Some of the most popular articles published in the journal Health Affairs in 2018 included authors from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Among the 10 Health Affairs articles that were most read as well as most shared—on Twitter and Facebook, in the news media, and among friends and colleagues—were two including Harvard Chan School authors.
One article was titled “Do Academic Medical Centers Disproportionately Benefit The Sickest Patients?” and featured Harvard Chan’s E. John Orav, Jie Zheng, Austin Frakt, and Ashish Jha.
A second article, “The Equity Impact Vaccines May Have On Averting Deaths And Medical Improvishment In Developing Countries,” included several authors who were students in Harvard Chan’s Department of Global Health and Population at the time the article was completed—Angela Chang, Carlos Riumallo-Herl, and Nicole Perales—and Stéphane Verguet, assistant professor of global health.
One of the most-read Health Affairs articles in 2018—“What Is The US Health Spending Problem?”—was by David Cutler, professor in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan School and Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics at Harvard University.
Another highly shared Health Affairs article, “Electronic Health Records Associated With Lower Hospital Mortality After Systems Have Time To Mature,” was co-authored by Jha.
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