Published in Accountability in research
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has radically changed the way healthcare is conducted, and its relevance continues to expand as healthcare technology evolves. This article describes a method for training inexperienced undergraduate students to become HIPAA-compliant clinical research volunteers in a pediatric traumat...
L’omniprésence des enjeux de sécurité dans le champ politique et médiatique donne à voir un processus de sécuritisation des phénomènes sociaux, et de pluralisation des acteurs et des univers impliqués dans leur prise en charge. Le présent numéro entend précisément questionner à nouveaux frais cette double dynamique contemporaine, et en saisir les e...
o contain and curb the spread of COVID-19, the governments of countries around the world have used different strategies (lockdown, mandatory vaccination, immunity passports, voluntary social distancing, etc.). This article aims to examine the effects of the public announcement of a binding political decision presented by the president of the French...
Published in Journal of medical ethics
Humans and other species depend on the planet's well-being to survive and flourish. The health of the planet and its ecosystems is under threat from anthropogenic climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. The promotion of planetary health against entrenched degradation of nature urgently requires ethical guidance. Using an ecocentric virtue ...
Despite the EU's competition policy, direct public aid to companies has increased considerably over the last few decades in France. We hand-collect original data from the French Parliament's annual budget reports since 1979, and reconstruct the total volume of tax breaks (and social contribution exemptions) granted to companies and households, to w...
Published in Tobacco control
To evaluate the common industry claim that higher tobacco taxation leads to higher levels of smuggling, particularly in a limited state capacity setting. This paper evaluates the effects of a tobacco tax increase in Sierra Leone on smuggling by using gap analyses. Its models are based on multiple rounds of the Demographic and Health Survey and cust...
Published in Tobacco control
To determine the cost-effectiveness of a smoke-free prison policy in Scotland, through assessments of the trade-offs between costs (healthcare and non-healthcare-related expenditure) and outcomes (health and non-health-related non-monetary consequences) of implementing the policy. A health economic evaluation consisting of three analyses (cost-cons...
Published in Tobacco control
This study estimated annual healthcare expenditures attributable to current e-cigarette use among US adults, including current exclusive and dual/poly e-cigarette use. Analysing the 2015-2018 National Health Interview Survey data, we estimated the impacts of e-cigarette use on healthcare utilisation among adults aged 18+ years. Healthcare utilisati...
Published in Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Black children have a higher risk of residual obstructive sleep apnea after adenotonsillectomy than non-Black children. We analyzed Childhood Adenotonsillectomy Trial data to better understand this disparity. We hypothesized that (1) child-level factors, such as asthma, smoke exposure, obesity, sleep duration, and (2) socioeconomic factors, such as...
Published in Sociology of health & illness
The Condition of the Working Class in England (hereafter, CWCE) by Friedrich Engels is a masterpiece of urban research not only for its explicit descriptions of the living and working conditions of members of the Victorian-era working class and their effects on health but also its insights into the sources of these conditions through a political ec...
