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Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Dear John,
During Rosh Hashanah, we explore an article about COVID-19 in Israel from the August issue of Health Affairs.
Public Health And Public Trust
In the mitigation of the spread of contagious diseases, social resilience and trust are key. Although
measures like lockdowns have been proven to reduce morbidity, their efficacy is dependent on public trust and compliance.
In an article from the August 2021 issue of Health Affairs, Moran Bodas and Kobi Peleg assessed public attitudes toward compliance with pandemic-related public health regulations during different waves of COVID-19 in Israel through January 2021.
The authors found that trust in public health instructions issued by the Ministry of Health was positively associated with respondents’ level of worry about COVID-19. Both trust and worry were high in early phases of lockdown, dropped in August 2020, and returned to a higher level in January 2021.
“Public attention to risk cues may vary and can be tapped to increase public compliance with health regulations,” they found. “However, this will prove to be highly challenging when trust between the authorities and the public is lost.”
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Ayesha Sitlani and coauthors discuss the challenges around ensuring global access to monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19.
For our newsletter readers celebrating Rosh Hashanah, we wish you a sweet, healthy, and fulfilling New Year.
Pushing Against The QALY Criticism In Drug Pricing
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Leah Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, on the pros and cons of the Quality-Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) measurement in health policy.
The Health Equity Fellowship for Traineesis part of Health Affairs’ national initiative to advance racial equity in health policy and health services scholarly publishing. Its objective is to value and increase the quality and quantity of equity-related research published in Health Affairs that isauthored by members of racial and ethnic groups that have historically been underrepresented in scholarly publishing.
In the program, fellows will receive multilayered mentorship from experienced Health Affairs authors and editorial staff for one year (from January 2022 to December 2022). Mentors will work with fellows to make fellows’ manuscript submissions more likely to be accepted by the journal or another journal within the fellowship year. Manuscript submissions must be related to racial equity.
The application period closes on September 13, 2021.
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