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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Monday, September 28, 2020
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SPONSORED BY THE HEALTHCARE ANCHOR NETWORK
IT IS UNDENIABLE: RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. As members of the Healthcare Anchor Network and leaders of 39 healthcare organizations addressing the disproportionate Black and Brown mortality of the COVID-19 pandemic, we say without hesitation that Black Lives Matter.
Systemic racism results in generational trauma and poverty, while also unquestionably causing higher rates of illness and death in Black and Indigenous communities and communities of color. We stand united as frontline organizations against racism, injustice, and inaction and commit to specific steps to help overcome the healthcare disparities in the communities we serve. Read the full statement.
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IN THE JOURNAL
HIV/AIDS
State-Level Discrimination Policies And HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Adoption Efforts In The US
By Stephen Bonett, Steven Meanley, Steven Elsesser, and José Bauermeister
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug regimen recommended for people at high risk of getting HIV to prevent them from being infected. Little research exists on how state-level policies might be related to differential PrEP uptake across the United
States. Stephen Bonett and coauthors examined HIV criminalization, nondiscrimination laws for sexual and gender minorities, Medicaid expansion, Ryan White funding, and sociodemographic characteristics in relation to the PrEP-to-need ratio, a measure of PrEP uptake. Read More >>
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
LEGAL & REGULATORY ISSUES
The Right Prescription For Health Data Privacy: Reflections On The AMA’s New Privacy Principles
By Deven McGraw, Dena Mendelsohn, and Mark Savage
In response to new regulations enabling patients to use smartphones and third-party apps to collect and manage their health information, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a set of Privacy Principles more robust than HIPAA’s requirements. In this blog post, we highlight some laudable advances in the AMA’s Principles but express some concerns about the AMA’s exemption of covered entities. Read More >>
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A CLOSER LOOK—Substance Use Disorder
It’s the end of National Recovery Month, and substance use disorder remains a major issue for many Americans. In 2016 Robert Blendon and coauthors thought that the opioid epidemic was an issue with potential for rare bipartisan consensus. Now in 2020, have policy makers been able to effectively work together to address the issue? Reread Blendon and coauthors' 2016 blog post.
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