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

**Wednesday, July 8, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Can Contact Tracing Work At COVID Scale?

By Amit Kaushal and Russ B. Altman

Large-scale contact tracing needs to track down as many leads as
possible while minimizing the disruption to healthy peoples' lives. We
need a data infrastructure to calibrate these efforts.
Read More >>

Re-Envisioning Clinical Trials During The COVID-19 Pandemic

By Deborah Plana, Andrea Arfè, and Michael S. Sinha

Existing research efforts are largely being set aside in favor of a new,
urgent goal: testing, treating, and preventing the disease caused by the
novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

CULTURE OF HEALTH

Impact Of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act On Obesity Trends

By Erica L. Kenney, Jessica L. Barrett, Sara N. Bleich, Zachary J. Ward,
Angie L. Cradock, and Steven L. Gortmaker

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 established policies to
improve the nutritional quality of food served through subsidized and
free breakfast and lunch programs. Using national data from the period
2003-18, Erica Kenney and coauthors estimate the extent to which
childhood obesity trends were affected by the law. For children in
poverty the odds of having obesity increased each year leading up to the
law but began decreasing after its implementation. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Peer Comparisons

Policy makers are increasingly using performance feedback that compares
physicians to their peers as part of payment policy reforms. However, it
is not known whether peer comparisons can improve broad outcomes, beyond
changing specific individual behaviors such as reducing inappropriate
prescribing of antibiotics. In Health Affairs, Amol S. Navathe and
coauthors wrote about a cluster-randomized controlled trial conducted
with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Hawaii to examine the impact of providing
peer comparisons feedback on the quality of care
to
primary care providers in the setting of a shift from fee-for-service to
population-based payment.

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