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Tuesday, January 12, 2021
TODAY ON THE BLOG

PUBLIC HEALTH

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 >>

A Health Podyssey

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.
REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTSPerinatal Mental Health

Deadline: February 1, 2021
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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 LOOKRevisiting 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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