The first-ever recipient
of the James B. Hudak
Professorship
of
Health
Policy, Paula Lantz, gave
her
inaugural
lecture
to
about
150
students
and
faculty on Thursday night.
The event focused on the
history and current policies
surrounding
population
health disparities.
The Ford School of Public
Policy established the James
B. Hudak Professorship of
Health Policy in the spring
of 2019 to be awarded to
a faculty member at the
University
of
Michigan
who is engaging in research
focused on both investigating
and addressing of problems
within the United States
healthcare system.
In
her
introduction
of
Lantz, economics professor
Susan M. Collins said Lantz
is one of her close colleagues
and someone with significant
impact in the Public Policy
School.
“There
isn’t
much
happening
at
the
Ford
School that Paula hasn’t had
a positive influence on in a
variety of different ways,”
Collins said.
Collins said Lantz is very
knowledgeable in the field of
population health and was the
director for the University of
Michigan Policies for Action
Research Hub.
In an interview with The
Daily prior to the lecture,
Public
Policy
graduate
student Andrew Krantz said
he wanted to hear some of
Lantz’s knowledge about her
field, specifically that of the
history of health disparities.
“I’m interested in hearing
her explain some of the
history of the population
health disparities,” Krantz
said. “I’m not as familiar
with the literature on that,
and from what I understand,
she’s kind of an expert in that
area.”
In
her
lecture,
Lantz
described the current state of
population health in the U.S.,
pointing to certain statistics
such
as
life
expectancy,
which has declined in the
past few years. She also spoke
about the differences in life
expectancy
according
to
varying social determinants
of health, such as race and
socioeconomic status.
“Any health topic we
want to talk about — any
disease, any health issue
— is going to be patterned
by social class and by
race, ethnicity, gender,
place; it goes on and on,”
Lantz said.
Lantz
voiced
her
concerns about the new
definition and movement
of
Population
Health
Management.
Though
she
said
she
is
glad
there are conversations
about health disparities,
Lantz said she fears the
issues
are
becoming
“medicalized”
—
the
characterization
of
certain health outcomes
as
medical
conditions
to be treated when they
could simply be symptoms
of a health disparity.
The difference between
health policy and health
care policy was another
focus of Lantz’s lecture.
“We
have
a
hard
time thinking about health
without
thinking
about
health care,” Lantz said. “But
they’re not the same thing,
and health disparities are
not the same thing as health
care access, quality, outcome
disparities. Health equity is
not the same thing as health
care equity.”
Public
Health
junior
Catherine Marudo told The
Daily she was interested
to
learn
about
Lantz’s
distinctions between health
policy and health care policy,
especially as an aspiring
physician.
“I didn’t really realize
there was a distinction where
one was more downstream,
which was health care policy,
or one was more upstream,
which was health policy,”
Marudo said. “And I thought
that was really interesting
for somebody who is going
to go into that field to come
to that realization, because
I thought it was just all
upstream.”
In
an
interview
with
The Daily, Public Health
junior
Bianca
Ghita
said
she
believed
the
content
that Lantz was delivering
was important, but would
perhaps have more impact
on an audience less familiar
with the information.
“There are things in our
society that most people
expect to function flawlessly,
and these are things that,
when they do, kind of get off
track or there are issues with
it, it angers a lot of people,”
Ghita said. “I feel like her
talk is really informative,
and it was really great, but
it would be really great for
people that aren’t already
super excited about this type
of work.”
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