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Adam Dean and coauthors indicate that nursing home labor unions were associated with 10.8 percent lower resident
COVID-19 mortality rates and 6.8 percent lower worker COVID-19 infection rates.
“Our results suggest that industrywide unionization would have been associated with approximately 8,000 fewer resident deaths,” the authors write.
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Forefront, Julia Strasser and coauthors write that the elimination of the federal constitutional right to abortion could have immeasurable negative effects on women and families, including the loss of access to treatment associated with pregnancy loss.
William Padula and Peter Pronovost argue that to repair spending on wasteful
services that increase opportunity costs, we must pay for solutions that move health care delivery over to a new production function.
The Earth Disease: Social Determinants Of Health & Climate Change
In the third episode of The Earth Disease, journalist Jared Downing discusses how social determinants of health programs intersect with climate and health policy.
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