Publications by authors named "J H S Healy"
Background: Pregnancy related hypertension is a leading cause of preventable maternal morbidity and mortality in the US, with consistently higher rates affecting racial minorities. Many complications are preventable with timely treatment, in alignment with the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health's Patient Safety Bundle ("Bundle"). The Bundle has been implemented successfully in inpatient settings, but 30% of preeclampsia-related morbidity occurs in outpatient settings in North Carolina.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe extent and robustness of the interaction between exposures to heat and ambient PM is unclear and little is known of the interaction between exposures to cold and ambient PM. Clarifying these interactions, if any, is crucial due to the omnipresence of PM in the atmosphere and increasing scope and frequency of extreme temperature events. To investigate both of these interactions, we merged 6 073 575 individual-level mortality records from thirteen states spanning seventeen years with 1 km daily PM predictions from sophisticated prediction model and 1 km meteorology from Daymet V4.
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- - The study analyzed autopsy reports from New South Wales to investigate trends in sudden unexpected cardiovascular (CV) deaths from 2018 to 2022, with a specific focus on how these trends changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- - Findings showed a significant increase in CV deaths over these years, with the percentage of CV deaths rising from 18.3% in 2018 to 23.4% in 2022, and a notable rise in sudden arrhythmic death syndrome cases especially in 2021 and 2022.
- - The majority of CV deaths were among males, with younger individuals (average age 42.8) more affected by sudden arrhythmic death syndrome compared to
Reducing biases in the criminal legal system: A perspective from expected utility.
Law Hum Behav
September 2024
Objective: Racial biases exist in almost every aspect of the criminal legal system, resulting in disparities across all stages of legal procedures-before, during, and after a legal procedure. Building on expected utility theory, we propose an expected utility framework to organize and quantify racial disparities in legal procedures.
Hypotheses: Corresponding to the parameteres involved in estimating expected utility, we hypothesized that racial biases would occur at different stages of legal procedures.