What can happen to our health when kindness becomes a habit?
Laura Kubzansky comments in this 3-minute Listen on NPR on the association she and colleagues observed between volunteering/ making charitable donations and a reduction in physical pain.
Archive: Dec 2024
Expanded version of “Work Design for Health” employer toolkit launched
An updated and expanded version of the “Work Design for Health” employer toolkit—developed by researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the MIT Sloan School of Management—has been launched. The free online toolkit, originally…
Working paper that finds greater local political conservativism to be associated with worse health outcomes is now published in a journal
A Harvard Pop Center working paper (Volume 24, No. 1) posted in September, 2024 is now published in the journal Health Affairs Scholar. The descriptive study (“it doesn’t establish a cause-and-effect relationship between a state’s politics and health…
