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Why we should all place our babies to sleep in cardboard boxes… or just give up and move to Scandinavia

By Lindsay Kobayashi
Posted: June 11, 2013
Category: Determinants of health, Health systems, Maternal health | Tagged breastfeeding, Health Disparities, interventions, Life Chances, maternal health, prevention | 1 Comment

More Treatment, Less War: The White House Drug Policy Reform

By Jason Silverstein
Posted: April 26, 2013
Category: Uncategorized | Tagged Addiction, Incarceration, Life Chances, Politics, Public Policy, Structural Violence, War on Drugs | Leave a comment

How Discrimination Links Lives Together

By Jason Silverstein
Posted: March 19, 2013
Category: Uncategorized | Tagged Health Disparities, Life Chances, minority health, Racism, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Violence | 1 Comment

Beyond Crime and Punishment

By Jason Silverstein
Posted: January 22, 2013
Category: Uncategorized | Tagged Incarceration, Life Chances, Racism, Social Determinants of Health, Structural Violence | 4 Comments

Race – and Place – Matters for Health

By Jason Silverstein
Posted: December 11, 2012
Category: Uncategorized | Tagged Health Disparities, Life Chances, minority health, Racism, Structural Violence | 3 Comments
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