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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 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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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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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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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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City-Level Measures of Health, Health Determinants, and Equity to

webObjectives. To support efforts to improve urban population health, we created a City Health Dashboard with area-specific data on health status, determinants of …

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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 …

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American Journal of Public Health

webTable of Contents for American Journal of Public Health. April 2024 Injury and Deaths from Shootings by US Police. The April issue of AJPH features a special section on injuries …

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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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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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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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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the United

webObjectives. To better understand racial and ethnic disparities in US maternal mortality. Methods. We analyzed 2016–2017 vital statistics mortality data with cause-of …

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Impact of Political Economy on Population Health: A Systematic …

webBackground. Although there is a large literature examining the relationship between a wide range of political economy exposures and health outcomes, the extent to …

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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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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 …

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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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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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Societal Mental Health Challenges: Advocating for a National …

webWhile there are many reasons for the chronic underinvestment in public mental health interventions, one factor is that behavioral health conditions remain much more …

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Dashboards Are Trendy, Visible Components of Data Management …

webThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted significant deficiencies in the US public health system, 1 especially data-management challenges faced by public health …

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Societal Mental Health Challenges: Advocating for a National …

webSusan D. Cochran PhD, MS, Vickie M. Mays PhD, MSPH Susan D. Cochran is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, …

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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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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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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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Erratum In: “Airborne Lead Exposure and Childhood Cognition: The

webErratum In: “Airborne Lead Exposure and Childhood Cognition: The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort (2003–2022)”, an …

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