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

**Tuesday, February 9, 2021**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

HEALTH EQUITY

Dreams Of A Beloved Public Health: Confronting White Supremacy In Our
Field

By Ryan J. Petteway

Health equity is not something that is "achieved," because this
implies the absence of conflict. Equity scholars must be explicit in our
language and goals, and judicious in our choice of research questions
and methods, all of which must be rooted in antiracist, critical race,
and decolonizing frameworks. Read More >>

COVID-19

A Call To Action: Immediate Deployment Of Select Repurposed Drugs For
COVID-19 Outpatient Treatment

By Vikas P. Sukhatme and Vidula V. Sukhatme

During the COVID-19 emergency, a small group of the most promising
FDA-approved drugs could be repurposed for COVID-19 using temporary
treatment guidance by a government agency and/or health care systems.
Tools to track outcomes should be made readily available and data
analyzed in real time. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS BRANDED POST

POLL: Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries are Highly Satisfied with Their
Coverage and Eager to Protect It

By Allyson Y. Schwartz
Supported by Better Medicare Alliance

Even as health care workers and other essential personnel worked
feverishly to meet the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, too often, the
story has been one of personal loss, shared disappointment and
uncertainty, and failure of our systems and institutions.
Read More >>

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Our February issue features six commentaries from the National Academy
of
Medicine's (NAM's) Vital Directions for Health and Health Care
project, which proposes health and health care priorities for the new
Biden administration. The cluster

includes these articles:

* Vital Directions For Health And Health Care: Priorities For 2021

Victor J. Dzau of the National Academy of Medicine and coauthors
identify the overarching theme of this series as "the clear and urgent
obligation for the US to turn its full attention to the growing problem
of health inequities and to the structural racism that perpetuates
[health] disparities."

* Infectious Disease Threats: A Rebound To Resilience

Peter Daszak of Ecohealth Alliance and coauthors review pandemic
preparedness in the US and outline steps to strengthen our ability to
anticipate and respond to future pandemics.

* Optimizing Health And Well-Being For Women And Children

Elena Fuentes-Afflick of the University of California San Francisco and
coauthors draw upon a life-course framework to identify promising
interventions to improve the health of women and children.

* Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults

Terry Fulmer of The John A. Hartford Foundation and coauthors identify
six strategies to improve care and quality of life for older adults.

* Transforming Mental Health And Addiction Services

Margarita Alegría of Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General
Hospital, and Mass General Research Institute and coauthors describe new
models of care that focus on mental health and addiction.

* Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New
Administration

William H. Shrank of Humana and coauthors discuss health costs and
financing priorities to advance health care access, affordability, and
equity.

This initiative was originally established by the NAM in 2016 with the
goal of providing the US presidential administration as well as other
policy makers, opinion leaders, and the public with nonpartisan,
evidence-based analysis of the most compelling opportunities and
priorities in health, health care, and biomedical science. The resulting
2017 publication brought together some 150 policy experts to provide
guidance on 19 priorities. In 2020, the NAM reassessed the priorities
and issues of urgent attention for the next administration; today's
cluster of commentaries is the result of the NAM's recent review.

The publication of the Vital Directions series in

**Health Affairs** was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, the National Academy of
Medicine, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

HEALTH AFFAIRS PODCAST

What The Biden Administration Urgently Needs To Address In Health Care

Listen to Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Victor
Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, on the new Vital
Directions publication, how health equity is fundamental for shaping
health system reform, and why science should embrace social and
behavioral disciplines.

Listen here.

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**ELEVATING VOICES: Black History Month**
Why are both race and class important to understanding health
disparities? In a 2005 article, Ichiro Kawachi and coauthors explain
that addressing health disparities requires the inclusion of race and
class as codeterminants of health outcomes
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