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

**Tuesday, January 12, 2021**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

PUBLIC HEALTH

Public Health Emergency Reform Is Coming-These Six Principles Should
Guide It

By Lindsay F. Wiley

State legislatures considering reform of public health emergency
response authority must put health-protective measures on a firmer
footing for the coming months of this crisis-and the next one. Read
More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

PATIENTS & CONSUMERS

What Is The Value Of A Star When Choosing A Provider For Total Joint
Replacement? A Discrete Choice Experiment

By Adam J. Schwartz, Kathleen J. Yost, Kevin J. Bozic, David A. Etzioni,
T. S. Raghu, and Irfan Emrah Kanat

Adam Schwartz and coauthors examine the perspective of arthroplasty
patients making trade-offs among quality, cost, and distance traveled
when seeking care. Learn what the authors found in their discrete choice
study about the patient-perceived monetary value of a
higher-star-ranking doctor. Read More >>

Read the January 2021 Table of Contents
.

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And The Value Of An Additional Star For Physicians And Hospitals Is...

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Adam
Schwartz, associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the Mayo Clinic
College of Medicine and Science, on the fiscal value of an additional
hospital or physician star rating when choosing a provider for total
joint replacement.

Listen here.

REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTS-Perinatal Mental Health

Deadline: February 1, 2021
Preparation and formatting guidelines

Submit abstracts via our online submission form

**Health Affairs** is planning a cluster of papers on perinatal mental
health, to be published in October 2021. We plan to publish
approximately 10 peer-reviewed articles from leading researchers,
scholars, policy analysts, and health care stakeholders.

**Health Affairs** thanks the Zoma Foundation, the Perigee Fund, and the
California Health Care Foundation for their generous support of this
issue. Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Revisiting Zika Virus

While very different from COVID-19 in many ways, the Zika virus caused a
pandemic in 2016 that forced global health experts and governments to
ask and answer many of the same questions they are asking now. An Entry
Point article by Carina Storrs, published in July 2016, discusses the
United States' Zika action plan
.
The four pillars of the plan likely sound familiar to readers:
surveillance and testing people for infection, educating health care
providers about counseling and treating patients and people at risk,
communicating with the public about prevention and management, and
controlling the spread.

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