CHPRE News - May 2008
Recent Publications
Bill Cartwright
Cartwright, W.S. A Critical Review of Accounting and Economic Methods for Estimating the Costs of Addiction Treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34(3): 302-310, April, 2008.
Cartwright, W.S. Economic Costs of Drug Abuse: Financial, Cost-of-illness, and Services. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 34(2): 224-233, March, 2008.
Yiota Kitsantas
Kitsantas P. (2008). Underlying and multiple causes of death
in preterm infants.
Journal of Data Science 6(1), 125-134.
Kitsantas, P., Kitsantas, A., & Anagnostopoulou, T. (2008). A Cross-cultural
investigation of college student alcohol consumption: A classification
trees analysis.
The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 142,5-20.
Posted May 13, 2008
Health Policy Student News
Sarah Lash, a GMU Health Systems Management/Health Policy concentration student,
has been selected as a David A. Winston Health Policy Scholarship recipient. She
is one of ten graduate students nationwide to receive this award based on
academic scholarship in work toward pursuing a career in health policy.
Posted May 13, 2008
New study funded
Jack Hadley has received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study "High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: The Roles of Physician Practice and Health System Factors". The goal of this research is to identify physician practice and market characteristics that contribute to high Medicare costs by analyzing care delivered to high-cost beneficiaries. Since the costliest 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries account for 85 percent of total spending, even modest improvements in the cost effectiveness of their care would have significant fiscal benefits.
April 2008
HAP Faculty publishes article on Medicaid Reimbursement
HAP Faculty Dr.
Farrokh Alemi co-authored an article with Kathy Fornilli. The article, "Medicaid
Reimbursement for Screening and Brief Intervention: Amending the Medicaid
State Plan and Approving State Appropriations for the Medicaid State Match" was
recently published in the Journal of Addictions Nursing.
Posted April 3, 2008
Recent Faculty Publication
Yang YT, Studdert DS, Subramanian SV, Mello MM. A longitudinal analysis of
the impact of liability pressure on the supply of obstetrician-gynecologists.
J Empirical Leg Stud 2008;5(1):21–53. Available
from Blackwell Synergy.
Posted April 3, 2008
March 2008
Working Paper
Dr. Bill Cartwright completed in February a new working paper, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Drug Treatment, which will be published in 2009.
Book Review
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler's book, The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape was reviewed in the March 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The reviewer said that "No other work has so centrally confronted the issues of ethics in the field of bioethics" and that it "should be at the top of the reading list for everyone currently training in bioethics, involved with clinical and/or research ethics consultation, pursusing an academic career in bioethics, or running institutions employing bioethicists..."
New Publication
An article by Dr. Jack Hadley was published in March 2008 Milbank Quarterly on the relationship between changes in physicians' incomes and practice settings and their care to Medicaid and charity patients. Read the article's abstract.
Upcoming Presentations
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler will present a paper "An Ecological Approach to
Understanding Global Health Inequalities" at the meeting of the
Joint Meeting of the International Sociological Association Research Committee
on the Sociology of Health and the Canadian Medical Sociology Association in
Montreal, Canada, May 13-16.
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler will also present two papers at the upcoming meeting of the International Network of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics in Rijeka, Croatia, Sept 3-8, 2008. The first paper is "The FAB Voice in Research Ethics: Comments on the Declaration of Helsinki" (plenary session) and the second is "Care for the Caregivers?: Transnational Justice and Undocumented Non-Citizen Care Workers".
Policy Paper
Dr. Mark Meiners published a new policy paper in March 2008 through the Center for Health Care Strategies on long-term care financing as part of the Long-Term Care Insurance partnership Program. Read the policy paper.
Faculty Service
The World Medical Association (WMA) is working to revise the Declaration of Helsinki. The International Network for Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) has been invited to propose changes to the Declaration, the most widely respected code of international research ethics. Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler is currently serving as chair of the FAB committee responsible for suggesting revisions to the WMA.
Author Meets Critics
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler was invited to the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics for an author meets critics session to discuss her new book The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral Landscape published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Recent Talk
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler recently presented at the most recent meeting of the research group Health in an Unequal World, a research project of Global Health Equity. Dr. Eckenwiler spoke on "Caregiving in the Context of Globalization: Toward Transnational Justice and the Elimination of Health Inequities.
Keynote Address
Dr. Lisa Eckenwiler presented the keynote address "Caring About Long Term Care: Ethical Principles for Caregiving," at the National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform in October 2007.