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Quarterly Opinion
April 2024 Paula M. Lantz, Emma Carter,
As of April 2024, approximately 250 local, state, and federal governmental entities have introduced bills, executive orders, and other policies that… More
April 2024 Jennifer Karas Montez,
Ten ways to accelerate research on the role that the seismic shifts in states’ policy contexts may have played in the troubling trends and growing disparities in Americans’ health. More
Quarterly Article
March 2024 Alan B. Cohen,
After celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Milbank Quarterly in 2023, we begin the process of plotting the journal’s next century with an… More
March 2024 David Rosner,
Since 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been monitoring Americans’ bodies for the presence of 212 chemicals, detailing… More
February 2024 Jonathan C. Heller, Marjory L. Givens, Sheri P. Johnson, David A. Kindig,
When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More
January 2024 Kushal T. Kadakia, Harlan M. Krumholz,
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a seminal report titled To Err is Human, which determined that tens of thousands of patient deaths… More
January 2024 David A. Kindig, Yasmin Mohd Ariffin, Hannah Olson-Williams,
This study finds that every percent of evangelicals in a county is associated with 4.01 more premature deaths per 100,000 population and 0.13% fair/poor health. More
December 2023 Jonathan I. Levy,
In November 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule that would require water systems to replace all lead service… More
December 2023 Lawrence O. Gostin, Sarah Wetter, Alexandra Finch,
In November of this year, global health leaders gathered at the World Health City Forum in Incheon, South Korea to discuss the future of the… More
December 2023 Alan B. Cohen,
With this issue of the Milbank Quarterly, we complete a year-long celebration of the journal’s centennial anniversary. In April, we released a… More
