By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research It’s a rainy day on the East Coast; what better way to get through the damp than four new legal epidemiology articles? Our colleagues have published papers examining vaccine policies, telehealth reimbursement policies, scope of practice laws for health care providers, and the field of legal…
By John Tingle and Jen Minford All too often it seems that patient safety and health quality policy makers work in their own silos unaware of what is taking place in other countries, wasting valuable resources by trying to re-invent the wheel. There is a clear need to have a way of cascading the news…
By John Tingle The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) have recently published a report on the economics of patient safety.The report is in two main sections, section 1, the cost of failure and section 2, reducing harm effectively and efficiently. Section 1 focuses on a review of the literature in the area. The reports…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Lots of news from the past week in housing equity and law. Check out the latest in the field from the week of April 10-17, 2017: In his first television interview as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson talked about the rich’s obligation to…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research The HUD budget was the big story the last week of March in housing law and equity. Here’s the week in review for March 27-April 2: The largest story in housing is still the looming HUD budget cuts. The New York Times ran a story of…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Here’s the latest news in housing equity and law, from March 13-20, 2017: Inspired by Matthew Desmond’s award winning book, “Evicted,” the Reinvestment Fund published research mapping eviction rates in Philadelphia. Now, the pressure on the city to act on eviction is piling up. Deborah Ross,…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research CPHLR is joining forces with the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) for a free, two-part webinar series on public health law research and policy data evaluation. Public Health Law Research Part I: Creating and Using Open-Source Policy Data for Public Health Evaluation…
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research It was a national and international first week of March in housing equity and law. Here are some of the big stories from the field March 6-12, 2017: On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to cut domestic spending. Now the administration is considering a $6…
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By John Tingle In the introduction to a new report on the state of acute hospitals in the NHS in England, the Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) controversially states: “The NHS stands on a burning platform — the model of acute care that worked well when…
