In a new Health Policy Brief published this week, Sarah Hemeida and coauthors highlight stigma as an inherently structural phenomenon with significant health implications. They analyze how laws are powerful mediators for structural stigma and critical levers for anti-stigma work.

Key findings in the brief include:

Stigma itself is a powerful social determinant of health and has been demonstrated to worsen physical health outcomes and social well-being and to reduce educational achievements and income levels among people who experience stigma.
Laws are a particularly powerful mediator for structural stigma, as illustrated in this brief through the example of stigma related to people with substance use disorder (SUD).
The legal domains in which stigma against people with SUD is most prevalent include employment law, legal findings, and nuisance law.

Read more from the newest Health Policy Brief.

This week, we announced a partnership agreement with Oxford University Press (OUP) to publish Health Affairs Scholar, a new open access journal of emerging and global health policy.

The journal will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research from a wide, multidisciplinary community of scholars and policy leaders. In addition to covering core health policy topics of health care costs, access, quality, and equity, Health Affairs Scholar will highlight innovative translational research in health care technology, population health, and global health.

A Health Podyssey: Meera Kotagal Identifies Area-Based Socioeconomic Deprivation Indices
Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Meera Kotagal from Cincinnati Children's Hospital discussing her and colleagues' paper in the December 2022 issue examining 15 different area-based socioeconomic deprivation indices.

Health Affairs This Week: Will Naloxone Become An Over-The-Counter Drug?

Listen to Leslie Erdelack and Jessica Bylander discuss the FDA's look into the potential for over-the-counter naloxone products to help reduce opioid overdose deaths.

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