Thursday, June 8, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Dear John,
With the Air Quality Index being on the minds of many on the East Coast this week, we want to surface a 2020 global health Forefront article from Juliette Simpson McHardy and colleagues. The authors argue that air pollution is a public health emergency.
Japan's Health Care Spending
In their newest Health Affairs Policy Insight, Naoki Ikegami and Thomas Rice analyze Japanese expenditure data as the percentage of its population ages sixty-five and older continues to rise.
They argue that despite Japan’s aging population and increased spending on a public long-term care insurance program, the
government’s fee schedule has effectively contained the country’s health care expenditures.
The fee schedule consists of revisions to pharmaceutical pricing and incentives to provide coordinated primary and long-term care.
"Although the US population has not aged nearly as much or as quickly as Japan’s, the US future does not look very different than Japan’s recent past," assert Ikegami and Rice.
They outline what the US can learn from Japan and discuss the policy implications of their findings.
During June, we're highlighting influential voices and organizations who have made an impact on LGBTQ+ health equity and policy.
In a May 2023 Forefront article, John Auerbach and Claude Earl Fox discuss the health of LGBTQ+ people and the need to expand data collection to capture differences among subpopulations, such as people of color or those with disabilities.
They also provide recommendations on how to advance LGBTQ+ health equity, which is applicable to work being done both inside and outside of the government.
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