The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Dear John, Today’s newsletter gives readers a peek inside the June 2021 edition of
Health Affairs.
June 2021: COVID-19, Equity & More
The June 2021 issue of the journal expands our understanding of the broad effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also exploring topics such as health equity, care delivery organization, prescription drug pricing, and more.
Three papers this month describe the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on care for other conditions, including emergency calls for cardiac arrests, high-acuity
emergency department visits, and new initiations of behavioral health medications.
Two papers analyze COVID-19 case and mortality data among specific populations.
Several papers cover health equity on topics including access to care for Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities, growth in Medicare Advantage enrollment, adolescents living in communities with recent gun violence, and racial/ethnic disparities in the use of medication for opioid use disorder.
To access all of our June journal content when it is released on Monday, June
7, at 4:00 p.m. Eastern, subscribe here. Today on Health Affairs Blog, Carol Levine and Rani Snyder discuss how COVID-19 expansions of Hospital at Home programs should rally support for family caregivers. In the first post of their two-part blog series, David Anderson and coauthors discuss how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can nudge more enrollees
into plans that offer them both lower premiums and reduced cost sharing. Elevating Voices: Pride Month: In a 2016 article about community-based participatory research, Beti Thompson and coauthors discussed the success of the Transgender Community Health Project,
which is aimed at assessing HIV/AIDS risk among transgender people in San Francisco.
Check out our COVID-19 Resource Center for free content about all things related to the pandemic.
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