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Health Affairs, 28, no. 4 (2009): 1161-1162 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.4.1161 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Narrative Matters

PREFACE

Narrative Matters Turns Ten

Ellen Ficklen, Editor, Narrative Matters, Senior Editor, Health Affairs

With this issue, Health Affairs celebrates the tenth anniversary of publishing first-person Narrative Matters essays. The fact that many readers tell us it’s the first part of the journal they read is a powerful testament to the durability of the idea, which is about the power of stories and storytelling, and their role in forming policy.

The idea for Narrative Matters was originally championed by the journal’s founding editor, John Iglehart, who wrote in the July/August 1999 issue that "the voices of patients, their families, and their caregivers have often gotten lost in the shuffle" of America’s medical system and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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