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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
- In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
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- Trends in Prevalence of Cannabis Use Disorder Among U.S. Veterans With and Without Psychiatric Disorders Between 2005 and 2019
- An evolutionary perspective on complex neuropsychiatric disease
- Has the opening of Amazon fulfillment centers affected demand for disability insurance?
- Church Closings Were Associated with Higher COVID-19 Infection Rates: Implications for Community Health Equity
- Maternal early pregnancy body mass index and bipolar disorder in the offspring
- Behavioral Outcomes and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Among Children of Women With Epilepsy
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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