102: Healthier Policies for Healthier People
56 min
The Invisible Role of Policy in Our Health
While not always obvious, the invisible hand of policy is ever-present, shaping our lives, and impacting our health. Much of a nation's most significant disparities and inequities are rooted in policy decisions that, intentionally or unintentionally, limit access to healthcare, education, transportation, nutrition, childcare and more.
Policy as a Lever for Health Equity
The good news: Policy is also one of the most impactful avenues for driving progress toward the health and wellbeing of every citizen.
Reimagining Health Care Through Policy Innovation
In this episode, we meet nurse Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, executive director of The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, a new institute working to redesign the US healthcare system with the goal of shifting policy and practice to more preventive, value-based and whole-person care. Based in Washington, D.C., right down the street from the U.S. Capitol, Guilamo-Ramos shares the Institute's mission of teaching, research, and convening, and its deep commitment to social welfare, social justice, and public health, as well as the essential role nurses play in shaping solutions, policy, and systems to improve health for every community and every citizen.
About See You Now Podcast
SEE YOU NOW is a podcast that shines a light on the real people changing the status quo in health: from nurses working in labor and delivery, with infectious diseases, and in hospice; to nurse allies in politics, business and tech. Created in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson and the American Nurses Association.
For more information on the podcast bundles, visit ANA's Innovation Website at https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/innovation/education.
Have questions or feedback for the SEE YOU NOW team? Future episode ideas? Contact us at hello@seeyounowpodcast.com.
Resources
- The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
- How does US life expectancy compare to other countries?
- Dying Early: American’s Life Expectancy Crisis
- Live free and die? The sad state of US life expectancy
- Falling behind: The growing gap in life expectancy between the US and other countries
- ANA Advocacy
- RN Action
- How does the US healthcare system compare to other counties?
- What a striking new study of death in American misses
- Health tracking poll February 2024: Voters on two key health care issues affordability and ACA
- The power of social justice in modern healthcare: conversations with Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
- Nurse-Designed Care Models and Culture of Health
- The Deloitte Health Institute
