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COVID-19

Caring For Kids In The COVID-19 Era: Addressing Social Drivers And Paying For Health
By R. Lawrence Moss, Charlene A. Wong, Daniella Gratale, and Mark B. McClellan

The road to recovery from COVID-19 is through transforming our health care and social service systems to address underlying social factors impacting the health of children and families, with a goal of promoting health equity. Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

ACA Litigation Round-Up: Part II
By Katie Keith

This post discusses the status of long-standing ACA-related lawsuits and highlights newer lawsuits over ACA implementation. A prior post summarized the implications of recent Supreme Court decisions and California v. Texas. A third post will focus on the resolution of lawsuits over the risk corridors program. Read More >>

SPONSORED BY HEALTHCARE IT CONNECT

1.00 – 2.00 PM EDT | Thursday, July 23rd | LIVE WEBINAR

How States are Leveraging Technology to Implement Behavioral Health Treatment and Referral Networks to Increase Access to Care

Presenters:

Lisa Johnson, Director of Data Analytics and Strategy, Delaware DHSS, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Sean Miller, Deputy Director of Health Informatics, Delaware DHSS, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Nishi Rawat, M.D., MBA, Senior Vice President & Co-founder of OpenBeds
Brad Bauer, Senior Vice President, Appriss Health

IN THE JOURNAL

DISPARITIES

EMS Access Constraints And Response Time Delays For Deprived Critically Ill Patients Near Paris, France
By Matthieu Heidet, Thierry Da Cunha, Elise Brami, Eric Mermet, Michel Dru, Béatrice Simonnard, Eric Lecarpentier, Charlotte Chollet-Xémard, Corinne Bergeron, Mohamed Khalid, Brian Grunau, Jean Marty, and Etienne Audureau

Increased emergency medical services (EMS) response times and areas of low socioeconomic status are both associated with poorer outcomes for several time-sensitive medical conditions attended to by medical personnel before a patient is hospitalized. We evaluated the association between EMS response times, area deprivation level, and on-scene access constraints encountered by EMS in a large urban area in France.
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A CLOSER LOOK—Intercultural Health Care In Ecuador

Dependent on a Western health system often dismissive of the traditional health practices of indigenous groups, many Ecuadorian citizens are not receiving the care that they deserve. On Health Affairs Blog, Alexandra Reichert asserts that in order for Ecuador to fulfill the constitutional promise of the right to intercultural health care, the government must recognize indigenous clinics and invest in intercultural health education in rural areas, and medical schools ought to improve their intercultural education programs.

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