Dear John,

Join us Tuesday, June 18, from 3-4 p.m. ET for a Health Affairs Journal Club meeting with author Clara Long discussing a qualitative study from our June issue about how community groups can harness their power to address inequities in public health outcomes.

Reimagining Rural Health Equity

In the June Reimagining Public Health issue of Health Affairs, Anne Sosin and Elizabeth Carpenter-Song of Dartmouth College outline principles to inform an approach to achieving rural health equity.

The authors outline five principles to achieve rural health equity:

1. Defining rurality as a distinct dimension of health equity centered on addressing rural disadvantage.
2. Centering rural disadvantage in analysis, policy and practice.
3. Addressing rural disadvantage across the lifespan.
4. Expanding methods to address rural disadvantage.
5. Centering rural leadership and assets.

More on Health Disparities

• Disparities In The Quality Of Clinical Care Delivered To American Indian/Alaska Native Medicare Advantage Enrollees by Steven C. Martino et al.
• Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Dental Services Use Declined After Medicaid Adult Dental Coverage Expansions by George L. Wehby et al.
• A Health Podyssey: Ruqaiijah Yearby Reviews Structural Racism in US Health Care Policy

Chelsey Kirkland on Building New Models for the Public Health Workforce

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Chelsey Kirkland of the University of Minnesota on her recent paper that explores the development of a new model for the governmental public health workforce in Minnesota.

How Employers Can Help Reduce Employees’ High Health Care Cost Burdens

Betsy Q. Cliff and Stacie B. Dusetzina

Celebrating Pride Month

It is Pride Month and we are highlighting those working to advance health equity and policy for the LGBTQIA+ community.

In a March 2024 Forefront article, Devon R. Minnick and coauthors discuss how the Braidwood Management v. Becerra case has the potential to undermine decades of bipartisanship and groundbreaking innovation aimed at ending the transmission of the HIV virus that causes AIDS.