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Lenhart and Owens find numerous challenges to designing for adolescent digital well-being: “Digital well-being” does not have a commonly agreed-upon definition, which contributes to a focus on quantifiable modes of […]
In biomedicine, practitioners often treat risk of disease as an illness in itself?suitable for monitoring and intervention. In some cases, increased diagnostics improve health outcomes by detecting problems early. Recently, […]
Many widely used health algorithms have been shown to encode and reinforce racial health inequities, prioritizing the needs of white patients over those of patients of color. Because automated systems […]
Kellie Owens is a K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She conducts research on the ethical use of technology […]
The relative political disengagement of people living in poverty poses an enduring challenge to the integrity of American democracy. In 1993, Congress attempted to address this by passing section 7 […]
Recent studies have shown that changes in public health insurance policy have the potential to affect political participation. In particular, aggregate-level analyses suggest that increases in Medicaid enrollment due to […]
The geographic concentration of disadvantage is a key mechanism of inequity. In the United States, the spatial patterning of disadvantage renders it more than the sum of its individual parts […]
American public policy is and has always been profoundly racialized. Yet, the literature on policy feedback lacks cohesive theorization of how race matters for feedback processes. This article offers a […]
Many scholars paint a somber picture of the political status of racially and economically marginalized groups in the United States. In particular, seminal studies on cities—places where race and class […]
Jamila Michener is an associate professor of government and public policy at Cornell University. Her research focuses on poverty, racism, and public policy in the United States. She is codirector […]
There is growing excitement for ubiquitous healthcare, where tiny wireless sensors are able to constantly monitor, collect and transmit health data.3 And while IBM’s Watson Health has faced some challenges […]