Healthy Intersections

Happy fall! This month's Healthy Intersections Podcast focuses on food and agriculture -- a timely topic during the fall harvest months. Healthy food is necessary for overall wellbeing. Yet, climate change is forcing us to confront several realities:

Our special guests this month are Robert Beach, PhD, a Fellow in the Agricultural, Resource & Energy Economics and Policy Program at RTI International, and Carol Schmitt, PhD, Chief Scientist at RTI. You can check out the video at our blog.

This month, we talk with Dr. Amanda Onwuka, a social epidemiologist and health services researcher at RTI International, as well as Jeremy Ney, author of American Inequality. We discuss the epidemic of drug overdose deaths in the US, mental health, and opioid prescribing rates, along with multi-level interventions aimed at preventing addiction and overdoses in the first place. 

Our July 2023 Healthy Intersections Podcast features the brand-new RTIRarity.io dashboard and focuses on Florida, with Lauren Pierce. Visit TheMedicalCareBlog.com for the video and transcript! And don't forget to subscribe!

Welcome to the June 2023 episode of the Healthy Intersections podcast!

This month, we sit down again with Carol Schmitt, Chief Scientist at RTI International, along with Juliet Sheridan, to talk about another of the RTI Rarity interactive state maps. This time, we are looking at North Carolina. We talk about historical redlining, climate change, and mental health -- and how these all intersect.

You can watch the episode and read the transcript at The Medical Care Blog. And don't forget to subscribe. Thanks for listening/watching, and please be sure to share with your colleagues who may be interested!

 This month, we sit down again with Carol Schmitt, Chief Scientist at RTI International, to talk about another of the RTI Rarity interactive state maps. This time, we are looking at Oklahoma. You can watch the episode, download the audio file, and read the transcript on our blog here. And don't forget, you can subscribe to the audio version here, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening/watching, and please be sure to share with your colleagues who may be interested! 

 This month's HIP features Part 1 of a conversation between Lisa Lines (in her professional role as Senior Health Services Researcher, RTI International, and Director of the RTI Rarity™ project) and her colleague, Dr. Carol Schmitt (Chief Scientist, RTI International). We discuss the interactive map produced by RTI International for Illinois, which is publicly viewable.  Zooming in on several areas, we discuss the local social inequity in life expectancy (LSI-LE) scores and some of the underlying social and behavioral determinants of those scores, including:

For the video, please visit The Medical Care Blog!

This month we recap the blog posts and interview  Dr. Daniel Harris, whose recent paper discusses the use of antipsychotics in nursing homes. 

This month's podcast features a round-up of this month's blog posts and a summary of three articles recently published in the journal Medical Care. Head to TheMedicalCareBlog.com for transcripts and links!

This month's podcast features a round-up of this month's blog posts and an interview with Sungchul Park of Drexel University about his recent Medical Care publication on disparities in ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations. Head to TheMedicalCareBlog.com for transcripts and links!

 In this month's podcast, co-editor Jess Williams recaps blog posts from November and talks about some December journal articles.