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

**Thursday, June 4, 2020**

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FAST TRACK AHEAD OF PRINT

Incarceration And Its Disseminations: COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons From
Chicago's Cook County Jail

By Eric Reinhart and Daniel Chen

In the United States, jails and penitentiaries are severely overcrowded,
making infection control difficult. Eric Reinhart and Daniel Chen
evaluated booking, release, and COVID-19 data from the state of Illinois
and Chicago's Cook County Jail between February 1 and April 19, 2020.
They found that cycling through Cook County Jail is associated with 15.9
percent of all documented COVID-19 cases in Chicago and 15.7 percent of
cases in Illinois.
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Beyond PPE: Protecting Health Care Workers To Prevent A Behavioral
Health Disaster

By Andrew B. Meshnick, Lilian Ryan, and Theresa Cullen

We need to mitigate the immediate behavioral health impact of COVID-19
on health care workers while also planning for the future. A
comprehensive, three-part strategy would strengthen the resilience of
the health care workforce during the pandemic and give workers the tools
to navigate public health emergencies in the years to come. Read More >>

CONSIDERING HEALTH SPENDING

Why Isn't Innovation Helping Reduce Health Care Costs?

By Eli M. Cahan, Robert Kocher, and Roger Bohn

Funding and research incentives have created a health care innovation
ecosystem that fails to advance net productivity. Redesigned incentives
that support process-based, frugal innovations can reduce costs while
maintaining high-quality patient care. Read More >>

This post appears in the series Considering Health Spending.

HEALTH EQUITY

The Movement Toward Equity: One Philanthropy's Shifting Role In
Catalyzing Change

By Kristy Klein Davis

The Missouri Foundation for Health is carving out a unique niche for
itself as a "changemaker" in that state. It is working "collaboratively
to build communities where inequities in health and well-being are
nonexistent," says its chief strategy officer. For example, the
foundation has been working to eliminate "the root causes of infant
mortality, including dismantling structural racism embedded in our
health care systems." Read M
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Uninsured Immigrants

In a 2015 Narrative Matters essay, physician Cheryl Bettigole reflected
on the bitter reality of delayed and denied care that her immigrant
patient faced
more
than a decade ago and that many immigrants still face today.

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