The major drivers of liver cancer are largely preventable – yet public awareness of the disease remains low.
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The life expectancy gap is due largely to preventable health issues, not suicide.
Public health calls many deaths ‘preventable,’ but that term can mask how policy, access and geography shape who gets care – and who doesn’t.
ICE detention facilities suffer from outdated systems, a lack of translation services – and a penchant for releasing ailing detainees to reduce the death count.
New research shows that preventable deaths are increasing in the US at the same time that life expectancy keeps dropping.
Many of the preventable pregnancy-related deaths documented by the CDC are directly attributable to failures and barriers in the maternal care system.
Australians are entering our most dangerous time of year for fatal drownings. So what can you do to keep yourself and loved ones safer this summer?
Twenty years after a landmark report on preventable deaths and injuries in hospitals, is the medical profession doing better?
Some experts believe that e-cigarettes can help people stop smoking cigarettes. But do they lead others, especially teens, to start? The question intensifies as teens take up Juul.
Our new study has found that people who suffer from severe mental illness are at a much higher risk of dying from preventable diseases and conditions.
We tend to consider the deaths of older people, and especially those in care, are due to natural causes. But new research shows how many die from injuries and violence.
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Clinical Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry, Swansea University
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University Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
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Professor, Aged Care Medical Research Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Physician and Clinical Fellow in Health Policy and Social Emergency Medicine, Harvard Kennedy School
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NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW
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Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Senior Lecturer of History, Auburn University
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Professor, Mental Health Leadership, Charles Sturt University
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PhD Candidate in Mental Health Communication, Charles Sturt University
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Research Policy Officer in Mental Health, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Clinical Lecturer & Consultant Hepatologist, Group Leader Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London