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Deliberative Dialogue and Decision-Making about U.S. Population Health Challenges: A Pipe Dream or a Possibility?
Can deliberative dialogue help us solve population health challenges? A study aims to find out.
Population Health News Roundup: August 2022
Environmental discrimination in Chicago, built environment effects on seniors, trauma-informed placemaking, and racial disparities in mental health and in monkeypox, and more.
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Taught Us About Social Isolation
Social isolation increased during the pandemic. What have we learned, and what can we do to keep people connected?
Population Health News Roundup: July 2022
Air pollution’s disproportionate affects, drug overdose disparities, farmerworkers’ risks on a warming planet, broadband access and COVID deaths, and mroe.
Population Health News Roundup: June 2022
Calls for climate justice and strategies, Medicaid payments for housing, and COVID disparities by occupation, SEP, race, gender, and red states vs. blue states. This and more in our monthly roundup.
There Are No Accidents: An Interview with Author Jessie Singer, Part 3
How can pop health scientists better communicate the role of systems, policies, and environments in preventing accidents?
There Are No Accidents: An Interview with Author Jessie Singer, Part 2
Income inequality, stigmas, built environments, and the lack of a social safety net contribute to disproportionate rates of accidental death. Part two in this three-part series.
There Are No Accidents: An Interview with Author Jessie Singer, Part 1
The way we view “accidents” is problematic. Read part one of our three-part interview with author Jessie Singer.
Population Health News Roundup: May 2022
Getting to zero traffic deaths, park access and mental health, Oprah talks health disparities, and more in our monthly population health news roundup.
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