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Archive for August, 2006

Roper Center opinion poll on poverty

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Poverty and Income Inequality

The Roper Center’s Public Opinion Matters feature for this month is Poverty. The feature includes current information as well as links to related articles and archived polls.

American Time Use Survey

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Families, Labor Force

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released results from the 2005 American Time Use Survey. The survey covers employment, housework, child care, and leisure activities. See the BLS press release with technical notes and tables (PDF).

NPR covers maternal and child health in Africa

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health, Sub-Saharan Africa, Women's Issues

NPR’s Morning Edition looks at ways to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Africa.

World Population Data Sheet

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Fertility, Health, Migration, US Demography

The Population Reference Bureau has released the 2006 edition of its World Population Data Sheet. The Data Sheet can be downloaded in PDF format, and an HIV/AIDS policy brief, webcast, slide presentation, and news release are also available. The Data Sheet shows how migration is reshaping the US and the world.

Health care and the economy

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health Care Policy

Health care makes up an increasingly large part of the US economy, according to a New York Times article (August 22, 2006).

Fewer doctors accepting Medicaid patients

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health Care Policy

Medicaid Patients Increasingly Concentrated Among Physicians, a new report from the Center for Studying Health System Change, presents findings from a nationally representative survey of US physicians.

Disability linked to income for older adults

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Aging, Health Disparities, Poverty and Income Inequality

Older adults with lower household income were more likely to feel limited in doing basic physical activities than their wealthier peers, according to a study published in the August 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (PubMed abstract, NIH press release).

Health disparities linked to place

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health Disparities, Race & Ethnicity, Rural Sociology, Urban Sociology

Health disparities may be more closely tied to neighborhoods and rural/urban differences than to race, according to a post on Science Blog. The post cites an article about heat wave deaths appearing in the August issue of American Sociological Review (Yahoo! news story) and an article about black mortality rates in Harlem and Pitt County, North Carolina in the August issue of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (Health Behavior News Service story).

USA Today article on retail health clinics

Posted August 25th, 2006 by Tara Murray in Health Care Policy

USA Today looks at whether walk-in health clinics in retail stores could cut health care costs (August 24, 2006).

The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States

Posted August 24th, 2006 by Tara Murray in US Demography

The Changing Demographic Profile of the United States is a new report from the Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress that provides nonpartisan research reports to the House and Senate.

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