Entropy, or the gradual decline through age in the survivorship function, reflects the considerable amount of variance in length of life found in any human population. Part is due to the well-known variation in life expectancy between groups: large differences according to race, sex,...

Under the urging of late nineteenth-century humanitarian reformers, U.S. policy toward American Indians shifted from removal and relocation efforts to state-sponsored attempts to "civilize" Indians through allotment of tribal lands, citizenship, and forced education. There is little consensus,...

As of June 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has led to more than 2.3 million confirmed infections and 121 thousand fatalities in the United States, with starkly different incidence by race and ethnicity. Our study examines racial and ethnic disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases across six...

The level of infant and under-five mortality is high among scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) in India. This study intends to quantify the contribution of education in explaining the gap in infant and under-five mortality between SCs/STs and non-SC/ST population in India with a...

The Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Carter v Canada (Attorney General) 2015 SCC 5 decriminalized physician assisted death in certain defined circumstances. One of those circumstances is that the person seeking assistance be an “adult”. This article argues that the regulatory response...

In recent decades significant advances have been made in the detection and treatment of chronic, debilitating and life threatening illnesses. Despite numerous medical advances, African Americans continue to exhibit a disproportionately high incidence of stroke, diabetes, cardiovascular disease...