Category: health policies

 May be eligible for MPH Internship requirement for spring placement.  Contact Nina Cleveland if you are interested– ninc64@uga.edu read more

Age has little to do with how patients should be treated after suffering a stroke, according to new research from the University of Georgia. Historically, younger stroke victims receive different after-stroke intervention strategies than those over a certain age. However, Neale Chumbler, a UGA professor and head of the department of health policy and management in the College of Public Health, found patients responded equally to care efforts.  read more

A suburban Atlanta pilot program might help light the way in reducing Medicare beneficiaries’ hospital stays, a major contributor to high costs and patient misery across the nation’s health care system. read more

  The 5th Annual UGA Health Care Symposium   January 25, 2013   read more

Direct-to-consumer advertising, like those prescription drug commercials that air between your favorite shows, are actually paying off with better health outcomes for patients, according to a recently published study by Jayani Jayawardhana, an assistant professor in the College of Public Health. read more

  More people are better off thanks to the impact of an influx of direct-to-consumer advertising spending than they would be without those marketing efforts, according to a study recently published by Jayani Jayawardhana, an assistant professor in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. read more

Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine will provide students with an introduction to several methods for conducting economic evaluation of public health programs: programmatic cost analysis, cost of illness analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and cost-utility analysis. Each method is discussed in turn, with a special emphasis on how outcomes are defined, practical application of the methods, policy implications, and the uses and misuses of the methods in the public health arena.    Continuing Education Students: read more

  The College of Public Health at the University of Georgia invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track Assistant Professor Faculty position in the Department of Health Policy and Management. The successful candidate will assume a key role in developing new undergraduate courses in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Additional responsibilities include being the Director of the College of Public Health’s Undergraduate Minor in Public Health. read more

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Joel M. Lee, a professor of health policy and management and director of the doctor of public health degree program in the University of Georgia College of Public Health, has been named the inaugural John A. Drew Professor of Healthcare Administration. “Dr. Lee has a distinguished career in health care administration,” said Phillip L. Williams, dean of the College of Public Health. “This professorship recognizes his contribution to the field and his work to train the future generation of health care administrators.” read more

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