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  1. Austerity measures have led to significant health declines
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    Stanford Health Policy’s Sanjay Basu, an assistant professor of medicine, argues in this commentary in Social Science & Medicine that austerity measures adopted after the global financial crisis have led to significant health declines among those whose leaders don’t consider them worthy of economic aid.
  2. Every child depends on Medicaid
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    All children — poor, rich, and middle class — depend on Medicaid. In the United States, more than 40 percent of children are insured by Medicaid, and in many states, Medicaid covers two out of three children. Without Medicaid, children in your child’s school will have decreased access to life-saving vaccinations, autism screening, and other preventive healthcare.
  3. Education gap widens among adolescent boys and girls in low-income countries when younger siblings home sick
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    Stanford Health Policy’s Marcella Alsan argues in a new study in the journal Pediatrics, that identifying contributors to education disparities and making investments in early childhood health could significantly advance global health and development.
  4. Stanford researchers say U.S. policies on drugs and addiction could use a dose of neuroscience
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    Tens of thousands of Americans die from drug overdoses every year — around 50,000 in 2015 — and the number has been steadily climbing for at least the last decade and a half, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Yet a team of Stanford neuroscientists and legal scholars argues that the nation’s drug policies are at times exactly the opposite from what science-based policies would look like.
  5. Rosenkranz Prize winner brings statistics to rape prevention in Kenya
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    Rosenkrantz Prize Winner Mike Baiocchi is working with Stanford researchers and students to determine whether a rape-prevention program in Kenya works.
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