Minority Health and Health Equity Archive: Recent submissions
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‘What have you HEARD about the HERD?’ Does education about local influenza vaccination coverage and herd immunity affect willingness to vaccinate?
(ScienceDirect, 2018-06-27)Background: Vaccination protects individuals directly and communities indirectly by reducing transmission. We aimed to determine whether information about herd immunity and local vaccination coverage could change an ... -
Use of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes – Learning by Doing. Comment on “Use of Evidence-informed Deliberative Processes by Health Technology Assessment Agencies Around the Globe”
(International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019-12-03)The article by Oortwijn, Jansen, and Baltussen (OJB) is much more important than it appears because, in the absence of any good general theory of “evidence-informed deliberative processes” (EDP) and limited evidence of how ... -
Strong Social Distancing Measures In The United States Reduced The COVID-19 Growth Rate
(Health Affairs, 2020-05-14)State and local governments imposed social distancing measures in March and April of 2020 to contain the spread of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). These included large event bans, school closures, closures of ... -
The Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in New York City
(National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, 2020-04-13)New York City’s multitentacled subway system was a major disseminator – if not the principal transmission vehicle – of coronavirus infection during the initial takeoff of the massive epidemic that became evident throughout ... -
Observational Study of Hydroxychloroquine in Hospitalized Patients with Covid- 19
(The New England Journal of Medicine, 2020-05-07)Hydroxychloroquine has been widely administered to patients with Covid-19 without robust evidence supporting its use. In this observational study involving patients with Covid-19 who had been admitted to the hospital, ...