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Did you notice we are not having a gun debate right now?
In the midst of the horrific tragedy in London, the President tweeted a rhetorical question about how there wasn’t a gun debate following that terror attack unlike those in San Bernadino or Orlando. Trump simplistically explains the answer to his Continue Reading …
Who’s Going to Foot the Bill
A recent study explores the impact of rising health insurance costs on the phenomenon of “split coverage,” a practice in which working poor families opt to cover their children via public insurance, even though employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) is available, in Continue Reading …
Public Health Opportunities for Physicians
http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/media/aaem-epa-podcast-episode-28.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physician Advocates: Legal and Policy Issues in Emergency Medicine podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks Continue Reading …
Poor Lives Matter
A recent paper describes the impact of poverty on various health outcomes and social conditions using an elegant, easy-to understand method. The authors used the 2015 County Health Rankings National Data to determine the five-year averages for median household income Continue Reading …
What Works? Three Laws that Prevent Gun Deaths
A number of laws have been passed at the state level to address firearm safety. Some laws loosen restrictions on gun ownership while others tighten restrictions on gun ownership. Not all firearm-related laws are effective. Researchers conducted a cross-sectional, state-level study Continue Reading …
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