These boundaries help us to understand the patterning of health by place, along with impacts of policies implemented at these levels. However, additional geopolitical units (units with both geographic and political meaning), such as congressional districts (CDs), present further o...
20,21 For instance, Angus et al20 explored “deaths of despair,” including alcohol-related mortality, with a specific focus on the association between the COVID-19 pandemic and mortality. Similarly, White et al21 examined recent data emphasizing the association between COVID-19 and alcohol-...
Several researchers25-29 have hypothesized that the social distancing and stay-at-home orders that were necessary to limit the spread of COVID-19 would be associated with an increased risk of overdose owing to exacerbated social isolation and despair, diminished social support, and an increase in...
The share of population by the risk of mortality considers people living in both the first and the last categories, this is 1) regions where the mortality ratio is lower than 50, meaning that the mortality risk is less than half than what was expected according to the EU pattern; and 2)...
According to the definition of the German Federal Bureau of Criminal Investigation, consumers of illicit drugs who kill themselves out of despair over their personal circumstances or under the influence of withdrawal symptoms are included in the category drug death [46]. It is difficult or even imp...
his catheter, slips off his blood-oxygen sensor, and switches off the monitor that had displayed his heart rate and blood pressure, she admits to experiencing a new level of trauma. Treating coronavirus patients in a post-vaccine world, she says, has added an entirely new layer of despair....
s vocal anti-immigrant sentiments. And her portrayal of everyday black women—those she called “kitchen table poets”—who seek lives of great joy and fulfillment, including both an intellectual life and sexual pleasure, provides a model for resisting seduction by the anger and despair that ...
"What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration - all of these deep, deep emotional things, good and bad, so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens."...