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

**Thursday, December 26, 2019**

TODAY ON THE BLOG

HEALTH PHILANTHROPY

Staff And Board Changes At Health Funders; Health Policy Job Opening

By Lee-Lee Prina

Read people news from funders around the United States, and check out a
job opening for a vice president of health policy. Read More >>

GRANTWATCH

Health Conundrum: How State Budgets Can Find The Balance Between Social
Versus Medical Services

By Shannon Brownlee, Vikas Saini, and Benjamin F. Miller (12/12/19)

Can the United States bring down overall health care costs by spending
more on social determinants of health? The authors say that strategy
remains unproven. However, states are the principal spenders on social
services. Few studies have directly examined the tradeoffs that states
and local governments are making between social services and health
care. The authors discuss results of a Lown Institute report-funded by
Well Being Trust-on California spending. Read More >>

The Critical Role Of Philanthropy In Researching Solutions To Gun
Violence

By Nina E. Vinik (12/5/19)

The Joyce Foundation looks back at 25 years of funding gun violence
research. Grantees have included universities, hospitals, and think
tanks. Early research supported by Joyce helped define gun violence as a
public health discipline. And, because lack of data was a barrier to
understanding gun violence, this foundation and others funded
development of a comprehensive data set on all violent deaths in the US.
There is more we need to learn, though, says this author. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

GRANTWATCH

Foundation Funding To Improve Rural Health Care

By Lee L. Prina

The December 2019 GrantWatch column goes along with that issue's
theme, rural health. The column describes results of rural health
funding and rural health publications funded by foundations. The column
also includes a long list of other foundations around the country that
fund in rural health, which should be helpful to grantseekers. In the
Key Personnel Change section, a professor of pediatrics, who is said to
be  "one of the nation's leading advocates for rural children's
health," was named to the board of a foundation. Read More >>

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A CLOSER LOOK-Employment

Higher income is consistently associated with better health, including a
reduced overall risk of mortality and reduced rates of such chronic
diseases as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.This Health Affairs Blog
post from 2018 discussesimproving individual and community health
through better employment opportunities
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