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Dear John,

Today, we released our October issue focused on Tackling Structural
Racism in Health.

We would like to thank the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the
California Wellness Foundation, and the Episcopal Health Foundation for
their financial support of this issue.

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The October issue of Health Affairs, building on the February 2022 issue

that explored racism and health, focuses specifically on structural
racism.

Articles published in this issue describe different types of structural
racism and explore efforts to address its harms.

Politics and Policy

"Housing is a key determinant of health and health equity,
"
says Jamila Michener, who examines tenant organizing as a source of
political power to address poor housing.

Based on interviews with tenants from racially and economically
marginalized communities, she identifies direct action and local policy
change as "ways organizing can contribute to creating healthier, more
racially equitable communities."

Jaquelyn Jahn and coauthors use latent class analysis to divide states
into groups based on thirteen structural racism-related legal domains,
such as fair housing and racial profiling
.

They find that "age-adjusted premature mortality rates overall were
highest in [the twenty-nine] states with predominantly harmful laws."

Jason Semprini and coauthors categorize census tracts by the degree of
redlining that occurred in them. Tracts with the highest rates of
historical redlining had the highest proportion of the population
without health insurance

as of 2014.

The Affordable Care Act helped close the gap, as the authors found that
"Medicaid expansion had its greatest impact on uninsurance rates in the
highest redline category."

Simon Haeder and Donald Moynihan use national survey data to explore
public beliefs about the acceptability of administrative burdens imposed
by states that impede enrollment

in Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

They find "varying levels of support for state actions that would either
create or mitigate burdens" and note that racial resentment is one of
the major predictors of favoring administrative burdens.

Leighton Ku

and Carolyn Barnes

offer perspectives on the article.

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Using Data

Michael P. Cary Jr. and coauthors conduct a scoping review of literature
related to mitigating racial and ethnic bias in clinical algorithms
.

They find that studies "tended to be either highly specific technical
guidance or high-level, nontechnical surveys of strategies," with
limited evidence of the multidisciplinary approaches needed to overcome
algorithmic bias.

In a Commentary regarding clinical algorithms, Tina Hernandez-Boussard
and coauthors call for "striking the right balance between the
race-neutral approach, which avoids using race as a risk factor in
clinical decision making, and the race-aware approach, which
incorporates data on disparities in an effort to advance health equity
."

Noting the need to address inequities across multiple dimensions (such
as race and rurality), Denis Agniel and coauthors describe how assigning
quantitative goals for each dimension of equity, or "equity weighting
,"
can yield more optimal results than traditional quality improvement
incentives.

Zachary Dyer and coauthors identify forty-two variables available at the
census tract level that they combine into a Structural Racism Effect
Index
.

Deciles of the index are monotonically related to life expectancy,
diabetes prevalence, and the percentage of residents identifying as
people of color.

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Responses to Racism

Community health workers (CHWs) are front-line public health workers who
are also members of the marginalized communities they serve.

Drawing on a series of interviews, Chidinma Ibe and coauthors conclude:
"Efforts to embed CHW-delivered resources within health care delivery
and public health organizations must be accompanied by CHW-centered
policies and practices

anchored in the centrality of these workers' unique intersectional
backgrounds."

Shekinah Fashaw-Walters and Cydney McGuire propose a "racism-conscious
"
approach to policy making.

In contrast to race-neutral or race-based policies, their approach
involves examining current inequities and identifying prevalent health
issues experienced by minoritized groups, identifying inequity-related
policies, dissecting policy mechanisms and consequences, elucidating the
impact of racism, and creating new policies that consider implementation
strategies.

Based on discussions with members of Indigenous communities, Arielle
Deutsch and coauthors find that "funding policies for the grants that
[Indigenous-led community-based organizations] attain are incompatible
with their needs to thrive," leaving these organizations with inadequate
infrastructure

to compete with larger, White-led ones.

Joel Weissman and coauthors survey hospital health equity officers and
find that most of them "recognized both systemic and institutional
racism
as
obstacles to their work."

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You are invited to join us on Tuesday, October 3, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. (Eastern) for a virtual forum

at which panels of distinguished authors and experts will present their
work and engage in discussions on topics including "Politics and the
Legacy of Racism," "Use Of Race And Ethnicity Data," "Documenting
Racism," and "Responses to Racism."

The event will help kickstart an exciting month celebrating the October
2023 issue of Health Affairs, "Tackling Structural Racism in Health."

Register for this free event and see the speaker lineup below!

Register

 

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The October 2023 issue of Health Affairs covers the theme of Tackling
Structural Racism In Health.

In conjunction with the issue's release, we will be premiering a short
film entitled "Tackling Structural Racism in Health: A Conversation
."

We convened a panel of experts, including Dr. Michael Cary, Dr. Chanelle
Diaz, and Dr. Siobhan Wescott, to discuss ideas from the October 2023
journal issue on systemic racism and health care.

Topics include immigration, AI, and the interplay between policy and
lived experience in health.

Read the issue and watch the short film to learn about how structural
racism manifests in health and health care.

Watch the Short Film

 

Navigating The Crossroads Of Opportunity And Challenge In On-Demand
Nursing

Y. Tony Yang et al.

The Future Of COVID-19 Vaccine Development

Florian Krammer

 

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For this issue, eight authors filmed a video version of their abstracts.

These video abstracts are available with open access on the article's
pages and on our YouTube channel
.
(Please subscribe!)

Here are the articles associated with these exciting new videos
* Denis Agniel et al. A Formal Framework For Incorporating Equity Into
Quality Measurement

* Michael P. Cary et al. Mitigating Racial And Ethnic Bias And Advancing
Health Equity In Clinical Algorithms: A Scoping Review

* Shekinah A. Fashaw-Walters and Cydney M. McGuire Proposing A
Racism-Conscious Approach To Policy Making and Health Care Practices

* Simon F. Haeder and Donald Moynihan How Race And Racial Perceptions
Shape Burden Tolerance For Medicaid And The Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program

* Tina Hernandez-Boussard et al. Promoting Equity In Clinical Decision
Making: Dismantling Race-Based Medicine

* Jason Semprini et al. Medicaid Expansion Lowered Uninsurance Rates
Among Nonelderly Adults In The Most Heavily Redlined Areas

* Milkie Vu et al. Low-Income Asian Americans: High Levels Of Food
Insecurity And Low Participation In The CalFresh Nutrition Program

* Maranda C. Ward Changing How The Health Care Workforce Sees Patients
Like Me

 

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This Hispanic Heritage Month, we're highlighting influential Hispanic
and Latino voices and organizations who have made an impact on health
equity and policy.

In a July 2023 article, Indira Ghandi Islas and coauthors discuss how
Hispanic and Latino representation in the US health workforce differs
across subpopulations
.

 

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Mental Health and Health Equity

Listen to the fourth episode of our new health equity podcast, Research
and Justice For All
!

Research and Justice For All is sponsored by CVS Health and cohosted by
Sree Chaguturu, Chief Medical Officer (CVS Health), and Joneigh Khaldun,
Chief Health Equity Officer (CVS Health).

On the fourth episode
,
Chaguturu and Khaldun interview Nicole Christian-Brathwaite of Headway
and Well Minds Psychiatry & Consulting about the impact that mental
health care disparities have had on historically marginalized
communities and strategic approaches that can improve mental health
outcomes.

If you missed it, listen to the third episode
with
Mary-Ann Etiebet.

Listen to the Fourth Episode

 

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