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

**Friday, February 12, 2021**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

Just-In-Time Versus Just-In-Case Pandemic Preparedness

By Joshua Barocas, Celine Gounder, and Syra Madad

A just-in-time approach to pandemic preparedness by medical supply
manufacturers, hospitals, and governments has failed during the COVID-19
pandemic. A just-in-case strategy with training plans, stockpiles,
infectious disease surveillance, and stakeholder coordination is the
solution to future health crises. Read More >>

SUBSTANCE USE

Responding To COVID-19: Supporting People In Recovery From Opioid Use
Disorder

By Karen A. Scott, Kenneth Shatzkes, and Lydia Tschoe

Access to treatment for opioid use disorder is important, but so is
ensuring access to recovery services, which provide social connections
and other supports to help people rebuild their lives. A national
foundation has awarded grants to organizations helping to provide safe
and meaningful recovery support services during the pandemic. The
authors suggest policy interventions-for new Biden administration
staffers and others addressing the opioid crisis-on the critical
importance of recovery services. Read More >>

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Breaking Down The 2021 Momnibus Bill

Listen to Health Affairs editors Leslie Erdelack and Jessica Bylander
discuss what's in the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021.

Listen here.

**IN THE JOURNAL**

DISABILITY

Physicians' Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health
Care

By Lisa I. Iezzoni, Sowmya R. Rao, Julie Ressalam, Dragana
Bolcic-Jankovic, Nicole D. Agaronnik, Karen Donelan, Tara Lagu, and Eric
G. Campbell

How confident are US physicians that they can provide the same quality
of care to patients with disability as to those without? Lisa Iezzoni of
Harvard Medical School and coauthors surveyed physicians about their
perceptions of care for people with disability. Read More >>

Read the February 2021 Table of Contents.

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HEALTH POLICY VALENTINES

It's that time of year again when we send health policy valentines
across Twitter. This year Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil got in on the action
when he heard the news that the

**Wall Street Journal** was going to use "health care" as one word from
now on.

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**ELEVATING VOICES: Black History Month**
Briana Woods-Jaeger and coauthors' 2019 paper offers lived experiences
of African American youth in a policy context as a means to allay the
negative results of exposure to violence in communities. Read why
incorporating these lived experiences in policy

is essential to creating positive health outcomes for Black youth.

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