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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Friday, October 11, 2019
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS
LOS ANGELES BRIEFING: VIOLENCE & HEALTH
October 23, 2019
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific
Town & Gown Ballroom, USC Campus – 665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Register
to Attend
Access the Violence and Health issue
Join us in Los Angeles for a forum on Violence & Health–subject matter covered in the October Health Affairs issue. View Table of Contents
The forum will feature authors from a select group of studies contained in the issue, as well as community leaders, policy makers and residents who are developing and deploying strategies for combating violence in their daily lives:
- Raymond Baxter, President and CEO, Blue Shield of California Foundation
- Judy Belk, President and CEO, California Wellness Foundation
- Genevieve Flores-Haro, Associate Director, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project
- Sandra Henriquez, CEO, CalCASA (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault)
- Hannah Laqueur, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, on "Alcohol-Related Crimes And Risk Of Arrest For Intimate Partner Violence Among California Handgun Purchasers"
- Robert Riewerts, Chair, Care Delivery Workgroup, Kaiser Permanente Task Force on Firearm Injury Prevention
- Anne Tremblay, Director, Gang Reduction & Youth Development (GRYD), Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles
- Elizabeth Tung, Instructor of Medicine, University of Chicago School of Medicine, on "Social Isolation, Loneliness, And Violence Exposure In Urban Adults" and "Keeping Your Guard Up: Hypervigilance Among Urban Residents Affected By Community And Police Violence"
- Briana Woods-Jaeger, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University, on "Mitigating Negative Consequences Of Community Violence Exposure: Perspectives From African American Youth"
*Additional speakers to be announced.
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A CLOSER LOOK—Prior Authorization
The American Medical Association and more than one hundred other
medical societies issued a letter to CMS last week pushing the agency to comprehensively address prior authorization, which delays treatment and contributes to physician burnout, according to CMS Administrator Seema Verma. However, David Howard’s Health Affairs Blog post from July 14, 2016, contends that these unpopular prior authorization requirements are necessary to keep drug prices at bay.
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