AJN News: Whole Grains, Antidepressant Use, Global Stroke Burden, More

AJN’s monthly news section covers timely and important research and policy stories that are relevant to the nursing world. Here are some of the stories you’ll find in our current issue (news articles in AJN are free access):

The more whole grains, the better, but even moderate increases help. Photo © Thinkstock.

Eating Whole Grains Can Reduce Disease, Mortality Risks

In a new study, researchers who sought to quantify the relationship between whole grain intake and the risks of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and premature mortality found that increasing the daily intake of whole grains by 90 grams (equal to three servings) was associated with reduced risk for all of those conditions.

Are Nurses Being Nudged Out of Policymaking?

Setbacks in the representation of nurses in policy roles are raising concerns—particularly in the United Kingdom, where the Department of Health’s nursing, midwifery, and allied health professions policy unit is being eliminated, and within the World Health Organization, which has seen a drop in the percentage of nurses on staff in professional or higher categories.

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2016-11-21T13:00:58-05:00September 2nd, 2016|Nursing|0 Comments
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Recalling the Why of Health Care Reform

By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor ACA ruling imageIn a brief analysis of the gradual rollout and effects so far of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the start of this year (“The ACA Continues to Run the Gauntlet”), I reviewed a few of the issues the law was intended to address when it was passed in 2010:

* the highest per capita expenditures of any health care system in the world

* consistently worse outcomes on measures such as infant mortality rate than most other developed nations

* increasing numbers of uninsured Americans each year, to over 50 million in 2009, the year before passage of the ACA

* unsustainable annual increases in health insurance premiums and drugs costs, leading to astonishing rates of medical bankruptcy

* a Medicare reimbursement process that rewarded the volume of care provided rather than the effectiveness of that care

These worsening issues had become impossible to ignore. No one believes the ACA is a perfect law; there were too many cooks in the kitchen for that. But it’s at least a good faith attempt to address real problems, to get a framework on the table that can potentially be improved upon. […]

2016-11-21T13:02:55-05:00March 4th, 2015|health care policy, Nursing, Patients|0 Comments
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