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Identifying Disparities in Health Outcomes and Mortality for …

WebThe American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population experiences more severe health risks and disparities as compared with other racial and ethnic groups in …

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The State of Rural Public Health: Enduring Needs in a New Decade

WebThe United States has surpassed 330 million in population, with more than 65 million living in rural jurisdictions. 1 There is a well-described urban–rural divide in the …

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Structural Interventions to Reduce and Eliminate Health Disparities

WebStructural interventions attempt to change the social, physical, economic, or political environments that may shape or constrain health behaviors and outcomes, …

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America’s Declining Well-Being, Health, and Life Expectancy: Not …

WebIt is an axiom in demography and public health that life expectancy increases over time. 1 In nations that are free of war, famine, and disease outbreaks, the increase …

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Social Determinants of Health: Future Directions for Health …

WebA fair amount of research has investigated mid- and downstream social determinants of health (e.g., education, neighborhood condition, risk behaviors, and …

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Revitalizing Public Health Nursing for the Future

WebIn many cases, their stress has reached a breaking point: a CDC survey released in July 2021 found that more than half of people working in public health at the …

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Supporting Health Equity Through Data-Driven Decision-Making: …

WebMCPHD used a data-driven approach to select sites equitably for COVID-19 testing. We matched positive case reports from private and public laboratories to …

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Twenty Years After 9/11: The Public Health Preparedness We Need …

WebSeptember 11, 2021 (9/11) will mark 20 years since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the foiled attempt to hijack Flight 93, and the subsequent …

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Ending Homelessness and Advancing Health Equity: A Public …

WebThus begins the editorial by Shinn and Richard in this issue of AJPH (p. 378), describing, in the absence of necessary resources, which metrics communities can …

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The State of the US Governmental Public Health Workforce, …

WebThe de Beaumont Foundation and ASTHO created PH WINS in response to a broad need expressed by leaders in the field to advance workforce development. 13,20 …

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The Population Health Approach in Historical Perspective

WebThe origin of the population health approach is an historic debate over the relationship between economic growth and human health. In Britain and France, the …

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Reimagining Public Health in the Aftermath of a Pandemic

WebThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for society, affecting those already subject to unacceptable health inequalities and resulting …

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We Must Fix US Health and Public Health Policy

WebThe United States has a health care industry that costs far more money but allows higher rates of preventable hospitalizations and avoidable deaths than most other …

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Income and Income Inequality Are a Matter of Life and Death.

WebFIGURE 1— COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization Rates Among Medicare Beneficiaries: United States, January 1–November 21, 2020 Note. This figure shows …

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The Face of Public Health Nursing: Carol Maureen Easley Allen

WebAllen seeks to rebuild the base of public health nursing, whose decline she connects to the shift in funding away from public health nursing and toward per- sonal care in health …

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Thirty-Six Years After the 1988 IOM Future of Public Health: Stop

WebThe main goals of the Institute of Medicine’s 1988 report The Future of Public Health 1 are laudable and still necessary today. This report recognized that the mission …

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What Is Population Health

WebGiven these considerations, we propose that population health as a concept of health be defined as “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of …

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Healthy Places: Exploring the Evidence AJPH Vol. 93 Issue 9

WebAbstract. Section: “Sense of place” is a widely discussed concept in fields as diverse as geography, environmental psychology, and art, but it has little traction in the field of …

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Preface Advocacy for Public Health Policy Change: An Urgent …

WebChapter 1 is a description of how determinants of public health are values based and political and, therefore, why public policy advocacy is an essential tool for …

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September 11: The Response and Role of Public Health

Web10 | EditorialAmerican Journal of Public Health| January 2002, Vol 92, No. 1. EDITORIAL. September 11: The Response and Role of Public Health. The horrific terrorist attacks on …

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Reducing Medical Waste to Improve Equity in Care

WebThe longstanding problem of medical waste continues to bedevil our nation’s health care system. Although defined narrowly as “inefficient and wasteful spending,” …

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Listening Sessions to Shape the Innovative NIH ComPASS …

WebThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) recognized the need for a research program to address the underlying structural factors that impact health. To inform the …

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Public Health Legal Protections in an Era of Artificial Intelligence

WebJames G. Hodge Jr, Jennifer L. Piatt, and Erica N. White are with the Center for Public Health Law and Policy, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State …

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BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED FROMTHE EPIDEMIC.'

WebTHE ULTIMATE BENEFITS TO BE DERIVED FROMTHE EPIDEMIC.' Louis I. HARRIS, D. P. H., M. D., Department of Health, New York City. OURdiscussion of the epidemic of …

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Biochemical Methods in Nutritional Surveys

WebVol. 35 Biochemical Methods in Nutritional Surveys* OTTOA.BESSEY,PH.D., ANDOLIVERH.LOWRY,PH.D.,M.D. Division of Nutrition and Physiology, The Public …

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