by Larry Shultz | Apr 11, 2025 | Human and Civil rights, Public Health, Public Policy
Pregnancy-Related Deaths in the US, 2018-2022 | Obstetrics and Gynecology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network The rate for black women is slightly worse than the risk of giving birth in Iraq. This puts the US as a whole in 77th place, between Uzbekistan and Tunisia....
by Larry Shultz | Apr 8, 2025 | Biophysical Economics, Economics, Human and Civil rights, Public Policy
The international division of labor and embodied working time in trade for the US, the EU and China – ScienceDirect Here we can see that both the US and the EU were net importers of working time and rely more on work performed outside of their boundaries. 50%...
by Larry Shultz | Apr 7, 2025 | Aging, Democracy, Education, Human and Civil rights, Public Health, Public Policy, Retirement
Even the richest Americans face shorter lifespans than their European counterparts, study finds The US top quartile of non-housing wealth has the same effect of life expectancy as about the 30th percentile of Western Europe. See NEJM study of 12 years of people...
