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Source: US Cities with high suicide rates

Pay-for-performance or value-based pricing would change that. It would tie payments for prescription drugs to their effectiveness, whether they did what they were designed to do. How well do medica…

Source: Pay medicines based on its effectiveness

Pay-for-performance or value-based pricing would change that. It would tie payments for prescription drugs to their effectiveness, whether they did what they were designed to do.

How well do medications for high blood pressure or cholesterol, for example, keep patients in healthy ranges for each? How well do medications control symptoms of autoimmune diseases? How much do cancer drugs extend life? And how much do the drugs save the health care system by enabling patients to avoid medical treatments they no longer need?

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which represents biopharmaceutical research companies, did not respond to requests for comments about value-based pricing of prescription drugs.

The concept is being tried in other parts of health care. Under the Affordable Care Act, for example, hospitals face financial penalties if too many previously hospitalized patients are readmitted, a provision intended to encourage hospitals to provide better follow-up medical care.

http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/sl-drug-prices-performance-pay.html

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Source: Poorest cities in the USA

http://www.governing.com/topics/finance/gov-census-demographics-cities-fiscal.html#data

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Source: California, Ohio and Rhode Island Children’s Health Data

The leading cause of death for African-American men age 10-24 is homicide. In fact, black males experience homicides at more than four times the rate of all other men in the United States. Since 19…

Source: Cities should invest in black men

The leading cause of death for African-American men age 10-24 is homicide. In fact, black males experience homicides at more than four times the rate of all other men in the United States.

Since 1980, more than 650,000 people have been murdered in the United States. That’s more lost to homicide than Americans killed during all the wars of the last 100 years combined. In New Orleans, like in other cities throughout our country, African-American men continue to suffer disproportionately: About 6,000 black males have been killed in New Orleans since 1980 — more than 90 percent of the city’s murder victims over that period.

Statistics like those are unacceptable. African-American men are assets to our families, communities and cities. That’s why we must address an urgent issue for the prosperity of cities and our nation: stemming the tide of violence against and among African-American men. And for our cities to prosper, we have to do all we can to create opportunities for our boys and young men to live their lives to the fullest potential.

Five years ago, a group of mayors partnered with philanthropic and community leaders to form a network of local communities focused on eliminating violence in American cities related to African-American men. Today, nearly 80 mayors across the country are part of Cities United, working together as a national movement to uplift black men while confronting the urgent crisis they face.

Social work’s diversity problem may be even worse than law enforcement’s. While minorities make up more than 27 percent of police departments nationwide, men make up barely 16 percent of the ranks of social workers, according to federal data. And a look at social-work education suggests that the trend continues in the wrong direction: According to the Council on Social Work Education, just 13.3 percent of the recipients of master’s degrees in social work in 2015 identified as male. In 1964, the figure was 42.1 percent.

So, ironically, a field that loudly proclaims its commitment to diversity and inclusiveness lags far behind one that is often thought to be insular, secretive, conservative and hidebound. Law enforcement is taking concrete, meaningful action to address its diversity problem. Social work is doing nothing of the sort.

The result is that the field of social work does a poor job of dealing with family issues in ways that take into account the needs of both men and women — and the children they parent. As a 2015 study of social-work practices in Connecticut reported, some fathers complained that “being male put them at a disadvantage and that case workers often took the side of the mother before initial contact with the father was made.” Nearly two decades ago, Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson wrote that “the far greater crime rate among Afro-American men must in great part be explained by their unmarried and largely unpartnered existence.” In 2013, British researchers found that while “friends are equally important to men and women … family matters more for men’s well-being.”

http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-social-work-gender-diversity-problem.html

Low-level, non-violent offenders, who constitute the vast majority of those with mental illness in our justice system, incarceration is expensive and inappropriate. Many are jailed for offenses suc…

Source: Low-level offenders with mental illness should not be jailed

Low-level, non-violent offenders, who constitute the vast majority of those with mental illness in our justice system, incarceration is expensive and inappropriate. Many are jailed for offenses such as trespassing, disorderly conduct, loitering or disturbing the peace — offenses often precipitated by their underlying illness.

Yet research shows that with treatment, most low-level offenders with mental illness can return to productive lives and remain crime-free. Diversion into treatment can address the underlying conditions that may have led to their inappropriate and criminal behavior.

http://www.governing.com/blogs/bfc/col-savings-diverting-mentally-ill-jail.html

Foodborne illness is prevented by inspection and surveillance conducted by health departments across America. Appropriate restaurant behavior is enforced and monitored via public health inspections…

Source: Foodborne illness reduced from health inspection report and Yelp reviews