Databyte Archives

09.23.2020 a graph of a number of people with mental health disorders

Our Medical Spending

Medicare spends $13,072 on people without any known mental health disorders, but $19,676 for those with severe mental illness.

Fellow Pat Williams

09.10.2020 a graph of birth rate

Too Little, Too Late

Laws restricting abortion access don’t reduce abortions or the need for them, they unfairly limit who has access to them.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

09.08.2020 a graph showing the amount of delivery in the year

Counting Contraception

Creating systems that encourage providers to offer IUDs and implants is a critical step to contraception access.

Fellow Gray Babbs

08.27.2020 a diagram of a child care program

Child Care and Covid-19

Permanent loss of access to child care limits essential worker readiness and impacts how quickly nonessential workers return to business.

Fellow Pat Williams

08.25.2020 a graph of a number of patients with an injection

Treatment Trends

The increases in injection meth use observed represents a dangerous public health challenge that is hidden within the wider opioid epidemic.

Fellow Pat Williams

07.29.2020 a map of the united states

The Weight of Freight

Diesel engines are harmful because they release particulate matter and nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere as they combust.

Fellow Edward Alexander

07.27.2020 a graph of a number of blue rectangular bars with text

In Sickness and in Health

Much of the high uninsurance rate among LGBQ people is due to their increased risk of living in poverty, but some is due to legal insurance discrimination.

Fellow Gray Babbs

07.23.2020 a graph of different sizes and colors

Health Equity

Race and Algorithms

Health algorithms measure risk with data established in conditions of inequity, and as a result, they reproduce racial disparities.

Fellow Edward Alexander

07.14.2020 a graph of blue bars with text

Disparity, Depression, Disease

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment rates in the US have jumped to levels not seen since the Great Depression.

Fellow Edward Alexander

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