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Mashup Score: 5States’ Abortion Laws Associated With Intimate Partner Violence–Related Homicide Of Women And Girls In The US, 2014–20 - 10 hour(s) ago
Women who are pregnant or recently gave birth are significantly more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than nonpregnant, nonpostpartum women of reproductive age, implicating the risk of fatal violence conferred by pregnancy itself. The rapidly increasing passage of state legislation has restricted or banned access to abortion care across the US. We used the most recent and only source of population-based data to examine the association between state laws that restrict access to abortion and trends in intimate partner violence–related homicide among women and girls ages 10–44 during the period 2014–20. Using robust difference-in-differences ecologic modeling, we found that enforcement of each additional Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) law was associated with a 3.4 percent increase in the rate of intimate partner violence–related homicide in this population. We estimated that 24.3 intimate partner violence–related homicides of women and girls ages 10–44 were ass
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The managed care rule’s importance can hardly be overstated. As of 2022, three-quarters of states relied on managed care as a basic element of their Medicaid state plan administration. Over 80 percent of beneficiaries are enrolled in some form of managed care arrangement, and three quarters (66 million children and adults as of 2021) are members of plans offering a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient care, similar to private insurance.
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Mashup Score: 20Housing As A Health-Related Social Need: Lessons From North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot | Health Affairs Forefront - 19 hour(s) ago
North Carolina has been testing the health impacts of services that support access to and retention of housing along with other services to qualifying Medicaid enrollees through its Healthy Opportunities Pilots.
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Mashup Score: 7Podcast: What Walmart Health's Demise Says About Retail Health and Telehealth Markets | Health Affairs Podcast - 4 day(s) ago
Health Affairs’ Jeff Byers and Jessica Bylander go over the demise of Walmart Health and the health of retail clinics and telemedicine.
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Telemedicine use remains substantially higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, although it has fallen from pandemic highs. To inform the ongoing debate about whether to continue payment for telemedicine visits, we estimated the association of greater telemedicine use across health systems with utilization, spending, and quality. In 2020, Medicare patients receiving care at health systems in the highest quartile of telemedicine use had 2.5 telemedicine visits per person (26.8 percent of visits) compared with 0.7 telemedicine visits per person (9.5 percent of visits) in the lowest quartile of telemedicine use. In 2021–22, relative to those in the lowest quartile, Medicare patients of health systems in the highest quartile had an increase of 0.21 total outpatient visits (telemedicine and in-person) per patient per year (2.2 percent relative increase), a decrease of 14.4 annual non-COVID-19 emergency department visits per 1,000 patients per year (2.7 percent relative decrease), a
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Mashup Score: 9Community Health Workers Can Help Improve Youth Mental Health | Health Affairs Forefront - 4 day(s) ago
Community health workers (CHWs) play an integral role in connecting people to social and community services. We explore their potential role in the youth mental health crisis from a CHW’s perspective, summarize existing issues, and offer policy recommendations.
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Remote physiologic monitoring use increased more than 1,300 percent from 2019 to 2021, and use varied by state. This increase was driven by a small number of (predominantly internal medicine) providers. Female beneficiaries, residents of metropolitan areas, and people diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension had the highest rates of use.
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We must ensure people with obesity, including those on anti-obesity medications and receiving other forms of treatment, have access to the quality nutrition care they need.
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Mashup Score: 2Guaranteed Cash Incentives Boosted COVID-19 Vaccinations Of Young Adults: Evidence From West Virginia - 5 day(s) ago
Guaranteed small cash incentives were widely employed by policy makers during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, but the impact of these programs has been largely understudied. We were the first to exploit a statewide natural experiment of one such program implemented in West Virginia in 2021 that provided a $100 incentive to fully vaccinated adults ages 16–35. Using individual-level data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, we isolated the policy effect through a difference-in-discontinuities design that exploited the discontinuity in incentive eligibility at age thirty-five. We found that the $100 incentive was associated with a robust increase in the proportion of people ever vaccinated against COVID-19 and the proportion who completed or intended to complete the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines. The policy effects were also likely to be more pronounced among people with low incomes, those who were unemployed, and those with no prior COVID-19 infection. The guaranteed
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We investigated county-level variation in mRNA COVID-19 vaccine use among Medicare beneficiaries throughout the United States. There was greater use of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines than Moderna vaccines in urban areas for first and booster doses.
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Does reducing access to abortion care put women at greater risk for intimate partner violence? @maeveellen of @TulaneSPHTM + coauthors find homicide rates among women and girls increased in states passing restrictive abortion laws. Read the full article: https://t.co/wiP3zxdGZe https://t.co/Jdkrw7Mf1f