The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Friday, May 7, 2021
Dear John,
In the May issue, articles discuss cancer survival rates by insurance status and spending on targeted therapies for breast cancer.
Linking Uninsurance And Cancer Survival Rates
The May 2021 edition of Health Affairs includes two papers about cancer, a disease with approximately 1.8 million new cases and 600,000
deaths expected this year.
Across the sixteen cancer types studied, they found that "uninsured patients approaching Medicare age
eligibility (ages 60–64) had strikingly worse one-, two-, and five-year survival when compared with immediately older Medicare beneficiaries (ages 65– 69).”
Silvestri will appear on A Health Podyssey later this month to discuss this research.
The authors noted, “Higher first-year spending on targeted therapies was associated with significantly lower cancer mortality two to four years after diagnosis for patients with advanced-stage cancer.”
Today on Health Affairs Blog,
as part of the “Envisioning A Transformed Clinical Trials Enterprise For 2030” short series, Brian Southwell discusses how we might embrace a person-centered perspective on communication in support of clinical trials. Also for the series, Eric D. Perakslis and coauthors describe a world where technological advances are embraced and supported by all clinical trial stakeholders.
In a new post, Katie Keith discusses new data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on HealthCare.Gov enrollment, including the news that 940,000 people enrolled in Marketplace coverage during the broad COVID-19 special enrollment period.
Elevating Voices: Asian American and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month: Less than a year ago, Michelle Ko published a Narrative Matters essay titled “Racism In My Medical Education.” In it, she called for more diversity and a commitment to health equity in US medical schools. “Placing health equity at the center of medical education is not merely right or smart. It is essential,” she writes.
Today is the final day of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, and we are looking back at a paper from the December 2019 theme issue, Rural Health. Katy Backes Kozhimannil and coauthors analyzed severe maternal morbidity and mortality during childbirth hospitalizations among rural and urban residents from 2007 to 2015. They found that rural residents had a 9 percent greater probability of severe maternal morbidity and mortality, compared with urban residents.
Make sure to keep an eye out for our October 2021 theme issue, Perinatal Mental Health.
The Next Wave Of Federal Food Aid For Children And Families
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Jessica Bylander discuss food insecurity and President Biden's latest efforts on federal food aid.
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