Although marriage decline is universal, African Americans show the steepest decline, which has important health implications.
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Panel discusses planning, policy challenges for increasingly aging populations
by Cecille de Laurentis MPP/MCRP ’20 A panel of experts hosted by the Bloustein School, the Rutgers School of Social Work, and AARP on “Building Healthy Communities for All Ages in New Jersey” addressed the projected increase in population for older age groups...
Burke to discuss challenges to environmental science, policy in today's political climate, Jan. 30
Thomas A. Burke, PhD, MPH, the Jacob I and Irene B. Fabrikant Professor and Chair in Health Risk and Society at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, will present the first Ruth Ellen Steinman Bloustein...
Where stress-busters meet Myth Busters in NJ | Editorial
Still, it surprised the Rutgers team that the counties in the state with the least traffic congestion, the lowest population density and, probably, the smallest overall property tax bills, would most need "Marcus Welby, M.D." actor Robert Young to come back from the...
How stressed are people in New Jersey?
Stress levels among people in New Jersey are not very different from those among people nationally, but residents of South Jersey reported more stress than their northern neighbors in several life categories, a new study has found. Researchers from the Rutgers Center...
Rutgers research finds 1.5 million NJ residents are under excessive stress
About one-fourth of New Jersey adults have said they felt a “great deal” of stress in the past month, according to a New Jersey Health & Well-Being Poll conducted by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. Joel Cantor, director of the Center, said that they...
Feeling stressed in New Jersey? Join the club
A new poll confirms what you might have already figured out on your own — a lot of Garden State residents feel completely stressed out. “Just over a quarter of people say they are very stressed. Another 40 or so percent say they are at least somewhat stressed,” said...
These 3 things are stressing Jersey out the most, poll says
"Stress figures prominently in the lives of a large share of New Jersey residents," said Joel Cantor, director of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. "New Jersey residents having a hard time making ends meet and those experiencing health problems are among...
Real Implications of Affordability — It’s Not Just Political Rhetoric
The policy and political debates swirling around us have real implications for people in New Jersey. Perhaps the most talked about theme in our gubernatorial debates has been affordability — how do we make New Jersey a more affordable place to live? On the national...
South Jersey residents more likely to view neighborhoods poorly, poll shows
About 32.8 percent of residents in the southeastern part of the state said their neighborhoods were in fair or poor condition, twice the percentage of respondents who felt the same way about neighborhoods in other parts of the state. The study was funded by the Robert...
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February Mock Interviewing Clinic – signups through Jan. 30
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Geography Speaker Series: The Map in the Machine: Charting the Spatial Architecture of Digital Capitalism
Tillett Hall 50 Joyce Kilmer Ave, Piscataway, United StatesDigital technologies have changed how we shop, work, play, and communicate, reshaping our societies and economies. To understand digital capitalism, we need to grasp how advances in geospatial technologies underpin […]
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