Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil will host Meena Seshamani, Deputy Administrator & Director, Center for Medicare, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Disenfranchisement And Health Equity
In their February article, Patricia Homan and Tyson Brown link administrative data on disproportionate felony disenfranchisement of Black residents across US states to individual-level health data from the 2016 Health and Retirement Study.
Their study reveals that "residing in states with higher levels of racialized [electoral] disenfranchisement was associated with more depressive symptoms, more functional limitations,"
and more difficulty performing daily living tasks among Black people than among White middle-aged and older adults.
In another article published in the Racism & Health issue, Katherine Theall and colleagues determine that individuals in New Orleans neighborhoods with high rates of police encounters, after other
characteristics were controlled for, faced significant health risks.
These included significantly higher rates of smoking, poor physical health, low physical activity, violent crime, and domestic violence.
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Polina Krass and coauthors discuss an upcoming change to the US model for responding to individuals experiencing a mental health crisis: the launch of 988, a three-digit, national mental health crisis hotline.
On GrantWatch, read personnel news of foundations—from California to Maine—that are funding in health, compiled and written by Lee-Lee Prina.
Several foundations have experienced changes in leadership at the president and CEO level. Also read news
about Health Affairs' GrantWatch section.
Navigating The COVID-19 Off-Ramp for Telehealth and Medicaid Policies
Health Affairs' Ellen Bayer and Rob Lott discuss possible implications for health policies related to Medicaid and telehealth when the COVID-19 public health emergency sunsets.
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