Elise V. Bailey

Pandemic-related increases in telehealth use have persisted beyond the COVID-19 period. Sex, health insurance status, age, and family income were significant predictors of telehealth utilization. Check out our newly published paper! Mdpi.com/2227-9032/14/3/331

I’m really interested in getting into health geography and the impact of place on mental health, so this is my jam.

Diagram showing pathways through which new green space can impact residents’ mental health in positive and negative ways. Positive: therapeutic value of visits to green space, aesthetic value, sense of community Negative: barriers to use of new green space, sense of exclusion, increased surveillance, discrimination, perceived lack of safety, fear of exposures to historical contaminants in the area, loss of community and feeling unwelcome due to neighborhood demographic change, financial stress, risk of becoming unhoused, and landlord neglect

The less basic idea here:

The basic idea is that greening projects can spark gentrification because they increase property values. Then financial pressures, community disruption, and mismatch between typical neighborhood uses of green spaces and potential uses of the new greenery can negatively impact people’s mental health.

A systematic review of green gentrification and mental health Urban development projects increasingly incorporate greening efforts in underserved communities to improve human health and promote biodiversity. Unfo…

Today’s cool reading: a new paper on how projects to increase greenery in underserved neighborhoods may end up negatively impacting the mental health of long-time residents there. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

But I hadn’t taken the thinking a step further to “maybe debt relief is a good lever for policy makers here” before reading this (probably because I don’t know anything about bankruptcy or debt relief). Highly recommend reading this!

Of course debt is an important element of people’s socioeconomic status, and how well off a person is constrains their ability to get health care under our system. And of course debt isn’t equally distributed across races in the U.S.

Health Affairs Journal

Today’s reading: a very awesome bit of writing on consumer debt as a social determinant of health and potential policy target for reducing health disparities www.healthaffairs.org/content/brie...

Policy Changes Bring Renewed Focus on High-Deductible Health Plans  | KFF Policy changes, anticipated increases in premium costs for enrollees, and new standards for health savings accounts may encourage consumers to seek out plans with lower premiums but higher deductibles...

Policy Changes Bring Renewed Focus on High-Deductible Health Plans www.kff.org/patient-cons...

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KFF’s Health Policy 101 is a comprehensive resource for faculty, students, and anyone looking to stay ahead of U.S. health policy.

Explore the chapters: https://on.kff.org/hp101

Text in image: 5th Annual Partnership for Veteran and Military Health Presentation Highlights Epilepsy comorbidity phenotypes (ECPs) were helpful in predicting veterans likely to experience pain interference, sleep interference, worse mental health symptom severity, and worse quality of life while accounting for demographics, disease/injury characteristics, and military service characteristics. Current/ongoing research related to rural Veterans living with epilepsy showed early results indicating that demographic characteristics, epilepsy interference, and social vulnerability were key factors accounting for differential variance across a variety of psychosocial outcomes. Jack D Watson PhD, Elise V Bailey PhD, Amy K Henion MS, Shirin Saleh MS, Maddie Myers BA, and Mary Jo Pugh PhD

✨The presentation titled “Epilepsy Phenotypes and Associated Health Outcomes” by Dr. Watson was delivered at the 5th Annual Partnership for Veteran and Military Health. This research was supported by the HREC Pilot Grant Award. #VeteransHealth #ResearchInnovation @evbailey.bsky.social

Obamacare Users Will Be Asked to Pay More for Plans That Cover Less

Arguments in favor of expanding HSAs in the Marketplaces rely on a vision of the world as many wish it would be (“Americans can be wise [health care] consumers”) rather than the world as we understand it to be (“We have very little evidence that people are good at shopping for their care”)

GenZ version of dplyr in R

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Man, I’m bummed about this.

A series of blue and green bars on a horizontal chart showing that social trust is higher in wealthier countries and lower in middle-income countries

Across 25 countries we surveyed earlier this year, trust in others varies widely. But it tends to be higher in high-income countries than in middle-income ones.

NEWS: Before it cuts $900 billion-plus from Medicaid, Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" sends $50 billion to states for rural health care.

Who wants the money and what they'd do with it is less than transparent. But @ajzionts.bsky.social + @sjtribble-reports.bsky.social are on the case.

Very cool work measuring the economic impact of mental health care and substance use treatment.

Also, I did some related work that will hopefully be published soon!

This is tomorrow!

Orange cat lies on a person’s lap while they sit at a computer desk. The cat is resting its head on the person’s arm, which extends onto the desk.

All manuscript-writing days deserve a work buddy. Pippin says hi!

This piece is really good- on why rural hospitals close, why there are a lot more closures coming, and what happens next (accelerating economic and population decline)

"challenge scientific orthodoxy"

Sorry, those are from 2019 and 2016, respectively. My bad!

Graphs showing agreement among various subgroups that vaccines should be required for school children. 90% of liberals, 84% of moderates, and 73% of conservatives said they agreed.

And this was about childhood vaccination requirements, same time.

Graphs showing agreement among various groups that measles vaccine benefits are high. 89% of Republicans and people who lean Republican agreed. 88% of Democrats and people who lean Democratic agreed.

I don’t think Pew ran these same questions in the past, but this was about the measles vaccine in 2017.

Graphic showing that only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines are safe and effective, while 80% of Democrats do; that only 35% of republicans think vaccines are tested for safety, while 74% of Democrats do; and that only 32% of Republicans think the childhood vaccine schedule is safe, while 71% of democrats do.

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health.

Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do.

This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

I’m too new to suicide research to have a real opinion about this, but it seems intriguing at least.

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

AND even if you can choose, we know that people don’t always care much about price when they make health care decisions.

Here in reality, you rarely have the choice. You don’t know the prices when you choose, have geographic or insurance restrictions, don’t understand health care well enough to compare the quality of the options, are incapacitated, etc. etc.