U.S. State Policies and Life Expectancy Last year, the VCU Center on Society and Health published a study that showed the mortality rates among working-age Americans continue to rise, causing a decrease in life expectancy in the United States. A new study, co-authored by the center’s director emeritus, Steven Woolf, seeks to explain this change….
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For those looking to understand, design, and implement research collaborations between researchers and community members, patients, and other stakeholders, it can be hard to find detailed information about engagement methods and how they are implemented. But a new book, Researching Health Together: Engaging Patients and Stakeholders, from Topic Identification to Policy Change, was recently published…
New research from the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University finds that the number of publicly-reported deaths from COVID-19 may be underestimating the pandemic’s actual death toll. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that approximately 87,000 more Americans died between March 1, 2020, and April 25,…
In light of the continued killings of unarmed Black people in the United States–most recently the highly publicized murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery–and the protests that are occurring in our home of Richmond and across the country, the VCU Center on Society and Health wants to reaffirm its condemnation of racism…