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Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine and CHP/PCOR Core Faculty MemberView Jay Bhattacharya's bio, list of research, recent publications and events »
June 17th, 2010
Orphaned elderly serious casualty of African AIDS epidemic, Stanford study finds
CHP/PCOR Press ReleaseThe rise in AIDS death rates in sub-Saharan Africa has led to a burgeoning new category of neglected individuals — nearly a million orphaned elderly, or older adults living alone without the benefit of any caregivers, Stanford Health Policy researchers have found. 
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March 18th, 2010
Q&A: Stanford Health Policy's Jay Bhattacharya explains the health reform bill
CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsStanford Health Policy's Jay Bhattacharya spoke with the Stanford News Service about the nuts and bolts of the biggest change in America's provision of healthcare since Medicare was established in 1965. "The bill will increase the number of people with insurance. It will increase taxes. And it will cut Medicare," Bhattacharya says. "Those things for sure will happen. Whether you think it's worth it or not will depend on who you are. Some people will feel the increase in taxes, some people will feel the increase in coverage." 
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November 20th, 2009
Demography & Aging Center Receives Renewed NIA Funding to Support Series of Workshops on Demography Research
CHP/PCOR Press ReleaseStanford Health Policy has received five years of renewed support for its Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. The National Institute on Aging funding will help expand the center's initiative to inform the academic community about demography and economic research in the area of health and aging. Read more »
May 6th, 2009
Real time swine flu coverage: Stanford health experts regularly weigh in
CHP/PCOR NewsStanford Health Policy experts use this forum to weigh in on the swine flu-- the potential for disaster, the response thus far, what you should be on alert for-- drawing upon their multi-disciplinary backgrounds. Read more »
September 22nd, 2008
The Russian mortality crisis: A case of economic transition or an anti-alcohol campaign gone wrong?
FSI Stanford, CHP/PCOR NewsIn the mid-1980s, life expectancy in Russia suddenly improved and then took a drop downward for the worse in the 1990s, leading many to believe that economic transition "kills people." But researchers at the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR) are studying a little-examined phenomenon in that decade when Mikhail Gorbachev -- then the general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia -- launched a large public health campaign against alcohol abuse, which reduced alcohol production and imposed strict measures to limit its distribution. Read more »
