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The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
December 5, 2021
Dear John,
Read on for highlights from Health Affairs this week.
What's New In Health Affairs
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In her November 2021 Narrative Matters essay, Nora Super, senior
director of the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging and
executive director of the Milken Institute Alliance to Improve Dementia
Care, shares her story ofliving with major depression
and calls for better treatments.
Super describes her onset of depression and the multiple treatments she
tried before finding success with electroconvulsive therapy. She also
discusses why she decided to share her story after the deaths of Kate
Spade and Anthony Bourdain in 2018.
"I've observed that many high-achieving people experience bouts of
major depression, but we generally hide it from others...When we can no
longer perform at such intense levels, depression convinces us that we
are failures and worthless," she writes. "In disclosing my illness
to others, I've discovered that most people I know have been touched
by mental illness in some way."
To do more for people living with depression, Super argues that we need
to reduce stigma, make care more accessible and equitable, better
support alternative treatment options, and explore social prescribing.
Listen to Super read her essay on the latest Narrative Matters podcast
.
This week on Health Affairs Blog, Tod Ibrahim and Kevin Longino argued
that Congress and the Biden administration must include kidney research
in any future funding related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lynn Blewett and Minnesota House Rep. Jennifer Schultz explained
Minnesota's approach to helping people who fall into the "family glitch"
gap
in Affordable Care Act coverage.
And, in a new GrantWatch post, Tina Kauh argued that more financial
support
from funders is needed to disaggregate health care data and adequately
capture racial and ethnic diversity.
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On The Blog This Week
An Open Letter To ARPA-H Designers: 5 Guiding Principles From Health
Services Research
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Racial Equity Will Not Be Achieved Without Investing In Data
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To Fulfill The Promise Of Innovation In Kidney Disease Treatment,
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Fine-Tuning Cost Sharing As Part Of Health Reform
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Global Health Inequity: Examining Omicron Through The Lens of HIV/AIDS
Listen to Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Rob Lott discuss the
Omicron COVID-19 variant and how the HIV/AIDS epidemic can inform the
response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The centerpiece of the December
**Health Affairs** Journal Club meeting is "Despite National Declines
In Kidney Failure Incidence, Disparities Widened Between Low- And
High-Poverty Counties." In the paper, which will appear in the
December 2021 issue of the journal, Kevin Nguyen and coauthors examine
trends in the incidence of kidney failure by county-level poverty among
US adults between 2000 and 2017. While national estimates suggest that
overall rates are declining, the authors found marked disparity in
incidence of kidney failure between low- and high-poverty counties.
Health Affairs Senior Editor Jessica Bylander will host Nguyen, an
investigator in the Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice
at the Brown University School of Public Health, to talk in detail about
the research, methods, and conclusions of the paper, including changes
in policy and care delivery that will be required to close the gap for
low-income areas and communities.
Date:Â Â Â Â Thursday, December 9, 2021
Time:Â Â Â Â 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (ET)
Place:Â Â Â Online details will be shared with registrants 24 hours in
advance of the event.
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