
Expand Voting Rights for Health: Yes or No?
Researchers measured COVID-19 case and mortality data with the burden of voting restrictions across U.S. counties with different demographic makeups.
...moreResearchers measured COVID-19 case and mortality data with the burden of voting restrictions across U.S. counties with different demographic makeups.
...moreResearchers assessed how state-based immigration criminalization policies influenced how Latinx and Asian Pacific Islander citizens and noncitizens rated their health.
...moreMothers who experienced welfare stigma reported poor health.
...moreCancer treatment costs, even for those with health insurance, leave many patients with staggering debt and difficult choices.
...moreStates that increased access to food assistance programs reduced child protective services investigations.
...moreAdults ages 50 to 80 experienced ageism which affected their health, researchers found in a recent survey.
...moreEmile DeWeaver is an activist and author whose life sentence was commuted after 21 years for his community work in prison. The co-founder of Prison Renaissance, DeWeaver also covertly organized to pass legislation that changed the way California treats juveniles in its criminal legal system while in prison.
...moreWomen with disabilities have a heightened risk of sexual violence as compared to women without disabilities.
...moreResearchers evaluated racial disparities in suicide risk among half a million pregnant people ages 15 to 49.
...morePeople with HIV had a 28% higher risk of COVID-19 breakthrough infection than those without HIV.
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