Background Racial and ethnic disparities in mortality persist in the US population. We
studied the contribution of social determinants of health (SDoH) to racial and ethnic …

Scholarly and comprehensive yet accessible, this state-of-the-science work is widely
regarded as the definitive graduate-level psychology of religion text. The authors synthesize …

Importance The COVID-19 pandemic caused a large decrease in US life expectancy in
2020, but whether a similar decrease occurred in 2021 and whether the relationship …

Greater educational attainment is strongly associated with better health. Research has found
this association across many world regions, 1–4 social contexts, 5–9 social groups, 10–13 …

We use linked administrative data that combines the universe of California birth records,
hospitalizations, and death records with parental income from Internal Revenue Service tax …

Background The US population is aging with concurrent increases in heart failure (HF)
burden. However, HF-related mortality trends among adults≥ 75 years have not been …

Thirty-seven years ago, the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health called
attention to a “national paradox” of persistent Black-White health disparities despite overall …

Racial/ethnic and age disparities in COVID-19 and all-cause mortality during 2020 are well
documented, but less is known about their evolution over time. We examine changes in age …

We assessed how many US deaths would have been averted each year, 1933–2021, if US
age-specific mortality rates had equaled the average of 21 other wealthy nations. We refer to …

Although there is a growing support for the use of psychedelics to improve the health of
marginalized groups, there are some critical gaps. First, no empirical studies have examined …