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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Wednesday, November 27, 2019**

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS-Rural Health

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The December 2019 issue of Health Affairs explores various dimensions of
health and health care in rural America. Authors examine the health
needs of people living in rural areas; investigate inequities in the
availability, accessibility, and financing of care; and identify
policies, financing mechanisms, and practices that can improve the
health and well-being of rural Americans. View Speaker List

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

ELDER CARE

Supporting The Health Of Older Adults Before, During, And After
Disasters

By Sue Anne Bell, Jeffrey T. Kullgren, Erica Solway, and Preeti Malani

The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging recently
explored these issues through its recurring, nationally representative
survey of US older adults ages 50 to 80 years. The results identified
several aspects of emergency preparation that could be improved
including having discussions with older adults about their plans for
evacuation with family or loved ones, maintaining a stocked emergency
kit, and signing up for local emergency alert systems. Read More >>

GRANTWATCH

Right-Sizing Evidence-Based Programs To Improve Rural Health Care

By Elizabeth Ruen (11/21/19)

Billings Clinic, an integrated health system in Montana, adapted the
Alameda Model of emergency psychiatric care for its use. The staff
believed that this evidence-based model from an urban area in California
could be "right-sized" to serve a smaller population in a rural and
frontier region. The author reports some promising early results at
Billings Clinic's psychiatric stabilization unit. The Leona M. and Harry
B. Helmsley Charitable Trust played an important role in those
successes. Read More >>

States Take Up Palliative Care: NASHP's Work With The John A. Hartford
Foundation

By Trish Riley and Kitty Purington (11/20/19)

States can play a critical role in educating the public and providers
about the value of palliative care services and their place in a
comprehensive system of care for people with serious illness and/or
chronic conditions. Following a recent National Academy for State Health
Policy meeting, the authors discuss ways to promote access to and
quality of palliative services and how to address common roadblocks to
implementing them in the states.
Read More >>

Using The County Health Rankings To Assess County Performance At A
National Scale

By Jessica Athens (11/14/19)

Is there a way to see how the counties in one state are faring on health
outcomes measures, compared to counties nationwide? Yes, says a policy
and research officer at the New York State Health Foundation, who
describes a September 2019 report it issued on this subject. Read More
>>

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Tobacco Use Reduction: Policy Wins In Kentucky

By Ben Chandler (11/6/19)

A foundation has started doing most of its own advocacy work and,
working with a broad coalition, has racked up two significant policy
wins: an increased state cigarette excise tax and a model tobacco-free
schools policy. By July 1, 2020, each school district must pass the
tobacco-free campus policy or opt out (so far, only one has opted out).
The author, the foundation's president and CEO and a former member of
Congress, describes how these wins were achieved. Read More >>

The Field Of Health Services Research: Time To Change Its Paradigm

By Sherry Glied and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (10/30/19)

Could it be that some of the processes and methods that have reinforced
the rigor of health services research now stand in the way of it being
effective, relevant, and timely? AcademyHealth has launched a project,
funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to redesign how such
research is conducted and disseminated. The authors cochair this effort
in which some 120 volunteers are participating. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

GRANTWATCH

Funders Supporting Smoking Prevention

By Lee L. Prina

The November 2019 GrantWatch column focuses on what foundations are
funding to prevent smoking and educate people about youth vaping. It
highlights foundations around the country. These include Bloomberg
Philanthropies, which has a $160 million initiative called Protect Kids:
Fight Flavored E-Cigarettes, and the Paso del Norte Health Foundation,
in El Paso, Texas, which has been encouraging adherence to the new Texas
21 Law through an awareness campaign. In key personnel news, Antony
Chiang has a new job: He is the CEO of a new conversion foundation with
a sizable endowment. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK- Rural Health Care

****The Texas Observer recently calculated that one-fifth of the 254
Texas counties have either zero or one practicing physicians,
highlighting the severity of doctor shortages in rural communities.
Christian Suharlim's Health Affairs Blog post from February 2014shares
how Indonesia's Jampersal program

might offer innovative solutions to mitigating the physician shortage in
the United States.

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