250750 Building on Affordable Care Act

Friday, June 24, 2011 : 8:30 AM

John Edward McDonough, DrPH, MPA , School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA
     
The ACA includes some of the most ambitious approaches ever taken in a federal law to improve population health. This talk will provide an overview of these approaches and discuss important paths not taken which may be considered in the future.

Learning Areas:
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe ways the Affordable Care Act can improve population health 2. Identify other approaches that may also achieve improved population health

Keywords: Population, Health Care Reform

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I worked on the staff of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions during the health reform process; currently, I am a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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