Forefront: Digital therapeutics can transform mental health care
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Monday, February 28, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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An article in the Racism & Health issue examines inequities in the use of high-quality home health agencies.
Inequities In Home Health Agency Use
In 2017, home health care was used by approximately 3.4 million homebound Medicare beneficiaries and cost Medicare $18 billion.

Medicare home health provides skilled nursing care; physical, occupational, and speech therapies; medical social services; and intermittent home health aide services.

In their February article, Shekinah Fashaw-Walters and coauthors examine the associations between Medicare home health patients’ individual- and neighborhood-level characteristics and receipt of care from high-quality home health agencies.

They report that Black, Hispanic, and low-income home health patients have lower use of high-quality home health agencies, on average, than their White and higher-income counterparts, even when living in neighborhoods with similar racial and income characteristics
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Colin Espie and coauthors discuss how the burgeoning digital therapeutics market has the potential to transform mental health care.

Sarah Kolk discusses how policy makers, using the Principles of Environmental Justice, can address environmental inequities that cause health inequities
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Racism And Health In US Medicine: A Conversation With Harriet Washington

In a bonus episode of A Health Podyssey, Harriet Washington discusses the history of racism in medicine and research with Vabren Watts, Health Affairs’ director of health equity, and Aletha Maybank, chief health equity officer and senior vice president of the American Medical Association.
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