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Why Similar Policies Resulted In Different COVID-19 Outcomes: How Responsiveness And Culture Influenced Mortality Rates

Unionization of workplaces substantially increases OSHA compliance – Data from nursing home unionizations over the period 2016–21 shows the unionized nursing homes become substantially more likely to comply with OSHA rules on reporting workplace injury data.

The study highlights a widening health and wealth gap between lower-middle and upper-middle class Americans nearing retirement, with the “forgotten middle” facing greater challenges and receiving less policy attention.

Dental Services Use: Medicare Beneficiaries Experience Immediate And Long-Term Reductions After Enrollment

‘I Am Not the Doctor for You’: Physicians Attitudes About People W Disabilities

Fentanyl Tests Empower People and Save Lives–Why Aren’t They Widespread? (2021)

Unionized nursing homes across the US had 11% lower resident COVID-19 death rates and 7% lower worker infection rates than non-unionized nursing homes

New study adds to growing body of evidence of financial hardship caused by the US health care system

School districts with higher teachers’ unionization rates were more likely to adopt mask mandates. [Data from Iowa]

Community Use Of Face Masks And COVID-19: Evidence From A Natural Experiment Of State Mandates In The US (HealthAffairs: Research Article) ('Estimates suggest that as a result of the implementation of these mandates, more than 200,000 COVID-19 cases were averted by May 22…

Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing Homes

In 2018, Arkansas became first US state to implement work requirements for Medicaid coverage

Shelter-In-Place orders (SIPOs) reduced COVID-19 mortality and reduced the rate of growth in hospitalizations

Face mask requirements may have prevented 450,000 coronavirus cases: A study provides strong evidence that states in the US mandating the ​use of face masks in public had a greater decline in daily COVID-19 growth rates after issuing these mandates compared to states that did not issue mandates.

After the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement began, privately-insured women’s out-of-pocket spending for contraception declined and their use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs)…

New analysis estimates that the lifetime economic burden of early-onset serious mental illness is $1.85 million per person

Study estimates for every $1 spent on HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART), there are $3.50 in benefits globally

After 2011, Germany started regulating the prices of new brand-name drugs for nonrare diseases by determining if they provided additional benefits to current treatments

Loss Of SNAP Is Associated With Food Insecurity And Poor Health In Working Families With Young Children

Low income women with high-deductible ($1000+) health plans had delays of 1.6 months to first breast imaging, 2.7 months to first biopsy, 6.6 months to incident early-stage breast cancer diagnosis…

Medicaid Expansion in West Virginia tripled the number of Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorder who take buprenorphine, suggesting the ACA is a critical tool for responding to the opioid crisis

Study shows mothers who received a surprise out of network bill for their first delivery were more likely to switch hospitals for their second

Medicaid expansion caused a significant reduction in the poverty rate.

Mandatory Health Care Provider Counseling For Parents Led To A Decline In Vaccine Exemptions In California

Millions Die Each Year From Lack of Access to Quality Healthcare, resulting in Trillions of Dollars in Economic Losses

Mississippi and West Virginia have the highest rates of vaccination in the US

Study of 1.7 million US veterans finds reduction in the availability of fast-food restaurants and supermarkets near a person's home are not associated with reductions in BMI

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has helped to close the gap in health care access between residents of poor and higher-income households, a new study by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers shows.

Increasing the percentage of elementary school children in the United States who participate in 25 minutes of physical activity three times a week from 32 percent to 50 percent would avoid $21.9 billion in medical costs and lost wages over the course of their lifetimes…

Use of prescription drugs in fee-for-service Medicaid was lower in states with medical marijuana laws than in states without such laws in five (pain, depression, nausea, psychosis and seizures) of the nine broad clinical areas studied…

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