3332.0 Balancing Equity, Effectiveness and Efficiency in Health System Reform

Monday, October 31, 2011: 2:30 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: • Describe community and business collaborations on workplace wellness initiatives • Compare Medicaid and private insurance reimbursement for evidence-based health care and cost effective health care delivery • Discuss strategies to maximize health insurance enrollment for eligible individuals and to promote access to health care for those who remain uninsured
Moderator:
Koki Agarwal, MD, DrPH

2:30 PM
A Healthy Community coalition creates a wellness pool for very small businesses as an add-on to coverage through exchanges
Kala E. Ladenheim, PhD, MSPH, Andrew Spaulding and William Primmerman
     
2:50 PM
For the public's health: Two Institute of Medicine reports on the role of measurement and the law as drivers of population health improvement
Alina Baciu, PhD, MPH, Marthe Gold, MD, MPH, Steven M. Teutsch, MD, MPH and Amy Geller, MPH
     
3:10 PM
Achieving equity in health reform: Reimbursing for evidence based best practices
Laurie Stillman, MM, Xin Lu, Master of Science and Kathleen McCabe, MPA
     
        
3:30 PM
Implementing health reform: Maximizing health care equity for Latino families
Kara Ryan, MPP and Jennifer Ng'andu
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Community Health Planning and Policy Development
Endorsed by: Aging & Public Health, Women's Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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