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

**Tuesday, October 27, 2020**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19
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The COVID-19 Pandemic Can Help Us Understand Low-Value Health Care

By Allison H. Oakes and Jodi B. Segal

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a novel sense of scarcity, which has
forced health systems to cut profitable services and prioritize
seriously ill patients. At the same time, it has revealed a previously
unseen counterfactual: a health system in which there is no low-value
care. These circumstances can be leveraged to advance the low-value care
research agenda. Read More >>

COVID-19 And Health Disparities: Insights From Key Informant Interviews

By Harold A. Pollack and Caroline Kelly

More than 220,000 Americans have died from COVID-19; more than eight
million have been infected. No part of the US has been fully spared, but
the burdens are unequally distributed. This post draws upon key
informant interviews with physicians, nursing and medical leaders,
epidemiologists and health services researchers, and policy scholars to
explore causes of these disparities and to examine proposed solutions.
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IN THE JOURNAL

CHILDREN'S HEALTH
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Racial And Ethnic Inequities In Children's Neighborhoods: Evidence
From The New Child Opportunity Index 2.0

By Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Clemens Noelke, Nancy McArdle, Nomi Sofer,
Erin F. Hardy, Michelle Weiner, Mikyung Baek, Nick Huntington, Rebecca
Huber, and Jason Reece

Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and coauthors present and analyze the Child
Opportunity Index 2.0, a composite measure of children's neighborhood
opportunity. Inequities are profound, with an overall Child Opportunity
Score of 73 for White children compared with 33 for Hispanic children
and 24 for Black children in the largest 100 metropolitan areas. Read
More >>

New podcast!

In this episode of A Health Podyssey, Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief
Alan Weil interviews Brandeis University's Dolores Acevedo-Garcia to
discuss her research on racial and ethnic inequities in children's
neighborhoods.
Listen here.

Read the October 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health Policy Under The Trump Administration

With the election just one week away, ACA expert Katie Keith evaluates
Republican health policy under the Trump administration. This post from
August identifies several of the Republican party's health policy
priorities

since 2017 and takes stock of President Trump's record on health care.

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