Death rates from unintentional injury among children dropped by nearly 30 percent in 10 years

Health disparities have once again moved to the forefront of America's consciousness with the recent significant observation of dramatically higher death rates among African Americans with COVID-19 when compared to White Americans. Health disparities have a long history in the United States, yet little consideration has been given to their impact on the clinical outcomes in the rehabilitative health professions such as speech-language pathology/audiology (SLP/A). Consequently, it is unclear how the absence of a careful examination of health disparities in fields like SLP/A impacts the clinical outcomes desired or achieved. The purpose of this tutorial is to examine the issue of health disparities in relationship to SLP/A. This tutorial includes operational definitions related to health disparities and a review of the social determinants of health that are the underlying cause of such disparities. The tutorial concludes with a discussion of potential directions for the study of health disparities in SLP/A to identify strategies to close the disparity gap in health-related outcomes that currently exists.

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Diabetic Ketoacidosis Death Rates Decline Overall

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(05)71936-3 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 38 (18) ◽

pp. 40

Author(s):

Miriam E. Tucker

Keyword(s):

Diabetic Ketoacidosis ◽

Death Rates

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Assessing the Impact of Suicide Exclusion Periods on Life Insurance

Crisis ◽

10.1027/0027-5910/a000023 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 217-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul Yip ◽

David Pitt ◽

Yan Wang ◽

Xueyuan Wu ◽

Ray Watson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Insurance ◽

Accidental Death ◽

Insurance Policy ◽

Death Rates ◽

Insurance Policies ◽

Suicidal Death ◽

Insured Individual ◽

The Impact ◽

Insurance Data ◽

The Relationship

Background: We study the impact of suicide-exclusion periods, common in life insurance policies in Australia, on suicide and accidental death rates for life-insured individuals. If a life-insured individual dies by suicide during the period of suicide exclusion, commonly 13 months, the sum insured is not paid. Aims: We examine whether a suicide-exclusion period affects the timing of suicides. We also analyze whether accidental deaths are more prevalent during the suicide-exclusion period as life-insured individuals disguise their death by suicide. We assess the relationship between the insured sum and suicidal death rates. Methods: Crude and age-standardized rates of suicide, accidental death, and overall death, split by duration since the insured first bought their insurance policy, were computed. Results: There were significantly fewer suicides and no significant spike in the number of accidental deaths in the exclusion period for Australian life insurance data. More suicides, however, were detected for the first 2 years after the exclusion period. Higher insured sums are associated with higher rates of suicide. Conclusions: Adverse selection in Australian life insurance is exacerbated by including a suicide-exclusion period. Extension of the suicide-exclusion period to 3 years may prevent some “insurance-induced” suicides – a rationale for this conclusion is given.

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