Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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Education Can Hold off Dementia, New USC-led Study Finds
USC researchers found a link between higher education and longer life without dementia. Related study shows the importance of discovering how to delay the onset of dementia; otherwise, more people will end up living longer with the debilitating condition.
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Understanding the Racial/Ethnic Gap in Bank Account Ownership among Older Adults
The researchers investigate socioeconomic, cognitive, and cultural barriers underling the racial/ethnic gap in bank account ownership among older adults.
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NAFTA Talks’ Potential Diabetes Threat
U.S. proposals to restrict junk food warnings will adversely affect the health of citizens in 3 countries writes Goldman and Gonzalez Gonzales in U.S. News
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Impact of Inequality on the Future Elderly: Policy Tools and Actions
Experts from the Roybal Center and OECD countries will come together to discuss policies for better and more equal health and economic outcomes in the retirement years.
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Southern California Health Care Summit: Strategies for Improving the Affordability of High-Quality Care and Coverage
The USC Schaeffer Center and the National Coalition on Health Care are bringing together a distinguished group of health care experts to discuss advances in practice and policy that can improve the affordability of health care – for patients and families, employers, public and private payers, and providers.
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Trends in Opioid Use and Prescribing in Medicare, 2006-2012
More than 1 in 3 beneficiaries filled an opioid prescription annually; about 1 in 10 were chronic opioid users.
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Proven Savings from Pharmacy Transition-of-Care Programs
A USC-led study projects the potential cost savings of expanding outpatient pharmacy care.
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Change in Cardiometabolic Risk Among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Blacks experience greater multi-system physiological dysregulation, or cumulative biological risk, which is associated with poor cardiometabolic health and mortality. In this study, the researchers assess race differences in change in risk over four years among older whites, blacks and Hispanics.
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Budget Impact Analysis of a Pharmacist-Provided Transition of Care Program
Pharmacist-provided transition-of-care program shown to be cost-saving and reduced readmissions, according to the study.
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Schaeffer Center Fellow Steven Teutsch Leads Study Panel on Alcohol-Impaired Driving
The committee report suggests lowering the blood alcohol level for drunken driving to 0.05.