Socioeconomics

New Haven, Conn. -- Use of 3-D mammography, an advanced form of breast cancer screening, has risen rapidly in recent years, according to Yale researchers in a new study. But adoption of the technology varies widely, reflecting emerging…

An international group of scientists is making major advances in sustaining the world's environments, untangling the intricate ways in which people and nature depend on each other. The results are published in today's Nature…

Survivors of childhood brain tumors who received radiotherapy and were very young at the time of diagnosis may experience cognitive and socioeconomic burdens decades after treatment, according to a study published early online in CANCER,…

Changes in agriculture, trade, food production and consumption after the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a large reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a new study has found. From 1991 to 2011, there was a net emissions reduction of…

PITTSBURGH, June 20, 2019 - A move by the White House in 2017--decried by many health policy analysts as an attempt to undercut the Affordable Care Act (ACA)--had unanticipated consequences that improved the affordability of health…

A new Gender, Work & Organization analysis of U.S. data from 1997-2016 provides new insights into workplace sexual harassment. The analysis found that declines in workplace sexual harassment complaints have been uneven, with…

Humans carried the plant, used to make barkcloth, as they colonized new islands across OceaniaCredit: A. Seelenfreund The migration and interaction routes of prehistoric humans throughout the islands of Oceania can be retraced using…

A team of researchers led by a member of the Colorado School of Public Health faculty at the Anschutz Medical Campus examined what type of social interaction is required for people to display physiological synchrony--mutual changes in…

Locally-based Haitian social entrepreneurs empower disaster-stricken villagers to rebuild and improve their communitiesCredit: Steffen Farny Steffen Farny, Ewald Kibler and Simon Down have prepared the paper based on research that looks at…

Credit: Koji Lum BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Citizens from the island of Aneityum in the Republic of Vanuatu are working with faculty from Binghamton University, State University of New York to test their true value as humans. Yu Chen,…