Episode 14: The Public Health Report with Laura Sheckter

The Public Health Report

Welcome to the Public Health Report. In this week's episode our host Laura Sheckter reports on three papers and some breaking news.

Topic 1- Rising income inequality's relationship with declining health

Hui Zheng, Yoonyoung Choi, Jonathan Dirlam, Linda George. Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans’ health. Social Science & Medicine, 2022; 115016 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115016

Topic 2- Physiological effects of student debt

Adam M. Lippert, Jason N. Houle, Katrina M. Walsemann. Student Debt and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among U.S. Adults in Early Mid-Life. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2022; DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2022.02.002

Topic 3- One large effect of the U.S. ban of menthol cigarettes

Geoffrey T Fong, Janet Chung-Hall, Gang Meng, Lorraine V Craig, Mary E Thompson, Anne C K Quah, K Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland, Richard J O'Connor, David T Levy, Cristine D Delnevo, Ollie Ganz, Thomas Eissenberg, Eric K Soule, Robert Schwartz, Joanna E Cohen, Michael O Chaiton. Impact of Canada’s menthol cigarette ban on quitting among menthol smokers: pooled analysis of pre–post evaluation from the ITC Project and the Ontario Menthol Ban Study and projections of impact in the USA. Tobacco Control, 2022; tobaccocontrol-2021-057227 DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057227

Topic 4- Highway messaging may be causing more harm than good

Jonathan D. Hall, Joshua M. Madsen. Can behavioral interventions be too salient? Evidence from traffic safety messages. Science, 2022; 376 (6591) DOI: 10.1126/science.abm3427

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