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Friday, May 5, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From
Health Affairs
Dear John,
This month, HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Dawn
O'Connell will join us for a Policy Spotlight on May 17 to discuss
disaster recovery and emergency preparedness. The event will be open to
all. Register today
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Maternal Age Affects Inequities
As of 2016, more women in the US are bearing children in their thirties
than their twenties.
Using vital statistics data from the period 1989-2019, Arline
Geronimus and colleagues simulated the effect that the distributional
shift to older maternal ages at first birth had on health inequity
between Black and White infants.
The authors find that the shift in the past two decades to later-age
childbearing
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increases the relative odds that White and Black women give birth to
very-low-birthweight infants by 10 percent and 19 percent, respectively,
net of socioeconomic factors.
The rise in maternal age distribution at first birth, they conclude,
"accounted for the growing Black-White inequity in infant mortality,
despite technological advances that lowered infant mortality rates
overall."
Geronimus and colleagues assert that new technologies have not been
applied equitably across racial and ethnic or socioeconomic groups. Read
more about their findings in the May issue of Health Affairs.
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Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Forefront, Rebecca Myerson and Laura Dague identify scalable
strategies to maintain health care coverage
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as Medicaid's continuous enrollment provision ends.
Sabrina Corlette argues that the data files for price transparency
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can be improved and better utilized to help constrain health care cost
growth and improve affordability for state residents.
This article is the latest in the Forefront series, Provider Prices in
the Commercial Sector
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produced with the support of Arnold Ventures
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Read more on Forefront
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and learn more about how you can contribute
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to the publication.
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Kaiser, Geisinger, and the Uncertain Future of Value-Based Care
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Michael Gerber discuss the
newly announced merger between Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger Health
System.
Listen Here
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Daily Digest
Trend Toward Older Maternal Age Contributed To Growing Racial Inequity
In Very-Low-Birthweight Infants In The US
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Arline T. Geronimus et al.
Identifying Scalable Strategies To Maintain Coverage As Medicaid
Continuous Enrollment Ends
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Myerson and Laura Dague
The Health Plan Price Transparency Data Files Are a Mess-States Can
Help Make Them Better
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Sabrina Corlette
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Health Affairs is launching a contest! The premise is simple. Finish the
statement "You're A Health Policy Wonk If..."
We'll share some of the submissions on Forefront in July, and the
first-place winner of the contest will receive a Health Affairs tumbler
and a free Unlimited membership
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for a year. Submit by May 31
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