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Increasing Vaccination Rates Without Eliminating Nonmedical Exemptions, Hillel Y. Levin, Timothy D. Lytton Jan 2018

Increasing Vaccination Rates Without Eliminating Nonmedical Exemptions, Hillel Y. Levin, Timothy D. Lytton

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This essay on shifting states' incentives to reduce nonmedical exemptions while respecting the choice not to vaccinate, is based on a forthcoming article, A Model Law for Nonmedical Immunization Exemptions Using the Least Restrictive Means, coauthored by Daniel A. Salmon, Stacie Kershner, Timothy D. Lytton, Hillel Y. Levin, Claire Hannan, and Saad B. Omer.


Medicalization Of Rural Poverty: Challenges For Access, Elizabeth Weeks Jan 2018

Medicalization Of Rural Poverty: Challenges For Access, Elizabeth Weeks

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This article was prepared for a live conference, on “The Medicalization of Poverty,” held at the University of Illinois College of Law, and a symposium to be published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. My piece focuses on a constellation of challenges for health care delivery and access to care in rural areas. Discussions regarding health and poverty often seem to focus on the admittedly persistent and multilayered problems of the urban poor: unemployment, substandard and unaffordable housing, violent crime, nutrition and “food desserts,” recreation and safe outdoor spaces, and under-resourced public schools, to name a few. While …


How Dreamland Colored My Summer Vacation And Thinking About The Opioid Epidemic, Elizabeth Leonard Jan 2018

How Dreamland Colored My Summer Vacation And Thinking About The Opioid Epidemic, Elizabeth Leonard

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Book Review of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones,(2018).