In a new article published ahead of print this week, Brian McGarry and coauthors explore the link between skilled nursing facility staff size and COVID-19 case rates.

Using data from June through September 2020, they found that nursing homes with the most staff members had cumulative resident case rates that were 92 percent higher and death rates that were 133 percent higher than those of facilities with the fewest staff members.

On Monday, Health Affairs hosted the first of two July issue briefings. The virtual event focused on health and health policy on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Featured authors presented their research published in the July issue, Borders, Immigrants, and Health.

• Sharon Borja and coauthors studied insurance rates of US citizen migrant children living in Mexico.

• Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela and coauthors analyzed Mexican health policy documents to study the extent to which in-transit migrants and asylum seekers were considered in the country’s COVID-19 response.

• Arturo Vargas Bustamante and coauthors examined health trends and disparities in health care and coverage among US-born residents and immigrants.

• C. Nicholas Cuneo and coauthors examined data about people seeking asylum in the US from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras who presented to a medical clinic in Boston.

• Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas and Arturo Vargas Bustamante examined health insurance coverage of people born in Mexico who left and returned, either voluntarily or because they were deported.

• Keith Gennuso and colleagues calculated life expectancy by race and place for counties on the US side of the US-Mexico border.

A recording of the event is available on our website.

This week on Health Affairs Blog, Katie Keith discussed the announcement that Marketplace enrollment growth has already topped two million during the COVID-19 enrollment period.

The July 2021 thematic issue of Health Affairs takes an intensive look at the policy issues related to immigrants, borders, and health. Articles describe current migration trends and supply new data analysis and commentary on how policies can address disparities and ease the disproportionate health burden borne by immigrants.

Immigrant Health: Evidence & Policy Issues
Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 1:30-3 pm (EDT)

Please join us on Tuesday, July 20, when Health Affairs takes a closer look at the effects of recent US immigration policy on care, coverage, and outcomes for immigrants in the United States. Topics will include how, in mixed status families, noncitizen children face tougher health effects than their citizen siblings; how immigration enforcement reduces use of benefits like Medicaid and SNAP; and how states and others are crafting policy to restore that critical safety net.

About Health Affairs

Health Affairs is the leading peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Published monthly by Project HOPE, the journal is available in print and online. Late-breaking content is also found through healthaffairs.org, Health Affairs Today, and Health Affairs Sunday Update.

Project HOPE is a global health and humanitarian relief organization that places power in the hands of local health care workers to save lives across the globe. Project HOPE has published Health Affairs since 1981.

Copyright © Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
Health Affairs, 7500 Old Georgetown Road, Suite 600, Bethesda, MD 20814, United States

Privacy Policy

To unsubscribe from this email, click here.