Findings from University of Oregon Has Provided New Data on Managed Care (Preventive Care: Improving Health of Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program Patients Through Access To Fresh Fruit and Vegetables): Managed Care

2023 JUN 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Eugene, Oregon, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “Diet is the number one risk factor for deaths in the United States. Members of marginalized and impoverished communities particularly struggle to afford nutritious food.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Oregon, “Poor diets result in health disparities along socio-economic, age, racial, ethnic, indigenous, rural, and urban lines. Despite the ever-growing social and financial burden of diet-related chronic diseases, the U.S. has failed to invest in health care-related dietary policy. This Article proposes produce prescriptions as a national dietary preventive medicine program through Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Recently, nonprofits, governments, and health care providers have designed innovative produce prescription programs to combat diet-related chronic diseases. In these programs, clinical providers can prescribe subsidized fruit and vegetables to patients. Produce prescriptions empower patients by making dietary change affordable and by motivating patients to improve their health. Numerous studies, pilot projects, and local programs demonstrate that produce prescriptions can improve health care outcomes for individuals from diverse communities. Most at-risk members of our society receive health coverage through Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This Article analyzes how to scale up produce prescriptions within these programs using law and policy.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Preventive Care: Improving Health of Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program Patients Through Access To Fresh Fruit and Vegetables. American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2022;48(4):343-379. American Journal of Law & Medicine can be contacted at: Cambridge Univ Press, 32 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Weston McClain, University of Oregon, School of Law, Eugene, OR 97403, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1017/amj.2023.2. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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