What a Difference a Dollar Makes
The Doctor Will See You Now,
In honor of Labor Day, a re-release: Raising the minimum wage by just $1 an hour can reduce absenteeism by almost 10 percent.
What is Driving Widening Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy?
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation » The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation,
This analysis examines trends and racial disparities in life expectancy, leading causes of death by race and ethnicity, and…
Why Are So Many of America’s Children Dying Young?
Diane Ravitch's blog,
The New York Times published an important article by David Wallace-Wells about the mortality rate in the USA. Shockingly, the…
5 Ways the Rich Are Buffered From Evolutionary Mismatch
Psychology Today,
Across all spheres of life, we run into evolutionary mismatch. Wealth consistently provides a buffer. From a social-inequality…
Life expectancy in the USA by ethnicity, pre-and-post-COVID
Lawyers, Guns & Money,
The big news in the public health statistics world last week is that life expectancy in the USA fell for the second year in a…
Mississippi had the lowest life expectancy – with 20% living in poverty – at 74.4 years
Whats New,
Huge disparity in life expectancy has developed within the US, with southern states like Mississippi and Alabama lagging far…
Who should be prioritized for scarce medical assistance?
Baylor College of Medicine,
This post is a preview of a presentation for the Baruch A. Brody Lecture in Bioethics. Want to learn more about this topic?
Why the Build Back Better Act is an investment, not a cost
KevinMD.com,
The original Build Back Better Act proposed various provisions to improve Americans’ lives, including two years of free…
Les études statistiques sont-elles hors de contrôle ?
Science étonnante,
En matière de statistiques, je viens de prendre une grosse claque. J’ai lu il y a quelques semaines un article scientifique que…
Black and Hispanic Americans Suffer Most in Biggest US Decline in Life Expectancy Since WWII
Physician's Weekly,
Although James Toussaint has never had covid, the pandemic is taking a profound toll on his health. First, the 57-year-old lost…
The Boundless Advantages of the Welfare State—for the Rich
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitRobbing the rest of us blind, wealthy Americans benefit from a wide array of tax breaks and government subsidies…
Trump's Policy Failures Have Exacted a Heavy Toll on Public Health
Scientific American Blog: Observations,
But things were on the decline long before he took office -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The SSTAR Initiative: A Policy Proposal for a Full, Equitable Recovery from COVID-19
Bill of Health,
By Sara E. Abiola and Zohn…
Is the COVID-19 pandemic cure really worse than the disease? Here’s what our research found
DJG Blogger,
The economic impact of coronavirus restrictions can also take a human toll. mladenbalinovac via Getty…
Covid-19, a ‘supernova in human history,’ will need multiple perspectives to understand and manage
Oregon Health & Sciences University,
Vinay Prasad, M.D., M.P.H., co-authors an op-ed calling for broader engagement of scientists across disciplines to understand…
Can We Discuss Flatten-the-Curve in COVID19? My Eight Assertions
Dr John M,
On Telehealth, an older couple asked me a tough question about COVID19. They asked whether this virus would either be gone or…
The True Costs of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Scientific American Blog: Observations,
It will kill many directly, but the effort to fight it will incur a huge toll on other aspects of our health and well-being -…
OCW2020: Health and Obesity Care Behind the Velvet Rope
ConscienHealth,
The future for health and obesity care looks bright. Or dismal. It all depends on the velvet rope that governs access to care.
Eliminating food deserts won’t help poorer Americans eat healthier
DJG Blogger,
We love junk food. Mumemories/Shutterstock.com In the U.S., rich people tend to eat a lot healthier than poor people. Because…
Does U.S. Health Inequality Reflect Income Inequality—or Something Else?
Liberty Street Economics,
Maxim…
Promoting Health, Not Just Health Care
Bill of Health,
By David…
Native-born Californians who live near large immigrant populations eat healthier
Journalist's Resource,
Native-born Americans who live in Los Angeles County neighborhoods with a higher proportion of immigrants tend to eat less fast…
What Should We Ask About Age-Based Criteria in Healthcare?
Bill of Health,
In the American health care system, age shapes patients’ options. Most people over age 65 are eligible for Medicare, which is…
We need more than medicine to prevent heart disease
KevinMD.com,
Like more than half of older men, I take a cholesterol-lowering medication called a statin. Sometimes that seems a bit strange…
Karen DeSalvo on ‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast
Bill of Health,
For over two decades, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, in conjunction with the IU School of Medicine, has…
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2019
naked capitalism,
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” …
Why Inequality Matters
Social Europe Journal,
Thorvaldur…
JAMA Forum: The Triple Aim Must Overcome the Triple Threat
news@JAMA,
What you’re about to read may be considered modern day health care heresy: the Triple Aim for health systems is not enough. The…
Increasing Life Expectancy Visualized as an Advancing Wave of Late Life Mortality Risk
Fight Aging!,
Today's open access paper provides an interesting visualization of the slow upward trend in life expectancy that has taken…
Being born in the wrong ZIP code can shorten your life
Co.Exist,
“State and local governments could play a role in increasing life expectancies,” writes Professor Jessica Young. Newly released…
Being Born in the Wrong Zip Code Can Shorten Your Life
Neuroscience RSS Feeds - Neuroscience News Updates,
Researchers report on why being born and raised in certain areas can have a dramatic impact on your life expectancy.
The Capitalist Manifesto: Let Poor People Die
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitBusiness-minded conservatives are trying to make it harder for these most vulnerable of Americans to survive. (Photo…
2:00PM Water Cooler 6/22/2018
naked capitalism,
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Trade “Tariff War With China Hits California Cotton Market” [California Apparel News]. “In the…
This is the myth of the “ageing society”
Forum:Blog,
How we think about ageing populations needs a significant overhaul.
Earth Day: it is about equity as well as the environment
The Brookings Institution,
By Eleanor Krause, Richard V.
JAMA Forum: Income, Poverty, and Health Inequality
news@JAMA,
The health of people with low incomes historically has been a driver of public health advances in the United States. For example…
Health equity is the missing value in value-based payments
KevinMD.com,
The way doctors and hospitals are paid is undergoing a quick and quiet revolution in an attempt to control costs and improve…
Great Cities Enable You to Live Longer
CityLab,
Some of the most provocative social science research in the past decade has come from the Equality of Opportunity Project, led…
Raj Chetty in 14 charts: Big findings on opportunity and mobility we should all know
The Brookings Institution,
By Richard V. Reeves, Eleanor…
Local knowledge key to building healthier communities
Scope Blog,
Your zip code is just a number meant to guide mail delivery, but studies show that it predicts your lifespan better than your…
The 3 Americans Who Should Pay for Medicare-for-All
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitOf course, it will pay for itself eventually, with lower administrative costs and savings on medications and…
Stunning Truths about the Bloated Safety Net for the Wealthy
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitThe entire 2017 safety net is about $850 billion, compared to over $1.5 trillion for tax expenditures, most of…
The Absurd Amount of Entitlements That Go to Rich People
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitMany wealthy Americans complain about the amount of government subsidies going to the poor. Their complaints…
Why America’s Wealthiest Men Live 15 Years Longer Than the Country’s Poorest
Pacific Standard. Smart Journalism. Real Solutions.,
Income inequality leads to health inequality, and both are getting worse in the United States.By Francie Diep(Photo: Isai Ramos/U…
Disability among working-age adults: A close look at the states
Journalist's Resource,
In some states, 20 to 30 percent of working-age adults have a physical, emotional or cognitive disability, according to a new…
Health issues topped the list of scientific studies reaching wide audiences in 2016
Pew Research Center,
Health care policy, space and evolution led the way.
How Capitalism Kills... And May Be Getting Deadlier
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitIn each of the following areas of our lives, capitalism has been a deadly force in the past, and prospects for the…
What the Narcissists Have Done to Our Jobs and Health
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitWhen Donald Trump blurted out "that makes me smart" as a reason for non-payment of taxes, he was revealing a…
The Classist Implications of Life Extension Science
Pacific Standard. Smart Journalism. Real Solutions.,
The life expectancy gap between rich and poor is already wide, but recent advances in biotechnology should force us to…
Experts Say The Presidential Candidates Will Probably Live A Long Time Because They're Rich And Well Educated
BuzzFeed - Latest,
It turns out their socioeconomic status may be even more telling than their medical records. With less than…
Five Deadly Sins of Big Pharma
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community,
Paul BuchheitFor Mylan, it was a perfect plan—diabolical, unstoppable. The company made changes in its anti-allergy EpiPen…
Health Costs, But Not Obamacare, Dominate The Future Of Federal Spending
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
From all the political discussion about health care, you’d think that government health policy generally lives or dies by what…
The U.S. Health Disadvantage And The Role Of Spending
Health Affairs Blog - REMOVED,
Each week it seems, more evidence emerges regarding the poor health of Americans. We first documented a “U.S. health…
How can we stop income inequality from dividing societies?
Forum:Blog,
The relationship between income and life expectancy is well established, so how can we reduce the gap between the haves and the…
Where the Poor Live Longest
Family Studies,
When Americans think about government policies that promote social equality, they tend to think about policy that targets the…
Sam Watson’s journal round-up for 9th May 2016
The Academic Health Economists' Blog,
Every Monday our authors provide a round-up of some of the most recently published peer reviewed articles from the field. We don…
Income inequality and differential mortality: An ominous combination
World Bank Blogs,
It is safe to argue that the issue of income and wealth inequality is nowadays at the center of political debate across the…
April High Five – Big Trends
Altmetric.com,
Welcome to the Altmetric High Five! On a monthly basis, my High Five posts examine a selection of the most popular research…
Chetty, Justice, and the Evolution of Inequality
The Incidental Economist,
Here’s my take on the Raj Chetty and David Cutler JAMA paper on the association between income and life expectancy in the US. It…
Health Status Related to Income Not Insurance
John Goodman's Health Policy Blog,
An extremely thorough analysis of changes in incomes and mortality in the United States, 2001 through 2014 presents some…
Chetty, et al, on income and life expectancy . . .
Stayin' Alive,
in the U.S. is all the buzz, so I reckon I should say something about it.It has long been known, and observed very consistently…
The Social Safety Net, Income and U.S. Life Expectancy
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit,
Evidence has long correlated income and life expectancy. But new research suggests that simply living in an area with access to…
A Spoonful of Inequality Helps the Medicine go Down
The Health Care Blog,
By SAURABH JHA…
Weekend reading links
Urbanomics,
1. MR points to Ruchir Sharma's very bleak assessment of the Brazilian economy. He paints the picture of an economy intimately…
What About Health Inequality?
GymLion Blog,
If you’ve been watching politics recently you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about income inequality. But what about health…
What About Health Inequality?
GymLion Blog,
If you’ve been watching politics recently you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about income inequality. But what about health…
Open thread for night owls: Inequality is accelerating the life-expectancy gap between rich and poor
Daily Kos,
Sam Pizzigati writes on inequality for the Institute for Policy Studies. His latest book is The Rich Don’t Always Win: The…
America's wealth gap has created an ever-increasing longevity gap
Boing Boing,
In The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014, published in the Journal of the American…
Researchers find a $15 minimum wage could prevent thousands of premature deaths [The Pump Handle]
ScienceBlogs,
Just a few weeks ago, legislators in New York reached a deal to raise the minimum wage to $15. And while that’s certainly a big…
Worth reading: Reckless executives, avian flu, and the relationship between money and life expectancy
The Pump Handle,
Rena Steinzor in the New York Times Opinion Pages: Judgment Day for Reckless…
Perhaps there is a drug that can prolong your life. It’s called money
Public Health,
A wise man once said that “mo’ money, mo’ problems” (Wallace, 1997). However, despite increases in supposed problems, one of…
A spoonful of inequality helps the medicine go down
3quarksdaily,
by Saurabh Jha The conventional wisdom in the circles I hang out in - pro-Hillary, morally conscious, happy bunnies who…
Healthcare Triage News: More Money, More Life: Studies Indicate Wealthy People Live Longer Healthcare Triage
The Incidental Economist,
Unless you were living under a rock this week, you heard there was a huge new study on life expectancy in America. It’s worth…
The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters
3quarksdaily,
Neil Irwin and Quoctrung Bui in the New York Times: For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or…
How the Life-Expectancy Gap for Rich and Poor Skews Social Security
Real Time Economics,
A growing body of research in recent years points to the striking fact that wealthier people are living significantly longer…
New Study Reveals Startling Mortality Gap Between The Rich And The Poor
IFLScience - Health and Medicine,
Health and…
What’s Behind the Rich-Poor Life Expectancy Gap?
Pacific Standard. Smart Journalism. Real Solutions.,
A new paper finds that the gap between the life expectancies of the rich and poor increased in recent years.Continue reading on…
Money can’t buy happiness the saying goes; but it does buy a longer life, Harvard replies
ZME Science,
The richest American men may live up to 15 years longer than the poorest ones, and the richest women 10 years more than their…
Stanford study sheds light on wealth, zip code and lifespan
Scope Blog,
We all know that for optimum health we should exercise, eat a healthy diet, get plenty of sleep and not smoke. What we hear…
How Cities Can Help Improve the Health of Their Low-Income Citizens
Pacific Standard. Smart Journalism. Real Solutions.,
Across America, poor folks tend to live shorter lives than rich ones, but towns and cities can reduce the gap.Continue reading…
Heaven's door
National Affairs Online,
US health inequality
Fight Entropy,
"The report by Chetty et al also suggests that geography and income percentiles interact in previously unknown ways. For…
Access to healthcare does not deliver health
Dr John M,
Stanford economist Raj Chetty and coworkers published an important paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association…
ICYMI: Here's why raising the retirement age is a terrible idea
Booster Shots - latimes.com,
The correlation between life expectancy and income is one of the best-established metrics in American demographics, but seldom…
Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live
Slashdot,
An anonymous reader shares a report on NPR.org: Poor people who reside in expensive, well-educated cities such as San Francisco…
Geography and Life Expectancy Are Linked for Low-Income Americans
CityLab,
Place matters when it comes to how much we earn. And how much we earn is linked to how long we’re likely to live. It is clear…
The Growing Life Expectancy Gap Between The Rich And The Poor
Co.Exist,
Being poor will quite literally take years off your life.How about this for a stark indication of growing income inequality…
For life expectancy, money matters
Harvard Gazette » HarvardScience,
Being poor in the United States is so hazardous to your health, a new study shows, that the average life expectancy of the…
New Findings Suggest That the Rich Live Longer and Longevity for the Poor Is Determined by Geography
Jezebel,
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) brings more nuance to our understanding of life…
Access to data matters. Why don’t we talk more about that?
The Incidental Economist,
You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard about a blockbuster JAMA paper looking at the relationship between…
The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters.
Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin,
The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones — live nearly as long as…
Place plays a part in helping the poor live longer
Marginal Revolution,
There is a new Raj Chetty paper out in JAMA ( with seven co-authors, including David Cutler), and it is garnering a lot of…
Where You Live Could Determine How Long You Live
Real Time Economics,
Higher income has already been linked to greater longevity and better health. A new study by a prominent researcher of mobility…
Brad DeLong,
Must-Read: Jim Zarroli: Raj Chetty et al.'s Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live : "Poor…
Where living poor means dying young
Ezra Klein,
SAN FRANCISCO — This city is full of parks that invite exercise and bike lanes that make commuting a workout. It's home to…
Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States
JAMA Author Interviews,
Interview with Raj Chetty, PhD, author of The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014…