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No other high-income nation in the world comes close to America’s firearm death rate. In 2014, the most recent year for which there are government statistics, 33,599 people were killed by guns.
A new study has found that health care costs for those with private insurance varies wildly across the U.S.—and that much of the variation has do with how much market…
December 14, 2012 — It should come as no surprise that the health care systems of the United States and India differ in many ways, but what may be surprising…
[ Fall 2012 ] How the next U.S. president can stack the deck in favor of people’s health and wealth in 2013 With the November 2012 elections on the horizon,…
[Winter 2010] Cost-effectiveness research pinpoints best values for limited health care dollars—and the results may surprise you An interview with Harvard School of Public Health’s Milton Weinstein offers some revealing…
[Winter 2009] Employee wellness programs prod workers to adopt healthy lifestyles A Massachusetts man lost his job at a Scotts Miracle-Gro lawn and garden center in 2006 when a routine…
[ Fall 2008 ] Fighter pilots use checklists to avoid deadly errors. Why not surgeons, too? So complex was the new B-17 bomber introduced during World War II that a…
[ Spring 2008 ] In the United States, suicides outnumber homicides almost two to one. Perhaps the real tragedy behind suicide deaths—about 30,000 a year, one for every 45 attempts—is…
