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

**Wednesday, December 9, 2020**

IN THE JOURNAL

AHEAD OF PRINT

Income-Related Inequality In Affordability And Access To Primary Care
In Eleven High-Income Countries

By Michelle M. Doty, Roosa S. Tikkanen, Molly FitzGerald, Katharine
Fields,
and Reginald D. Williams II

A survey of noninstitutionalized adults in eleven countries shows that
US residents with lower incomes rank last or near last on health status,
material hardships, affordability, and some measures of primary care
access. The Commonwealth Fund's study collected representative samples
of adults from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the US
between February and May 2020. Read More >>

Read the December 2020 Table of Contents
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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Increased Reimbursement May Help Overcome Barriers To Administration Of
Seasonal And Routine Vaccines

By Emily Belowich, Kelsey Jones, Sheila Fifer, Penelope Solis, and
Richard Hughes IV

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated one of the country's largest
public health challenges: improving population health through routine
and seasonal immunizations for diseases such as influenza and pneumonia.
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights
that uptake rates plummeted for all recommended childhood vaccines in
March and April of this year. Read More >>

LEGAL & REGULATORY ISSUES

Updates To Stark Law Regulations Will Drive Value In The Health Care
System

By Seema Verma and Kimberly Brandt

The Stark Law addressed a legitimate problem. However, since the law was
enacted in 1989, the regulations implementing it have become woefully
outdated. Too often, they have hindered, rather than advanced, the cause
of affordable, quality health care for patients. Read More >>

PODCAST: NEWSMAKERS

"All Hands On Deck"-Preparing For The Distribution Of COVID-19
Vaccines

Jason L. Schwartz

In a WTOP-FM interview, Health Affairs author Jason Schwartz discusses
plans being made for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines as soon as
they become available. Schwartz observes that educating the public about
the benefits and availability of vaccines may prove as challenging as
timely vaccine distribution. Some of these topics are discussed in more
detail in the author's recently released Health Affairs study,
"Clinical Outcomes Of A COVID-19 Vaccine: Implementation Over Efficacy
."

Listen here.

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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health, Climate, and Air Quality

When dangerous pollutants are released into the atmosphere they not only
contribute to a warming climate, but also reduce air quality, especially
in urban areas. Air pollution kills more than four million people every
year globally and is a major contributor to respiratory and
cardiovascular disease deaths. In their February blog post, Juliette
Simpson McHardy and coauthors focus on Delhi, where air pollution has
become a public health emergency.

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