"Protecting Vulnerable Children: Analytic Guidance to Health Policy for Children with Serious Chronic Illness," presented by Dr. Lee Sanders for the Morrison Institute Winter Colloquium.

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In addition to expanding health insurance coverage for millions, the Affordable Care Act has created new financial pressures at the federal and state level to improve healthcare outcomes, while reducing costs.  Most of the current health-system solutions envision adult-centered managed care systems, which may unintentionally widen health disparities for a particularly vulnerable population:  poor children with serious chronic illnesses.   Dr. Sanders's Stanford analytic team -- comprised of cross-disciplinary expertise in pediatric primary and subspecialty care, as well as epidemiology, health services research, biostatistics, and health economics -- has conducted detailed analyses of an unprecedented population-wide data to identify the children at greatest risk of this harm, and to provide evidence-based guidance to public policy reform. They have been focused on identifying areas likely to provide the greatest potential opportunities for cost reduction, improved quality and improved service delivery.  Dr. Sanders will contextualize key findings from this analysis, including new data on regional variation, and its import for reducing ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities.  (This work is funded by the California Health Care Foundation.)

Lee Sanders received a BA in History and Science from Harvard University, an MD from Stanford University, and a MPH from the University of California, Berkeley. 

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Free and open to the public.