Sunday, July 10, 2022 | The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
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Affairs earned its highest-ever Journal Impact Factor of 9.048, according to the recently released Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) 2022 from Clarivate. This is a 44 percent increase from Health Affairs’ 2021 Journal Impact Factor.
What's New At Health Affairs
Earlier this week, we released the July issue of Health Affairs.
Most of the issue is devoted to an invited group of articles discussing how we can prevent and improve care and outcomes for type 2 diabetes. Additional articles in the issue focus on behavioral health and health care spending and
prices.
In their overview article, Puneet Kaur Chehal and coauthors find that progress in diabetes prevention and treatment in the US has stalled. They argue that fragmentation in insurance coverage, payment, and delivery have all contributed to poor diabetes outcomes.
Maria Alva and coauthors analyze national survey data and determine that 13.5 percent of the population has prediabetes, representing a 4.8-percentage-point increase between 2010 and 2020.
Despite these trends, the authors find that "only 5 percent of patients diagnosed with prediabetes were referred by a health care professional to a diabetes prevention program."
Alva also wrote an essay for the Health Affairs Todaynewsletter discussing their research on the diabetes prevention gap. For more curated newsletters by health policy experts on topics like health reform and social determinants of health, join Health Affairs Insider.
Health Affairs is publishing a theme issue on disability and health in October 2022. Content will include original research, analyses, and commentaries that provides a multidimensional perspective on disability and health.
As part of Health Affairs' commitment to supporting and raising awareness of disabilities and health, we will launch a video component, as well as unique artwork and digital assets, alongside the research
to set the foundation of the issue.
We invite participants to submit their responses to the proposals for video production and artwork and digital assets by July 15.
We will also host a poetry contest for the Narrative Matters section of the issue.
We are looking for well-crafted poems that touch on topics related to disability and health, by writers with lived experience of disability. (Note: This includes family members or caregivers of people with disabilities.)
The winning poet will receive a $500 prize and publication in the October issue of Health Affairs. The contest is open until July 25.
Elsewhere At Health Affairs
This month, Health Affairs
will host events that cover emergency department facility fees and type 2 diabetes. Check out our upcoming events and be sure to join our Events list so you can always be notified about
our programming.
In Health Affairs Forefront, Katie Keith discusses the Supreme Court decisions from the recently completed term that focus on the constitutional right to an abortion, the methodology for Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments, and climate change.
Richard Hughes IV also examines the Supreme Court and considers the future of vaccine mandates.
He writes that Justice Gorsuch’s message to states about vaccine mandates may be interpreted to mean that a state must always offer religious exemptions, which would negate the success of public health in dramatically reducing the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Gerald Harmon and coauthors, all presidents or past presidents of leading physician organizations, write about the Behavioral Health Integration Collaborative, a group dedicated to improving quality of care and access to behavioral health services.
In an episode of This Week,
Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Kathleen Haddad discuss the latest measures taken by CMS regarding rural emergency hospitals and price transparency for hospitals and payers.
Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available—and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront and podcasts free for everyone.
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Telehealth Waivers
Juan Andino from the University of Michigan joins A Health Podyssey to discuss how interstate telehealth use changed in the face of COVID-19.
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