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.

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.

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