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Voting from the ER: How health care workers are driving civic engagement

HEALTHBEAT

Their efforts reflect a growing recognition among health care workers and public health leaders that voting and health are intertwined. The American Medical Association recognizes voting as a social determinant of health — and says gerrymandering negatively impacts health outcomes and restricts health care access.

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

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

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.