Improving Health for Pregnant Women Through Oral Health Care
Dr. Rebecca Filla describes Virginia’s new plan to expand dental benefits to low-income pregnant women, and she explains what health professionals in our region can do to help patients receive oral health care during pregnancy.
Social and Environmental Factors: The Missing Ingredients to Better Health
Education, not genes, determines whether African Americans develop hypertension, according to a study out this summer in the Journal of Public Health, the latest research to point out how important social factors are to health. When we think of keeping people healthy, we often think of access to health care…
Health Reform: Recommendations from the Commonwealth of Virginia
As the nation waits to hear the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), two reports from the Virginia Health Reform Initiative Advisory Council (VHRI) reveal reforms that would be implemented in Virginia should the Court decide to uphold the health care law. Governor Robert F. McDonnell…
Linking Behavioral Health and Health Reform
The Northern Virginia Health Foundation sponsored a workshop, The Intersection of Behavioral Health and Health Reform, facilitated by national expert Ron Manderscheid, Ph.D., from the National Association of County Behavioral Health and developmental Disability Directors. Dr. Manderscheid's presentation, and other material from the workshop, are available here: The Affordable…