Female Physicians in U.S. Are Paid Less Than Male Counterparts
A new study by Amitabh Chandra, Harvard Kennedy School Professor of Public Policy and Pop Center executive committee member, finds that female physicians in the U.S. are paid less.
Archive: 2013
Americans Living Longer and Healthier
In a bit of good news, David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, and Pop Ctr faculty member, finds that Americans are living longer healthier lives. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/the-good-life-longer/
Small Changes in Household Eating Routines Make a Difference
Associate Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute/Harvard Medical School and Pop Ctr faculty member Elsie Taveras discusses how small changes in household routines and eating habits can make a difference.
Association between Work-Family Conflict and Musculoskeletal Pain
Pop Center faculty members Cassandra Okechukwu, Orfeu Buxton and their colleagues examine the association between work-family stress and musculoskeletal pain in hospital workers. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23019044
Youth employment in South Africa
Pop Center faculty member Till Bärnighausen and colleagues explore the challenges of youth employment in South Africa in this working paper.
Do health behaviours mediate the effects of local-area economic conditions on mortality?
Former RWJF Health & Society Scholar Ari Nandi explores the hypothesis that health behaviours mediate the effects of local-area economic conditions on mortality in this newly released study.
The Association of Prenatal Life Stressors with PPD Diagnoses
Harvard Pop Center faculty member, Cindy Liu, looks at the association of prenatal life stressors with post-partum depression diagnoses in this study in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology.
Capturing Sexual Behavior Information in Youth in Ghana
Former Harvard/RWJF Health & Society Scholar, Bart Bingenheimer, and colleagues report on the success of a new survey instrument suitable for capturing sexual behavior information in Ghana and other sub-Saharan areas.
Does HIV Counseling Impact the Acquisition of the Disease?
Does HIV counselling and testing (HCT) impact the acquisition of the disease in youth? Pop Center faculty member Till Bärnighausen and his co-investigators report on their study in South Africa.
Socioeconomic Status and Body Mass Index
Reanne Frank, Harvard RWJF Health & Society alum, evaluates data from the New Immigrant Survey to understand the role of socioeconomic status in changes to body mass index upon arrival to the US.