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

**Friday, January 29, 2021**

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Understanding Suicide Risk Prevention

A new health policy brief

from Health Affairs with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
provides a general overview of the research on suicide risk and
protective factors, highlights current suicide prevention strategies,
and notes policy opportunities for improving multisectoral prevention
efforts. This brief joins Health Affairs' ongoing series of policy
briefs on social determinants of health.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Accelerating Digital Health To Achieve Equitable Delivery Of The
COVID-19 Vaccine

By Shantanu Nundy, Kavita K. Patel, and Mark Sendak

With the promise of new vaccines, there has been great speculation
around how to distribute the vaccine in historically marginalized
communities. We argue that digital health has the potential to
facilitate a more widely distributed model of vaccine delivery. Read
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FOLLOWING THE ACA

Biden Executive Order To Reopen HealthCare.gov, Make Other Changes

By Katie Keith

On January 28, President Biden took executive action directing HHS to
expand access to ACA coverage and bolster the Medicaid program. He also
issued a memorandum on women's health. These directives make clear
that the Biden administration considers HealthCare.gov and Medicaid to
be critical tools in its pandemic response toolbox. Read More >>

PUBLIC HEALTH

Philanthropy's Critical Role In Public Health Advocacy

By Betsy Fuller and Kelly Henning

More philanthropic organizations need to catalyze public health advocacy
to realize sustainable, people-driven improvements in public health. The
authors, who are both at Bloomberg Philanthropies, provide examples of
funding advocacy work, including its funding of efforts to reduce use of
sugary beverages in Mexico and improve maternal mortality rates in
Tanzania. When philanthropy supports advocacy groups to push government
to do better and serve communities through policy change, that support
can help improve and save lives.
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HEALTH AFFAIRS TIPS & TRICKS

Interested in a particular author's work? While reading a journal
article or blog post, you can find more content from the same author by
simply clicking on his or her name in the author list. You will be
presented with the history of work by that author published on
www.healthaffairs.org .

LEADING TO HEALTH: OPIOID USE DISORDER

Critical Support Where High-Risk Pregnancy Meets Addiction

By Melba Newsome

In a Western North Carolina region ravaged by opioids, innovative
programming provides comprehensive, judgement-free care. Read More >>

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BOOK REVIEW

Evaluating Global Health Systems

By Rick Mathis

Rick Mathis reviews ACA architect Ezekiel Emanuel's new book, Which
Country Has the World's Best Health Care? Read More >>

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A Call For Health Equity In Scholarly Publishing

Listen to Jessica Bylander and Vabren Watts discuss the Biden
administration's vision for advancing racial equity and the new Health
Affairs health equity project.

Listen here.

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Nonprofit Hospitals And Community Health Needs

Hospitals should adapt to best serve their specific patient populations.
For nonprofit hospitals to maintain their tax-exempt status, the
Affordable Care Act requires them to conduct a community health needs
assessment and create a strategy to address these needs. In a June 2017
paper, Amy Carroll-Scott and coauthors explored the extent to which
nonprofit urban hospitals identified equity among the health needs of
their communities

and proposed health equity strategies to address this need.

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