For more than two decades, the Prevention Research Center of Michigan has researched ways to create safer, more inviting and accessible neighborhood spaces and improve physical and mental health. Now, with $5 million in renewed funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the center will continue its community-based participatory research projects through at least 2029. The center is housed at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

New research from Raghunath Rao, chair of marketing and Arthur James Douglass Centennial Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business at Texas McCombs, finds that one practice in particular can help draw donors to worthy projects: a significant self-donation early in a campaign.

“We find that self-donations accelerate the pace of donations and increase the donation amounts from other donors, leading to greater fundraising success,” Rao says.

A survey of patients receiving gender affirming care shows that commercial insurance pays for most of their treatments, they receive less care in the South than other parts of the U.S. and they deal with disproportionate levels of housing insecurity and trauma compared to others, according to a new study by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

The study, using data provided by Kythera Labs, a healthcare clearinghouse, examined millions of insurance claims by patients undergoing gender affirming care (GA) and those not. It also looked at social determinants of healthcare (SDOH), non-medical factors which affect a person’s quality of life.

The study was published today in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

It showed that commercial insurance covered 72.8% of GA claims followed by Medicaid at 17.2 %, other insurance at 6.6% and Medicare at 3.5%. GA patients incurred more claims across all insurance and age groups, about 87% more overall.

A new study led by University of Kent psychologists has found that approximately half of Russian adults support the Ukraine war, with backing for the military intervention. Researchers found that Russian support of the Ukraine war serves as a demonstration of loyalty to Vladimir Putin and his government. Yet, this war support does not reflect other potential motivations, such as wanting to dominate Ukraine or Ukrainians, or reacting with aggression to a perceived Ukrainian threat.