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Charting Nursing's Future
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Charting Nursing's Future policy briefs focus on nurses and nursing, with the most recent issues in the series addressing recommendations from the Institute of Medicine's landmark Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report.
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Home Mental Health Care For Gunshot Victims
RWJF Health & Society Scholar Jooyoung Lee advocates home-based mental health care for gunshot victims to recover from the lingering effects of their injuries.
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Increasing Life Expectancy Could Undercut Social Security Viability
Americans’ life expectancy is increasing more quickly than official government forecasts, RWJF Health & Society Scholar Samir Soneji finds.
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Independent Review of Social and Population Variation in Mental Health Could Improve Diagnosis in DSM Revisions
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
At stake in the May 2013 publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), are billions of dollars in insurance payments and government resources.
Redistribution and Recognition
July 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines public health’s commitment to understand health inequalities and social justice.
Poverty and Health
June 14, 2012 | Journal Article
The study's results shows social discrimination can be a chronic stressor, with a detrimental impact on physiological systems over time.
Housing Strain, Mortgage Foreclosure, and Health
October 12, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examines housing status and its impact on health by using a cross-sectional design of 798 residents in California, Arizona, Nevada and Florida. This study contributes to understanding how deficits in material resources can impact health, even when controlling for income.
College Selectivity and Young Adult Health Behaviors
October 1, 2011 | Journal Article
For the first time, research reveals strong evidence that the selectivity of the college attended (a measure of school quality) has an impact on a person's health behaviors both during, and for years after, college.
Understanding Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Adult Lung Function
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Social and environmental factors, rather than race, may be important determinants of lung function.
Symbolic Capital, Consumption, and Health Inequality
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Symbolic capital, the material display of wealth, may not just reflect economic standing it may be an independent factor in social standing and, as such, play an active role in health inequality, according to this analysis of existing research.
Double Jeopardy
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines whether children with both biomedical and social risk factors are less healthy than children with one or neither of these conditions. Both biomedical and social risks are linked to poor health, but little is known about how the combination of risk factors affects health.
Satisfaction with Assisted Living
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Changing elders' attitudes toward physical activity could increase their satisfaction with living.
Causation and Selection in the Relationship of Job Loss to Health in the United States
August 1, 2005 | Report
While involuntary job loss could have significant negative consequences for subsequent health, poor health itself may also influence the risk of losing a job. In this study, the authors assessed whether poor health was a significant factor in leadin ...