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- Social support and intimate partner violence in rural Pakistan: a longitudinal investigation of the bi-directional relationship
- Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
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- Defining Spatial Epidemiology: A Systematic Review and Re-Orientation
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- Poverty and birth cohort effects of experiencing the 2007-2009 Great Recession during adolescence on major depressive episodes and mental health treatment of young adults in the United States
- Patterns of B-cell lymphocyte expression changes in pre- and post-malignant prostate tissue are associated with prostate cancer progression
- Assessing Trends in Internalizing Symptoms among Racialized and Minoritized Adolescents: Results from the Monitoring the Future Survey 2005-2020
- The burden of Cardiovascular diseases in Jordan: a longitudinal analysis from the global burden of disease study, 1990-2019
- Punitive legal responses to prenatal drug use in the United States: A survey of state policies and systematic review of their public health impacts
- Sex-Specific Depressive Symptom Trajectories Among Adolescents in Los Angeles County, 2013 to 2017
- Inverse associations of cord blood mitochondrial DNA copy number with childhood adiposity
- Using instrumental variables to address unmeasured confounding in causal mediation analysis
Category Archives: Health Insurance
Do employees receive recommended preventive health services?
Large numbers of Americans receive their health care through insurance and wellness plans sponsored by their employers. New work by Rundle and colleagues (full text here) describes a method that employers can use to analyze their medical claims data to … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Health Care, Health Insurance, Methods, Occupation
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Hospital Financial Distress and Quality of Care
Catherine Richards, an alum of the Department of Epi’s Masters and Doctoral programs, and colleagues recently published an article in JAMA Surgery showing that women treated at hospitals experiencing financial distress were significantly less likely to receive immediate breast reconstruction surgery after … Continue reading
Posted in Economic, Health Care, Health Disparities, Health Insurance
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Health Insurance and Access to Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the greatest contributor to morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries, and these diseases are disproportionately experienced by those in the most disadvantaged circumstances. In line with initiatives to “close the gap” on several health … Continue reading