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A new Health Policy Brief reviews what is known about aggressive
policing and its impacts on population health and health equity.

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Aggressive Policing, Health, and Health Equity

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Law enforcement agencies across the United States use aggressive
policing strategies into their operations. Communities of
color-particularly Black communities-are overexposed to these
policing strategies and the health harms they engender.

In a new Health Policy Brief, Michael Esposito and coauthors dive into
the negative mental and physical health outcomes associated with
aggressive policing
.
They discuss how law enforcement institutions contribute to US
population health, add to the hazards that racialized populations face,
and amplify health disparities.

Esposito and coauthors also highlight several proposed policy
interventions to reduce or eliminate the negative population health
effects of aggressive policing, including greater transparency to hold
law enforcement agencies responsible for providing comprehensive
accounts of their interactions with civilians.

They write, "True progress will require federal standards that compel
law enforcement agencies across the country to provide accurate,
standardized data on their interactions with the public."

Listen to Health Affairs' Rob Lott talk with co-author Hedwig Lee about
the brief on today's episode of Health Affairs This Week
.

Also, in April's Narrative Matters essay, David E. Velasquez describes
the financial fallout after his uninsured father received treatment for
a heart attack and subsequent medical bills totaling over $100,000.
Velasquez describes the burdensome process of navigating the hospital
charity care system
,
including the time, energy, and English-language capabilities needed to
utilize it.

In the essay, Velasquez outlines ways to increase accessibility of
financial assistance to those who need it, but emphasizes, "the ultimate
goal for patients traversing the health care system's complicated
financial web is not enhanced charity care but affordable and
comprehensive health insurance coverage."

Hear Velasquez read his essay on the Narrative Matters podcast
.

Today Health Affairs Blog features two new posts about
pharmaceutical-related march-in rights. First, Peter J. Pitts, pointing
to a recent Government Accountability Office report on federal
contributions to remdesivir, argues that exerting federal march-in
rights would actually fail

to achieve the best bang for the buck when it comes to public health. On
the other hand, Peter S. Arno and coauthors argue that, although the
prospect of utilizing march-in rights may keep drug prices in check, a
recently proposed federal rule threatens to undermine that protection
.

In a new GrantWatch post, Arielle Lawson and Ann Ritter report lessons
learned from shifting a group prenatal care model to telehealth

during the pandemic.

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Your Daily Digest

Aggressive Policing, Health, And Health Equity

Michael Esposito, Savannah Larimore, and Hedwig Lee

Charity Care Needs To Be Better Than This

David E. Velasquez

Podcast: Charity Care Needs To Be Better Than This

David Velasquez and Jessica Bylander

Remdesivir And Federal March-In Rights

Peter J. Pitts

March-In Rights Could Ensure Patient Access By Keeping Drug Prices In
Check. They're Under Attack

Peter S. Arno, Dana Neacsu, and Kathryn Ardizzone

Lessons From The Field: Offering Group Prenatal Care Via Telehealth
During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Arielle Lawson and Ann Ritter

Podcast: Aggressive Policing Damages Health Equity And Community Health

Rob Lott and Hedwig Lee

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Aggressive Policing Damages Health Equity And Community Health

Listen to Rob Lott talk with Hedwig Lee, coauthor of a new Health Policy
Brief on the impacts of aggressive policing on health and health equity.

Listen Here

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