Population Health and Disparities
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Emergency Department Contribution to the Prescription Opioid Epidemic
Office-based physician visits are contributing a large share to the prescription opioid epidemic, according to a new study.
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Where Patients Get Prescription Opioids: It’s Not Where You Might Think
A new study is a hard look in the mirror for how providers have contributed to the addiction epidemic
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LiveMint: How Inequality Works
Inequality is not the same thing as unfairness; and, it is the latter that has incited so much political turmoil in the rich world today, says Angus Deaton
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Challenges and Opportunities in Health Care Reform: Balancing Costs, Coverage and Quality
Thursday | November 16, 2017
3:00 PM- 6:30 PM PT
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Policy Approaches to the Opioid Crisis
Over 135 stakeholders attended the event hosted by the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.
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Policy Approaches to the Opioid Crisis, Featuring Remarks from Sir Angus Deaton, Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster, and Professor Bertha K. Madras
On Friday, November 3, the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy will host a conference on how public policy can address the opioid epidemic.
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The Long-Term Benefits of Quality Early Childcare for Disadvantaged Mothers and their Children
This post discusses research on the life-cycle consequences of comprehensive early childcare programs.
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Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among African American Men Across the Adult Lifecourse
A lifecourse framework was used to examine the association between major and everyday measures of perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms among African American men and to evaluate whether these relationships differed for young, middle-aged, and older men.
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Economic Aspects of the Opioid Crisis
Sir Angus Deaton testified on the decline in life expectancy in the United States and the role opioids have played in this startling trend.Â
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Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program
Heckman and his colleagues estimate the internal rate of return is 13.7 percent for the high quality early childhood education program analyzed. The associated benefit/cost ratio is 7.3.
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