Background
We aimed to characterize the prevalence of social disconnection and thoughts of suicide among older adults in the United States…
June 2023. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Soroush Saghafian, Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a historic toll on Americans’ health and longevity. It has also shaped socioeconomic inequalities along…
Systemic racism is deeply embedded in U.S. healthcare and economic systems and remains pervasive in social policies and organizational…
The US spends substantially more on health care per capita than other high-income countries yet leaves a greater share of the population…
Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment…
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