Abstract Purposeof Review Epidemiologic research on the health effects of social policies is
growing rapidly because of the potentially large impact of these policies on population …

Social policies have great potential to improve population health and reduce health
disparities. Increasingly, those doing empirical research have sought to quantify the health …

Extensive empirical health research leverages variation in the timing and location of policy
changes as quasi-experiments. Multiple social policies may be adopted simultaneously in …

Fundamental cause theory (FCT) is influential for explaining the enduring relationship
between social position and health, yet few empirical studies test FCT's contention that …

The current study examines whether the extent of macrolevel gender inequality affects the
association between women's educational attainment and their participation in cervical and …

Limited research has investigated the impact of restricted abortion access on cisgender
men's lives. We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n= 3642 to 6800) …

Introduction Changing patterns of cannabis consumption related to the liberalization of
cannabis policies may have a countervailing effect on tobacco use. We analyzed whether …

Considerable public debate has emerged regard-ing the importance of wearing masks to
prevent the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and thus whether they should …

A growing body of empirical research seeks to quantify the causal effects of social policies
on health by exploiting variation in the timing of policy changes across places. However …

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare stark health inequities, further confirming a century of
research on inequities in morbidity and mortality by race, ethnicity, sex, gender, and …