“For the study, published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers looked at physician counts per 100,000 people in a range covering 2005 to 2015 across 3,142 counties in the U.S., along with life expectancy and specific causes of death. They found that...
“In the study published in the February edition of the journal Health Affairs, Harvard University health economist David Cutler and his co-authors calculated that the per beneficiary growth rate of Medicare spending slowed substantially from 1992-2012. Until...
“Ho used data from the Human Mortality Database and the World Health Organization Mortality Database to analyze rates of drug overdose deaths in 18 countries between 2003 and 2013. She found that overdose death rates in the U.S. are 3.5 times higher, on average,...
Reuters reported Brookings Forum on “Improving opportunities for those who want to work longer”. “Should Americans work longer before retirement? If so, what public policies can help to foster longer working lives? On January 24, in conjunction with...
“Patient people are not doing more analytic work,” said Scott Huettel, a Duke psychology professor who co-authored the study. “They actually make these decisions the fastest. “It’s the opposite of an effortful process.” U.S....
