BU School of Public Health Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

September 27, 2024 0 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Up to 45 percent of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) cases could be prevented by modifiable risk factors, but current research is limited to observational studies that make it difficult to establish definitive causes.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 22, 2020

Now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, big data has become a life-saving ally for the health care community. Whether to help us mount a defense, adjust our personal habits or anticipate where the disease will take the heaviest toll, each of the following risk factors plays a role in analytical models : Age, location and socioeconomic status.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Onyenwe, a current fellow and a Health Scientist, Environmental Toxicologist and Public Health Emergency Responder at the U.S. So it definitely left a lasting impact on how I just view life and humanity as it is. It's like, at that age, my gosh, I don't know. And you remember images. I wanted to be a baseball player.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

There's so much documented evidence at this point that electric vehicle tax credits, residential solar tax credits, tend to benefit wealthier households, which are from like a higher income status or a higher socioeconomic status in the US, and I'm talking about specifically here. How does it matter? So what's going on there?

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