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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Thursday, May 28, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

What's Driving The COVID-19 Blame Game? Anxiety And Confusion About
Wet Markets, China⁠-And The Entire Global Economy

By Ashley Andreou

As we look ahead as a global community, we must enter into culturally
competent strategies to combat the spread of zoonotic disease.Read More
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COVID-19 Pandemic Provides Opportunity To Realign Self-Help Groups With
Medications For People With Opioid Use Disorder

By Nicolas K. Trad, Hefei Wen, and Brendan Saloner

In this month's issue of Health Affairs, Hefei Wen and coauthors
analyze national data on opioid addiction treatment
.

**In response to world events, we asked the authors to put their work in
the context of the current COVID-19 crisis.**

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected individuals with opioid
use disorder. It has increased drivers of relapse such as social
isolation, loneliness, anxiety, and joblessness. COVID-19 also threatens
two sources of stability for people with opioid use disorder: access to
self-help groups and access to treatment programs offering highly
effective medications.
Read More >>

MONTHLY GRANTWATCH ROUND-UP

Connecting Low-Income Children To Dental Care: An Innovative Partnership
In Washington State

By Vanetta Abdellatif and Kimberly Craven (5/21/20)

For more than 20 years, the Access to Baby and Child Dentistry (ABCD)
program, in Washington State, has connected Medicaid-enrolled children
under age six to dental care in their local communities. Washington is
"a national leader" in the percentage of these young children receiving
dental care. Arcora Foundation has been a long-time supporter of ABCD, a

public-private partnership, which continues to shift its focus and
dollars from treatment to prevention. Read More >>

Inequity: Society's Most Important Pre-Existing Condition

By Bob Hughes (5/11/20)

COVID-19 just underscores the oppression that has been embedded in our
systems for years, says the president and CEO of a large health
foundation in the Midwest. Historic racism is front and center during
this time when all of us have various needs. But amidst all of the
tragedy and upheaval, we also can chart a unified course for a
healthier, more equitable future, he says. Read More >>

A Foundation's Decision To Use A Different Kind Of Investment In Health
Equity

By Nikki Highsmith Vernick (5/6/20)

A foundation's journey in racial health equity began with looking at the
data. Whether in chronic disease, mental health, or advance care
planning, the staff saw glaring gaps and disparities affecting
communities of color in its local area. The foundation's president and
CEO says there is a need for strategies and solutions that include
advocacy for policy change with a ripple effect on health and for an
acknowledgment of the social determinants of health. Read More >>

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IN THE JOURNAL

HOT ARTICLES IN MAY

Wide State-Level Variation In Commercial Health Care Prices Suggests
Uneven Impact Of Price Regulation

By Michael E. Chernew, Andrew L. Hicks, and Shivani A. Shah

Physician Prices And The Cost And Quality Of Care For Commercially
Insured Patients

By Mark A. Unruh, Yongkang Zhang, Hye-Young Jung, Manyao Zhang, Jing Li,
Eloise O'Donnell, Fabrizio Toscano, and Lawrence P. Casalino

Held Against Our Wills: Reimagining Involuntary Commitment

By Abraham M. Nussbaum

Self-Help Groups And Medication Use In Opioid Addiction Treatment: A
National Analysis

By Hefei Wen, Benjamin G. Druss, and Brendan Saloner

Home Health And Postacute Care Use In Medicare Advantage And Traditional
Medicare

By Laura Skopec, Peter J. Huckfeldt, Douglas Wissoker, Joshua Aarons,
Judith Dey, Iara Oliveira, and Stephen Zuckerman

Read the May 2020 Table of Contents
.

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Community Health Workers
The challenges facing community health workers as they become part of
health care teams can be thought of as falling into four categories:
agenda, identity, scope of work, and integration. Cheryl Garfield and
Shreya Kangovi discuss integrating community health workers into health
care teams without coopting them
in
this Health Affairs Blog post.

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