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Quarterly Department
Quarterly Article
January 2024 Michal Shimonovich, Mhairi Campbell, Rachel M. Thomson, Philip Broadbent, Valerie Wells, Daniel Kopasker, Gerry McCartney, Hilary Thomson, Anna Pearce, S. Vittal Katikireddi,
Context: Whether income inequality has a direct effect on health or is only associated because of the effect of individual income has long been… More
January 2024 Timothy W. Levengood, Rena M. Conti, Sean Cahill, Megan B. Cole,
Our scoping review provides a roadmap of the questions being asked about the 340B program and an initial synthesis of the answers. More
January 2024 David A. Kindig, Yasmin Mohd Ariffin, Hannah Olson-Williams,
This study finds that every percent of evangelicals in a county is associated with 4.01 more premature deaths per 100,000 population and 0.13% fair/poor health. More
January 2024 Holly Chung, Katherine Cullerton, Jennifer Lacy-Nichols,
A comparison of lobbing spending and spending trends among four industries that affect public health. More
January 2024 Emilie Francis-Auton, Janet C. Long, Mitchell Sarkies, Natalie Roberts, Johanna Westbrook, Jean-Frederic Levesque, Diana E. Watson, Rebecca Hardwick, Peter Hibbert, Chiara Pomare, Jeffrey Braithwaite,
This study identifies four system “enablers” that can help guide large-scale transformation in health care systems. More
December 2023 Yuna S. H. Lee, Rachel Grob, Ingrid Nembhard, Dale Shaller, Mark Schlesinger,
A valid and reliable method for eliciting creative ideas from patients can be deployed as part of routine patient experience surveys that include closed-ended survey items and open-ended narrative items in which patients share their experiences in their own words. More
October 2023 Duncan A. Clark, James Macinko, Maurizio Porfiri,
Study results show that a set of internal state factors are important predictors of firearm law adoption, but the actions of neighboring states may be just as important. More
October 2023 Peter Muennig, Daniel W. Belsky, Daniel Malinsky, Kieu-Giang Nguyen, Zohn Rosen, Heidi L. Allen,
A new Milbank Quarterly study examines how an enhanced earned-income tax credit (EITC) affects mental and physical health. More
September 2023 Monica Aggarwal, Brian Hutchison, Reham Abdelhalim, G. Ross Baker,
Context: Despite significant investments to transform primary care, Canada lags behind its peers in providing timely access to regular doctors or… More
September 2023 Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Sharon Tafolla, Fabiola M. Perez-Lua,
The tensions among state immigrant policies, local immigration climates, and federal policy changes indicate that state immigrant policies are not implemented equally across state communities, resulting in challenges and limited benefits from policies for many immigrant communities. More
