Impact University: Healthcare
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- Portraits of Poverty
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If Americans Love Moms, Why Do We Let Them Die? >
Kristof, Nicholas. (2017-07-29, The New York Times): While maternal mortality rates have plunged around the world, they've climbed in the United States.
The Health-Care Cost of Homelessness >
In the past year, Los Angeles has dedicated billions of dollars towards housing the homeless. The effort is, in part, aimed at addressing the city's exorbitant health-care spending on this population.
Where Health Care Won’t Go >
Ouyang, Helen. (June 2017, Harper's Magazine): A tuberculosis crisis is affecting rural, Black Belt Alabama.
Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair >
Khazan, Olga. (2015-11-04, The Atlantic): Even as longevity increases across the rich world, uneducated white Americans are living sicker and dying earlier. Two economists speculate on the reasons why.
Life in Obamacare’s Dead Zone >
Verzemnieks, Inara. (2016-12-06, The New York Times): Excluded from the Affordable Care Act because of politics, thousands of poor Americans grapple with the toll — physical and psychological — of being uninsured.
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