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U.S. employer-based health coverage sees 10-year decline

The percentage of Americans under age 65 with employer-sponsored health insurance coverage has dropped to 59.5 percent in 2011, continuing...

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Supplemental Medicare coverage leads to spending growth

In the first empirical study of the role supplemental insurance coverage might play in Medicare spending growth, researchers at the...

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Public health course among U’s first batch of MOOCs

Social Epidemiology launches May 31, 2013. Understanding how forces of society—from family life to government policies to the global economy—impact...

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Happy longest day.

Hi Everyone, Happy first day of summer!!! Although...it has felt like summer since about March. I will take it either...

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Sustaining the Glow

A firefly made its way into my life tonight. Standing on the porch of my friend place, on an almost-summery...

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Alumni Notes

Learn what it's like to be in the trenches as a public health professional.

Change is like a river (a clean one!)

Yesterday I celebrated my official two-year Atlantaversary, and I'm getting ready to say my final goodbye to the Presidential Management...

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Full Circle

Hello SPH Alumni Blog Readers! It's been a bit since I've last checked in, and quite a bit has happened!...

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Proving preventability

Henry Blackburn is among the few remaining principal investigators of the Seven Countries Study team that focused on the relation of heart attacks to the eating and activity patterns in contrasting populations of men in strenuous occupations like farming, fishing, and logging in the United States, Finland, the Netherlands, and Japan, Greece, Italy, and Yugoslavia.

Since retiring in 1995, Blackburn has devoted much of his time to writing and compiling a comprehensive archive and history of CVD epidemiology and preventive cardiology. His own and others' documents, abstracts of early studies, oral histories of pioneering researchers, photos, videos, and audio clips are available on a wideranging website.

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