Religious Community in Public Health and Medicine
Participation in religious services, and in other forms of relational and community life has positive effects on health.
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Healthcare at Home: Lessons from COVID-19
Medicaid recipients who self-directed their care during COVID reported many benefits from the added flexibility.
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Nutritional Analysis of Celebrities’ Food and Beverage Posts on Instagram
Most celebrity food and beverage Instagram posts are nutritionally unhealthy.
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Period Poverty and the Unhoused
People experiencing homelessness reported difficulty obtaining sufficient menstrual products—in shelters and on the streets.
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Libraries on the Front Line
Public libraries play an integral role in community health.
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Community Gun Violence During COVID-19
Researchers examined the rate of change in gun violence in Philadelphia census tracts both before and after the pandemic began.
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Community Care: Gaps in Addiction Treatment
The researchers compiled county health and demographic data of communities surrounding non-profit hospitals to better understand the racial and ethnic make-up of the communities and what types of opioid use disorder treatment strategies are offered.
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Righting a Wrong
A research team found that Black and Latinx people were vastly underrepresented in oncology clinical trials.
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Livestreaming, Gaming, and Nutrition
The pandemic led to people consuming more online entertainment, and marketing dollars followed the viewers into online spaces.
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Seeing a Path Forward
Researchers evaluated a school-based vision program that provides vision care for Baltimore City Public Schools elementary and middle school students.
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