Jan L Losby

Biographic Data

ID5542646
NAMEJan L Losby
GIVEN NAMESJan L
FAMILY NAMELosby
SIGNATURELOSBY J L
AFFILIATIONSStanford University, Stanford, CA
ORCID0000-0001-6875-0746
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX0

  • The Association Between Local Economic Conditions and Opioid Prescriptions Among Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries

    Chao Zhou, Ning Neil Yu et al.ARTICLEMedical Care2018References: 27

    BACKGROUND: This paper concerns public health crises today-the problem of opioid prescription access and related abuse. Inspired by Case and Deaton's seminal work on increasing mortality among white Americans with lower education, this paper explores the relationship between opioid prescribing and local economic factors. OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between county-level socioeconomic factors (median household income, unemployment rate, …

  • Vital Signs

    Open AccessGery P Guy, Kun Zhang et al.ARTICLEMMWR. Surveillance Summaries2017

    BACKGROUND: Prescription opioid-related overdose deaths increased sharply during 1999-2010 in the United States in parallel with increased opioid prescribing. CDC assessed changes in national-level and county-level opioid prescribing during 2006-2015. METHODS: CDC analyzed retail prescription data from QuintilesIMS to assess opioid prescribing in the United States from 2006 to 2015, including rates, amounts, dosages, and durations prescribed. CDC…