The Health Section brings you a variety of insightful articles and podcasts that will help you gain practical knowledge and provide key information for your professional and personal development.
Health Watch
The Health Section newsletter, Health Watch*, explores the latest developments in the healthcare industry.
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- To contribute an article for Health Watch please contact Lydia Tolman or Rhea Forsythe.
Health Affairs
SOA Health section members get unrestricted access to numerous health, healthcare and policy articles with important information about the latest health issues and trends via a free Health Affairs online subscription. Contact Ladelia Berger at lberger@soa.org for access.
The Actuary
The Actuary Magazine publishes a variety of articles written by experts in their fields, including articles of general interest and health-related articles, such as:
- Actuaries and the Opioid Epidemic, a discussion of how actuarial expertise is informing clinical decision-making and health care modeling
- The Temptuous Crisis Situation, a recommendation to policymakers to let the ACA fully-develop before making substantial changes
- The Current State of U.S. Health Care, a look at 18% of our economy in 10 charts
- Sub-optimally Decompartmentalized, a look at the Global Health Crisis
- The Changing Face of Risk, a discussion of the need to update the HRBC risk formula to reflect the nature of today’s risk
- How to Explain Health Policy to Your Facebook Friends, the name says it all.
SOA Health and Research podcasts
SOA Podcasts offer unique content: interviews with keynote speakers and presenters from SOA events, group discussion panels, discussions about current research, and deeper looks into issues that affect the actuarial profession.
Health Section Podcasts:
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