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Tuesday, February 1, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News
From Health Affairs

Dear John,

Health Affairs is continuing the Elevating Voices series in February to
honor Black History Month. Each week we will highlight Black and African
American voices from the Health Affairs author community.

Follow along on social media and in our newsletter as we elevate
important voices and research.

Racism And Health

Racism is the reason for large, sustained health inequities in the
United States. The February 2022 issue of Health Affairs will focus on
racism and health and provide historical context about how the two have
been linked.  

Articles in the upcoming issue will highlight experiences from specific
racial and ethnic communities, examine how structural racism causes
racial inequities in health and opportunity, and describe racial
inequities in health care access and use.

For a preview of what is to come, check out an ahead-of-print article in
which Michael Sun and colleagues used machine learning techniques to
analyze potentially stigmatizing language in electronic health records

of patients seen at an urban academic medical center.

Their analysis found that Black patients had 2.54 times the adjusted
odds of having one or more negative descriptors-such as "non-adherent"
and "agitated"-associated with their records.

Several Health Affairs Forefront articles and Health Policy Briefs have
covered the topic of racism and health, as well. In April 2021 Nancy
Krieger and coauthors conducted a literature review of the world's
leading medical journals to examine the publishing rates of articles
that mention racism
.

A policy brief by Michael Esposito and coauthors outlined how aggressive
policing

negatively affects health and emphasized that communities of
color-particularly Black communities-are overexposed to these
policing strategies.

Read about topics like these and much more in the upcoming Racism &
Health issue, to be released on Monday, February 7, and join us for a
virtual symposium about the topic next Tuesday, at which we will feature
panels of distinguished authors and experts.

Register Now

Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Sheldon Garrison and coauthors
discuss the collective cost burdens

posed by rare diseases, disorders, and conditions that combined affect
between 25 and 30 million people in the United States.

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil is pleased to announce plans
for Health Affairs Scholar, our new open access journal
.
Health Affairs Scholar will be a companion to Health Affairs, providing
an additional forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed health policy and
health services research.

Health Affairs Branded Post:

**Lessons Learned in Medicare Advantage: Accelerating the Drive to
Health Equity**

Elena Rios and Martin Hamlette

Sponsored by Better Medicare Alliance

 

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George Wehby On Mask Mandates And How Health Services Research Has
Changed Since COVID

George Wehby from the University of Iowa College of Public Health joins
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil to discuss his research on
state-level mask mandates, children's educational attainment, racial and
ethnic disparities in dental service use, and how he frames research
questions.

Listen Now

 

Daily Digest

Negative Patient Descriptors: Documenting Racial Bias In The Electronic
Health Record

Michael Sun et al.

Medicine's Privileged Gatekeepers: Producing Harmful Ignorance About
Racism And Health

Nancy Krieger et al.

Aggressive Policing, Health, And Health Equity

Michael Esposito et al.

The Economic Burden Of Rare Diseases: Quantifying The Sizeable
Collective Burden And Offering Solutions

Sheldon Garrison et al.

Health Affairs Introduces Health Affairs Scholar, A New Open Access
Journal

Alan Weil

Podcast: George Wehby On Mask Mandates And How Health Services Research
Has Changed Since COVID

Alan Weil and George Wehby

 

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