Global Health
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Lifetime Exposure to Smoking, Epigenetic Aging, and Morbidity and Mortality in Older Adults
Scheffer Center experts examine how three epigenetic aging measures are associated with parental smoking, smoking in youth, and smoking in adulthood, and whether these epigenetic aging measures mediate the link between smoke exposure and morbidity and mortality.
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Rating the Comparative Efficacy of State-Level Cannabis Policies on Recreational Cannabis Markets in the United States
Schaeffer experts identified identified key cannabis policies and their provisions enacted by U.S. states; rated their theoretical efficacy in a restrictive form for reducing problematic use and impaired driving in the context of a recreational cannabis market as judged by experts; and rated the strength of evidence for each policy.
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Comparison of Medical Cannabis Use Reported on a Confidential Survey vs Documented in the Electronic Health Record Among Primary Care Patients
Schaeffer experts estimate the primary care prevalence of medical cannabis use according to confidential patient survey and to compare the prevalence of medical cannabis use documented in the EHR with patient report.
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Trends in the Use of Cannabis Products in Canada and the USA, 2018 – 2020: Findings From the International Cannabis Policy Study
There is little information on consumption patterns across the diverse range of cannabis product types. This paper examines trends in consumption patterns in Canada and the United States (US) between 2018-2020.
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Shifting the Demand for Vaccines: A Review of Strategies
Vaccines prevent millions of deaths, and yet millions of people die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases. The primary reason for these deaths is that a significant fraction of the population chooses not to vaccinate.
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Cannabis Flower Prices and Transitions to Legal Sources After Legalization in Canada, 2019–2020
Schaeffer experts analyze if consumers in Canada are purchasing through the legal market or still purchasing from other sources.
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Low Numeracy is Associated with Poor Financial Well-Being Around the World
A new Schaeffer Center analyses suggest that low numeracy is much more common in low-income countries, thus potentially threatening the financial well-being of the world’s poorest.
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Kids and Cannabis: California Dispensaries Lack Adequate Screening to Keep Out Minors, USC-UCSD study finds
The study of 700 licensed cannabis dispensaries found many retail locations have inadequate screening processes.
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It is Time for the U.S. to Create a National COVID-19 Vaccination Registry
Schaeffer Center expert Jakub Hlávka writes that the U.S. is hurting itself by not having a single vaccination registry, which would enable faster reopening of key sectors of the economy as well as of international travel.
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Assessment of Recreational Cannabis Dispensaries’ Compliance With Underage Access and Marketing Restrictions in California
A new study in JAMA Pediatrics coauthored by USC Schaeffer Center Senior Fellow Rosalie Liccardo Pacula evaluates 700 licensed cannabis dispensaries in California to determining if they are properly screening minors from entering retail locations and being exposed to cannabis marketing and products.
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