Databyte Archives

11.28.2017 Graph showing trends in medication prescriptions in Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states

Medicaid Expansion Expands Access to Mental Health Care

Recent research from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act increased access to mental health care.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

11.08.2017 Graph showing economic gains by avoided blood levels and number of children

Saving Money through Preventing Lead Exposure

Reducing early lead exposure in children would result in future savings: increased lifetime earnings, better health and outcomes, and better quality of life overall.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

11.02.2017 a map of europe with different colored areas

There’s No Escaping Climate Change

A recent study in the Lancet finds two out of three Europeans could be affected by weather-related disasters by 2071.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

10.31.2017 Graph showing reasons for nonelderly adults being uninsured in 2016

“I’m uninsured because…”

Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 98% of respondents do want health insurance, but lacked access.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.27.2017 Graph showing rising sea levels since 1993

The Imminent Danger of Rising Sea Levels to Coastal Communities

NASA data shows a trend in rising sea levels that represents an imminent danger to coastal communities globally.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.26.2017 Graph comparing food insecurity by type of college

Food Insecurity at Two-Year Colleges

A recent Urban Institute study finds that students at two-year colleges are at risk of food insecurity. Could a review of the work requirements for SNAP eligibility help?

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

10.25.2017 Graphic showing annual average per capital growth in GDP conditional on test scores, years of schooling completed

Schooling vs. Learning

A World Bank report on how schooling is not the same as learning: students are leaving school without a real working knowledge of what their classes were supposed to teach.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

10.24.2017 Pie chart showing barriers to access to mental health

Barriers to Mental Health Treatment

Striking data from the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll on the reasons that millions of Americans skip needed mental health care.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.20.2017 a diagram of a survey

Teaching Love, Preventing Sexual Harassment

Adults are spending too much time worrying about the “hook-up culture” and too little time on guidance on healthy relationships from both parents and health or sex education classes.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

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