Preventive Care Deficit
Only 8% of surveyed adults age 35 and older received all recommended high-priority clinical preventive services.
...moreOnly 8% of surveyed adults age 35 and older received all recommended high-priority clinical preventive services.
...moreSeptember is the most common birthday month in the United States, with September 16 the most common birth date. The popularity of September birthdays isn’t happenstance.
...moreThe HPV vaccine requires a series of shots to prevent infection, but it is difficult to get young patients to return for multiple visits of preventive care.
...moreSchool suspension is linked to lower grades, increased expulsions, and increased risk of incarceration. Disciplinary actions are often distributed unequally, based on gender, race, and personal ability.
...moreAs the American Medical Colleges predicts a shortage of physicians, the role of nurse practitioners may increase. Barnes and colleagues studied the trends in nurse practitioners who practiced in rural and nonrural primary care settings.
...moreKanak and colleagues observed how often children and young adults used the emergency department as shelter before and after a 2012 policy change.
...moreNew research looked at total drug-related arrests, and differences due to race and ethnicity on drug-related arrests, before and after the passage of Proposition 47.
...moreAverage death rates among all infants decreased in states that expanded Medicaid coverage, and increased in states that did not.
...moreA group of economists recently reexamined medical bankruptcy, concerned that the discrepancies in statistics were causing a misunderstanding of the problem.
...moreThe majority of Americans believe that global warming is real, but fewer understand the impact of global warming on health.
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