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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Monday, November 22, 2021
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Health Affairs is publishing a theme issue on Disability and Health in
October 2022; view our request for abstracts
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Health Equity: COVID-19, Medicare & Medicaid
An upcoming issue of Health Affairs will focus on Disability and Health
,
an intersection at the heart of health equity. Several papers in the
November 2021 issue also focus on health equity topics.
Elizabeth Tung and coauthors quantified associations of neighborhood
socioeconomic disadvantage in Chicago, Illinois, with racial disparities
in COVID-19 positivity
during the pandemic's first wave. They found that those living in a
Black majority neighborhood had higher adjusted odds of COVID-19
positivity relative to those in White majority neighborhoods.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Two-Midnight rule
states that Medicare inpatient payment is appropriate only if a hospital
stay is expected to last through at least two midnights. Sabrina Poon
and colleagues analyzed the impact of the rule and concluded that the
shift from inpatient to observation stays
is directly associated with the adoption of the rule. Poon discussed
this research on a recent episode of A Health Podyssey
.
Examining survey data in the context of variation in state policies,
Brandy Lipton and coauthors determined that adult Medicaid dental
coverage
, an
optional Medicaid benefit, is associated with a 5 percentage point
reduction in the prevalence of untreated caries among children in
low-income families after Medicaid-enrolled adults had access to dental
coverage for at least one year. Â
Matthew Crane and coauthors broke down social vulnerability and vaccine
hesitancy
in data recently made available by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention that describe county-level trends in COVID-19 vaccination.
After adjusting for vaccine hesitancy, the COVID-19 vaccination rate was
lowest in counties classified as high on the Social Vulnerability Index.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Vineeta Gupta argues that sustained
advocacy will be necessary to ensure that the World Bank allocates
sufficient funding to nutrition
and early childhood development.
Erin Brantley and coauthors discuss how the House-passed Build Back
Better Act would direct tens of billions of dollars to strengthen core
public health initiatives
and the health workforce.
Elevating Voices: Native American Heritage Month: Thomas Sequist and
coauthors wrote in a 2011 article about the Indian Health Service
(IHS),
"The IHS has made important progress toward closing the gap in health
outcomes between American Indian and Alaska Native people and the
overall US population through the use of innovative strategies."
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Association Of Neighborhood Disadvantage With Racial Disparities In
COVID-19 Positivity In Chicago
Elizabeth L. Tung et al.
Medicare Two-Midnight Rule Accelerated Shift To Observation Stays
Sabrina J. Poon et al.
Podcast: Sabrina Poon On The Controversial Two-Midnight Rule & Its
Effects On Hospital Admissions
Alan Weil and Sabrina Poon
The Association Between Medicaid Adult Dental Coverage And Children's
Oral Health
Brandy J. Lipton et al.
Disparities In County COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Linked To Disadvantage
And Hesitancy
Matthew A. Crane et al.
The World's Children Are Starving. Here's How The World Bank Can
Help
Vineeta Gupta
House-Passed Build Back Better Would Bolster Public Health
Infrastructure, Health Workforce
Erin Brantley et al.
Indian Health Service Innovations Have Helped Reduce Health Disparities
Affecting American Indian And Alaska Native People
Thomas D. Sequist et al.
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