local violence prior to conception has detrimental effects on infant health at birth. The results suggest that loss of women …'s human capital and deterioration of mental health are potential underlying mechanisms behind the adverse effects …

-educated caregivers have the knowledge and skills to safeguard their children's health and stimulate their cognitive development. In …

The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non …

socioeconomic status. Increasing access to menopause-related health care can help offset these losses. Our findings reveal the …

groups leads to declines in population mental health …

This paper examines the relationship between extreme socioeconomic disadvantage and poor health by providing the first … magnitude of health disparities associated with homelessness. We find that non-elderly people experiencing homelessness have 3 … persistent hardships associated with homelessness and show that the well-documented gradient between health and poverty persists …

U.S., their roles in shaping population health and health disparities remain largely unknown. We examine the impacts of … by which sentencing policies can affect population health. We provide suggestive evidence that three strikes policies … further interrogate state criminal legal system policies for their impacts on population health, considering whether, how, and …