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California Has a Child Care Crisis. How Finding It – and Paying for It – Can Be a Nightmare
Child care providers, many already struggling before COVID, have been hit hard over the past two years. Plummeting demand for child care, increased cleaning and supply costs, virus safety measures and capacity restrictions created a perfect storm of stressors, said providers and experts familiar with the child care field.
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Rating the Comparative Efficacy of State-Level Cannabis Policies on Recreational Cannabis Markets in the United States
Schaeffer experts identified identified key cannabis policies and their provisions enacted by U.S. states; rated their theoretical efficacy in a restrictive form for reducing problematic use and impaired driving in the context of a recreational cannabis market as judged by experts; and rated the strength of evidence for each policy.
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Schaeffer Center Economic Modeling Contributes to National Academy Report on Diversity in Clinical Trials
Populations underrepresented in clinical trials face worse health outcomes that will cost the U.S. trillions of dollars over the next three decades.
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A Conversation on America’s Mental Health Crisis
Join the USC Schaeffer Center and USC Price School for a webinar that will address the pandemic’s mental health crisis, how it is affecting employers and schools, and the opportunities and challenges of digital health.
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Will the Rise of Work From Home Improve Our Health?
As the pandemic becomes endemic, major companies have announced varying polices about the future of remote work. Matthew Kahn argues that government and industry should accommodate WFH or hybrid plans because the benefits are manifold.
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Use of Prescription Medications with Cardiovascular Adverse Effects Among Older Adults in the United States
Schaeffer experts examined the association between the concurrent use of prescription medications with known risk of a major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) (“MACE medications”) and the risk of such events among older adults.
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Racial Disparities in Accessing Treatment for Substance Use Highlights Work to Be Done
Older Americans are increasingly seeking treatment for substance use disorders with older Black Americans who start treatment being much more likely to have their treatment terminated and not finish compared to white adults.
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Biomedical Expert Designs Health Dataset Representing All Demographic Groups
Although big data is revolutionizing healthcare, its potential has been limited by underrepresentation of vulnerable populations, including marginalized racial and socioeconomic groups that are at higher risk for poor health outcomes.
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Before Prescribing Opioids, Draft a Deprescribing Plan
To get past the allure of continued and often troublesome opioid use patterns, patients and doctors need a plan in hand before the first opioid is ever used.
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Frameworks for Protecting Workers and the Public from Inhalation Hazards
A National Academies committee will consider the oversight and regulatory processes needed to ensure the public and such workers have access to effective respiratory protective devices and guidance on their use to mitigate exposures to inhalation hazards—including those arising during disasters and public health emergencies.