Members of SHM's Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee delve into the mortality measurement and how hospitalists’ ...
Twice-yearly mass distribution of azithromycin to children is a promising intervention to reduce childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Health Organization recommended restricting ...
In overall analyses, we observed higher HL mortality compared with US White individuals across several Latin American countries (mortality rate ratio [MRR] range, 1.25-2.96), particularly in Cuba (MRR ...
Introduction Large socioeconomic disparities in healthcare utilisation and health outcomes have been well-documented in Latin ...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. An unusual public dispute has erupted among leading maternal ...
The release of a critical report by The Commonwealth Funds this week only further underscores the decrepit state of healthcare in the United States, the center of world capitalism. The study, titled ...
The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.White and Native American infants, infant boys and ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Excess deaths at age 10 to 19 years increased between 2009 (27.5%) to 2019 (35.8%). More than half of the deaths ...
COVID-19 might seem like a distant memory but for life insurance executives unexpectedly high mortality rates remain a stubborn reminder. And it’s starting to look like it might not correct itself ...