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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS–Rural Health
Next Week! December 4, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm Eastern
National Press Club
529 14th Street NW, Washington DC (Metro Center)
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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 >>
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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.
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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 >>
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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 2014 shares how Indonesia’s Jampersal program might offer innovative solutions to mitigating the physician shortage in the United States.
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