In a new paper out in IJE, we compare the US Add Health & BCS70 cohorts, finding that American adults have significantly worse health in midlife compared to their British peers—especially in cardiovascular health. 🇺🇸🇬🇧. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/us-adul...#episky#publichealth

US adults in worse health than British counterparts at midlife

American adults have significantly worse health in midlife compared to their British peers, especially in markers of cardiovascular health, according to a new study involving researchers from Oxford’s...

This is a hot topic in the US, please see below… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Race as a Risk Marker, Not a Risk Factor: Revising Race-Based Algorithms to Protect Racially Oppressed Patients - Journal of General Internal Medicine

Emerging consensus in the medical and public health spheres encourages removing race and ethnicity from algorithms used in clinical decision-making. Although clinical algorithms remain appealing given...

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Thanks for sharing Luisa. We were discussing racist healthcare practices & tools during a session at the world congress of epidemiology on ethno-racial categories & measuring racism across countries last week and lung function was an example

Race and lung function equation: The use of the race-neutral equation could increase annual disability payments by 17%, or $1.1 billion, for Black veterans and drop by about 1%, or > $500 million, for White veterans. #Racismundark.org/2024/09/24/t...www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations | NEJM

Adjustment for race is discouraged in lung-function testing, but the implications of adopting race-neutral equations have not been comprehensively quantified. We obtained longitudinal data from 369...

Had an amazing time at the #WCE2024#EpiSky

When the policy discussion moves to health it centres on spending money on the NHS like in this episode alongside this, what’s happened to “Health in ALL policies”? Housing, work, school, the food environment are all root causes of health inequalities Prevention is about investing in them

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New episode Rest Is Politics. Can Labour save the NHS? Are we too slow to arm Ukraine with longer range missiles? Can Australia ban social media for kids? And a trip down memory lane to the Dome podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

How to save the NHS

How are Labour planning to reform the NHS? Are the West being too slow to help Ukraine? Should social media be banned for children? Join Rory and Alastair as th

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Thanks! I’ll check it out 👍

Any tips for funny / amusing podcasts to listen to? I listen to a lot of political ones or nerdy history/ philosophy but would like something lighter & to make me laugh Thanks!