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

**Wednesday, December 4, 2019**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

PRIMARY CARE

Leveraging Virtual Networks To Improve Dermatologic Access And Care

By Karen E. Edison

Initiatives such as Project ECHO help us maximize the physician
expertise we do have-making expert care available to more patients,
and improving cost-effectiveness in the health care system-and they
make a difference.
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ELSEWHERE@HEALTH AFFAIRS

Fitzhugh Mullan: A Health Affairs Reading List

The Health Affairs community was deeply saddened to learn that Fitzhugh
Mullan- pediatrician, activist, researcher, educator, editor-passed
away on November 29, 2019, at the age of 77. He will be so dearly
missed. Over more than 30 years, Mullan authored dozens of articles that
were published by Health Affairs, including research, commentaries, and
interviews. Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS EVENTS-2019 Commonwealth Fund International Health
Policy Survey

December 11, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Eastern
Conrad Hotel - 950 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
Registration Now Open

Join us for a special event to be convened by Health Affairs and The
Commonwealth Fund marking the publication of the 2019 Commonwealth Fund
International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11
Countries. Senior government officials, delivery system experts, and
leading policy thinkers from around the world will gather for a
high-level discussion of strategies to promote high-quality primary
care, with special attention to the integration of health and social
care.

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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

RURAL HEALTH

Structural Urbanism Contributes To Poorer Health Outcomes For Rural
America

By Janice Probst, Jan Marie Eberth, and Elizabeth Crouch

In this overview paper, Janice Probst and colleagues point out that
rural mortality rates only started falling behind urban rates in the
mid-1980s. The authors introduce the concept of "structural
urbanism"-a bias in financing health care services tied to individuals
that favors densely populated areas and fails to account for the fixed
costs associated with delivering services to those living more remotely.
Read More >>

What Is Rural? Challenges And Implications Of Definitions That
Inadequately Encompass Rural People And Places

By Kevin J. Bennett, Tyrone F. Borders, George M. Holmes, Katy Backes
Kozhimannil, and Erika Ziller

Kevin Bennett and coauthors review how various government agencies
define rural and point out the consequences of using definitions that
may be inappropriate for a particular purpose. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-Long-Term Care

****Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has released his
plan to improve our nation's long-term health care services and
supports. The proposal aims to reduce the burden on caregivers, increase
Social Security benefits, and expand Medicare Advantage plans, among
other things. Karl Polzer's Health Affairs Blog post from April 2018
warns of a potential financial catastrophe without any significant
long-term care reform

and emphasizes the need for more innovative solutions to address this
growing issue.

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