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WebExtreme Heat, Coastal Flooding, and Health Disparities: Climate Change Impacts on Older Adults in New Jersey. April 18th, 2024 | Comments Off on Extreme Heat, Coastal Flooding, and Health …

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Report Release: Youth Mental Health in New Jersey: Current Status …

WebBy Karen Lowrie and Brooke Schwartzman READ REPORT Teens of today have faced major shifts in societal, environmental, community, familial, and individual spheres, …

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Maternal Health Equity in New Jersey

WebBy Julia Snyder. The CDC and The National Center for Health Statistics released data in March 2023 showing a dramatic rise in the U.S. maternal mortality rate from 17.4 deaths …

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Removing Technology Barriers to Address Health …

WebBy Donita Devance, Dr. Diane Hill, and Epiphany Munz COVID-19 changed the way we communicate and interact globally while underscoring deep inequities in access to the internet and digital technology, notably among …

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High Quality Health Care: How New Jersey Residents …

Webby Amanda Hinton Health care is a hot-button topic for people across the country and New Jersey is no exception. The importance of access to health care cannot be understated and many New Jersey residents feel …

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Access to Nature for People with Disabilities: Updated Findings …

WebBy Josephine O’Grady In New Jersey, one in five adults has a disability (CDC, 2022a). New Jersey residents with disabilities have higher rates of depression, obesity, diabetes, and …

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A Second Pandemic: Is telehealth a solution to the mental health …

Webby Heather Butler and Aakanksha Deoli. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic engendered a precarious environment that significantly exacerbated existing mental health disorders …

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Broadband Connection Access: An Essential Social Determinant of …

Webby Edgar Romero and Anita Franzione Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth services and virtual care rapidly expanded and allowed health care providers to continue …

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Digital Literacy, Telehealth Equity, and Healthcare Access are

WebBy Betia Zeng and Aakanksha Deoli. The growth and expansion of telehealth services have been well documented since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many patients opted …

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Medicaid Unwinding: What It is and How New Jersey Plans to …

WebAs a result, continuous enrollment ended on March 31, 2023, and states resumed reviewing Medicaid enrollees’ eligibility on April 1st in the process known as …

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Mapping New Jersey’s overdose hotspots: Insights from state

Webby Gavin Rozzi Efforts to collect statewide data on the opiate crisis in New Jersey have been underway since 2014 when former Attorney General John J. Hoffman issued a …

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Insights on Ageism, Health Care, and the Digital Divide

WebBy Epiphany Munz, Donita Devance, and Diane Hill, Ph.D. The World Health Organization (WHO) published the Global report on ageism to call attention to the discrimination that …

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Aging New Jersey: Long-Term Care Challenges and Quality …

WebBy Miyeon Song, Ph.D., Jinah Yoo (Ph.D. Student), and Seungho An, Ph.D. The Challenges in Long-Term Care Quality New Jersey's elderly population is on the rise. According to a …

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Is Telehealth Making Healthcare More Accessible For the LGBTQ+

WebDomonique Noel. Across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic has made a drastic impact on the lives of LGBTQ+ people in several unforeseen ways. One of those ways is in …

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Data Brief Release: Cannabis Use in New Jersey – Residents Share …

WebBy Charles S. Menifield and Yong-Chan Rhee READ REPORT Marijuana was first legalized for medicinal purposes in California in 1996 (Kan et al. 2020). Since then, 37 more states …

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December 11, 2023 – New Jersey State Policy Roundup

WebBill Advances to Allow All Licensed Clinical Social Workers to Bill Medicaid for Services – On Dec. 11, the Senate passed S2716, which would allow all licensed …

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Population Density and New Jersey’s Two Largest Racial/Ethnic …

WebTia Azzi and Michael Lahr, Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/Econ™). Introduction. This is the third brief that reports data on New Jersey from the 2020 decennial census. …

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Cannabis Legalization in New Jersey: A Baseline Study

WebThe New Jersey data also indicated that between 2016-2019, marijuana usage for adults 26 years of age and older increased, while usage decreased for those 18 to 25 years of …

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Perspectives on Poverty in New Jersey, 2008-2020

WebBased on the federal poverty level, almost 800,000 New Jerseyans lived in poverty in 2019, [6] whereas estimates based on the “True Poverty Level” [7] suggest that close to 3 …

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Bicycle Lanes: Motivating Active Transportation

WebBike lanes, in particular, are important given the rise in fatal traffic crashes in New Jersey. There has been a 15.5% uptick in car crash fatalities over the past year: [7] As many as …

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The Revival of Urban Enterprise Zones in New Jersey

WebBy Adam Scavette. Last summer, then acting New Jersey Governor Sheila Oliver signed legislation to devote $42.5 million toward restoring the state’s Urban Enterprise Zones …

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U.S. Census Bureau Classification of Arab Populations

WebInterestingly, 12.7 percent of the state’s Arab population does not identify as White. Income. This analysis relies on household income to distinguish Arab New Jerseyans from White …

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