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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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- Contributors to age inequalities in loneliness among older adults: a decomposition analysis of 29 countries
- Changing Degrees: a weight-of-evidence scoping review examining the impact of childhood exposures to climate change on educational outcomes
- Adolescent Disparities in Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences by Gender Identity
- Craniosynostosis among children with X-linked hypophosphatemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Alienation: another contested Marxian construct in epidemiology and public health
- Gendered interpretations of the causes of breast cancer: a structured review of migrant studies
- Mediators of functioning and quality of life among people living with schizophrenia participating in the culturally adapted family psychoeducation (KUPAA) trial in Tanzania
- Social network alcohol use is associated with individual-level alcohol use among Black sexually minoritized men and gender-expansive people: Findings from the Neighborhoods and Networks (N2) cohort study
- Youth-to-youth empowerment study to support health equity for urban American Indian/Alaska Native and Black adolescents in Denver Metro, Colorado, USA: a mixed methods, youth-centred aetiological study protocol
- Trajectories of depressive symptoms among young people in London, UK, and Tokyo, Japan: a longitudinal cross-cohort study
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