Presents information on the book `All Together Now,' by Richard Kahlenberg, on reducing the achievement gap between affluent and low-income children in the United States. Effect of the poverty on t...
Teenagers from low-income families in particular are more likely than their middle-class peers(同龄人)to do less well in schoolwork and to dropout of school.Studies have shown,however, that a positive attitude towards schoolwork and the support and encouragement from their parents can help at-...
The women in this trial reflect the characteristics of the general population of women of this age throughout the United States, except that they had somewhat higher obesity measures, income, and education and lower rates of smoking.16 Baseline levels of lipids and other biomarkers measured in a...
The WHI Dietary Modification Trial was designed to examine the long-term benefits and risks of a dietary pattern low in fat, with increased vegetable, fruit, and grain intake, on breast and colorectal cancers and cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women.19 Between 1993 and 1998, 48 835 pos...
After year 1, the initiative was associated with freeing a licensed vocational nurse to pursue other work but also income losses for LAC-USC; however, 3-year projections estimated a modest amount of cost savings for LAC-USC. Of importance, depending on the payment model, reductions in use ...
Conclusions Disaggregated analysis of the prevalence of non-communicable disease risk factors demonstrated different patterns and varying degrees of socioeconomic inequalities across low- and middle-income settings. Interventions should aim to reach and achieve sustained benefits for high-risk populations.Peer...
Profound health benefits are predicted on the path to elimination. Intensive scale-up of girls-only vaccination with twice-lifetime screening is predicted to halve the age-standardised cervical cancer incidence by 2048 (and by 2061 with vaccination only), and to avert more than 74 million ...
Economic security shows a different dimension than income and has been shown to be strongly associated with self-rated health in older adults [39]. Economic insufficiency has been found to be a significant predictor for bad self-rated physical and mental health [38]. We chose to use this indi...
Early adoption of new supplemental benefits by Medicare Advantage plans. JAMA. 2019;321(22):2238-2240. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.4709ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 14. Park S, Figueroa JF, Fishman P, Coe NB. Primary care utilization and expenditures in traditional Medicare ...
Potential Benefits of Testosterone Therapy in Older Men JAMA Internal Medicine Editorial April 1, 2017 Addressing Ethical Lapses in Research JAMA Internal Medicine Editorial April 1, 2017 Testosterone Replacement and Cardiovascular Outcomes JAMA Internal Medicine Original Investigation April 1, 2017 This coho...