News Category: Epidemiology

• alcohol

  State Alcohol Laws Focus on Drunk Driving—They Could Do Much More

  

  Even Utah, the state with the strongest alcohol laws, has a lot of room for improvement.

  Published on February 13th, 2020 Tagged alcohol, alcohol tax, alcohol use, alcohol/substance use, binge drinking, drinking, drunk driving

• affordable care act

  Two Million Americans Lost Health Coverage/Access in Trump’s First Year

  

  Over the course of 2017, positive trends in insurance coverage and healthcare access from the Affordable Care Act reversed, particularly for low-income residents of states that did not expand Medicaid.

  Published on February 3rd, 2020 Tagged ACA, access to care, affordable care act, health care, health insurance, healthcare, healthcare costs, healthcare disparities, healthcare system, insurance, medicaid, obamacare, politics and health, underinsurance

• infectious disease

  Coronavirus: What We Know

  

  Infectious disease experts Davidson Hamer and Jean van Seventer on the global outbreak of 2019-nCoV originating in Wuhan, China.

  Published on January 22nd, 2020 Tagged epidemic, infectious disease, MERS, MERS-CoV, pneumonia

• alcohol

  Irish Times

  Alcohol Industry and Health Information — opinion by Nason Maani, visiting researcher in the Department of Epidemiology

  Published on January 14th, 2020 Tagged alcohol, alcohol industry, alcohol marketing, alcohol use

• dean's advisory board

  Cheryl Scott Joins Dean’s Advisory Board

  

  Cheryl Scott, medical consultant for the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control, has joined the SPH Dean’s Advisory Board with more than 20 years of public health service in infectious diseases and reproductive health.

  Published on January 2nd, 2020 Tagged dean's advisory board, Global Health, th

• health insurance

  Chiropractic Economics

  More Chiropractic Insurance Coverage, Non-Drug Pain Care Coming in 2020 — references study co-authored by Kathleen Carey, professor of health law, policy & management; James Rothendler, assistant professor of health law, policy & management; Howard Cabral, professor of biostatistics; Michael Stein, professor of health law, policy & management; Robert Saper, associate professor of epidemiology; and Lewis Kazis, professor of health law, policy & management 

  Published on January 2nd, 2020 Tagged chronic pain, health insurance, insurance, pain

• suicide

  Predicting Suicide

  

  A new study takes on the complexity of suicide by using machine learning and the entire population of Denmark to identify new patterns, including that physical health affects suicide risk for men but not women.

  Published on January 2nd, 2020 Tagged Big Data, data, machine learning, mental health, mental health disorders, suicide

• joint pain

  medwireNews

  Canagliflozin May Reduce Gout Flare Risk in People with Type 2 Diabetes — quotes Tuhina Neogi, professor of epidemiology

  Published on December 19th, 2019 Tagged arthritis, joint pain

• suicide

  Health Issues India

  Injury and Suicide Risk in Men — quotes Jaimie Gradus, associate professor of epidemiology

  Published on December 19th, 2019 Tagged mental health, suicide

• joint pain

  Medical Dialogues

  SGLT2 Inhibitor Canagliflozin Reduces Gout Flares in Type 2 Diabetes: CANVAS Program — quotes Tuhina Neogi, professor of epidemiology

  Published on December 18th, 2019 Tagged arthritis, joint pain