Databyte Archives

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

Mental & Behavioral Health
Substance Use

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

03.24.2020 a comparison of menstrual cycle

Sexual & Reproductive Health

One Size Fits Few

Apps reveal that ovulation only occurs at day 14 in 24% of individuals, meaning that most users ovulate outside the previously-defined range.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

03.19.2020 a graph of money and a dollar sign

Emergency Cash for Coverage

The chilling reality faced by millions of Americans with unplanned emergency medical costs remains: Where do I turn for help?

Fellow Pat Williams

03.16.2020 a graph of age and age

Tagging Tuberculosis

Lapses in testing guidelines undermine efforts to completely eliminate tuberculosis in the country despite decline in incidence and prevalence.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

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