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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
IN THE JOURNAL

CLIMATE & HEALTH

Scrambling For Safety In The Eye Of Dorian: Mental Health Consequences Of Exposure To A Climate-Driven Hurricane
By James M. Shultz, Duane E. Sands, Nadia Holder-Hamilton, William Hamilton, Sandeep Goud, Krista Marie Nottage, Zelde Espinel, Stephanie Friedman, Craig Fugate, James P. Kossin, and Sandro Galea

There is growing evidence that climate change is making tropical cyclones more damaging and leading to devastating population health consequences. A new analysis by James M. Shultz and coauthors finds that mental health and psychosocial support was critical in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. Read More >>
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From Colorado to Washington: Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil Discusses His Past, Health Care’s Future
Alan Weil

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil talk about his educational background, what it means to be the editor of the leading health policy journal, how empirical research has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic, his views on social determinants of health, and his health policy predictions for 2021.

Listen here.

A CLOSER LOOK—National Immunization Programs

Few lower- and middle-income countries can fully finance and thus take full ownership of their national immunization programs. A theme of the Global Vaccine Action Plan, led by the World Health Organization, is increasing country ownership, defined as the point when a country fully finances its routine immunization program with domestic resources. Today we look back at an article from February 2016 by Michael McQuestion and coauthors analyzing routes that countries can take to achieve full ownership of their immunization programs.

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