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Kaiser Media Fellowships Program/Columbia Journalism School: Global Health Dinner
This note summarizes a forum held by the Foundation on February 9, 2011 examining the state of global health journalism. The discussion included a group of senior editors and reporters, as well as other stakeholders in the world of media. The discussion centered on the challenges and opportunities faced by…
Report Read More Kaiser/Harvard Health News Index June 1997
The June 1997 edition of the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard Health News Index includes questions about major health issues covered in the news,including questions about Late-Term Abortions, Sexual Activity among Teens and the Tobacco Industry. The survey is based on a national random sample of 1,202 Americans conducted from April 28…
Poll Finding Read More Why Bolstering Trust in Journalism Could Help Strengthen Trust in Medicine
This perspective highlights the important relationship between medicine and trust in news media and articulates three ways that clinicians, health care organizations, and journalists might begin to rebuild the foundation of trust on which both medicine and journalism rely. Co-authored by KFF’s David Rousseau, Vineet M. Arora of University of Chicago Medicine, and Gary Schwitzer of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, it appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Webinar for Journalists: A Year-End Update on the ACA Rollout & Looking Ahead to 2014
Two and an half months into the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act, where does the rollout of the law stand with marketplace coverage set to begin on January 1, 2014? Featuring two Kaiser Family Foundation experts–Larry Levitt, Co-Director of the Foundation’s Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance & Senior Vice President, and Jennifer Tolbert, State Health Policy Director–the webinar touched on some of the major questions as people start using ACA coverage and the end of the open enrollment period on March 31. Most of the hour was devoted to a question and answer session with the participating audience.
Event Read More Webinar for Media: The President’s FY 2015 Budget Request and Global Health Programs
This Kaiser Family Foundation webinar for journalists examined President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget request, how it will impact existing U.S. global health programs and specific countries around the globe, and how it fits into the larger foreign policy efforts of the U.S. government.
Event Read More A Study of Media Coverage of Health Policy 1997-2000
The debate over President Clinton’s national health care reform plan put health care policy at the forefront of the national agenda in 1993 and 1994. After the end of that debate, it remained to be seen whether or not health policy would hold the media’s and the public s interest…
Poll Finding Read More The Kaiser/Harvard Health News Index September/October 1999
Health News Index September/October, 1999 The September/October 1999 edition of the Kaiser Family Foundation/Harvard Health News Index includes questions about major health stories covered in the news, including questions about the uninsured, Patients’ Rights and health care reform proposals by democratic presidential candidates. The survey is based on a national…
Poll Finding Read More Health News Index March/April, 2001
Health News Index March/April, 2001 The March/April, 2001 edition of the Kaiser Family Foundation/HarvardSchool of Public Health Health News Index includes questions about major health stories covered in the news, including questions about the financial future of Social Security and Medicare. The Health News Index is designed to help…
Poll Finding Read More The Future of Health Care Journalism
A new report examining the state of health care journalism and a survey of the members of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) were released at a Washington, D.C., discussion about the future of health care journalism. The survey and report detail how the financial pressures on the media…
Event Read More A Reporter’s Guide to Supreme Court Arguments on Health Reform
The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsored this reporters-only briefing to help journalists cover the Supreme Court arguments challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and their aftermath with greater depth and understanding. Panelists focus on tips, story ideas and angles that have perhaps…
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