Economic influences on population health in the United States: Toward policymaking driven by data and evidence

PLoS Med. 2020 Sep 2;17(9):e1003319. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003319. eCollection 2020 Sep.

Atheendar S Venkataramani^{1

2}, Rourke O'Brien³, Gregory L Whitehorn¹, Alexander C Tsai^{4

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¹ Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
² Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
³ Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
⁴ Center for Global Health and Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁶ Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda.

Abstract

Atheendar S. Venkataramani and colleagues discuss economic factors and population health in the United States.