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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 DisasterBy Andrew B. Meshnick, Lilian Ryan, and Theresa CullenWe 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 >>HEALTH EQUITYThe 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 More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Uninsured Immigrants
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