Mortality

Health Interventions
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Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality: Using Big Data to Help Babies at Risk
Jul 1, 2021
Black babies in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and across America—face much higher mortality rates than white babies. Researchers pulled together thousands of data points on more than 150,000 births to better predict who is at risk and how to help.
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Demographics
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An Early Look at the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Demographic Trends
Esther M. Friedman @friedmanEM, Andrew M. Parker
Apr 12, 2021
The RAND Blog
Key demographic trends in fertility, mortality, and migration are responsible for shifts in the overall structure of any population. COVID-19 has affected each of these, with potentially important implications.
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Demographics
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Humans Are Living Longer, So What Do We Do with All This Extra Time?
Andrew R. Hoehn, Bonnie Hagemann, Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_
Feb 5, 2021
Dallas Morning News
Medical and public health improvements over the past century have led to dramatic increases in longevity. New policies may be needed to ensure these extra years become mutually beneficial to all generations.
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Mortality
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Estimates of COVID-19's Fatality Rate Might Change. And Then Change Again.
Raffaele Vardavas, Courtney A. Gidengil @c_gidengil, Sarah A. Nowak
Mar 11, 2020
The RAND Blog
With infections of the new coronavirus confirmed in countries around the world, people are following the daily tally of COVID-19 cases, wondering exactly how lethal this new disease is. The truth is, it's hard to know.
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Opioids
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Fentanyl: The Most Dangerous Illegal Drug in America
Jan 13, 2020
America's fentanyl crisis is unlike previous drug epidemics and is likely to get worse. Deaths involving fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have surged from around 3,000 in 2013 to more than 30,000 in 2018. Solving the problem requires innovative approaches and unprecedented resources.
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Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care
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Knowing When to Say Yes to Medical Technology
Emmett B. Keeler
Nov 18, 2014
The Health Care Blog
CT lung cancer screening turns out to be like many new medical technologies: It improves health but is quite expensive. Moreover, it needs implementation that targets those most likely to benefit and provides them the care they need efficiently.
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Methodology
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Response to 'Study on Parental Longevity Is Short on Causation'
Esther M. Friedman @friedmanEM, Robert D. Mare
Aug 11, 2014
New York Times
The possible effects of families on health and mortality is an extremely complex topic. No single study or type of study is exactly a test of the argument. We need more studies that advance possible interpretations and describe patterns of associations in broad populations of interest.
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Mortality
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Americans Dying Twice as Fast as French from Treatable Conditions
Ellen Nolte
Oct 1, 2012
The RAND Blog
Despite high per-capita expenditures in the U.S., Americans under the age of 65 are less likely than their peers in France, Germany, or the United Kingdom to receive timely and appropriate health care, writes Ellen Nolte.
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Mortality

Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality: Using Big Data to Help Babies at Risk

An Early Look at the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Demographic Trends

Humans Are Living Longer, So What Do We Do with All This Extra Time?

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Knowing When to Say Yes to Medical Technology

Response to 'Study on Parental Longevity Is Short on Causation'

Americans Dying Twice as Fast as French from Treatable Conditions

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