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

**Tuesday, December 22, 2020**

IN THE JOURNAL

CLIMATE & HEALTH

Health Risks Due To Climate Change

Climate variability and change are harming human health. The health
risks associated with a changing climate create new inequities and
exacerbate those that already exist
,
explain Kristie Ebi and Jeremy Hess in an overview piece on the topic.
In a related article, Ebi and coauthors describe detection and
attribution methods used by climatologists

to study climate change and discuss why this field of study should be
applied to understand how climate change is affecting health. Ebi also
joins us for a conversation ontoday's podcast.

Read the December 2020 Table of Contents
.

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New podcast!

Health Care Take Note: Every Greenhouse Gas Emission Matters

Kristie Ebi, Alan Weil

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Kristie
Ebi, a professor in the Department of Global Health at the University of
Washington, on the complex relationship between climate change and human
health.

Listen here.

TODAY ON THE BLOG

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

To Limit The Harms Of Step Therapy, Implement Robust Standards And
Protect Physician Autonomy

By Jessica Burgy and Mark G. Lebwohl

Step therapy protocols should be nationally recognized and always based
on clinical guidelines developed by independent medical experts to
ensure that they are safe for patients. States should establish basic
exemption requirements and require a transparent process by insurers to
ease the burden on patients and physicians. Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Health And Holidays: Depression

**** The COVID-19 pandemic has made it a challenge to be cheerful this
holiday season. As the weather in many places continues to get colder
and COVID-19 cases increase, fewer people than usual will be spending
the holidays with loved ones. For this reason, it is important to
continue to prioritize mental health and revisit a previous discussion
in Health Affairs about care for depression. In our March 2016 issue,
Tara F. Bishop and coauthors report that the care management process is
used less often for depression than for other chronic conditions

In US primary care practices.

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