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Social determinants
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Fitter 46-year-olds cost the Finnish health system 11% less a year, and grip strength mattered too
Fitness studies usually stop at disease risk. Researchers linked step-test and grip-strength results for 4,468 Finns to six years of national spending records, then used genetics to test whether the link was causal.
Aug 30, 2026
London's clean air zone restored children's lung growth, and four years later the deficit was gone
A Lancet Public Health natural experiment tracked 3,209 children in London and Luton for five years. London children started with smaller lungs, grew them 10 mL a year faster after the ULEZ, and finished level with the comparison town.
Aug 28, 2026
A phone app lifted tuberculosis cure rates from 74% to 82% in a randomized trial
Tuberculosis treatment runs for months and people stop taking it. A BMJ trial of 525 patients in a low-resource setting found an interactive digital adherence tool raised treatment success by 7 percentage points and cut dropout by a third.
Aug 28, 2026
Social prescribing navigators beat a referral line, 50% to 36%, in 326 Ontario patients
326 primary care patients in Ontario were randomized to a navigator who stayed with them or to a referral line. 50.3% reached a needed resource against 35.8%. What nobody measured was whether their health changed.
Aug 18, 2026