Forefront: Equitable vaccine distribution and collective action
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Wednesday, January 26, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Today, we are launching a new podcast, Health Affairs Pathways, which explores the avenues and alleyways of the health care system through a variety of storytelling techniques. Listen to the first episode of the first mini-series, “ Piecemeal.”
Stillbirth Prevention
In her Narrative Matters essay, Marny Smith writes about working to import stillbirth prevention policies from abroad after her own experience of having a stillborn son at thirty-six weeks.

While her obstetrician said that there was nothing that could have been done to prevent the stillbirth, Smith felt that wasn’t necessarily true.

“With a better standard of care—one that is not so insufficient that thousands upon thousands of babies die every year—it’s possible that Heath, and many other babies like him, would have lived,” she writes. “Why are we accepting deaths that we should actively be trying to prevent?”

“While the US is badly lagging in addressing the problem of stillbirths, other countries are addressing it with rational fixes,” Smith explains, citing successful policies implemented in Scotland.

Listen to Smith read her essay on the Narrative Matters podcast.

Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Joia Mukherjee and coauthors posit that equitable vaccine distribution requires collective action from wealthy nations to support low-income countries.

Jeroen Jansen and coauthors discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted common areas of uncertainty associated with evaluating the clinical and economic value of novel interventions.

In GrantWatch, Jai Kumar and coauthors say that The Duke Endowment and CaroNova have launched an accelerator program to hasten adoption of the Home Hospital model in North and South Carolina.
 
Piecemeal: Health Care Consolidation And Independent Primary Care

We are launching a new podcast, Health Affairs Pathways, which explores the avenues and alleyways of the health care system through a variety of storytelling methods. Our first series in Health Affairs Pathways is from Lalita Abhyankar, a physician and storyteller. Her series Piecemeal examines how consolidation in health care is affecting independent primary care.
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Daily Digest
After A Death, Bringing Stillbirth Prevention To The US

A mother whose son was stillborn at thirty-six weeks is working to import stillbirth prevention policies from abroad. Read by author Marny Smith, assistant director of Graduate Career Services at the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College.
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