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

**Thursday, September 12, 2019**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

QUALITY OF CARE

Pathway To Patient-Centered Measurement For Accountability

By Aparna Higgins, Dana Gelb Safran, Nick Fiore, Elizabeth Murphy, and
Mark B. McClellan

We look forward to working with relevant stakeholders to develop a road
map of patient-centered outcomes measures that extends beyond the
federal alignment called for in the executive order to alignment between
public and private participants. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS

AGING AND HEALTH:  IMPROVING CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS

September 24, 2019
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Eastern
National Press Club - 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
Registration Open

On September 24, join Health Affairs and The John A. Hartford Foundation
for a robust policy conversation featuring authors from the journal's
Aging & Health series, as well as other experts in the field, to discuss
topics including:
* Moving Serious Illness Care from Hospital to Home

* Disparities in Home- and Community-Based Care

* Impact of Caregiving on Spouses and Need for Support

In addition to Terry Fulmer, President of The John A. Hartford
Foundation, confirmed speakers include:
* Timothy G. Ferris, CEO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization

* Ann Hwang, Director, Center for Consumer Engagement in Health
Innovation, Community Catalyst

* Tamara Konetzka, Professor of Health Services Research, Department of
Public Health Sciences and Department of Medicine, The University of
Chicago Biological Sciences, on "A National Examination Of Long-Term
Care Setting, Outcomes, And Disparities Among Elderly Dual-Eligibles"
(July 2019)

* Bruce Leff, Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for
Transformative Geriatric Research, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine

* Katherine A. Ornstein, Associate Professor of Geriatrics and
Palliative Medicine, and Research Director, Institute for Care
Innovations at Home, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, on
"Spousal Caregivers Are Caregiving Alone In The Last Years Of Life"
(June 2019)

* Brad Stuart, Chief Medical Officer, Coalition to Transform Advanced
Care, on "A Large-Scale Advanced Illness Intervention Informs
Medicare's New Serious Illness Payment Model" (June 2019)

* Jennifer Wolff, Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor and Director of
the Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care, Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health

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IN THE JOURNAL

DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Financial Incentives Increase Purchases Of Fruit And Vegetables Among
Lower-Income Households With Children

By Alyssa Moran, Anne Thorndike, Rebecca Franckle, Rebecca Boulos,
Heather Doran, Aarohee Fulay, Julie Greene, Dan Blue, Jason P. Block,
Eric B. Rimm, and Michele Polacsek

Alyssa Moran and coauthors conducted a randomized controlled trial,
enrolling some 600 low-income families with children, one-third of whom
participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), at
a supermarket in rural Maine. About half of the participants received a
50 percent discount at checkout on fruit and vegetables. The authors
found that the participants who received the discount showed a 27
percent increase in spending on fruit and vegetables each week, with no
increase in purchases of other, less healthful foods. Read More >>

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Hurricanes

The death toll from Hurricane Dorian continues to mount in the Bahamas.
In an April 2018 article in Health Affairs, author Alexis R.
Santos-Lozado offers lessons for policy makers on understandingthe
patterns of mortality following a hurricane.

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