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The health care spending paradox Forum Yale Alumni Magazine

WebAmid all the debate concerning the morality, legality, and feasibility of health-care reform, the United States faces a central paradox in its health-care system: we spend more than any other industrialized country on health, yet we rank among the lowest in many dimensions of health. Our health-care spending is more than 17 percent of our gross

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“We wouldn’t have known if we hadn’t looked.” Features Yale …

WebTwo-thirds of the 5.7 million Americans with Alzheimer’s disease are women, as are 75 percent of people with autoimmune disorders.. Men are more likely than women to develop Parkinson’s disease, be compulsive gamblers, or make successful suicide attempts. Before puberty, boys and girls have roughly the same rate of depression; after puberty, women …

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Happiness is just a click away Findings Yale Alumni Magazine

WebIt’s an outgrowth of Santos’s undergraduate offering, Psychology and the Good Life, which debuted in the spring of 2018 and became the most popular course in Yale’s history. “The course,” says Belinda Platt, of Yale’s Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, “outlines how and why we get happiness wrong, along with what the science

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The clinic formerly known as DUH

WebThe clinic formerly known as DUH. As it moves into a new building this fall, the 33,000-member entity that provides health care to Yale students, faculty, and staff would also like you to get used to a new name: Yale HEALTH (block capitals included, please). Although it's officially been known as University Health Services since 1971, students

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It’s not just the germs Features Yale Alumni Magazine

WebWHO pushed governments in developing countries to swiftly expand AIDS treatment. Between 2000 and 2007, the number of people getting the new medications increased from several hundred thousand to 3 million worldwide. “That’s the global health equivalent of going from zero to 60 in 30 seconds,” says Gonsalves.

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A new doctor in the house Milestones Yale Alumni Magazine

WebAmber Shumake New Yale Health CEO Jason Fish has applied artificial intelligence and data analytics to patient care. View full image. If you or someone in your family studies or works at Yale, chances are you’re familiar with the black-clad modern building at 55 Lock Street and the services offered by Yale Health.

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What the surgeon general did Findings Yale Alumni Magazine

WebGregory Nemec View full image. Fifty years ago, when US Surgeon General Luther Terry released his groundbreaking report on the deadly consequences of tobacco use, he knew it was a bombshell.

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Action in the wake of tragedy

WebJennifer Stuber ’02PhD will never forget the call. In 2010 her husband, Matt Adler, had taken a leave from his job as an attorney in order to deal with depression and anxiety. Stuber knew he was having trouble, but she did not realize how desperate he was—until their nanny called and said, “I think Matt has bought a gun.”.

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Building a better student body Old Yale Yale Alumni Magazine

WebYale’s golden age of physical fitness began in 1892, when a grand neo-Roman style gymnasium replaced the 1859 building on Library Street that Yale men had judged to be the poorest gym in the East. At the same time, the university appointed William G. Anderson, “an experienced and able teacher from Brooklyn,” as the associate director of

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A doctor’s life, chronicled Milestones Yale Alumni Magazine

WebRichard Selzer’s prose brought medicine to life. Yale surgeon Richard Selzer, who died in June, wrote 13 books of fiction, essays, and memoir. View full image. In Richard Selzer’s short story “Brute,” a giant of a man with a face laceration thrashes and snarls on the stretcher. When the attending surgeon’s exhaustion and frustration

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The wit and wisdom of architects

WebPhoto Illustration: John Paul Chirdon. Send your quotation leads and questions to “You Can Quote Them,” Yale Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905, or [email protected]. View full image. About 40 years ago, Anonymous said: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”.

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Bookworms live longer Findings Yale Alumni Magazine

WebBookworms live longer. Book readers’ lives were two years longer than nonreaders’. reading habits. Although sedentary activities are not usually regarded as promoting health, a recent study by Yale researchers showed a significant link between book reading and longevity. (The work was published in the journal Social Science and Medicine .)

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A 29-year career making changes at Yale

WebIn announcing her leave-taking, the official news release required almost 3,000 words merely to hit the highlights of a Yale career that has run 29 years (so far: she will continue as a part-time special counselor to the president through 2016). “It is almost impossible to capture the breadth and depth of Linda’s contribution to the life of

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Trans pioneer and eye surgeon

WebThis interview has been condensed and edited. When Dr. Renée Richards ’55 attended an all-male Yale, she was captain of the Yale men’s tennis team. Her later attempt to quietly begin living life as a woman was derailed when the lethal lefty serve of the former Richard Raskind was recognized. She sued and—in a landmark 1977 decision by

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A scholar of humans—and nature

WebStephen Kellert ’71PhD, a longtime professor at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, died in November. View full image. Stephen Kellert ’71PhD, a professor emeritus at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies whose pioneering research illuminated the deeply rooted bonds between humanity and the natural world, died on November 27.

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Linda Schwartz ’84MSN, ’98DPH: a veterans' advocate who's been …

WebIn 1983, when Linda Spoonster Schwartz ’84MSN, ’98DPH, was a flight nurse in the Air Force reserves, she suffered a traumatic brain injury when the hatch blew off an airplane she was riding in during a training exercise. She was unable to work for months, and she was discharged from the service. It was a low point in her life, Schwartz told the …

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Robert B. Fetter Obituaries Yale Alumni Magazine

WebRobert B. Fetter passed away on July 15, 2018, at the age of 94. He taught at Yale for 31 years and was the Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Health Care Management. Fetter is widely recognized (with John Thompson of the Yale School of Public Health) for conceiving, developing, and implementing Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), for which …

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Artificial turf for the Bowl

WebThe Yale Bowl, preserved in nearly its original form for 101 years, is a kind of shrine to old-school football. But the pressures of modern college athletics affect even Yale. Case in point: the news, first reported in the Hartford Courant in August, that the university plans to replace the Bowl’s natural grass field with artificial turf.

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Edward R. DeLouise ’57MPH Obituaries Yale Alumni Magazine

WebEdward R. DeLouise passed away on August 21, 2018. After attending the Yale School of Public Health, DeLouis served as the Director of Division of Neighborhood Improvement and Housing Code Enforcement and finally the Director of the Health Department in New Haven.

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