When policy questions can’t be resolved by a comparison of risks.
Posts Tagged ‘health’
Study shows home births are not as safe. So?
Posted in In the news, Research reports, tagged births, children, health, motherhood, pregnancy on November 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Warning: What do smokers Google?
Posted in Me @ work, tagged google, health, public health, smoking, socimages on August 29, 2011 | 8 Comments »
What differentiates the search behavior of high- versus low-smoking states? Disease.
Breastfeeding promotion here and there
Posted in In the news, Politics, tagged breastfeeding, children, google, health, policy on August 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Where state policies support breastfeeding promotion.
Do explicit, enforceable policies matter?
Posted in In the news, tagged health, media, policy, smoking, socimages on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When is a policy in support of a normative shift effective?
Health paradox, illustrated
Posted in Research reports, tagged health, immigration, Latinos on July 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Immigrants are healthier than their economic status predicts, and so are Latinos in general.
Birthweight and infant mortality inequality
Posted in Me @ work, Research reports, tagged black women, children, health, inequality, motherhood on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The major problem driving the infant-mortality gap is not care of newborn infants itself, but rather the long-term health of Black women.
Income gradient for children’s mental health
Posted in Research reports, tagged children, health, income, mental health on May 9, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Steep income gradient in rates of serious emotional and behavioral problems for children.
Putting teen birth rates on the maps
Posted in In the news, tagged fertility, health, teen births on April 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Most Europeans are off the charts on teen birth rates.
Risks women share, more and less
Posted in In the news, Me @ work, tagged feminism, global, health, mortality on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do people need to experience the same hardships in order to unite against them?
Getting the story straight on working mothers and children’s risks
Posted in In the news, Research reports, tagged childcare, health, media, Parenting on March 2, 2011 | 7 Comments »
One risk — small and manageable in the vast majority of cases, but something to watch out form — is illness or injury associated with loss of parental supervision.
Philip N. Cohen
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