Filtered by: Health Policy
Monnat takes part in White House roundtable aimed at reducing opioid overdoses
“Many people who misuse opioids are also misusing other substances, and a common driver of this is self-medicating,” says Shannon Monnat, associate professor of sociology and Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion, whose research examines the connections between social disadvantage, place, public policy and health.
Heflin discusses new SNAP study with Huffington Post, PBS, Common Dreams
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Gift funds research, training on international health care
The Health Management Faculty Development Fund, established from a gift by David Dean '76 M.S.Sc./'78 Ph.D. (SSc), will support research and teaching by a soon-to-be-hired faculty member, who will focus on health care policy and management.
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Burman discusses the cost of Warren's Medicare for All in the Atlantic
Leonard Burman, Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics, says raising significantly more tax revenue to fund Medicare for All "is plausible in the sense that it is theoretically possible. But the revolution that would come along with it would get in the way."
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Sociologists Montez and Monnat earn NIH grants
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Health Administration
Ghanaian physician Laud Boateng will use his MPA/IR to improve health policy worldwide.
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Lopoo quoted in Medium article on immigration policy, fertility
"If we see fewer immigrants coming to the U.S., or if we start to restrict the immigrants who come in to those who look a lot like middle-class Americans, with respect to fertility rates, we’re going to see completely different fertility rates in the United States," says Len Lopoo, professor of public administration and international affairs.
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Baltagi and Flores-Lagunes article on the effect of education on health published in RSUE
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Self-Determination
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Lopoo discusses govt policies to increase US fertility rate in Medium
"Think about a professional woman who has completed college and some graduate work and may or may not be married, and if they’re married, they have a partner with a similar income," Len Lopoo, professor of public administration and international affairs and director of the Center for Policy Research, says. "So they’re sort of in the part of their careers where they’re really climbing rapidly."
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Monnat paper on opioid-related mortality in rural America published in Int Journal of Drug Policy
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Dennison discusses economic costs of obesity in Obesity Medicine
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Monnat article on teaching to the opioid epidemic published in Medical Teacher
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Grandparenting in the United States
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Monnat study on physical health consequences of adverse childhood experiences published in TSQ
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Schwartz paper on neighborhoods schools and obesity published in PLOS ONE
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Monnat study on rural/urban differences in prescription opioid misuse published in J of Rural Health
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WP 182 Health, Medical Innovation and Disability Insurance
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Monnat study on elementary school physical education policies published in Preventive Medicine
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Singleton relationship between disability onset, earnings, and disability insurance published in EL
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