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Education Improves Some Aspects Of Health But May Worsen Others
We study how secondary education affects different dimensions of health in middle age. A policy change in England, Wales, and Scotland that increased the minimum school-leaving age from 15 to 16 years old improved health by reducing body fat and lung conditions, but it also increased blood pressure.
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Do Mothers From Different Cultures Vary in How They Portray Baby Bath Time and Baby Bedtime on Instagram?
This post compares imagery about certain baby routines in the US, Brazil and the UK, using social media imagery to explore mothers’ communicative behavior.
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Tackling the Opioid Crisis with Compassion, New Ways to Reduce Use and Treatment
This piece explains how we arrived at the current opioid crisis, policies that have been tried thus far, and options to address the crisis moving forward.
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Sky-High Drug Prices for Rare Diseases Show Why Orphan Drug Act Needs Reform
The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) was passed 34 years ago to promote development of drugs aimed at diseases that afflict small groups, typically under 200,000 people. However, the nature of drug development has changed. Our researchers see an opportunity for improvement.
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Exploring Mothers’ and Fathers’ Motivations to Participate in Parenting Programs
Programs to strengthen parenting skills aim to improve children’s wellbeing. Here we look at results from Sweden showing what motivates parents to participate in these programs.
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House Plan to Replace Obamacare ‘has Republican DNA,’ Especially Regarding Mandate
Does the new health care bill proposed by GOP leaders on March 6 contain enough incentives to keep enough healthy people in the pool of people who desire coverage?
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How Republicans and Democrats can Both Keep their Promises on Health Care
Read our four-step market-based proposal that is consistent with many of the president’s remarks on health care and, importantly, with many core Democratic principles on health care too.
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Do You Know What The Affordable Care Act Does? Here’s A Primer To Help
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” has generated controversy from its inception. Republicans vow to repeal it. Democrats vow to defend it. Yet, unfortunately, many ordinary Americans seem not to know what it does or why some people want to reform it.
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The Woes of Collecting Public Opinion: Lessons from an Outlier Election Poll.
Life lessons when academia meets the press: What we learned from our experience moonlighting as an outlier poll during a contested election.
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Encouraging Healthy Eating Among Children: It Turns Out We Just Have to Ask
An RCT found that verbal prompts in the school lunch-line are an effective way to improve child food choice and consumption. Schools, teachers and cafeteria workers could adopt such strategies to improve children’s food choice and health.
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