TODAY ON THE BLOG

PAYMENT

Critical Considerations For Condition-Based Alternative Payment Models: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
By Prakash Jayakumar, Jonathan O’Donnell, Olivia Manickas-Hill, Mark Japinga, Chad Mather, Mark B. McClellan, and Kevin Bozic

Condition-based payment offers a viable and exciting path forward for specialist-driven, value-based care, but efforts are still in early stages. Diverse initiatives will be needed in the coming years to expand new model designs to a wider range of conditions and assist in the long, difficult process of integrating and transforming delivery models. Read More >>

COVID-19

Supporting Health Care Delivery In Low-Income Areas During COVID-19
By Shivani A. Shah, Michael E. Chernew, and Nancy D. Beaulieu

COVID-19 has created significant financial hardship for health care providers. In the course of crafting and implementing policy responses, it is important to consider their potential impact on the most vulnerable providers and the patients that depend on them. Read More >>

ELSEWHERE@HEALTH AFFAIRS

Narrative Matters: Poems About Health Care

In April, three winning poems from Health Affairs’ second poetry contest were published in the journal. Here we feature some of our other favorites from the contest on the Blog. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

CULTURE OF HEALTH

Increases In Women’s Political Representation Associated With Reductions In Child Mortality In Brazil
By Philipp Hessel, María José González Jaramillo, Davide Rasella, Ana Clara Duran, and Olga L. Sarmiento

Philipp Hessel and coauthors investigate the association between female political participation in Brazil and under-five mortality rates, as well as potential connections to the rollout of a conditional cash transfer program and a primary health care program.
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A CLOSER LOOK—Immigration Policy And HIV

In a Health Affairs Blog post, Amir Mohareb, Rochelle Walensky, and Emily Hyle discuss the contradictions regarding immigration policy and HIV. They argue that the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services should immediately end the inaccurate interpretation of HIV as a "communicable disease" meriting family separation, and double efforts to stop family separation, prolonged detention, and discriminatory immigration practices for migrants and asylum seekers with HIV.

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