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Social Disparities and Health: Institute for Policy …

WebThe Center on Social Disparities and Health continues to expand its scope of activities to understand how social, economic, and cultural contexts affect physical and mental health, as well as cognitive achievement, at the …

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URL: https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/what-we-study/social-disparities-and-health/

New IPR Research: April 2024: Institute for Policy Research

WebThis month’s new research from our faculty experts explores partisan disparities in the use of science in policy and how immigration enforcement affects public …

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Early Environments on Health Trajectories: Institute for Policy

WebThis has vital implications for public policy to improve pregnant women’s health and diet. Nutrition includes both micronutrients—vitamins and minerals—and macronutrients, or …

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How the Economy Affects Health

WebThe COVID-19 pandemic has raised a difficult dilemma for policymakers as they weigh the cost of protecting public health versus opening the economy. IPR health psychologists …

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Infographic: Payday Loans Tied to Health Risks

WebAbout 12 million Americans use payday loans each year, but new research shows these short-term loans could be making borrowers sick.. In SSM - Population …

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Poverty, Race, and Inequality

WebPoverty, Race, and Inequality. The issues of inequality, poverty, and racism are consistent threads woven throughout IPR faculty research—and have constituted major research …

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Distinguished Lecture: Child Health As Human Capital

WebJanet Currie lectured on the importance of child health to long-term academic and labor outcomes. If the Oxford Dictionary defines capital as “a valuable …

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Greater Wealth at Midlife May Be Tied to a Longer Life

WebLiving a longer life may be tied to how much money you have made by midlife. In the first wealth and longevity study to incorporate siblings and twin pair data, the …

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As Social Lives Resume, a Mental Health Crisis Continues

WebNearly three years into the pandemic, young adults are returning to their pre-pandemic social lives. Yet a mental health crisis among America’s young adults persists, according …

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The Political Consequences of Poor Mental Health

WebSince the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation’s mental health has been in decline.Years of uncertainty, lockdowns, grief, and economic precarity led to at …

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Research Round-Up: Studying Mental Health: Institute for Policy

WebIn a given year in the United States, 43.8 million people experience a mental health condition, according to the National Alliance on Mental Health. May is National …

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The Impact of Vicarious Racism on Mental Health

WebPOLICY RESEARCH BRIEF The Impact of Vicarious Racism on Mental Health IPR developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers studies racial identity and is interested in social

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Racial Bias in Medicine and Racial Disparities in COVID-19

WebRecent news stories have highlighted the racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths nationally and locally in Chicago, with many noting that the “great equalizer” has …

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Communication Between Healthcare Providers and LGBTQ Youth

WebYoung men who have sex with men have some of the highest rates of new HIV infections. But LGBTQ youth’s experiences with healthcare providers could be a …

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Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecycle: Institute for Policy

WebIn Social Science & Medicine, IPR anthropologist Sera Young and her co-authors assess how food insecurity, water insecurity, and depression relate to each other among Kenyan …

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Health Impacts of Childhood Adversity on Potential Mothers

WebMETHODOLOGY The researchers analyzed self-reported ACEs and health histories for 13,629 women and 13,722 men aged 18–39, using survey data from the 2019 …

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