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 suffering from symptoms of anxiety, while over one-half were experiencing symptoms of depression. “These findings warrant the consideration of easily accessible low-intensity mental health interventions during and beyond this pandemic.” Authors: Md. Hasan Al Banna, Abu Sayeed, Satyajit Kundu, Enryka…
Color-coded life expectancy: People in blue states are living longer than people in red
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 Quarterly that looks at how changes in state policies since the 1970s have impacted life expectancy in the United States. Read about the study in this release… …Â on alternet.org … on salon.com Image: Wikimedia.org
Children living on edge of malnutrition in India at greater risk of “food shocks” during national lockdowns to curb COVID-19
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 published in the Journal of Global Health Science estimate that even a slight shock to body weight could result in a significant uptick in cases of underweight and wasting. Study authors Sunil Rajpal, William Joe, and S V Subramanian make…
When trying to receive health care for depression, discrimination does not help
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 depression treatment preferences. The study provides a more in-depth investigation of the implications of negative interactions in the health care sector for diverse people with lived experience of depression. The study was funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute…
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Implementing a systemic approach to collection of data on trauma in Malawi
A published paper by Harvard Pop Center faculty member Kevin Croke, PhD, and his colleagues demonstrates that it’s possible to improve and streamline data collection on trauma in a developing country.
Learning lessons from Berkeley, CA: Analyzing roll out of nation’s first sugary beverage tax
Harvard Pop Center’s Bell Fellow Anna Grummon, PhD, is an author on this study published in the American Journal of Public Health that analyzes what factors helped to facilitate (and impede) this public policy that generated more than $9 million for public health, nutrition, and health equity through 2021.
Throwback Thursday: Taking another look at social investment policies and gender health equity (2019 study)
Our Associate Director Jason Beckfield, along with then Harvard Pop Center Graduate Student Affiliate Katherine Morris and their colleague Clare Bambra, published a study in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health that found that while European government spending on social investment policies was linked to lower levels of mortality related to cardiovascular disease across the genders, there was variation between the genders depending on the nature of the specific policies.
SSM Population Health wins a Prose Award for best new journal in social sciences
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!
A hopeful discovery about later-life cognitive function in those exposed to early-life adversity in rural South Africa
The HAALSI team of researchers is one of the first to look at the impacts of early-life adversity (such as parental unemployment, discord and substance abuse, and physical abuse) on later-life cognitive function in rural South Africa. Their findings published in Psychology and Aging suggest that cognitive function is, for the most part, resilient against early-life adversity.
The numbers are in; Eating disorders cost US $65 billion annually, affect 10% of population, and take a life every 52 minutes
Faculty affiliate S. Bryn Austin and colleagues have penned an op-ed in The Hill calling for government agencies and policymakers to ramp up data collection and research funding in order to tackle these costly and preventable disorders.