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Home Mental Health Care For Gunshot Victims
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jooyoung Lee advocates home-based mental health care for gunshot victims to recover from the lingering effects of their injuries.
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Increasing Life Expectancy Could Undercut Social Security Viability
Americans’ life expectancy is increasing more quickly than official government forecasts, RWJF Health & Society Scholar Samir Soneji finds.
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Religious Values and Healthcare Accommodations
January 4, 2012 | Journal Article
Health care systems can engender trust and improve American Muslim patients' health care experience by understanding their religious values.
Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Intervention Among African American and Latino Adults with Type 2 Diabetes
December 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article reports the results from a randomized controlled trial to help African Americans and Latinos with type 2 diabetes improve diabetes self-management.
Explaining Michigan
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Social scientists describe what worked and why in a successful initiative to reduce central line infections in Michigan ICUs.
Controversy Undermines Support for State Mandates on the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
State actions requiring adolescent girls to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine created controversy following the vaccine’s approval in 2006.
Discussion of Illness During Well-Child Care Visits With Parents of Children with and without Special Health Care Needs
December 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Researchers surveyed parents of patients before and after well-child care visits to determine what parents of children with special health care needs expect, prioritize and receive compared to visits of parents of children without special needs.
Antimicrobial Resistance and the Ethics of Drug Development
November 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Since the 1960s, scientists and pharmaceutical representatives have called for the advancement and development of new antimicrobial drugs to combat infectious diseases. In January 2005, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), M.D., introduced a bi ...
Causation and Selection in the Relationship of Job Loss to Health in the United States
August 1, 2005 | Report
While involuntary job loss could have significant negative consequences for subsequent health, poor health itself may also influence the risk of losing a job. In this study, the authors assessed whether poor health was a significant factor in leadin ...
Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health?
January 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The income inequality-health hypothesis seeks to explain differences in average levels of health among countries, or among regions in one country, by the extent of disparity among income levels. Income inequality is linked to other components of soc ...