: Chidinma Ibe on Advancing Public Health Policy
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs
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ICYMI, Rashad Burgess of Gilead Sciences joined our health equity
podcast, Research and Justice For All, to discuss how private sector
companies can advance health equity goals.
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The Structural Racism Effect Index
In the October issue on Tackling Structural Racism In Health, Zachary
Dyer and coauthors quantify historically contingent disparities in
neighborhood resources and resulting health inequities through the
creation of a Structural Racism Effect Index
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The index consists of nine domains: built environment, criminal justice,
education, employment, housing, income and poverty, social cohesion,
transportation, and wealth.
Dyer and coauthors note that this index addresses shortcomings of
existing indices.
They document that existing measures "do not fully capture the upstream
aspects of discriminatory policies," "do not measure resource
availability at the community level" adequately, and do not
"specifically consider the legacy of structural racism," among other
shortcomings.
After calculating Structural Racism Effect Index scores for more than
70,000 census tracts across the country, Dyer and coauthors find "this
summary index correlated more strongly with life expectancy and other
health measures than several widely used area-level measures of social
determinants of health."
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Chidinma Ibe on Community Health Workers' Chance to Advance Public
Health Policy
Alan Weil interviews Chidinma Ibe of Johns Hopkins University on her
recent Health Affairs paper, which provides a closer understanding of
the value of community health workers' (CHW) voices, social risk
factors, and how structural racism shapes CHWs' approach to intervention
delivery in structurally vulnerable communities.
Ibe and coauthors assert that their findings underscore the need to
embed antiracist principles in the policies and practices that affect
the public health workforce.
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A Social ACO For Medicaid Managed Care
Rajaie Batniji et al.
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* October 19: Briefing: Key Challenges Encountered By The Medicare and
Medicaid Dually-Eligible Population
* October 24: Professional Development: Writing About Racism In Health
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