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

**Monday, December 2, 2019**

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HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS-
Rural Health

This Week! Wednesday, 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

PATIENTS AND CONSUMERS

The Lurking Danger In The "Business Case" For Patient Safety

By Michael L. Millenson

Hospital boards and leaders have a duty to their community to make
replicating the "zero preventable harm" exemplars' achievements a
measurable, accountable, and urgent goal. Read More >>

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HEALTH AFFAIRS PODCAST: NEWSMAKERS

New Hospital Price Transparency Rules: Will They Help You?

In a WTOP-FM interview, Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil
assesses how consumers may (or may not) benefit from two
long-anticipated rules, recently unveiled by the Trump Administration,
that increase price transparency for both hospitals and insurers.

Listen here.

REQUEST FOR ABSTRACTS-Children's Health

**Health Affairs** is planning a theme issue on Children's Health, to
be published in October 2020.  We thank Nemours for its generous
support of this issue.

We invite all interested authors to submit abstracts for consideration
for this issue. Editors will review the abstracts and, for those that
best fit our vision and goals for the issue, invite authors to submit
full papers for consideration.

In order to be considered, abstracts must be submitted no later than
11:59 PM

**Eastern time**,

**December 29, 2019**. We regret that we will not be able to consider
any abstracts submitted after that date. Abstracts must be submitted via
our abstract submission portal
-abstracts
submitted via other channels will not be considered.

More information here

Preparation and formatting guidelines

Submit abstracts via our online submission form

Queries: [email protected]

IN THE JOURNAL

AHEAD OF PRINT

****Declines In Pediatric Mortality Fall Short For Rural US Children

By Janice Probst, Whitney Zahnd, and Charity Breneman

While pediatric death rates have declined nationally, disparities remain
for some groups of children. Janice Probst and coauthors analyzed
mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
finding that rural youth ages 0-19 were more likely than urban youth
to die during childhood throughout the period from 1999 through 2017. In
addition, while the death rate for rural children dropped 19 percent
between 1999 and 2017, from 77.6 per 100,000 children to 62.9 per
100,000, the decline among urban children was significantly greater-a
decrease of 24 percent, from 66.4 per 100,000 to 50.2 per 100,000. Among
rural children, non-Hispanic black infants and American Indian/Alaska
Native children were particularly at risk. Read More >>

This study will also appear in the journal's December issue, Rural
Health.

Read the November 2019 Table of Contents

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A CLOSER LOOK-E-cigarettes

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the total
number of confirmed cases of lung illness related to vaping had risen to
2,290 as of November 20, 2019. The most recent GrantWatch column
highlights the programs that foundations are funding to prevent
e-cigarette use
and
educate people about youth vaping.

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