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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs

Friday, September 17, 2021

Dear John,

The newest addition to Health Affairs'  Leading To Health series
profiles a Denver mental health recovery program.

Mental Health Care Through Photos

September's Leading To Health article focuses on a Denver program

helping people capture images and write narratives, using a method
called "photovoice," to help in their mental health recovery.

Photovoice refers to a process, often used in qualitative research, that
puts cameras in people's hands and asks them to take photos based on
certain prompts and then explain in their own words why they took the
photos.

Health Affairs Senior Editor Jessica Bylander reports on the Mental
Health Center of Denver, which bills itself as a model for innovative
and effective community behavioral health care.

One program at the Mental Health Center of Denver is called Bridging
Community Gaps Photovoice. In weekly classes taught by peers who have
had experience with mental illness, students learn about photovoice,
discuss the benefits of living and participating in the community to
which they feel they belong, and begin taking photos and creating
narratives of those communities.

The program was found to be associated with increased levels of social
interaction, decreases in some aspects of people's internalized
psychiatric stigma, and less tendency to alienate from others.

For all of Health Affairs' Leading To Health Content, visit our
website .

Today on Health Affairs Blog, Liz Ruth and coauthors discuss how the
changes in health behaviors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will have
long-term negative effects
.

Elevating Voices: Hispanic Heritage Month: In a July 2020 Health Affairs
Blog post, Edwin Lindo and coauthors called for a new standard for
publishing on racial health inequities
.
"Patients who suffer the physical tolls of inequities are doubly
burdened by the emotional toll of researchers interested in documenting
inequities but not addressing them," they wrote.  

Listen to our latest podcasts .
On today's episode of This Week
,
President Biden's COVID-19 plan and how paid sick leave can influence
public health.

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Health Affairs is planning a theme issue on racism and health, with an
emphasis on structural racism, to be published in February 2022. We plan
to publish approximately 20 peer-reviewed articles-including original
research, analyses, commentaries, and Narrative Matters-from a diverse
group of researchers, scholars, community health leaders, analysts, and
health care stakeholders, among others.

We plan not only to inform discussion of the topic with the latest
scholarship, but also to consider forward-looking pieces to help shape
the future research and policy agenda.

In addition to publishing traditional content types such as research
papers and commentaries, we are thinking creatively about the theme
issue, how we put it together, what we include, and how we promote it.
We aim to be inclusive, including the voices of individuals with lived
experience as authors and peer reviewers.

We envision that the theme issue would include other novel elements such
as art, poetry, and multimedia components. As part of our commitment, we
will launch a video component alongside the research to set the
foundation of the issue, introduce an interactive element to the
research, and reach new audiences who do not currently read Health
Affairs.

We encourage interested applicants to respond to our Request For
Proposals, due October 1, 2021.

Learn More

Your Daily Digest

A Mental Health Center Uses Photos To Connect People To Community

Jessica Bylander

Confronting The Health Debt: The Impact Of COVID-19 On Chronic Disease
Prevention And Management

Liz Ruth et al.

On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities

Rhea W. Boyd et al.

Podcast: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Paid Sick Leave, And The Economy

Leslie Erdelack and Ellen Bayer

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COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Paid Sick Leave, And The Economy

Listen to Health Affairs Senior Editors Ellen Bayer and Leslie Erdelack
go over President Joe Biden's latest plan to get out of the COVID-19
pandemic and how paid sick leave can influence public health.

Listen Here

 

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