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SUMMARY:HE@Cam: Michael Laxy - Implementing lifestyle intervention to prev
 ent diabetes in US Medicaid beneficiaries: cost-effectiveness\, budgetary 
 impact and health equity impact - Michael Laxy
DTSTART:20190520T140000Z
DTEND:20190520T150000Z
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DESCRIPTION:HE@Cam are happy to welcome you to a talk by Dr Michael Laxy\,
  the Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (Helmholtz Z
 entrum München).\n\nRandomized trials have shown that lifestyle intervent
 ions are effective in preventing type 2 diabetes and with the National Dia
 betes Prevention Program those lifestyle interventions have been implement
 ed on a large scale in the United States. By using a decision analytic mod
 el framework and best available data\, this seminar aims to analyze the ex
 pected long-term costs and health gains of paying for lifestyle interventi
 on programs in the Medicaid population. Results will be presented from bot
 h\, a health care system and a narrow Medicaid perspective.\n\n*Time:* 15:
 00-16:00\, Monday May 20th\, 2019\n*Venue:* Large seminar Room\, Institute
  of Public Health\, Cambridge\n\n*All welcome. Part of the HE@Cam seminars
  2018/19 series.*\n\n*For any questions\, please contact healtheconomics@m
 edschl.cam.ac.uk*\n\n*Michael Laxy:*\nDr Michael Laxy leads an interdiscip
 linary team focusing on economic evaluations of prevention and treatment s
 trategies for cardio-metabolic diseases\, and the analysis of health polic
 ies targeting patient health behavior and quality of care. He is a co-inve
 stigator on the population-based KORA research platform in Southern German
 y. From 2017-2018 Laxy was a Harkness/B. Braun Fellow in Health Care Polic
 y and Practice at the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention - Division
  of Diabetes Translation and the Emory University –Global Diabetes Resea
 rch Center where he analyzed the cost-effectiveness of lifestyle-based dia
 betes prevention strategies. 
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, Institute of Public Health\, Cambridge
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