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Smoking, growing private hospital care for poor and US flu vaccine policies

Bans on smoking at home may have greater influence on health status than those at work, according to a study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Urban Health, a New York Academy of Medicine publication. Other JUH studies report on how a community's ethnic diversity can influence a woman's decision to smoke during pregnancy, how private hospitals have surpassed public hospitals in caring for Medicaid patients, and the effect of 2004-2005 influenza vaccine shortage on minority groups.

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