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The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger
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The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama's fight to reform health care was pointless as discussed by the authors, and that extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health.Abstract:
The strong version of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s argument in The Spirit Level implies that President Obama’s fight to reform health care was pointless. Extending the availability of health insurance cannot substantially improve Americans’ health. Instead, the president would make us all happier, healthier, and longer-lived, their logic suggests, if he could get the richest, say, 5 percent of Americans to leave the country.read more
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“Anthropogens” in Lifestyle Medicine
Garry Egger,David Colquhoun,David Colquhoun,David Colquhoun,John Dixon,John Dixon,John Dixon +6 more
TL;DR: Chronic disease epidemiology currently lacks the mono-causal focus germ theory provides infectious diseases, but the discovery of a form of low-grade, systemic, and chronic inflammation underlying many, if not all, chronic diseases induced by a range of stimulants labeled “anthropogens” may help change this.
Toward a Political Economy of Framing: Putting Inequality on the Public Policy Agenda
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical and pragmatic debate about the challenges of attempting to shape public discourse around critical social problems in ways that lead to a sustainable transformation of policy agendas at the local, national and international levels.
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Ten quick tips for creating an effective lesson
TL;DR: 10 tips for building effective lessons that are grounded in empirical research on pedagogy and cognitive psychology and that have been practically useful in both classroom and free-range settings are presented.
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Promoting Justice and Autonomy in Public Policies to Reduce the Health Consequences of Obesity
TL;DR: The paper concludes with a description of how the capabilities approach to justice may offer a more coherent ethical framework for developing and evaluating policies to address the current obesity epidemic.
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Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
TL;DR: In this new edition of his landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives as discussed by the authors, which is not just anecdotally true, it is the story told by countless pieces of scientific research.
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Disease and Disadvantage in the United States and in England
TL;DR: The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer.
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Cross-Country Determinants of Life Satisfaction: Exploring Different Determinants Across Groups in Society
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore a wide range of cross-country determinants of life satisfaction exploiting a database of 90,000 observations in 70 countries and show that only a small number of factors, such as openness, business climate, postcommunism, the number of chambers in parliament, Christian majority, and infant mortality robustly influence life satisfaction across countries.
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Social Trust and Fractionalization: A Possible Reinterpretation
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of fractionalization for the creation of social trust is examined and the determinants of trust can be divided into two categories: those affecting individuals' trust radii and those affecting social polarization.
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Do Neoliberal Economic Policies Kill or Save Lives
John Gerring,Strom C. Thacker +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that open international trade policies, low-inflation macroeconomic environments, and market-oriented property rights regimes promote human development across the world, even when controlling for countries' economic performance.