Analyzing Alternative Behavioral Crisis Response Models in the U.S.

In the U.S., communities often rely on the criminal justice system to respond to, house, and treat individuals with mental health and substance use problems.

Development of a Health Policy Elective for Medical Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Study.

Introduction: In Central Brooklyn, Downstate Health Sciences University (DHSU) serves a diverse population that has experienced worsening rates of chronic disease and elevated rates of morbidity and mortality related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The medical community has shown an interest in addressing clinical and nonclinical disparities impacting patients' health and safety. As such, health policy knowledge is of special importance during a time of social and political unrest.

From Dispensaries to Community Health Centers: Health Delivery Change Across the Twentieth Century.

This piece examines the historical forces and forebears that preceded, and helped shape, community health centers. Though the current iteration of community health centers date from the 1960s, their (deeper) roots go back to the earliest years of the twentieth century. They began life as largely urban phenomena, and rode the wave of the larger program of Progressive-era political and socioeconomic reforms.

The political abuse of international health system comparisons.

Though the science of medicine subscribes to learning from best practices and the transmission of superior treatment regimens across national boundaries, the same ethos does not inform political debates surrounding health system reform. The Canadian and English health systems have been used - and, more frequently - abused by American politicians in their quest to support their own model of reform, or preserve the status quo.