Databyte Archives

05.26.2020 a map of different colored states

Health Equity

Segregating Access to Care

Black Americans are at a higher risk of failing to receive needed care compared to Hispanics or Latinos and Whites because of distance to trauma centers.

Fellow Pat Williams

05.20.2020 a pie chart with text

Health Equity

Transit Workers' Right to Pee

OSHA’s loose guidelines on restroom access do not sufficiently protect workers from health risks posed by limited restroom access.

Fellow Gray Babbs

05.05.2020 a graph of the number of years

Philadelphia Reduces Tobacco Use

Tobacco use has declined over the past 50 years in the United States, but not at the same speed for minorities and people with low incomes.

Fellow Edward Alexander

04.21.2020 a graph of different colored lines

Our Price for Prisons

Whole communities are afflicted by incarceration, and the criminal justice system may harm the communities they supposedly protect.

Fellow Edward Alexander

04.17.2020 a graph with colored lines and arrows

Take the Time You Need

Criminal reporting policies should consider expanding to a 120-hour window for all physical injuries from sexual assault.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

04.14.2020 a graph with arrows pointing to a red line

Smoking Sticks in the Sticks

Rural youth have 50 percent higher odds of smoking than their urban peers. Without intervention, rural adolescents will bear more of smoking's consequences.

Fellow Gray Babbs

04.07.2020 a graph of numbers and a number of aces

Food Fights

Children in the US who lack nutritious food may suffer from the cumulative effects of a chaotic and sometimes dangerous home environment.

Fellow Pat Williams

03.31.2020 a graph with blue and orange bars

Opioid Ups and Downs

For the first time since 1999, the national drug overdose death rate declined in 2018, an important marker of the nation’s response to the opioid epidemic.

Fellow Edward Alexander

03.26.2020 a graph of a graph with black and white lines

Completion Depends on Conditions

For Black children, the idealized American nuclear family is not enough to overcome the presence of racially motivated disadvantage.

Fellow Edward Alexander

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