More than half of Medicare beneficiaries are diagnosed with dementia during their lifetime and, of those diagnosed who receive intensive end-of-life care, most are from racial and ethnic minority groups,…
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Click here for more.When you think of the word philanthropy, what images come to mind? A building? Stacks of money? Grant checks? Board rooms? Who sits in those places of power? When Donors of…
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Click here for more.In 2015, we started thinking about funding civic engagement in the lead up to what we knew would be important elections in 2020. We wanted to look beyond the next…
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Obesity rates have been rising for decades across states, ages, sexes, and racial/ethnic groups, with continued increases during the COVID-19 pandemic.1,2,3,4,5,6 These long-term, cross-population trends underscore the nature of the…
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Clinical guidelines greatly influence how doctors care for their patients. By providing recommendations on how to diagnose and treat particular situations, guidelines can help standardize the care patients receive. For…
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In 1899, W.E.B. Du Bois published “The Philadelphia Negro,” a first-of-its-kind sociological case study of a Black community, combining urban ethnography, social history, and descriptive statistics. Its novel use of data to…
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What it means to be policed in America varies from one community to another, reflecting a somber reality of American life: Where people live is often predictive of their experiences, opportunities, and…
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Housing is the foundation for daily life. It connects people to their communities and influences life outcomes, including physical and mental health, economic stability, and upward mobility. But not everyone can afford a home.…
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Click here for more.Family caregivers are often unsung heroes at home and certainly are unsung heroes within our economy. More than 53 million Americans – 21% of the US population – are caregivers…
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Brushing your teeth is essential for maintaining optimal oral health, but like most aspects of health, the full story is more complicated. As directors of the Center for Oral Health…
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Rigorous impact evaluations are essential to determining program effectiveness. Yet, they are often time-intensive and costly, and may fail to provide the rapid feedback necessary for informing real-time decision-making and…
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Who should manage public land that is sacred to Native Americans? That is the question that the United States government and some states hope recent policy changes will address by…