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Today's Featured Articles

More US Pharmacies Closed Than Opened In 2018–21; Independent Pharmacies, Those In Black, Latinx Communities Most At Risk

Jenny S. Guadamuz et al.

Proposed Rule Would Expand Medicare And Medicaid Coverage For Anti-Obesity Medications

Rachel Sachs

Enhancing Design And Implementation Of ACO REACH’s Equity-Focused And Beneficiary Engagement Design Elements

Rachel Bonesteel et al.

Leveraging Certificates Of Need To Increase Public Health Spending: The Massachusetts Example

Ben Wood et al.

More on Access To Care

How Communities Are Building Power To Improve Health

Jessica Bylander (August 2023)

Fewer Pharmacies In Black And Hispanic/Latino Neighborhoods Compared With White Or Diverse Neighborhoods, 2007–15

Jenny S. Guadamuz et al. (May 2021)

Cooling The Hot Spots Where Child Hospitalization Rates Are High: A Neighborhood Approach To Population Health

Andrew F. Beck et al. (September 2019)

Ethics And Health Systems Change Symposium

In October, we released the initial article for an ongoing, periodic Health Affairs Forefront symposium on the ethical implications of developments in the business of health care.

Articles in the symposium will consider the implications of developments in the health system such as:

• Changing ownership structures
• Corporate and private equity investment
• Shifting regulatory requirements
• Industry responses to social change

Check out the introductory article from author M Gregg Bloche.

As we bring 2024 to a close, let's take a look about at Health Policy Briefs that we've published this year.

Pillars, Policies, And Plausible Pathways Linking Digital Inclusion And Health Equity

Amy R. Sheon and Elaine C. Khoong

Direct Democracy And Population Health: Making Health Policy Through State Ballot Initiatives

Paula M. Lantz and Emma Carter