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Are Michigan doctors ignoring the state's "biggest public …

WebDr. Vincent Felitti, father of the seminal Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study that has informed so much of State of Opportunity’s reporting and recently …

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Infant mortality, part 1: A personal tragedy, and a plan for …

WebThe study opens up the possibility to save a lot of infants around the state, and save a lot of money. Dr. Hassan estimates that if health providers screened 100,000 …

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Abandoned homes affect your health. But here's what can …

WebIf you know and trust and help your neighbors, if you feel a sense of community and share common values with your neighbors, there's a term for that. It's …

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Poor kids are treated differently in emergency rooms, study says

WebThis is not the first study to find gaps in access to medical treatment for kids with public insurance. A 2011 study in The New England Journal of Medicine found kids …

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Day care policies: Here's the one that's sending parents to …

WebWhile the department can't tell any of the more than 10,000 child care providers in Michigan what to put in their exclusions policies, he says all providers are …

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Childhood trauma leads to significant health problems …

Web“If this happens once in a very long time, then that makes a lot of sense. It’s life saving and it’s this big activation in your system,” says Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a …

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Suffering in silence: The stigma surrounding mental illness …

WebShame, lack of trust, and socioeconomic status remain barriers in mental health. Some reasons that prevent African-Americans from seeking treatment and …

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New documentary on growing up in poverty and pollution

WebReports about pollution and environmental degradation can easily seem like something that happens somewhere else.. And when the impact isn't visible on the surface, the health effects can go unchecked and be devastating for children.

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From health to happiness, how neighbors impact our lives

WebJeffrey Morenoff is the director of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. He’s been studying how neighborhoods affect us. Morenoff joined …

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Living in a violent neighborhood can give you PTSD, …

WebLiving in an environment of poverty and violence can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in African-American women with depressive symptoms, …

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Three reasons why disparities exist in infant mortality rates

WebThere's a growing consensus among health care professionals and educators that deeper societal issues are to blame for disparate infant mortality rates. Just take a …

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Where you grow up can have a big impact on your future.

WebThe New York Times' The Upshot has a handy rundown of the current research out of Harvard on why neighborhoods matter. The takeaway: The earlier a child …

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"People always say this is the life that we chose. I didn't choose this."

WebBetween living in one of the poorest cities in the country, and being transgender, it’s been extraordinarily difficult for both of them to find steady work. …

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How a 19-year-old, street-level drug dealer got locked up for life.

WebEugene Atkins was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for selling heroin that led to a young man's death. This is the second part in our documentary, The Hidden …

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Why are many black and Hispanic kids uninsured when they don't …

WebHealth care is expensive. Even with insurance, I've paid $25 co-pays to my kids' doctor only to have them out in 10 minutes and diagnosed with "a fever."

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It's important to believe hard work matters more than intelligence

WebIn this study, people were given one of two messages – the first, that hard work could change intelligence. The gist of the second message was that intelligence is, …

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Ten resources for low income families in Michigan

WebThe Michigan Alliance for Families provides information, support, and education to families of children and young adults with disabilities from birth to age 26. …

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How does your neighborhood shape you

WebAccording to the study: Four neighborhood factors—social cohesion, social control, spatial mismatch, and environmental hazards—have the strongest effect on …

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