The use of machine learning (ML) in healthcare raises numerous ethical concerns,
especially as models can amplify existing health inequities. Here, we outline ethical …

Importance It is not yet known how many children and adolescents die each year from opioid
poisonings and how mortality rates have changed over time. Objective To examine national …

All-cause mortality rates in rural areas have exceeded those in urban areas of the US since
the 1980s, and the gap continues to widen. Yet no definitive causes of this difference are …

Background: The exposome serves as a popular framework in which to study exposures
from chemical and nonchemical stressors across the life course and the differing roles that …

Small area and subnational population projections are important for understanding long-
term demographic changes. I provide county-level population projections by age, sex, and …

Objective To evaluate the association between racial residential segregation, a prominent
manifestation of systemic racism, and the White-Black survival gap in a contemporary cohort …

Background With the emergence of illicit fentanyl, fentanyl-involved overdose rates
increased from 2013 to 2017 in the United States (US). We describe US trends in opioid …

Introduction Understanding the geographic patterns of suicide can help inform targeted
prevention efforts. Although state-level variation in age-adjusted suicide rates has been well …

Objectives. To quantify racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between state-level
sexism and barriers to health care access among non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black …

Objective: We sought to determine whether state firearm legislation correlated with firearm-
related fatality rates (FFR) during a 15-year period. Background: The politicized and …