Journal Club Lightning Round: evidence based policy and vaccine rates, municipal non-health spending and health rankings, and is less really more?

Summary: For this week’s journal club, David, Thomas, and Audrey bring listeners short overviews of three articles. Audrey discusses an article published in the journal Pediatrics Dec 18 2017, called <a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2017/12/15/peds.2017-2364" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exemptions from Mandatory Immunization After Legally Mandated Parental Counseling</a> by Saad Omer, Kristen Allen, DH Chang, Beryl Guterman, Robert Bednarczyk, Alex Jordan, Alison Buttenheim, Malia Jones, Claire Hannan, Patricia deHart, and Daniel Salmon. David chats about the Dec 14, 2017 commentary published in New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum entitled <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1713248#t=article" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Less is More Crusade – Are we Overmedicalizing or Oversimplifying.</a> And Thomas shares a Health Affairs article, <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0708" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Government spending health and nonhealth sectors associated with improvement in county health rankings</a>, published in their November 2016 issue.<br> If you enjoy the show, please give us 5 stars wherever you listen. Tweet us your thoughts <a href="https://twitter.com/RoSpodcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@RoSpodcast</a> and leave us a message on our facebook page at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems</a>. Or, you can email me at <a href="mailto:audrey@rospod.org">audrey@rospod.org</a>. We’d love to hear from you, and thanks for listening.<br>