Opinion: How proposed changes to U.S. census could harm public health - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Proposed changes to the U. S. census will selectively reduce the number of people counted—and where they’re counted—resulting in skewed data that will prevent true understanding of U. S. morbidity and mortality rates, and could result in far-ranging harms to public health, according to Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health’s Nancy Krieger.
Krieger, professor of social epidemiology, wrote about the potential fallout of the proposed changes in an Oct. 9 STAT News opinion piece.
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