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Organizational Health Care with N2Growth: When was your Last Check-up?

N2Growth Blog

IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) We’re providing some of our resources to help you and your health care provider (you do have one right?) WHERE CAN I GO FOR HEALTH SERVICES?

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The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

years in 2010, a disparity remains — largely from blacks’ higher death rates at younger ages from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, as well as higher risks for HIV infection, homicide, and infant mortality. Promote a diverse health care workforce. Deliver patient-centered care. years in 1970 to 3.8

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Hiring Uncertainties.

Strategy Driven

Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses. Deborah joined MyCorporation in 2003 after serving as outside general counsel for 5 years. Unfortunately, few expect a change in the 9.6

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Health Reform Lessons from Mexico

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Health systems are at a crossroads. Mexico had an early start in the current generation of health reform initiatives.

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The Social Disparity Behind America’s Growing Obesity Gap

Harvard Business Review

Between 2003 and 2010, obesity rates among teens whose parents have no more than a high-school education rose from about 20% to 25%. The answer is complicated, but a good starting point is to look at the role of schools, neighborhoods, and health care professionals. But our research shows that the gap is growing.

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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. The Future of Health Care.

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The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next

Harvard Business Review

After all, it grew from $7 billion in 2003 to $171 billion in 2013 by entering established (albeit still-emerging) markets with superior products — something the model suggests is a losing strategy. The delivery of primary health care in the United States is ripe for disruption. And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.