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Philadelphia, Pa. More than one out of every 10 seniors (10.5%) enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, also known as a Medicare managed care option, and living in a rural area, switched to traditional Medicare during 2010-2016. The switch was driven primarily due to low satisfaction with care access, according to a study published this week in
Health Affairs from researchers at Drexel University s Dornsife School of Public Health. By contrast, only 1.7% of rural traditional Medicare enrollees made the switch to Medicare Advantage during this period.
The findings, among the first to look at rates of switching between the two options among rural versus nonrural enrollees, found a similar, yet more muted, effect among nonrural enrollees, with 2.2% of traditional Medicare enrollees and 5% of Medicare Advantage enrollees making the switch.
President Biden s childhood poverty efforts far reaching, temporary
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President Biden’s economic relief package could cut childhood poverty in half but it’s only temporary Alfred Lubrano, The Philadelphia Inquirer © MONICA HERNDON/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Shelby Lindsay packs smile fries at Cherry Hill High School East in Cherry Hill earlier this month for families who attend a weekly food distribution to receive seven breakfasts and seven lunches per child. The president s child-poverty initiatives include money for families to cover what would have been free school meals.
President Joe Biden has announced a lofty goal in the opening days of his administration: Cut the rate of childhood poverty in half.
Jessie Kemmick Pintor, PhD, assistant professors in the Dornsife School of Public Health, and colleagues detail the effects of structural racism on the health of immigrants in the U.S. The authors provide evidence that chronic exposure to racism leads to worsening health over time among immigrants, particularly among those who are Black or Latinx. The authors look at allostatic load – a comprehensive measure of the body’s response to stressors during a lifespan – in both immigrants and non-immigrants across racial/ethnic groups to put a spotlight on health disparities among groups.
The authors studied the 2005-2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination survey and found that allostatic load increases with age among all groups, but at much steeper rates among Black immigrants of both genders and Latina immigrants. They argue that these findings should inform new laws to close these gaps and address structural inequities, such as access to safe housing, education, health ca
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The practice of wearing a mask to protect yourself and others is important even after you receive a coronavirus vaccine.
Seeing people wearing masks in everyday life is now the norm throughout much of the country something that was uncommon in the United States until the coronavirus pandemic began in March.
Over the course of 2020, we’ve learned that wearing a mask protects yourself and others from the coronavirus, underscoring the importance of wearing a mask while in public or close settings.
Mask-wearing, hand-washing and social distancing remain key to curbing the spread of the virus, but much has changed in the world of COVID-19 prevention. Notably, there is now at least one approved vaccine in several countries, including the U.S., the United Kingdom and Canada. But while a vaccine is a profound scientific development that provides much-needed safety, it is not an immediate cure-all.
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