Poverty/Wealth

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Tobacco control efforts have reduced cigarette smoking for many, but those efforts have disproportionately helped white smokers, while other racial and ethnic groups are still struggling, an Oregon State University…

Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University PRINCETON, N.J.--The alarming rate at which Covid-19 has killed Black Americans has highlighted the deeply embedded racial disparities in the U.S. health care system. Princeton researchers…

Credit: EmpowerMed An international project led by the ICTA-UAB, Engineers without Borders Catalonia (ESF), and the Catalonia Energy Research Institute (IREC) contributes to address energy supply problems in 1,500 households in the…

Childhood experiences and environment also have an impactCredit: (Adapted from Table 3 in Asahara et al. PLOS ONE, 2020.) Research based on 5425 citizens' responses to a questionnaire survey has illuminated that obesity…

Yangon, Myanmar: In September 2020, 59 percent of 1000 households surveyed in urban Yangon and 66 percent of 1000 households surveyed in the rural Dry Zone earned less than $1.90/day (a common measure of extreme poverty), according to a…

Social needs--such as food and economic insecurity, poor housing and neighborhood conditions, and lack of access to transportation--were common in a group of African American cancer survivors in Detroit, and they were associated with…

The results gained in a study involving approximately one million Danish children increase the understanding of how socio-economic differences in childhood affect the development of mental disorders in the Nordic countries. Researchers at…

International development projects that target the education of the world's very poorest children and marginalized girls also significantly improve other young people's attainment, new research showsCredit: CAMFED/Eliza Powell …

A new study of Canadians aged 45-85, released this week in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, found that 24% of refugees were in psychological distress compared to 13% of non-refugee immigrants and those born in Canada.…

MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future identifies ways to align new technologies with durable careers CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Decades of technological change have polarized the earnings of the American workforce, helping highly educated…

UTIA's Smith Center receives USAID grantCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- While the weather, terrain and soil obviously differ, thus bringing differences in available crops, farming a hillside in rural East…

Wales faces a wave of mental health problems in the wake of Covid-19, with younger adults, women and people from deprived areas suffering the mostCredit: Pexels Wales faces a wave of mental health problems in the wake of Covid-19, with…

Problems like broken streetlights can be indicators, study finds COLUMBUS, Ohio - Service requests to city non-emergency telephone lines can help identify "hotspots" for opioid use and overdoses, a study in Columbus found. Researchers…

Millions spent on efforts to curb illegal activity not effective LAWRENCE -- Cities across the country have sought ways to improve neighborhood safety and in recent years have pointed to demolishing abandoned housing as a way to achieve…

Berkeley Lab study finds certain policies and business models can lead to more equitable distribution of solar installationsCredit: Google Streetview As rooftop solar prices have fallen, many households at all income levels can now…

What The Study Did: Researchers assessed changes in birth rates by income level among commercially insured women before and after the elimination of cost sharing for contraception under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…

Since the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion program went into effect 10 years ago, the U.S. has seen a larger reduction in the number of uninsured low-income, rural residents, compared to their urban contemporaries. But the…

Rates for preterm births among Black women were about 50 percent higher than those for white women in 2019, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ORLANDO, Nov. 5, 2020 - The rate of preterm births in the U.S. has…

Expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act is associated with decreased mortality for patients with newly diagnosed breast, lung, or colorectal cancer. The mortality improvement was due to earlier stage of…

Community-based research programme leads to innovative 'cartoons'Credit: Sightsavers Illustrations by a local artist in Nigeria are helping health workers and policy makers understand what it's really like to live with a…