Health
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Containing Ebola
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What is Ebola, and why does it matter for public policy? This CPR special report and infographic explains what you need to know.
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Academic Stress in China: Coping with High Expectations in School Environments
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How do high school students cope with high expectations? A look at academic stress levels in China.
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One Strange Health Statistic That Could Improve American Healthcare
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A new study looks at a surprisingly simple metric—consumers’ self-rated overall health—and finds that it has become increasingly powerful at predicting mortality over the last few decades.
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More Than Money: The psychological externalities of neighborhood foreclosures
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Research finds a large number of foreclosures in one’s neighborhood can be an important risk factor for the onset of depression among older adults.
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The Power of the (Medicare) Dollar: Changes in Medicare Payments Affect Private Insurance Payouts
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A study of market factors that influence Medicare’s ability to set prices provides interesting and offsetting long term implications.
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How Sweets, SNAP, and Stress Affect Childhood Obesity
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A study examines prenatal risk factors among low-income Hispanic mothers that may lead to childhood obesity.
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Enduring Damage: The Effects of Childhood Poverty on Adult Health
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For young children, poverty’s most damaging effects manifest over time.
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Death by Insurance: Disparities in Healthcare Outcomes Based on Payment Methods
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Researchers find a link between health outcomes and the type of insurance used by patients being treated for similar medical conditions at the same hospitals.
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Are Health Policy Preferences Really About Health? The Hidden Influence of Biased Media Portrayals
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A recent survey suggests that stigmatizing images of obese people in medical health articles can significantly increase reader support for policies that discriminate against the obese.
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Churning through Children’s Health: Improving Continuity of Medicaid Coverage
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Researchers evaluate how implementation of continuous-eligibility enrollment policies affects the average length of children’s enrollment in the Medicaid program.
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The True Cost of Welfare Reform
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Researchers take advantage of early randomized experiments to analyze the impact of workforce participation requirements and time limits on participants’ health.