Smaller city effort to aid chronically homeless can be successful
Study finds people placed in permanent housing and use fewer municipal services Creating a municipally funded team to provide intensive ...
Tag: Socioeconomics
Diets of Latinos and blacks have greatest environmental impact per dollar spent on food
Despite spending less than white households on food overall, black and Latino households have more impact on the environment per ...
The ‘projects’ are nice now finds study on HUD Rental Assistance Demonstration Program
May 29, 2019 -- A study led by Columbia Mailman School examined the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Polysubstance use, social factors associated with opioid overdose deaths
A new study led by Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction shows that opioid-related overdose deaths involving another substance ...
Women in developing countries need radiotherapy and vaccines for cervical cancer
Credit: UHN (Toronto, May 28, 2019) - A first of its kind study is reporting that millions of women in ...
Climate undermined by lobbying
First-of-its-kind study quantifies the effects of political lobbying on likelihood of climate policy enactment For all the evidence that the ...
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds do less vigorous physical activity
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds and certain ethnic minority backgrounds, including from Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds, have lower levels of vigorous ...
Measles vaccination: 'All for one and one for all'
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Measles was declared eradicated in the United States in 2000, but has reappeared in recent months ...
PSU wins $1 million contract to empower Vietnam’s provincial capacity and performance
PSU's Mark O. Hatfield School of Government will serve as the lead academic partner for a newly awarded USAID Strengthening ...
Study to explore reasons rural communities are less healthy
UofL researchers part of a NIH-funded multi-site longitudinal studyCredit: UofL A new study hopes to help researchers understand what causes ...
Global climate change emergency leads to first World Forum on Climate Justice
Top speakers will address some of the most difficult socio-economic issues the world is facing as a result of climate ...
Toward zero hunger: More food or a smarter food system?
ANN ARBOR--When thinking about ways to end global hunger, many scholars focus too narrowly on increasing crop yields while overlooking ...
Giving rural Indians what they want increases demand for cookstoves
Common business practices, including enticing rebates, improves adoption of new cookstoves in rural IndiaCredit: Duke Global Health DURHAM, N.C. - ...
Preparing low-income communities for hurricanes begins with outreach, Rutgers study finds
Interviews with economically disadvantaged New Jerseyans in the areas hardest hit by Superstorm Sandy yield advice for future disastersCredit: Joanna ...
Does health care help us live longer?
A widely cited statistic suggests that health care services account for only a small percentage of the variation in American ...
Families with a higher socioeconomic position have a greater risk of exposure to chemicals
A higher socioeconomic position is associated to greater exposure to several environmental chemical contaminants -such as various per- and polyfluoroalkyl ...
New Mexico cancer patients have lower survival rate, study finds
A study by researchers at the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine shows that cancer patients in New Mexico have a ...
Post-bypass survival linked to civil status and class
Credit: Photo by Laila Ostlund Civil status, education, and income are factors shown to be clearly associated with duration of ...
Eat or be eaten: Street food vendors resist and adapt to changing society
Kanazawa University study of Indonesian street vendors finds them continually grappling with aggressive urbanization, but resisting by forging relationships, engaging ...
EU sustainable development policy defines entrepreneurship in three distinct ways
New study shows mixed meanings across policies, which may muddy take-aways for firms and national governmentsCredit: Roope Kiviranta/Aalto University Entrepreneurs ...
