Florian Krammer argued that as we consider the future developments of the COVID-19 vaccine, the prioritization of vigilance, research, prevention, and proactive strategies are necessary drivers for its success.

As psychedelic services have demonstrated their efficacy as viable alternatives for treating conditions across the mental health spectrum, Varun Saraswathula and Molly Candon consider whether the current health care system is truly equipped to safely provide these services.

Lanhee J. Chen and coauthors look ahead at market-based health care reforms that would benefit from directing attention away from undoing the past and toward a vision centered on more choices within the current system.

We published new installments in the Forefront series "Accountable Care For Population Health."

Of these installments, topics include a social accountable care organization (ACO) for Medicaid managed care, the renewed growth and improved savings on display for Medicare ACOs in 2022, delegation of chronic care management in the Medicare shared savings program, and making the promise of value-based care meaningful to consumers.

To expand on one of the Narrative Matters pieces in our October issue, Ryan J. Petteway provided greater insight on how his poem drew on his memories and found a central balance in his sense of love, connection, and joy for the Black communities he grew up in.

With the national uninsured rate at a record low, Eli Y. Adashi and coauthors focus on how we can maintain these gains and identify opportunities for improving enrollment processes for those currently enrolled in the Marketplace, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance Program as well as those who may qualify in the future.

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The October 2023 issue of Health Affairs focused on Tackling Structural Racism In Health.

As an opportunity to expand upon this theme and provide greater voice to the relationship between structural racism, health, and health care, we celebrated the issue's release with a captivating conversation among a panel of distinguished authors and experts.

On October 3, we held a virtual forum where the panel presented their work and engaged in discussions on topics including "Politics and the Legacy of Racism," "Use Of Race And Ethnicity Data," "Documenting Racism," and "Responses to Racism."

If you were unable to attend the virtual forum, the entire event was captured for you to explore at your convenience.

A Health Podyssey: Zachary Dyer on Measuring Structural Racism at the Neighborhood Level

Alan Weil interviews Zachary Dyer of the University of Massachusetts on his recent paper measuring the enduring imprint of structural racism on American neighborhoods and how the authors developed a new measure, the Structural Racism Effect Index, to identify these impacts.

This Week: Survey Says: Insurance Premiums Are Up

Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Marianne Amoss discuss the findings in KFF's new Employer Health Benefits survey. In the report, KFF finds that annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage have increased 7 percent on average this year.

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