Sponsoring Health Affairs: Theme Issues on Diabetes and Insurance Exchanges
With support from foundations, Project HOPE’s health policy and research journal, Health Affairs, regularly publishes special thematic issues that address major topics in health care policy and practice.Grantee Name
Project HOPE
Funding Area
Expanding Health Care Coverage
Publication Date
November 2014
Grant Amount
$150,000
Grant Date:
July 2011–July 2013
With support from foundations, Project HOPE’s health policy and research journal, Health Affairs, regularly publishes special thematic issues that address major topics in health care policy and practice.
In July 2011, the New York Health Foundation (NYHealth) awarded $150,000 to Project HOPE for Health Affairs to publish two thematic issues addressing two different NYHealth priority areas—one issue focused on diabetes and the other issue on health care coverage expansion.
Outcomes and Lessons Learned
- Produced the issue, Confronting the Growing Diabetes Crisis, in January 2012 to address many of the challenges and implications surrounding diabetes. The issue—one of the journal’s most read in its history—included 23 original research papers and commentaries on policies of importance in the treatment and prevention of diabetes;
- Held an all-day briefing on the diabetes-themed issue where authors presented their research, which resulted in extensive media coverage via press releases, e-mail alerts, Twitter, Facebook, and the Health Affairs blog; and
- Produced the issue, Medicaid Expansion and Vulnerable Populations, in June 2013, which included:
- Harris Meyer’s Report From the Field article, “With Just Months To Go, New York State’s Health Benefit Exchange Gears Up For Open Enrollment,” which has been viewed online more than 12,400 times;
- Thirteen analytic papers that focused on insurance exchange predictions (using Massachusetts as an example) and projections for state- and federally funded programs in relation to the exchanges; and
- A comprehensive New York State-focused study on the evolution of the NY State of Health Marketplace.
Originally, the second thematic issue was envisioned to include four to six articles that would address numerous issues raised by the implementation of health insurance exchanges in New York and other States. However, the timing for this proved too early for such in-depth coverage; thus, the Foundation and Health Affairs’ editorial team decided to focus only on New York State for the issue.