Tag: Social Policy
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Nation & World
Immersed in the body politic
Susan Greenhalgh, a new professor in Harvard’s anthropology department, studies China’s controversial one-child policy, finding lessons for American health policymakers, too.
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University adopts faculty financial conflict of interest policies
The Harvard Corporation has adopted a University-wide faculty financial conflict of interest policy, the first time such a policy has been crafted to cover faculty members across the entire campus.…
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Speeding new medicines and technologies to the developing world
A consortium of Harvard and five other leading research universities and the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) have endorsed a far-reaching “Statement of Principles and Strategies for the Equitable…
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Nation & World
Five Harvard graduate students receive Julius B. Richmond Fellowships
Five Harvard graduate students have been named to receive Julius B. Richmond Fellowships from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
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Nation & World
Mexican program successful at reducing crippling health care costs
Seguro Popular, a Mexican health care program instituted in 2003, has already reduced crippling health care costs among poorer households, according to an evaluation conducted by researchers at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers in Mexico.
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Dramatic increase in ER waiting time for seriously ill patients
Patients of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic status are facing ever-increasing waits for care in emergency rooms, according to a study published online today by the journal Health Affairs. The…
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Living in disadvantaged neighborhood equivalent to missing a year of school
Childhood exposure to severely disadvantaged communities is linked to decreased verbal ability later in childhood, a lasting negative effect that continues even after moving out of the neighborhood, according to…
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The myth of American isolationism
American diplomacy in the 1920s was subtle but ambitious and effective, instead of isolationist, argues Harvard Assistant Professor of Government Bear F. Braumoeller. American policy in the years leading up…
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Public school districts resegregating by race, study finds
While the 2000 census results illustrate that the United States has more racial and ethnic diversity than ever before, school data from the year 2000-2001 collected by the U.S. Department…
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