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Oct 15, 2025
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May 15, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024
This study, using mortality rates for all US states from 1979-2019, found that the estimated effects of firearm regulations on mortality were often small and uncertain. However, the most restrictive policies were associated with 20% lower mortality.
Sep 19, 2024
This study investigates the impact of heat events on unexpected mortality, using deaths investigated by the Medical Examiner in Los Angeles County. We find increases in mortality during heat events, especially among homeless people.
Aug 21, 2024
The objective of this study was to determine how increasing hospital occupancy is associated with the likelihood of inpatient and 30-day out-of-hospital mortality using a novel measure of inpatient occupancy.
Aug 1, 2024
Mortality risk and associated racial disparities among justice system-involved individuals differed substantially across dispositions and places.
Jun 5, 2024
RAND researchers study the social, economic, physical, and mental health and well-being impacts of aging and longevity.
Diarrhea kills by dehydration. The discovery that salts plus glucose and water can keep patients alive has been hailed as one of the greatest medical advances of the past century. Yet health care providers from South Asia to sub-Saharan Africa don't prescribe them enough.
May 8, 2024
Medicare Advantage enrollees over age 85, in fair or poor health or with recent urgent care needs, are far more likely to be in a high mortality risk group.
Feb 23, 2024
This community engagement project used deliberative democracy to engage stakeholders with lived experience in California's Medi-Cal perinatal care system to generate an actionable, specific agenda of recommendations to reduce maternal mortality.
Press
Feb 21, 2024
More than 40 percent of Americans know someone who has died of a drug overdose and about one-third of those individuals say their lives were disrupted by the death. While the overdose crisis has had wide-ranging negative impacts on people who use drugs, their employers, and public health systems, little research has explored the experiences of those left behind by fatal drug overdoses.
This paper analyzes the health status of successive cohorts of 54- to 60-year-old U.S. individuals born between 1934 and 1959, and uses a rich set of health indicators to forecast trends and inequalities in life expectancies.
This paper examines trends in health inequalities between 1992 and 2016, observed at various ages between 55 and 89, which may serve as an early indicator for the future evolution of mortality inequalities.
Feb 19, 2024
This chapter surveys recent research on mortality and health expectations, such as nursing home use, out-of-pocket medical expenditures, substance use, dementia, cancer, HIV infections, and other health outcomes.
