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

**Tuesday, August 25, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

CULTURE OF HEALTH

Making Anti-Racism A Core Value In Academic Medicine

By J. Nwando Olayiwola, Joshua J. Joseph, Autumn R. Glover, Harold L.
Paz, and Darrell M. Gray, II

Academic medical centers and health care organizations that are not
acting to eliminate racism are perpetuating its proliferation. The Ohio
State University's Anti-Racism Action Plan provides a model for
actively working against racism, by evaluating curricula, practices,
training models, behaviors, and actions through a lens of anti-racism.
Read More >>

FOLLOWING THE ACA

Trump Administration Deems Georgia's 1332 Waiver Application, With
Individual Market Restructuring, Complete

By Katie Keith

While not as dramatic as Georgia's initial application, the revised
Georgia Access Model would still-if approved-make marked changes to
the state's individual market and would be the broadest waiver ever
approved under Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Food Insecurity Is Associated With Higher Health Care Use And Costs
Among Canadian Adults

By Fei Men, Craig Gundersen, Marcelo L. Urquia, and Valerie Tarasuk  

This study marks an important step toward understanding the relationship
of household food insecurity to individual health, health care use, and
public health expenditure. Fei Men and coauthors note: "The study was
situated in the Canadian context, where the costs of acute care
hospitalization and same-day surgery were fully covered by universal
health insurance, thus minimizing the selection bias introduced by
affordability." Read More >>

SNAP Participants Improved Food Security And Diet After A Full-Service
Supermarket Opened In An Urban Food Desert

By Jonathan Cantor, Robin Beckman, Rebecca L. Collins, Madhumita Ghosh
Dastidar, Andrea S. Richardson, and Tamara Dubowitz  

Jonathan Cantor and coauthors explore the intersection of two US
government efforts to improve access to food-the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Healthy Food Financing
Initiative (HFFI). They test the impact of a new, HFFI-financed,
full-service supermarket on SNAP participants in an urban food desert.
Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Racism

"So, say it with me: zip codes don't kill people-racism does,"
explains M. Gabriela Alcalde in her 2018 GrantWatch blog post. Bringing
this sentiment into the world of philanthropy, she calls on institutions
to have the courage to name racism where they see it and to address the
resulting health issues on a population-level.

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