The United States has been in the midst of an opioid epidemic for over two decades. With nearly 50,000 Americans dying each year as a result of opioid overdoses and an estimated annual economic toll of over $500 billion, ...

I set out to examine the relationship between United States sanctions on Iran and humanitarian trade in the form of pharmaceutical imports. To measure this relationship, I used the gravity model of international trade. In ...

The study of the impact of hampering health conditions on political behavior is particularly relevant in light of current debates about the government’s role in ensuring access to healthcare, and the extent to which it ...

Although adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) have been amply studied, most research on the topic focuses on examining contraceptive use and the risk of unintended ...

In 2013, the Texas legislature passed House Bill 2 (H.B. 2), which required all physicians providing abortions to maintain admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles as well as mandating that facilities providing ...

Studies have shown that the expansion of Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income Americans, is associated with improvements in financial wellbeing among new recipients. Building on this literature, I ...

While a significant body of research details the effects of Medicaid Expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (ACA) on patient outcomes and economic impacts, few studies investigate the fringe ...