
Yi Yang 杨熠
@_yi_yang
Research Fellow @unimelb. Epidemiologist with research interest in disability, NDIS, cancer, and health inequities.
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30-11-2017 00:25:58
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For #IDPWD, Hannah Kuper and I write about the urgent need to close the mortality gap for people with disabilities in The Lancet Public Health. Better data on the gap, causes, and proven interventions will help reduce these preventable inequities. thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Our new paper in The Lancet Public Health, led by Yi Yang 杨熠. - Our analysis of 15 million Australians found people with disability have four times higher mortality than people without disability - Biggest contributors to this inequality are cancer and heart disease - which are preventable