Gender differences in the salaries of physician researchers
2012 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) highlighting the differences in pay among male and female members of the medical profession.
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Is It generalized anxiety disorder or poverty? Poor mothers and their children
2012 study from Rutgers finds that overly broad definitions of mental illness have resulted in improper categorization of some poor mothers as suffering from psychiatric conditions.
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Influence of peer influence on smoking among Hispanic and Latino high school adolescents
2012 study from the University of Southern California and University of Texas on peer influence and teenage smoking habits among Hispanic high school students.
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Poverty and health: The mediating role of perceived discrimination
2012 study from Cornell University and University of Wisconsin-Madison in Psychological Science on how poverty levels and perceived discrimination can lead to poorer health.
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Demand for health insurance among uninsured Americans
2012 study from Princeton University on the number of uninsured Americans who might participate in reform efforts.
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Economic burdens of health inequalities in the United States
2009 study from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland on racial disparities in U.S. health care.
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Cause of death affects racial classification on death certificates
2011 study conducted by University of California, Irvine, on the discrepancies between individuals’ reported race at birth and death and the possible role of the cause of death.
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U.S. obesity trends and neighborhood effects
2011 study in the New England Journal of Medicine on the type of neighborhood in which an individual lives and health outcomes.
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Racial disparities in health: How much does stress really matter?
2011 study from Harvard University published in the DuBois Review exploring the interaction between stress and public health outcomes, along racial lines.
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Prevalence, severity and distribution of childhood food allergies in the United States
2011 study in the journal Pediatrics on the scope of food allergies among U.S. children.
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