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Racial discrimination and health effects: Current research …

WEBA growing body of public health research has been dedicated to studying the impact of experiences of racial discrimination on outcomes ranging from mental …

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Health reporting: Semester-long course on covering the …

WEBHealth is one of journalism’s most complex and important reporting beats. Health care spending consumes about 17% of the U.S. economy, and the high cost of …

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Achieving mental health parity: The struggle to expand …

WEBIn a 54-page report to Congress in January, three federal agencies describe how difficult it has been to get health insurance plans and issuers to follow a 14-year-old …

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Why the 2020 census matters for public health: An explainer

WEBIn one session, Indivar Dutta-Gupta, co-executive director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law, explained the health implications of the …

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Do wildfires have long-term health effects

WEBA recent systematic review of studies on long-term impacts of wildfires finds they are associated with mental health disorders, COVID-19 complications, death from …

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Mental health disparities in older LGBTQ+ populations: A …

WEBIn 2017, researchers estimated that 2.4% of the U.S. population 50 years and older identified as LGBTQ+, accounting for 2.7 million people. By 2060, they say, that …

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Visual health misinformation: A primer and research …

WEBVisual misinformation is “visual content that is typically presented alongside text or audio that contributes to false or inaccurate presentations of information,” says …

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Food insecurity in the US: An explainer and research …

WEBOn Sept. 28, the White House is hosted a conference on hunger, nutrition and health — the second conference of its kind in five decades — and introduced a 40 …

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Rural-urban health care disparities: Research roundup

WEBRural areas tend to have fewer resources for health care than urban areas. This roundup brings together a sampling of studies published in the past year that …

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Roundup of recent research on employee assistance programs

WEBHere, we summarize five recent studies on employee assistance programs. The first study explores what the future of these programs might look like — more …

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Improving college student mental health: Promising campus …

WEBThe intervention worked for people from various age groups, including college students and middle-aged adults, researchers learned after analyzing seven …

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How Medicaid and Medicare influence income inequality

WEBAn analysis of data from 2012 suggests that including the value of Medicare and Medicaid reduces the ratio by approximately 30 percent. Adding the value of …

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Why are Americans in worse health than people in other high …

WEBThe United States spends 17.9% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care, the most of any country in the world.In contrast, Canada’s health spending …

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Native Americans, public health and well-being: Research roundup …

WEBNative Americans, public health and well-being: Research roundup and key data. 2014 review of studies and reports that provide insight into public health issues …

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Effects of same-sex parents on children's adult outcomes: …

WEBHow life outcomes for children with same-sex parents might differ from those raised in traditional unions has been the subject of a large body of academic research.In …

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Medical spending among the U.S. elderly

WEBIn 2010, healthcare spending amounted to $18,424 per person for people aged 65 and older – about five times as much as per-person spending for children …

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Home health care: Research behind the high-demand, low-pay …

WEBAccording to this analysis, 80.6 percent of these agencies were for profit, while 14.8 percent were non-profit and 4.6 percent were government owned. Despite the …

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The impact of private equity ownership in health care

WEBby Kerry Dooley Young | November 2, 2022 | consumer affairs. There were more than 1,400 private equity deals in health care last year totaling $208.7 billion, …

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