Life and death
From Infographic: Then and now Sources: Life expectancy then: No. HS-16, Expectation of Life at Birth by Race and Sex: 1900 to 2001. Historical Statistics, 2012 … Continue reading “Life and death”
From Infographic: Then and now Sources: Life expectancy then: No. HS-16, Expectation of Life at Birth by Race and Sex: 1900 to 2001. Historical Statistics, 2012 … Continue reading “Life and death”
From Infographic: Then and now Sources: Diet then: Series C 128-155—Nutrition—Foods, Apparent Civilian Per Capita Consumption: 1849-1945. Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945. Bureau … Continue reading “Habits and health”
From Infographic: Then and now Sources: Indoor plumbing then: Lutz, James D. Lest We Forget, a Short History of Housing in the United States. Berkeley: … Continue reading “How we lived”
From Infographic: Then and now Sources: Education then and now: Percentage of persons age 25 and over with high school completion or higher and a bachelor’s or … Continue reading “Demographics”
We’ve come a long way since the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers opened its doors in 1913. Have a look at the changes in … Continue reading “Infographic: Then and now”
August 2013 — HSPH Professor Katherine Baicker discusses the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a unique study that evaluates the impact of covering the uninsured … Continue reading “The uninsured and Medicaid”
August 2013 — Humanitarian crises include conflicts and natural disasters that threaten civilian populations. Meeting the essential needs of these populations requires understanding crisis, … Continue reading “Harvard Humanitarian Initiative: Transforming humanitarian relief efforts”
July 2013 — A new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers Leah Cahill and Eric Rimm finds that skipping … Continue reading “Breakfast and heart disease risk”
August 2013 — Donald Hopkins, MPH ’70, and currently a vice president at the Carter Center, has spent a career helping to eradicate two … Continue reading “The Eradicator: Donald Hopkins”
Sarah Fortune, Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases, on why some people infected with some “bad actor” … Continue reading “New findings in battle against drug-resistant tuberculosis”