The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced many of us to a new vocabulary: coronavirus, herd immunity, surge capacity, contact tracing, and personal protective equipment (PPE), to name a few. PPE includes all the equipment we wear to minimize exposure to and spread of this novel coronavirus, SARS CoV-2, including disposable gloves, N-95 masks, face shields, gowns, and cloth masks. PPE is an…
We delineate three major design flaws in current programs that impede expansion of value-based payment, and how they can be fixed.
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…
Join this event featuring a closer look at a new Health Affairs research article, “Antidepressant Prescriptions Increased For Privately Insured People With Perinatal Mood And…
Fathers occupy a dual role in the realm of perinatal mental health: partner and parent. In fathers’ role as partners, their support for mothers during…
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…
Twenty-one months after the nationwide launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, implementation research efforts are beginning to provide understandings of how communities have…
Building on our successful October 2021 issue on Perinatal Mental Health, the April issue of Health Affairs returns to the topic. In an opening article,…
To characterize co-occurring social determinants of health for clients experiencing perinatal anxiety and depression (perinatal mood and anxiety disorders) or serious mental illness (SMI) in…
The United States is at a crossroads. We must choose between a future that entails poorer health outcomes, shorter lifespans, and increased health spending, or…
Host Jeff Byers interviews Brent Fulton from University of California, Berkeley about the current state of antitrust and private equity in health care.
