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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

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We Hold These Truths

The Health Care Blog

JULY 5, 2022

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, health, and the pursuit of Happiness. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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The NHS 10 year plan.

Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

I must stress these are my views as a jobbing public health professional and just that. There is going to be a crisis in the next 20 years in health care delivery. We mostly ignored the recommendations of the 2 nd (Public Health) and 3 rd (social care) reports. We all live in hope. I am (very) often asked what my views are.

Public Health Law and Policy Consulting

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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Watch summary video In his address, Professor McKee argued that governments will only achieve the best possible outcomes for their people if they invest in their health.

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Dr. Anete Muxlhanga’s Mission: Local, Data-Driven Solutions for Maternal Health in Mozambique

Maternal Health Task Force

JANUARY 22, 2025

Mozambique faces significant maternal health challenges, compounded by ongoing conflict and a recent surge in political instability. Women of reproductive age (1549) are also disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic, with a high prevalence of 15.4%.

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. Measuring how ‘similar’ or ‘dissimilar’ the different causes of death are can help us understand global health inequalities and patterns of mortality.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 14, 2025

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 AMCHP Annual Awards. This combination of skills enables her to provide holistic support, addressing not only the physical aspects of maternal health but also the emotional and mental well-being of her clients.

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The Eisenhower Principle

The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. Research shows Black youth ages 1 to 17 are 18 times as likely to suffer a gun homicide as their white counterparts.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention

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Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress.

HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. Research shows Black youth ages 1 to 17 are 18 times as likely to suffer a gun homicide as their white counterparts.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention

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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

If a hospital begins to see declining numbers of births, due to an aging or shrinking population in the area, per-birth costs increase dramatically. Most hospitals in the state are governmental, educational and/or nonprofit, which means their pursuit of health care is supposed to come before the balance sheet.

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America, the intolerant

The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In a prior age the social institutions were used to censure Jews and those with too much melanin. After all, the goal of the CDC now isn’t just to maximize benefits versus harms, it is to also mitigate health inequities as the ethics table from that document makes clear.

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As ICE policy shifts, NC health care workers face uncertainty

NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anne Blythe As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary. The absence of care not only can have a pernicious effect on an individuals health, but on the larger community as well if infectious diseases go unchecked.

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

We Hold These Truths

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The NHS 10 year plan.

IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Dr. Anete Muxlhanga’s Mission: Local, Data-Driven Solutions for Maternal Health in Mozambique

Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

The Eisenhower Principle

Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress.

Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

America, the intolerant

As ICE policy shifts, NC health care workers face uncertainty

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