Today of our three-day #BackToSchool Essentials series, we are featuring a variety of Health Affairs content covering topics important for future health policy experts.
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📚 In a February 2021 article, published as part of the @theNAMedicine’s Vital Directions for Health & Health Care project, William Shrank + coauthors discuss health costs & financing priorities to advance health care access, affordability, & equity. bit.ly/3jwOQD2
📰@RheaBoydMD + coauthors published a blog in July 2020, titled “On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities” outlining how scholars & journals routinely fail to interrogate racism as a critical driver of racial health inequities. bit.ly/3jwgos3
🎧 Value-Based Care: On A Health Podyssey podcast in January 2021, Sherry Glied discussed national health care spending in 2019 and whether value-based care will be transformational. bit.ly/38pv31Y
📑 Housing & Health: A bundle of Health Policy Briefs published in June 2018 focused on the connection between housing and health. In one, Lauren Taylor outlines the literature and provides high-level direction for future research and policy agendas. bit.ly/3gLVVO0
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Today is the final day of Health Affairs’ #BackToSchool Essentials series, in which we share content about health policy topics essential for future policymakers and health care leaders. Don’t miss these must-reads for all health policy students. (Thread)
📚 In the December 2020 theme issue, Climate & Health, Renee Salas and coauthors outlined how policy makers can integrate a climate lens as they develop interventions to protect vulnerabilities in the health system from the effects of climate change. bit.ly/3gTztm6
📰 Consumer Shopping: In a July 2017 blog, Rachel Dolan broke down what Health Affairs research tells us about consumer shopping for health care services. bit.ly/3mQC6co
Our recommended #BackToSchool essentials come from Katie Keith, an adjunct professor at the @oneillinstitute and contributing editor at Health Affairs focused on the Affordable Care Act (#ACA) and health reform. (Thread)
“If you’re a regular reader of Health Affairs Blog, you know I read. A lot—on all things ACA. On the occasion that my professional reading isn’t crowding out my personal reading, here are a few of my recent favorite reads or podcast episodes:
1⃣ The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage by Jonathan Cohn. bit.ly/3DvSwN3
To celebrate #NewYearsEve, we present the past year’s top 10 Health Affairs Blog posts. To see the #healthpolicy analysis and commentary that captured the most attention in #2020, please view the full post, and have a #HappyNewYear: bit.ly/3aWhEkm 1/11
Health Affairs has extensively covered the #COVID19#pandemic this year. As #2020 draws to a close, we consider 10 of the lessons that have emerged from that coverage: bit.ly/3hqoDmK 1/11
1) Mandating #facemasks in public is associated with a decline in the daily #COVID19 growth rate: bit.ly/3aPrHYs (Wei Lyu and George Wehby of @uiowa) 2/11
BREAKING: Promoting Effectiveness And Equity As COVID-19 Vaccines And Treatment Emerge.
Today, we focus on #COVID19#vaccines & treatment. Amidst recent news of successful vaccine trials & new treatments, we highlight key policy + regulatory issues: bit.ly/2UJBxlg (1/9)
This set of fast-track ahead-of-print journal articles kicks off with @AKesselheim of @BrighamWomens et al's paper, which explores #vaccine development, approval, and regulation as well as tradeoffs in balancing safety, efficacy, and speed: bit.ly/3pJySGM (2/9)