great research articles in the January, 2022 edition of the journal Medical Care.
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In this episode, Jess Williams recaps the blog posts we published on The Medical Care Blog in November and previews the December issue of Medical Care. As a bonus, Lisa Flaherty interviews and introduces two of our December contributors: Dr. Sharla Smith, founder of the Kansas Birth Equity Network (KBEN), and Ms. Valerie White, a parent and advocat…
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Check out our November 2021 Podcast for a recap of recently published blogs and a preview of articles in the November 2021 issue of Medical Care.
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What explains differences in life expectancy from one place to another? An "artificially intelligent" approach to understanding social risk.
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By Benjamin Eovaldi & Steve Edstrom | April 19, 2021 In military medicine, exercises, such as a mass vaccination points-of-dispensing (POD) scenario, test preparedness capacity, and drill for potential real-world public health emergency scenarios. Exercises are designed to challenge medical teams to work under pressure and problem solve according t…
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