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Friday, October 29, 2021
Dear John,
An October issue paper focuses on associations between firearm bans and reductions in pregnancy-associated homicide.
Firearm Laws Reduce Homicide Of Pregnant And Postpartum Women
In the October issue of Health
Affairs, Maeve Wallace and colleagues investigate the association between domestic violence-related firearm possession bans and relinquishment laws, and reductions in pregnancy-associated homicide.
"States that had both prohibited firearm possession and required firearm relinquishment by people convicted of a domestic violence-related misdemeanor experienced 3.74 fewer deaths per 100,000 live births than would have been expected in the absence of either law," they found.
"Further strengthening of domestic violence-related firearm regulations and their enforcement should be an urgent priority," the authors conclude.
For more about firearms and health, revisit our October 2019 issue, Violence And Health.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Katie Keith discusses how the new version of the
budget reconciliation bill extends enhanced Marketplace subsidies and closes the Medicaid coverage gap through the end of 2025.
Vikram Mukherjee and coauthors argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased urgency to adopt new ways for public and private health care leaders to prepare for future outbreaks.
David Brett-Major and coauthors discuss how adding influenza and other respiratory diseases to COVID-19 pandemic dashboards would provide the public and decision makers with early warning that community respiratory prevention measures require attention.
In a GrantWatch post, Jennie Riley describes an "unorthodox collaboration" between health and conservation groups that led to
an AmeriCorps pilot program that trained and supported young people to be contact tracers assisting the Navajo Nation's COVID-19 response.
Listen to our latest podcasts. On today’s episode of This Week, editors discuss the World Health Organization's special climate and health report and review how climate can be folded into the scope of health policy.
Diving Into The WHO's Climate and Health Report Before The UN Climate Summit In anticipation for the upcoming 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Health Affairs' Senior Editor Leslie Erdelack and Deputy Editor Rob Lott discuss the World Health Organization's special climate and health report and review how climate can be folded into the scope of health policy.
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