To remind you, if you want to affect alcohol mortality you have to intervene around price, availability, advertising
Alcohol, Violence, and Injury-Induced Mortality: Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition direct.mit.edu/rest/article... alcohol ban reduced the number of people dying from unnatural causes 120 per week- 14%. instances of assaults fell by 33%, and those of rape fell by 19%
Abstract. This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nationwide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by ...
www.bmj.com/content/386/... Transparency as a means to conquer conflicts of interest is illusory Sunlight isn't enough
Spectacles, suits, Taylor Swift, and Old Trafford. The register of interests of the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, has now precipitated a reverse turn.1 The newspapers swooped on the shopping list f...
Benefits of population-level interventions for dementia risk factors: an economic modelling study for England www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Population-level interventions could help tackle life course dementia risk and save costs.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... GLP-1 Use and Costs Among US Adults With Type 2 Diabete Super impressive increase I'm sure outcomes are improving at the same rate If they aren't then the efficiency of the spend is decreasing Just an observation.....
This JAMA Data Brief discusses new data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, or MEPS, Household Component, a household survey sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
carbon is THE most important determinant of the survival of the planet and the humans on it
www.bmj.com/content/386/... Opioid crisis: Fall in US overdose deaths Interesting No obvious explanation Xylazine theory was interesting
Data published this month by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirms a trend, already reported anecdotally by emergency department staff across the country, that deaths from d...
Troubles me Def some things we may not fully understand However (obviously) if we forget policy about the things we do understand we will be worse off
everyone gets excited about this cool science but forgets about policy that will make way more difference (but not make any shareholders rich)
Generational and cohort effects Microbiome Allostatic load and inflammation Interesting on cancer biology Risk Factors in proportion and what we know - tobacco, obesity alcohol, lack of exercise