Health Affairs' Los Angeles Briefing on Violence and Health, Wednesday, October 23

Health Affairs Event
Los Angeles Briefing: Violence & Health

October 23, 2019
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific
Town & Gown Ballroom, USC Campus - 665 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90089
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CONTACT
Debbie Boylan
Phone: 301-347-3910
Email: dboylan@projecthope.org

Join us in Los Angeles for a forum on Violence & Health - subject matter covered in the October Health Affairs issue. View Table of Contents

The forum will feature authors from a select group of studies contained in the issue, as well as community leaders, policy makers and residents who are developing and deploying strategies for combating violence in their daily lives:

Raymond Baxter, President and CEO, Blue Shield of California Foundation

Judy Belk, President and CEO, California Wellness Foundation

Genevieve Flores-Haro, Associate Director, Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project

Sandra Henriquez, CEO, CalCASA (California Coalition Against Sexual Assault)

Hannah Laqueur, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, on "Alcohol-Related Crimes And Risk Of Arrest For Intimate Partner Violence Among California Handgun Purchasers"

Robert Riewerts, Chair, Care Delivery Workgroup, Kaiser Permanente Task Force on Firearm Injury Prevention

Anne Tremblay, Director, Gang Reduction & Youth Development (GRYD), Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti, City of Los Angeles

Elizabeth Tung, Instructor of Medicine, University of Chicago School of Medicine, on "Social Isolation, Loneliness, And Violence Exposure In Urban Adults" and "Keeping Your Guard Up: Hypervigilance Among Urban Residents Affected By Community And Police Violence"

Briana Woods-Jaeger, Assistant Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University, on "Mitigating Negative Consequences Of Community Violence Exposure: Perspectives From African American Youth"

*Additional speakers to be announced.

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IN THE JOURNAL NEW ISSUE: VIOLENCE & HEALTH
The October issue of Health Affairs examines the consequences of violence for victims, perpetrators, and communities. Although much attention is focused on mass violence incidents, the daily burden of violence often takes a greater toll. The October issue was supported by The California Wellness Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Read the October 2019 table of contents. Listen to a two-minute introduction of the issue from Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil. Read "From the Editor in Chief."
The Effects Of Violence On Health By Frederick Rivara, Avanti Adhia, Vivian Lyons, Anne Massey, Brianna Mills, Erin Morgan, Maayan Simckes, and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Frederick Rivara and coauthors present an overview of the myriad ways in which violence affects health. After chronicling different forms of violence, ranging from child physical and sexual abuse to adult assaults to elder abuse, they point out our growing scientific understanding of the physical and psychological consequences of violence. Read More >> Violence And The US Health Care Sector: Burden And Response By David C. Grossman and Bechara Choucair David Grossman and Bechara Choucair document how violence affects the health care sector. There were 2.3 million violence-related emergency department visits in 2017, 5 percent of which were due to firearms. They also point out that health care is the sector with the highest rate of workplace violence. Read More >> Federal Funding For Research On The Leading Causes Of Death Among Children And Adolescents By Rebecca M. Cunningham, Megan L. Ranney, Jason E. Goldstick, Sonia V. Kamat, Jessica S. Roche, and Patrick M. Carter Rebecca Cunningham and coauthors examine federal research funding for the leading causes of child and adolescent death. Among the top three causes of death--motor vehicle crashes, firearm injury, and cancer--federal research funding for cancer is about $200,000 per death, for vehicle crashes is $26,000 per death, and for firearms is less than $600 per death. Read More >> Background Checks For Firearm Purchases: Problem Areas And Recommendations To Improve Effectiveness By Garen J. Wintemute One strategy to reduce the incidence of violence is background checks prior to firearm purchase. This policy is broadly supported by the public. Garen Wintemute explores the shortcomings of existing policy in this area and recommends a broad set of changes designed to make background checks more effective. Read More >> After Prison, Healthy Lives Built On Access To Care And Community By Rob Waters A North Carolina program helps recently released inmates connect to health care, social services, and support. Read More >> This article appears in Health Affairs' series on Leading to Health.

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Contraceptive Mandate Litigation: Latest Developments
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For those shootings that are not prevented, communities need to take an evidence-based, multidisciplinary approach to detection/disruption, preparation, response, and recovery. Read More >>

Interrupting Violence In Durham, North Carolina
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MARKETS

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By Christen Linke Young (10/10/19)

While the backstop might introduce a form of public option, it would also bring a large pool of relatively healthy individuals into the risk pool and dramatically reduce health care providers' uncompensated care burdens, which could be an attractive trade-off for providers, insurers, and other stakeholders. Read More >>

CHILDREN'S HEALTH

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If health advocates want to make serious headway in protecting children from the lifelong effects of lead poisoning, they must get both public- and private-sector buy-in and develop solutions that work for all, including landlords. Leaders in Cleveland, Ohio, and Buffalo, New York, have built strong public-private partnerships to deploy new tools to help landlords make their properties safe. Various foundations--both place-based and national--are funding efforts to prevent lead poisoning. Read More >>

COSTS & SPENDING

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The Indiana experience suggests that self-insured employers, if equipped with useful price information, have the potential to become informed and effective shoppers and create value for themselves and their employees. Read More >>

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On October 15, 2019, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to implement a "public charge" rule that would harm legal immigrants and their family members if they use Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or public housing benefits or are predicted to use such benefits in the future. Read More >>

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