Pediatrics
Families resilient in face of COVID-19, American Family Survey says
In the tumult of 2020 America—the pandemic, the protests, the presidential election—BYU political scientists have spotted some good news.
Oct 30, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID-19 outcomes not consistently explained by race, social vulnerability
The COVID-19 pandemic has afforded researchers a unique lens through which to study racial inequities in health care delivery and outcomes in the U.S. And according to a paper co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Apr 14, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus: what went wrong in the Czech Republic?
The Czech Republic, which had been praised for its swift response to COVID-19 in the spring, is now topping global charts of new coronavirus infections and deaths per population. Authorities have failed to control new infections ...
Nov 9, 2020
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Medications
Trust in health care is essential for dealing with antibiotic resistance
Do many Swedes obtain antibiotics without a prescription, and what drives their behavior when this happens? The answers are important when it comes to dealing with antibiotic resistance, which is a serious challenge for the ...
Oct 24, 2022
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Health
Experts talk bioethics, healthcare in new book
The United States spends twice as much on health care per person than any other affluent democracy. But that spending has not produced the results that might be expected, noted Penn President Amy Gutmann.
Sep 9, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists explain how the COVID States Project analyzed the pandemic with objectivity
David Lazer ran into a fellow Northeastern University professor Alessandro Vespignani. It was February 2020. One month before the COVID-19 shutdowns.
Apr 8, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Responses to COVID-19 require inputs from every angle of people's lives
The COVID-19 pandemic is complicated. It is not merely a biomedical problem to be dealt with through medicine and public health. It also has major social implications.
Aug 10, 2020
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Medical economics
Swedish study finds highest quality in residential elder care homes without profit incentives
The consequences of privatization for Swedish welfare have been discussed for many years, especially concerning elderly care. Today, about 20% of all residential care homes are run by non-municipal actors. A new study published ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Health
Scientists should advance management of behavioral norms
Researchers should study how people's social and personal norms are influenced by behavior and use their insights to help governments promote pro-environmental actions, a distinguished group of scholars writes in the March ...
Feb 13, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How countries on five continents responded to the pandemic, helping shape future of health policy
The opening lines of Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina," where the Russian author posits that "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," can also be applied to the responses to COVID-19 by countries ...
Apr 15, 2021
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