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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Congress Left Big Gaps In The Paid Sick Days And Paid Leave Provisions Of The Coronavirus Emergency Legislation
By Steven Findlay

In their understandable rush to respond to the crisis, lawmakers created access to paid sick days and paid leave which is profoundly unfair—with arbitrary limits and winners and losers.
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COSTS & SPENDING

What Do High Drug Prices Buy Us?
By Richard Frank, Jerry Avorn, and Aaron Kesselheim

If the government negotiated for prices based on a drug’s real advantage over existing products, it could provide a better incentive for more useful innovation as well as improve the affordability of prescription drugs. Read More >>
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PODCAST: NEWSMAKERS

To Reopen The Economy After COVID-19, How Much Testing Is Needed?

In a WTOP-FM interview, Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil discussed the importance of targeting testing to critical populations and areas, to pinpoint the spread of COVID-19 and eventually plan for a safe opening of the economy.

Listen here.
Health Affairs COVID-19 Resource Center

IN THE JOURNAL

INTEGRATING SOCIAL SERVICES & HEALTH

Innovative Integrated Health And Social Care Programs In Eleven High-Income Countries
By Onil Bhattacharyya, James Shaw, Samir Sinha, Dara Gordon, Simone Shahid, Walter P. Wodchis, and Geoffrey Anderson

Recent reports suggest that integrated health and social care programs target specific high-needs population segments, coordinate health and social care services to meet their clients’ needs, and engage clients and their caregivers. Onil Bhattacharyya and coauthors identified thirty health and social care programs in eleven high-income countries that delivered care in new ways. Read More >>


Innovative Policy Supports For Integrated Health And Social Care Programs In High-Income Countries
By Walter P. Wodchis, James Shaw, Samir Sinha, Onil Bhattacharyya, Simone Shahid, and Geoffrey Anderson

Walter P. Wodchis and coauthors describe the innovative policies that national, regional, and local policy makers have used to support the development, spread, and scale of thirty integrated health and social care programs in eleven high-income countries. Read More >>

A CLOSER LOOK—Pediatric Home Care

Pediatric home care providers, payers, and policy makers must authentically and meaningfully partner with families in the codesign of family-centered care, policies, and programs. In a Health Affairs Blog post, Cara L. Coleman writes, "Families must be supported, valued, and respected as equal partners in care—because the pediatric home care system cannot exist without them."
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