28 papers
This study addresses flaws in the existing Neighborhood Atlas Area Deprivation Index (ADI) by re-estimating factor weights using 2018-2022 ACS data, resulting in an updated index that more accurately reflects the full spectrum of 17 census deprivation measures and demonstrates robust associations with life expectancy and mortality.
This study utilizes latent class analysis of US state data from 2013 to 2024 to identify four distinct recreational cannabis regulatory models, revealing that higher cannabis use prevalence and longer medical cannabis histories are associated with more access-oriented and more restrictive commercial approaches, respectively.
This study projects that implementing a national Tobacco 21 policy in Saudi Arabia would significantly reduce male smoking initiation and prevalence, averting nearly 5,000 premature deaths and generating billions in economic benefits by 2100, though it would require complementary cessation strategies to fully meet the Vision 2030 smoking reduction targets.
The study demonstrates that the newly developed Digital Health Checklist-Risk Management (DHC-RM) Tool significantly outperforms current practices by enabling researchers to identify a substantially greater quantity and variety of risks and to devise more effective, novel risk control strategies, thereby enhancing participant protection in digital health research.
This rapid review of economic evidence from 2017 to 2023 demonstrates that workplace well-being interventions, particularly those targeting common mental health disorders, healthy eating, and physical activity, are cost-effective for businesses and the health sector, underscoring the urgent need for updated policies in Wales to address the circular relationship between health and economic productivity.
A 2023 analysis of nearly 4,000 hospitals reveals that 340B program participants provide lower levels of charity care and uncompensated care compared to non-participants despite serving more Medicaid patients, suggesting a misalignment between the program's discount incentives and its intended goal of supporting underserved populations.
This study utilizes natural language processing to analyze 3,586 Australian health practitioner tribunal decisions from 1999 to 2026, revealing that boundary violations and dishonesty are the most prevalent misconduct types associated with higher cancellation rates, while identifying significant temporal increases in specific violations and substantial jurisdictional variations in outcomes.
This study of English prescribing data from 2010 to 2025 reveals that while temperature is the most consistent environmental driver of cardiovascular and respiratory medication uptake, its overall impact is modest compared to persistent regional and socioeconomic factors, suggesting that climate-related influences on healthcare demand operate within broader structural determinants rather than causing immediate short-term shocks.