Databyte Archives

11.16.2022 a graph of a graph showing the number of covid-19

Health Equity

Expand Voting Rights for Health: Yes or No?

Researchers measured COVID-19 case and mortality data with the burden of voting restrictions across U.S. counties with different demographic makeups.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

11.10.2022 a graph of a number of people with symptoms and a few other people with their own hands

Hungry for Health

Campus food pantries are linked to better health among college students.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

11.02.2022 a graph of different colored bars

Outlawing Immigrants and Alienating Health

Researchers assessed how state-based immigration criminalization policies influenced how Latinx and Asian Pacific Islander citizens and noncitizens rated their health.

Fellow Hannah Tremont

10.28.2022 a graph of a patient's disease

Behind the Screen-ing

Where veterans receive health care is more impactful than individual factors for lung cancer screening rates.

Fellow Connor McCombs

10.26.2022 a graph of a vaccine

Are Racial Differences in Flu Vaccination Rates Widening?

Differences in flu vaccination rates across racial groups in the U.S. are widening, as shown in a visualization from the Center for Antiracist Research in a new PHP series.

Guest Authors Yukun Yang, Elaine O. Nsoesie

10.24.2022 a graph of a number of individuals

Gun Sales and Suicides

The type of firearm purchased may be helpful in predicting future suicide risk, among other factors, researchers determined from California data.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

10.19.2022 a graph of different colored bars

Navigating Climate Anxiety Through Action

Climate anxiety affects young people worldwide, particularly those living where the consequences of climate change are more pronounced.

Fellow Barbara Espinosa

10.18.2022 a graph of different colored lines

Health Equity

Are You Using Protection?

Sunscreen use among middle and high school students is increasing, but not across all racial and ethnic groups.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

10.10.2022 a map of the world with numbers and a graph

Health Equity

When Language is Lost

Medicinal plant knowledge is more strongly associated with threatened languages than with threatened plants.

Fellow Abby Outterson

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