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SSM Population Health wins a Prose Award for best new journal in social sciences

Prose Award to Social Science & Medicine

Congratulations to Harvard Pop Center faculty members and journal co-editors Ichiro Kawachi and SV Subramanian on being recognized by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) with this 2020 Prose Award!

Study shines light on how caregivers are faring during COVID-19

August 7, 2020
Our Sloan Fellow on Aging and Work Sung S. Park, PhD, has authored a paper published in The Journals of Gerontology: Series B that examines the physical and mental health … Continue reading “Study shines light on how caregivers are faring during COVID-19”
In wake of COVID-19 and home quarantine, symptoms of anxiety and depression are weighing down many adults in Bangladesh

August 7, 2020
Harvard Pop Center research assistant Enryka Christopher is an author of a study published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research that finds that one-third of surveyed home-quarantined adults were … Continue reading “In wake of COVID-19 and home quarantine, symptoms of anxiety and depression are weighing down many adults in Bangladesh”
Color-coded life expectancy: People in blue states are living longer than people in red

August 6, 2020
Our former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar Jennifer Karas Montez, along with our associate director Jason Beckfield, and their colleagues have published a study in The Milbank … Continue reading “Color-coded life expectancy: People in blue states are living longer than people in red”
Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of “food shocks” during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19

August 6, 2020
With one out of two children in India suffering from one form of malnutrition, there are many more who are hovering just above that threshold. The findings of this paper … Continue reading “Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of “food shocks” during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19″
When trying to receive health care for depression, discrimination does not help

August 5, 2020
Our Bell Fellow Leslie Adams collaborated on this paper based on a qualitative component of a larger, mixed-methods, community-based participatory research study focused on understanding how health care discrimination influences … Continue reading “When trying to receive health care for depression, discrimination does not help”

SSM Population Health wins a Prose Award for best new journal in social sciences

Study shines light on how caregivers are faring during COVID-19

In wake of COVID-19 and home quarantine, symptoms of anxiety and depression are weighing down many adults in Bangladesh

Color-coded life expectancy: People in blue states are living longer than people in red

Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of “food shocks” during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19

When trying to receive health care for depression, discrimination does not help

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