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Morley Safer, the award-winning reporter for 60 Minutes on CBS, interviewed Dr. Jeremiah Barondess in a Sunday, May 12 segment about Doctors Against Handgun Injury (DAHI). Barondess, president of The New York Academy of Medicine and DAHI's founder, told Safer that he views handgun-associated death and injury as an epidemic that calls for a public health response. Thirty thousand people die each year in handgun-related incidents: if that many Americans died from West Nile virus or polio, the entire nation would be mobilized, according to Barondess. DAHI encourages physicians to talk to their patients about the risks of handgun ownership and to inform them of safety measures they can take to reduce health risks.
DAHI is an innovative way of thinking more broadly about health by bringing together a coalition of hundreds of thousands of doctors who believe that gun injury is a public health problem, and that if we treat it as such--rather than as a political or partisan issue--we can reduce the level of death and injury.
Click here to read about CBS' coverage on 60 Minutes. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/10/60minutes/main508683.shtml
Posted on May 14, 2002
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The 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture - The Affordable Care Act: An Insider’s View
Featured Speaker: Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
November 19, 2012 - The NYAM Section on Health Care Delivery welcomes Sherry Glied, PhD, former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who will deliver the 2012-2013 Duncan Clark Lecture on "The Affordable Care Act: An Insider's View."
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The New York Academy of Medicine with support from the New York State Heath Foundation released a new report, Federal Health Care Reform in New York State: A Population Health Perspective.
This report identifies opportunities that build on both the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (ACA) and New York’s ongoing efforts toward improving the health of its 19 million residents.
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