Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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Cannabis Legalization and Cannabis-Involved Pregnancy Hospitalizations in Colorado
The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the association between presence of recreational cannabis dispensaries and prevalence of cannabis-involved pregnancy hospitalizations in Colorado.
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Knowledge Translation and the Opioid Crisis
Rapid solutions to the opioid crisis remain elusive. Prescriptions for opioids have decreased. Yet, supply limits have not reduced fatalities. Demand-side interventions have not fared any better.
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Among Young Latino Adults, Noncitizens Are at Greater Risk of Death Than Naturalized and U.S.-Born Citizens
Latino immigrants, especially noncitizens, face a much greater risk of dying than their U.S.-born peers, USC researchers have found.
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Citizenship Status and Mortality Among Young Latino Adults in the U.S., 1998‒2015
Young Latino immigrants without citizenship have 40% higher mortality rate than their U.S.-born counterparts.
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Association of Cash Payment with Intensity of Opioid Prescriptions
It is difficult to track use and outcomes in patients who pay cash for their prescriptions at the pharmacy. In Texas, 14% of all opioid prescriptions are paid with cash, often by uninsured patients and pharmacy shoppers.
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Healthcare Delivery in California: Where Do We Go From Here?
On February 3, join Dana Goldman and Mark Ghaly, Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, for a conversation on how California can deliver health care to everyone.Â
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Microsimulation Projections of Obesity Interventions on Cardiometabolic Health Disparities in the United States
Schaeffer Center researchers simulate how health education implemented in the United States throughout 2019 to 2049 would lead to changes in adult BMI and consequent hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
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Patient Frailty and Functional Use of Hemodialysis Vascular Access: A Retrospective Study of the US Renal Data System
Despite the high prevalence of frailty among dialysis patients, it is unknown whether frailty is associated with dialysis vascular access failure. This study examined the association between frailty and functional use of vascular access.
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Incidence of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Neovascular Sequelae at 5 Years Following Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes
Research Design and Methods: Insured patients aged ≥18 years with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and 5 years of continuous enrollment were identified from a nationwide commercial claims database containing data from 2007 to 2015. The incidences of PDR, TRD, and NVG were computed at 5 years following the index diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Associations between these outcomes and demographic, socioeconomic, and medical factors were tested with multivariable logistic regression.
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Discrimination and Hypertension Among Older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: The Moderating Effects of John Henryism
Discrimination is a major contributor to health disparities between Black and White older adults.
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