News Across the Professions
Accounting For The Cost Of U.S. Health Care [February 3, 2012]
Rank Of Top 100 Metro Areas On Racial And Ethnic Equity [February 2, 2012]
CDC Releases An IPAD “App” [February 1, 2012]
Accounting For The Cost Of U.S. Health Care
Spending on health care in the United States is facing unprecedented public scrutiny. The latest report from the McKinsey Center for U.S. Health System Reform sheds light on the underlying dynamics and trends shaping the health care industry in this period of rapid change and uncertainty.
The report can be accessed by clicking http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Americas/Accounting_for_the_cost_of_US_health_care.
Rank Of Top 100 Metro Areas On Racial And Ethnic Equity
The Urban Institute's MetroTrends research team has created an interactive report card on racial and ethnic equity in the nation's top 100 metropolitan areas. A brief accompanies the map.
The report card can be accessed by clicking http://datatools.metrotrends.org/charts/metrodata/rankMap_files/EquityMap_files/RankMapBlack.cfm.
CDC Releases An IPAD “App”
The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) iPad App makes available important information from the agency’s website tailored to meet the needs of iPad users who will be able to access tabs to obtain health articles, popular journals, fast-breaking health updates, blogs, and podcasts. Tabs also will allow them to access social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) that can help to engage more with CDC, provide additional health information, and link back to CDC's main website.
For additional information, click http://www.cdc.gov/mobile/Applications/CDCGeneral/promos/ipad_promo.html.