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The Impact of Medicare's Alternative Payment Models on the Value of Care Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Joshua M. Liao; Amol S. Navathe; Rachel M. Werner
Over the past decade, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have led the nationwide shift toward value-based payment. A major strategy for achieving this goal has been to implement alternative payment models (APMs) that encourage high-value care by holding providers financially accountable for both the quality and the costs of care. In particular, the CMS has implemented and scaled up
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Medicaid Managed Care's Effects on Costs, Access, and Quality: An Update Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Daniela Franco Montoya; Puneet Kaur Chehal; E. Kathleen Adams
Medicaid is integral to public health because it insures one in five Americans and half of the nation's births. Nearly two-thirds of all Medicaid recipients are currently enrolled in a health maintenance organization (HMO). Proponents of HMOs argue that they can lower costs while maintaining access and quality. We critically reviewed 32 studies on Medicaid managed care (2011–2019). Authors reported
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Disparities in Access to Oral Health Care Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Mary E. Northridge; Anjali Kumar; Raghbir Kaur
In the United States, people are more likely to have poor oral health if they are low-income, uninsured, and/or members of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, or rural populations who have suboptimal access to quality oral health care. As a result, poor oral health serves as the national symbol of social inequality. There is increasing recognition among those in public health that oral diseases such
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Comparative Approaches to Drug Pricing Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 So-Yeon Kang; Ge Bai; Michael J. DiStefano; Mariana P. Socal; Farah Yehia; Gerard F. Anderson
The United States relies primarily on market forces to determine prices for drugs, whereas most other industrialized countries use a variety of approaches to determine drug prices. Branded drug companies have patents and market exclusivity periods in most industrialized countries. During this period, pharmaceutical companies are allowed to set their list price as high as they prefer in the United States
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A Public Health Approach to Global Child Sex Trafficking Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Jordan Greenbaum
Human trafficking and child sex trafficking and sexual exploitation in particular are global public health issues with widespread, lasting impacts on children, families, and communities. Traditionally, human trafficking has been treated as a law enforcement problem with an emphasis on the arrest and prosecution of traffickers. However, use of a public health approach focuses efforts on those impacted
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Strengthening the Public Health Impacts of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Through Policy Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Sara N. Bleich; Alyssa J. Moran; Kelsey A. Vercammen; Johannah M. Frelier; Caroline G. Dunn; Anthony Zhong; Sheila E. Fleischhacker
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the cornerstone of the US nutrition safety net. Each month, SNAP provides assistance to 40 million low-income Americans—nearly half of them children. A number of changes could strengthen the public health impacts of SNAP. This review first presents a framework describing the mechanisms through which SNAP policy
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Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Briony Swire-Thompson; David Lazer
The internet has become a popular resource to learn about health and to investigate one's own health condition. However, given the large amount of inaccurate information online, people can easily become misinformed. Individuals have always obtained information from outside the formal health care system, so how has the internet changed people's engagement with health information? This review explores
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Addressing Health Equity in Public Health Practice: Frameworks, Promising Strategies, and Measurement Considerations Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Leandris C. Liburd; Jeffrey E. Hall; Jonetta J. Mpofu; Sheree Marshall Williams; Karen Bouye; Ana Penman-Aguilar
This review describes the context of health equity and options for integrating equity into public health practice. We first discuss how the conceptualization of health equity and how equity considerations in US public health practice have been shaped by multidisciplinary engagements. We then discuss specific ways to address equity in core public health functions, provide examples of relevant frameworks
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Impacts of Coal Use on Health. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Michael Hendryx,Keith J Zullig,Juhua Luo
This article reviews evidence for the public health impacts of coal across the extraction, processing, use, and waste disposal continuum. Surface coal mining and processing impose public health risks on residential communities through air and water pollution. Burning coal in power plants emits more nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and heavy metals per unit of energy than any other
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Housing and Healthy Child Development: Known and Potential Impacts of Interventions Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 James R. Dunn
Housing is often described as an important determinant of health, but less commonly of child health. Despite acknowledgment of the importance of housing to health, however, there are relatively few studies of the effects of housing interventions on health, and again even fewer on child health. This article argues that a broad focus on healthy child development—as opposed to just physical health—coupled
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Effects of Electronic Cigarettes on Indoor Air Quality and Health. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Liqiao Li,Yan Lin,Tian Xia,Yifang Zhu
With the rapid increase in electronic cigarette (e-cig) users worldwide, secondhand exposure to e-cig aerosols has become a serious public health concern. We summarize the evidence on the effects of e-cigs on indoor air quality, chemical compositions of mainstream and secondhand e-cig aerosols, and associated respiratory and cardiovascular effects. The use of e-cigs in indoor environments leads to
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Deregulation and the Assault on Science and the Environment Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Jonathan M. Samet; Thomas A. Burke
The quality of the environment is a major determinant of the health and well-being of a population. The role of scientific evidence is central in the network of laws addressing environmental pollution in the United States and has been critical in addressing the myriad sources of environmental pollution and the burden of disease attributable to environmental factors. We address the shift away from reasoned
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Autonomous Vehicles and Public Health. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 David Rojas-Rueda,Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen,Haneen Khreis,Howard Frumkin
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have the potential to shape urban life and significantly modify travel behaviors. "Autonomous technology" means technology that can drive a vehicle without active physical control or monitoring by a human operator. The first AV fleets are already in service in US cities. AVs offer a variety of automation, vehicle ownership, and vehicle use options. AVs could increase some
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Adverse Cardiovascular Effects of Traffic Noise with a Focus on Nighttime Noise and the New WHO Noise Guidelines. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Thomas Münzel,Swenja Kröller-Schön,Matthias Oelze,Tommaso Gori,Frank P Schmidt,Sebastian Steven,Omar Hahad,Martin Röösli,Jean-Marc Wunderli,Andreas Daiber,Mette Sørensen
Exposure to traffic noise is associated with stress and sleep disturbances. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently concluded that road traffic noise increases the risk for ischemic heart disease and potentially other cardiometabolic diseases, including stroke, obesity, and diabetes. The WHO report focused on whole-day noise exposure, but new epidemiological and translational field noise studies
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The Health of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants: What We Know and Future Directions Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 India J. Ornelas; Thespina J. Yamanis; Raymond A. Ruiz
Undocumented Latinx immigrants experience unique factors prior to migration, during migration, and after migration that shape their health. Our review summarizes the limited but growing literature highlighting how exposure to trauma, immigration enforcement, changes to social networks, and discrimination negatively affect the mental and physical health of undocumented Latinx immigrants. We also discuss
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Sedentary Behavior and Public Health: Integrating the Evidence and Identifying Potential Solutions. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Neville Owen,Genevieve N Healy,Paddy C Dempsey,Jo Salmon,Anna Timpero,Bronwyn K Clark,Ana D Goode,Harriet Koorts,Nicola D Ridgers,Nyssa T Hadgraft,Gavin Lambert,Elizabeth G Eakin,Bronwyn A Kingwell,David W Dunstan
In developed and developing countries, social, economic, and environmental transitions have led to physical inactivity and large amounts of time spent sitting. Research is now unraveling the adverse public health consequences of too much sitting. We describe improvements in device-based measurement that are providing new insights into sedentary behavior and health. We consider the implications of research
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Resetting Policies to End Family Homelessness. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Ellen L Bassuk,Jacqueline A Hart,Effy Donovan
Homelessness is a devastating experience for children and their families. Families, the majority of whose members are children, now comprise more than one-third of the overall homeless population. Most of these children are less than six years old. Various assumptions have driven policy and the allocation of resources to programs serving these families. Although decades of research and field experience
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Psychosocial Stressors and Telomere Length: A Current Review of the Science Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Kelly E. Rentscher; Judith E. Carroll; Colter Mitchell
A growing literature suggests that exposure to adverse social conditions may accelerate biological aging, offering one mechanism through which adversity may increase risk for age-related disease. As one of the most extensively studied biological markers of aging, telomere length (TL) provides a valuable tool to understand potential influences of social adversity on the aging process. Indeed, a sizeable
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Population-Based Approaches to Mental Health: History, Strategies, and Evidence Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Jonathan Purtle; Katherine L. Nelson; Nathaniel Z. Counts; Michael Yudell
There is growing recognition in the fields of public health and mental health services research that the provision of clinical services to individuals is not a viable approach to meeting the mental health needs of a population. Despite enthusiasm for the notion of population-based approaches to mental health, concrete guidance about what such approaches entail is lacking, and evidence of their effectiveness
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Partnerships, Processes, and Outcomes: A Health Equity-Focused Scoping Meta-Review of Community-Engaged Scholarship. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Kasim Ortiz,Jacob Nash,Logan Shea,John Oetzel,Justin Garoutte,Shannon Sanchez-Youngman,Nina Wallerstein
In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scholarship examining the usefulness of community-engaged research (CEnR) and community-based participatory research (CBPR) for eliminating health inequities. This article seeks to synthesize the extant literature of systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and other related reviews regarding the context, processes, and research designs and interventions
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Mental Health of Refugee Children and Youth: Epidemiology, Interventions, and Future Directions Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Rochelle L. Frounfelker; Diana Miconi; Jordan Farrar; Mohamad Adam Brooks; Cécile Rousseau; Theresa S. Betancourt
The number of refugee youth worldwide receives international attention and is a top priority in both academic and political agendas. This article adopts a critical eye in summarizing current epidemiological knowledge of refugee youth mental health as well as interventions aimed to prevent or reduce mental health problems among children and adolescents in both high- and low-to-middle-income countries
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External Societal Costs of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans Attributable to Antimicrobial Use in Livestock. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-01-07 Gabriel K Innes,Pranay R Randad,Anton Korinek,Meghan F Davis,Lance B Price,Anthony D So,Christopher D Heaney
Antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal agriculture contributes to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in humans, which imposes significant health and economic costs on society. Economists call these costs negative externalities, societal costs that are not properly reflected in market prices. We review the relevant literature and develop a model to quantify the external costs of AMU in animal agriculture on
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Built Environment, Physical Activity, and Obesity: Findings from the International Physical Activity and Environment Network (IPEN) Adult Study. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 James F Sallis,Ester Cerin,Jacqueline Kerr,Marc A Adams,Takemi Sugiyama,Lars B Christiansen,Jasper Schipperijn,Rachel Davey,Deborah Salvo,Lawrence D Frank,Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij,Neville Owen
Creating more physical activity–supportive built environments is recommended by the World Health Organization for controlling noncommunicable diseases. The IPEN (International Physical Activity and Environment Network) Adult Study was undertaken to provide international evidence on associations of built environments with physical activity and weight status in 12 countries on 5 continents (n > 14,000)
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Social Media– and Internet-Based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Allison E. Aiello; Audrey Renson; Paul N. Zivich
Disease surveillance systems are a cornerstone of public health tracking and prevention. This review addresses the use, promise, perils, and ethics of social media– and Internet-based data collection for public health surveillance. Our review highlights untapped opportunities for integrating digital surveillance in public health and current applications that could be improved through better integration
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Sleep Health: An Opportunity for Public Health to Address Health Equity Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Lauren Hale; Wendy Troxel; Daniel J. Buysse
The concept of sleep health provides a positive holistic framing of multiple sleep characteristics, including sleep duration, continuity, timing, alertness, and satisfaction. Sleep health promotion is an underrecognized public health opportunity with implications for a wide range of critical health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, mental health, and neurodegenerative disease. Using
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Sick Individuals and Sick (Microbial) Populations: Challenges in Epidemiology and the Microbiome. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Audrey Renson,Pamela Herd,Jennifer B Dowd
The human microbiome represents a new frontier in understanding the biology of human health. While epidemiology in this area is still in its infancy, its scope will likely expand dramatically over the coming years. To rise to the challenge, we argue that epidemiology should capitalize on its population perspective as a critical complement to molecular microbiome research, allowing for the illumination
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Measures of Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Gender Binarism for Health Equity Research: From Structural Injustice to Embodied Harm-an Ecosocial Analysis. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Nancy Krieger
Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege that structure the embodiment of health inequities. Guided by the ecosocial theory of disease distribution, I synthesize key features of the specified "isms" and provide a measurement schema, informed by research from both the Global
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Machine Learning in Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Timothy L Wiemken,Robert R Kelley
Machine learning approaches to modeling of epidemiologic data are becoming increasingly more prevalent in the literature. These methods have the potential to improve our understanding of health and opportunities for intervention, far beyond our past capabilities. This article provides a walkthrough for creating supervised machine learning models with current examples from the literature. From identifying
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Essential Ingredients and Innovations in the Design and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 David M. Murray; Monica Taljaard; Elizabeth L. Turner; Stephanie M. George
This article reviews the essential ingredients and innovations in the design and analysis of group-randomized trials. The methods literature for these trials has grown steadily since they were introduced to the biomedical research community in the late 1970s, and we summarize those developments. We review, in addition to the group-randomized trial, methods for two closely related designs, the individually
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Introduction: Fake News, Science, and the Growing Multiplicity and Duplicity of Information Sources. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Lawrence W Green,Ross C Brownson,Jonathan E Fielding
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Introduction: ARPH Approach to Controversial Issues. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Jonathan E Fielding,Ross C Brownson,Lawrence W Green
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Introduction: How Is the Growing Concern for Relevance and Implementation of Evidence-Based Interventions Shaping the Public Health Research Agenda? Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2017-03-20 Lawrence W Green,Ross C Brownson,Jonathan E Fielding
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Introduction. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2016-07-22 Lawrence W Green,Ross C Brownson,Jonathan E Fielding
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Introduction to the Symposium: Causal Inference and Public Health. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Allison E Aiello,Lawrence W Green
Assessing the extent to which public health research findings can be causally interpreted continues to be a critical endeavor. In this symposium, we invited several researchers to review issues related to causal inference in social epidemiology and environmental science and to discuss the importance of external validity in public health. Together, this set of articles provides an integral overview
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Ambient Air Pollution, Noise, and Late-Life Cognitive Decline and Dementia Risk. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Kimberly C Paul,Mary Haan,Elizabeth Rose Mayeda,Beate R Ritz
Exposure to ambient air pollution and noise is ubiquitous globally. A strong body of evidence links air pollution, and recently noise, to cardiovascular conditions that eventually may also affect cognition in the elderly. Data that support a broader influence of these exposures on cognitive function during aging is just starting to emerge. This review summarizes current findings and discusses methodological
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Hazardous Air Pollutants Associated with Upstream Oil and Natural Gas Development: A Critical Synthesis of Current Peer-Reviewed Literature. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-04-01 Diane A Garcia-Gonzales,Seth B C Shonkoff,Jake Hays,Michael Jerrett
Increased energy demands and innovations in upstream oil and natural gas (ONG) extraction technologies have enabled the United States to become one of the world's leading producers of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lists 187 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects. Several of these
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Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-02-02 David R Williams,Jourdyn A Lawrence,Brigette A Davis
In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in part by the striking persistence of racial/ethnic inequities in health and the empirical evidence that indicates that socioeconomic factors alone do not account for racial/ethnic inequities in health. Racism is considered
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Making Health Research Matter: A Call to Increase Attention to External Validity. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-21 Amy G Huebschmann,Ian M Leavitt,Russell E Glasgow
Most of the clinical research conducted with the goal of improving health is not generalizable to nonresearch settings. In addition, scientists often fail to replicate each other's findings due, in part, to lack of attention to contextual factors accounting for their relative effectiveness or failure. To address these problems, we review the literature on assessment of external validity and summarize
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Causes and Patterns of Dementia: An Update in the Era of Redefining Alzheimer's Disease. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-14 Bryan D James,David A Bennett
The burden of dementia continues to increase as the population ages, with no disease-modifying treatments available. However, dementia risk appears to be decreasing, and progress has been made in understanding its multifactorial etiology. The 2018 National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association (NIA-AA) research framework for Alzheimer's disease (AD) defines AD as a biological process measured
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Causal Modeling in Environmental Health. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Marie-Abèle Bind
The field of environmental health has been dominated by modeling associations, especially by regressing an observed outcome on a linear or nonlinear function of observed covariates. Readers interested in advances in policies for improving environmental health are, however, expecting to be informed about health effects resulting from, or more explicitly caused by, environmental exposures. The quantification
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Earth Observation: Investigating Noncommunicable Diseases from Space. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Peng Jia,Alfred Stein,Peter James,Ross C Brownson,Tong Wu,Qian Xiao,Limin Wang,Clive E Sabel,Youfa Wang
The United Nations has called on all nations to take immediate actions to fight noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which have become an increasingly significant burden to public health systems around the world. NCDs tend to be more common in developed countries but are also becoming of growing concern in low- and middle-income countries. Earth observation (EO) technologies have been used in many infectious
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Television News Coverage of Public Health Issues and Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Sarah E Gollust,Erika Franklin Fowler,Jeff Niederdeppe
Television (TV) news, and especially local TV news, remains an important vehicle through which Americans obtain information about health-related topics. In this review, we synthesize theory and evidence on four main functions of TV news in shaping public health policy and practice: reporting events and information to the public (surveillance); providing the context for and meaning surrounding health
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Brain and Salivary Gland Tumors and Mobile Phone Use: Evaluating the Evidence from Various Epidemiological Study Designs. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Martin Röösli,Susanna Lagorio,Minouk J Schoemaker,Joachim Schüz,Maria Feychting
Mobile phones (MPs) are the most relevant source of radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) exposure to the brain and the salivary gland. Whether this exposure implies a cancer risk has been addressed in several case-control and few cohort studies. A meta-analysis of these studies does not show increased risks for meningioma, pituitary, and salivary gland tumors. For glioma and acoustic neuroma
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Environmental Exposures and Depression: Biological Mechanisms and Epidemiological Evidence. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Matilda van den Bosch,Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Mental health and well-being are consistently influenced-directly or indirectly-by multiple environmental exposures. In this review, we have attempted to address some of the most common exposures of the biophysical environment, with a goal of demonstrating how those factors interact with central structures and functions of the brain and thus influence the neurobiology of depression. We emphasize biochemical
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Global Environmental Change and Noncommunicable Disease Risks. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Howard Frumkin,Andy Haines
Multiple global environmental changes (GECs) now under way, including climate change, biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, tropical deforestation, overexploitation of fisheries, ocean acidification, and soil degradation, have substantial, but still imperfectly understood, implications for human health. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) make a major contribution to the global burden of disease. Many
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Realist Synthesis for Public Health: Building an Ontologically Deep Understanding of How Programs Work, For Whom, and In Which Contexts. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Justin Jagosh
Realist synthesis is a literature review methodology for understanding how, for whom, and under what circumstances complex interventions function in complex environments. Using a heuristic called the context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configuration, realist synthesis produces evidence-informed theories about the interactions between intervention mechanisms and their implementation contexts. Public health
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Innovations in Mixed Methods Evaluations. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-11 Lawrence A Palinkas,Sapna J Mendon,Alison B Hamilton
Mixed methods research-i.e., research that draws on both qualitative and quantitative methods in varying configurations-is well suited to address the increasing complexity of public health problems and their solutions. This review focuses specifically on innovations in mixed methods evaluations of intervention, program or policy (i.e., practice) effectiveness, and implementation. The article begins
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Commentary: Causal Inference for Social Exposures. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Jay S Kaufman
Social epidemiology seeks to describe and quantify the causal effects of social institutions, interactions, and structures on human health. To accomplish this task, we define exposures as treatments and posit populations exposed or unexposed to these well-defined regimens. This inferential structure allows us to unambiguously estimate and interpret quantitative causal parameters and to investigate
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Interventions to Support Behavioral Self-Management of Chronic Diseases. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 John P Allegrante,Martin T Wells,Janey C Peterson
A majority of the US adult population has one or more chronic conditions that require medical intervention and long-term self-management. Such conditions are among the 10 leading causes of mortality; an estimated 86% of the nation's $2.7 trillion in annual health care expenditures goes toward their treatment and management. Patient self-management of chronic diseases is increasingly essential to improve
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Policies of Exclusion: Implications for the Health of Immigrants and Their Children. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Krista M Perreira,Juan M Pedroza
Public policies play a crucial role in shaping how immigrants adapt to life in the United States. Federal, state, and local laws and administrative practices impact immigrants' access to education, health insurance and medical care, cash assistance, food assistance, and other vital services. Additionally, immigration enforcement activities have substantial effects on immigrants' health and participation
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The Use of Excise Taxes to Reduce Tobacco, Alcohol, and Sugary Beverage Consumption. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Frank J Chaloupka,Lisa M Powell,Kenneth E Warner
In countries around the world, tobacco use, excessive alcohol consumption, and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are significant contributors to the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases. As a consequence, they contribute, as well, to excess health care costs and productivity losses. A large and growing body of research documents that taxes specific to such products, known as excise
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Health Impact Assessment of Transportation Projects and Policies: Living Up to Aims of Advancing Population Health and Health Equity? Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Brian L Cole,Kara E MacLeod,Raenita Spriggs
Health impact assessment (HIA) is a forward-looking, evidence-based tool used to inform stakeholders and policy makers about the potential health effects of proposed projects and policies and to identify options for maximizing potential health benefits and minimizing potential harm. This review examines how health equity, a core principle of health impact assessment (HIA), has been operationalized
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Happiness and Health. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Andrew Steptoe
Research into the relationship between happiness and health is developing rapidly, exploring the possibility that impaired happiness is not only a consequence of ill-health but also a potential contributor to disease risk. Happiness encompasses several constructs, including affective well-being (feelings of joy and pleasure), eudaimonic well-being (sense of meaning and purpose in life), and evaluative
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The Economic Case for the Prevention of Mental Illness. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 David McDaid,A-La Park,Kristian Wahlbeck
Poor mental health has profound economic consequences. Given the burden of poor mental health, the economic case for preventing mental illness and promoting better mental health may be very strong, but too often prevention attracts little attention and few resources. This article describes the potential role that can be played by economic evidence alongside experimental trials and observational studies
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The Next Generation of Diabetes Translation: A Path to Health Equity. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Debra Haire-Joshu,Felicia Hill-Briggs
Disparities in diabetes burden exist in large part because of the social determinants of health (SDOH). Translation research and practice addressing health equity in diabetes have generally focused on changing individual behavior or providing supportive approaches to compensate for, rather than directly target, SDOH. The purpose of this article is to propose a pathway for addressing SDOH as root causes
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Solving Homelessness from a Complex Systems Perspective: Insights for Prevention Responses. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Patrick J Fowler,Peter S Hovmand,Katherine E Marcal,Sanmay Das
Homelessness represents an enduring public health threat facing communities across the developed world. Children, families, and marginalized adults face life course implications of housing insecurity, while communities struggle to address the extensive array of needs within heterogeneous homeless populations. Trends in homelessness remain stubbornly high despite policy initiatives to end homelessness
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School Health as a Strategy to Improve Both Public Health and Education. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2018-12-19 Lloyd J Kolbe
Because schools materially influence both health and education, they substantially determine the future well-being and economic productivity of populations. Recent research suggests that healthier children learn better and that more educated adults are healthier. School health is a cross-disciplinary field of study and a fundamental strategy that can be used to improve both health and education outcomes
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The Digitization of Patient Care: A Review of the Effects of Electronic Health Records on Health Care Quality and Utilization. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2018-12-19 Hilal Atasoy,Brad N Greenwood,Jeffrey Scott McCullough
Electronic health records (EHRs) adoption has become nearly universal during the past decade. Academic research into the effects of EHRs has examined factors influencing adoption, clinical care benefits, financial and cost implications, and more. We provide an interdisciplinary overview and synthesis of this literature, drawing on work in public and population health, informatics, medicine, management
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Aligning Programs and Policies to Support Food Security and Public Health Goals in the United States. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2018-11-16 Hilary K Seligman,Seth A Berkowitz
Food insecurity affects 1 in 8 US households and has clear implications for population health disparities. We present a person-centered, multilevel framework for understanding how individuals living in food-insecure households cope with inadequate access to food themselves and within their households, communities, and broader food system. Many of these coping strategies can have an adverse impact on
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High-Deductible Health Plans and Prevention. Annu. Rev. Public Health (IF 16.463) Pub Date : 2018-11-07 Olena Mazurenko,Melinda J B Buntin,Nir Menachemi
High-deductible health plans (HDHPs) are becoming more popular owing to their potential to curb rising health care costs. Relative to traditional health insurance plans, HDHPs involve higher out-of-pocket costs for consumers, which have been associated with lower utilization of health services. We focus specifically on the impact that HDHPs have on the use of preventive services. We critique the current
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