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Health Affairs Pathways is a unique podcast series that elevates the stories and voices in health care that might otherwise go unheard, with recent episodes covering topics including mental health boarding and health care consolidation.

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A Health Affairs article released this month finds reductions in hospitalizations among children referred to a primary care–based medical-legal partnership.

Medical-legal partnerships link physicians and other medical professionals to legal aid advocates working to address social needs amenable to legal remedies.

Andrew Beck and coauthors compare the experiences of low-income children referred to a medical-legal partnership at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center with a matched cohort who were not referred.

They found that the median predicted hospitalization rate for children in the year after referral was 37.9 percent lower if children received the legal intervention than if they did not.

Beck and coauthors outline the potential implications that improvements in health via social needs interventions have for clinical care delivery and financing.

A GrantWatch column in the April 2020 issue covers funders' support of efforts to integrate health and human services. Revisit it here.

Today in Health Affairs Forefront, J. Michael McWilliams considers the future of the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. At its current rate of growth, MA is on track to reach 69 percent of the Medicare population by the end of 2030.

Stefan Wheat and coauthors write about the need to improve recordkeeping in health care in order to document the impacts of climate change on public health.

Elevating Voices: Women’s History Month: In her September 2021 Narrative Matters essay, Maria Victoria Bovo, a pediatrician, shares her experience with the debilitating symptoms of long COVID.

"COVID-19 did not end my life, but it stopped me. It dragged me down from the high-velocity train on which I was riding. I stood up, fell down, and stood up again," she writes.

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