Tobacco use links with child malnutrition in developing countries
2009 Tufts University study on the relationship between household tobacco use and child nutrition in the developing world.
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Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to health, health care and health equity
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Measuring the impact of health insurance on levels and trends in inequality
2010 Cornell University study done for the National Bureau of Economic Research on the effect of health insurance on trends in income inequality.
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Impact of air quality on hospital spending
2010 RAND Corporation study on the cost of medical care attributed to California’s failure to meet federal clean air standards.
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Does incarceration-based drug treatment reduce recidivism?
2007 paper in the Journal of Experimental Criminology on the effectiveness of incarceration-based drug treatment in reducing drug relapse and recidivism.
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Latino preschool children’s oral health in rural California
2008 University of California, San Francisco, study on the causes behind the high rate of dental care among the state’s Latino children.
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Smoking bans and heart-attack rates
2009 meta-analysis by the Institute of Medicine of 11 U.S. and European studies on the health effects of smoking bans.
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Health insurance and mortality in U.S. adults
2009 study by the Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance on the relationship between health insurance and death rates.
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Systematic review of studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the United States
2007 McMaster University survey published in Open Medicine comparing 38 studies that look at outcomes of medical care in the two countries.
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