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Legal Interventions to Address US Reductions in Life Expectancy.
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This Viewpoint discusses ways that evidence-based laws can address health disparities and halt the documented reduction of life expectancy across socioeconomic groups.Abstract:
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Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: A Scientific Review.
Felicia Hill-Briggs,Nancy E. Adler,Seth A. Berkowitz,Marshall H. Chin,Tiffany L. Gary-Webb,Ana Navas-Acien,Pamela Thornton,Debra Haire-Joshu +7 more
TL;DR: The literature review focuses primarily on U.S.-based studies of adults with diabetes and on key definitions and SDOH frameworks, and concludes with recommendations for linkages across health care and community sectors from national advisory committees, recommendations for diabetes research, and recommendations for research to inform practice.
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Global pandemics interconnected - obesity, impaired metabolic health and COVID-19.
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The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014
Raj Chetty,Michael Stepner,Sarah Abraham,Shelby Lin,Benjamin Scuderi,Nicholas Turner,Augustin Bergeron,David M. Cutler +7 more
TL;DR: In the United States between 2001 and 2014, higher income was associated with greater longevity, and differences in life expectancy across income groups increased over time, however, the association between life expectancy and income varied substantially across areas; differences in longevity acrossincome groups decreased in some areas and increased in others.
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Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017
TL;DR: US life expectancy increased for most of the past 60 years, but the rate of increase slowed over time and life expectancy decreased after 2014, with the largest relative increases occurring in the Ohio Valley and New England.
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The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development
Lawrence O. Gostin,John T Monahan,Jenny Kaldor,Mary C. DeBartolo,Eric A. Friedman,Katie Gottschalk,Susan C. Kim,Ala Alwan,Agnes Binagwaho,Gian Luca Burci,Luisa Cabal,Katherine DeLand,Timothy G Evans,Eric Goosby,Sara Hossain,Howard K. Koh,Gorik Ooms,Mirta Roses Periago,Rodrigo Uprimny,Alicia Ely Yamin +19 more
TL;DR: This Commission brings together global leaders in the fields of health, law, and governance to enhance the global health community's understanding of law, regulation, and the rule of law as effective tools to advance population health and equity.
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Fine-scale damage estimates of particulate matter air pollution reveal opportunities for location-specific mitigation of emissions
TL;DR: Information presented here can help policymakers and regulators prioritize mitigation of emissions from the most harmful source locations by identifying those sources with the greatest health effects, and highlights the importance of a fine-scale approach as marginal damages can vary by over an order of magnitude within a single county.
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Association of Medicaid Expansion With 1-Year Mortality Among Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease
Shailender Swaminathan,Benjamin D. Sommers,Benjamin D. Sommers,Rebecca Thorsness,Rajnish Mehrotra,Yoojin Lee,Amal N. Trivedi,Amal N. Trivedi +7 more
TL;DR: Among patients with ESRD initiating dialysis, living in a state that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act was associated with lower 1-year mortality, and further research is needed to understand what factors may have contributed to this finding.