Dear John,

Health Affairs Scholar is celebrating its one-year anniversary!

Looking ahead, the journal is committed to further expanding its reach and influence, with goals to continue publishing cutting-edge research, engaging diverse perspectives, and driving meaningful discourse to inform health policy.

Read about Health Affairs Scholar’s first year from Editor-in-Chief Kathryn Phillips.

Here are some of the recently published articles you should know about.

Editor’s Choice:

Aleksandra Golos and colleagues examine the evolving “information ecology” in which parents make vaccination decisions for their children.

The authors conclude that use of social listening methods and analysis may inform the development and testing of clinical counseling guidelines and public health campaign messaging.

Additional Highlights:

Psychological safety at work is linked to the perception that one can “speak up” without fear of retaliation, playing a crucial role in fostering a supportive, resilient workforce.

Rosalind de Lisser and colleagues examine the interconnected relationship between psychological safety, work environment, and burnout among nurse practitioners.

Their findings highlight the role of psychological safety in mediating negative work environment factors and mitigating burnout.

The FDA’s approval of therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and the robust pipeline of similar therapies undergoing clinical trials raises questions about patient access: Jodi Liu and coauthors estimate that between 34 percent and 59 percent of US seniors reside in areas lacking dementia specialists, hindering early diagnosis and care.

Lessons for global health can emerge from unexpected sources.

Brian Wahl and coauthors explore how the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) benefit-sharing model could be adapted to create a novel framework for global prevention, preparedness, and response efforts.

The authors emphasize the need to promote “a fair balance of interests across diverse economic contexts,” particularly for low- and middle-income countries who often contribute significantly to public health surveillance data.

Dian Luo and coauthors analyze regional differences in the duration stroke patients spent in inpatient rehabilitation under traditional Medicare versus Medicare Advantage plans between 2019 and 2020.

Their findings suggest an increase in regional variation for Medicare Advantage plans and a relative stability among traditional Medicare, possibly due to the universal administration of traditional Medicare by CMS.

Lisa Lines and colleagues outline the development, evaluation, and validation of a new index, the Local Social Inequity in Sexual Reproductive Health (LSI-SRH) measure, designed to assess community-level risk of adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes based on social determinants of health.

Also in Health Affairs Scholar this month:

• Michelle Wong and coauthors find racial and ethnic disparities in the quality of diabetes care within top-, middle-, and bottom- performing VA Medical Centers.
  
  
• Ben Thornburg and coauthors explore the acquisitions of behavioral health treatment facilities in the context of increasing for-profit ownership across the US health care system.
  
  
• Fariel LaMountain and coauthors find that the availability of biosimilars led to reduced average sales prices of the product family regardless of whether the originator manufacturer made attempts to compete with their biosimilars for preferred coverage.

Be sure to read the full issue on the Health Affairs Scholar website and get a sneak peek of articles to come in the Advance Articles section.

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Jennifer Kao on How an FDA Program Reduced Clinical Development Times for Some Drugs

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jennifer Kao of the University of California Los Angeles on her recent paper that explores the impact of the Food and Drug Administration's breakthrough therapy designation program on the reduction of late-stage drug development time.

HHS Proposes Requirements To Advance Maternal Quality Improvement Efforts

Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Editor Marianne Amoss to the program to explore the state of maternal health in health care and what a recent policy proposal from CMS could do to reduce maternal mortality and advance health equity.

From Veneers To Value: Data Science Can Enable High-Value Care In Medicaid

Rajaie Batnji et al.

State And Federal Efforts To Improve Ownership Transparency

Stacey Pogue and Nadia Stovicek

Improving How CMS Defines “Unmet Medical Need” Under The IRA

A. Alex Levine et al.

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Graphic Warning Labels For Cigarettes

Gregory D. Curfman and Nicole Huberfeld

Advancing Equity In Kidney Transplantation Through The Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model

Yuvaram N.V. Reddy et al.

Medicare Savings Program Benefits Are Hard To Access. Congress And States Can Make It Easier

Erin Weir Lakhmani and Diane Beaver

Twelve-Month Medicaid Postpartum Extensions Ring Hollow For Immigrant Communities

Annabelle Ng et al.

Supporting Perinatal Mental Health For Medical Trainees

Lekshmi Santhosh et al.