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Social Drivers of Cancer Mortality: Part 2

By | September 1, 2022
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RTI Rarity Conceptual Model

Measuring and addressing social drivers of health are important in cancer research. Part 1 of this series, published in March 2022, described three commonly used area-level SDoH indices. None are not able to explain much variation in cancer mortality rates. In this post, I share results from a new model that shows promise. Methods in… Read More »

COVID-19: health and the coming economic recession

By | April 3, 2020
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The first reports of COVID-19, the name now used to describe the disease caused by a novel coronavirus, first emerged around New Year’s day of 2020. Since then, the conversation has shifted from containment efforts in Wuhan, China to social distancing and mandatory closures across the U.S., including in New York, California, Illinois [pdf], Massachusetts,… Read More »