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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Article
April 2023 Natasha Pilkauskas,
The goal of this paper is to paint a broad picture of findings related to income support and child health. More
April 2023 Nathaniel Anderson, Neal Halfon, Daniel Eisenberg, Anna Markowitz, Kristin Anderson Moore, Frederick J. Zimmerman,
Monitoring population health is one of the 10 essential services of public health. Accurate information on current and emerging threats to the public’s health forms the basis for high-quality research, practice, and policy. For this reason, critical appraisal of the measures and data systems tracking the nation’s health is a persistent necessity. More
Quarterly Opinion
March 2023 David Rosner,
A recent set of lawsuits against the Monsanto Corporation by local and state governments to get the company to clean up the mess it made of waterways and local schools with polychlorinated hydrocarbons (PCB) pollution has led to efforts by the company to silence scientists who have served as expert witnesses for plaintiffs. More
March 2023 Paul T. von Hippel, David E. Frisvold,
Context: To control childhood obesity, leading medical organizations have recommended increasing the time that children spend in physical education… More
February 2023 Christina Sobin, Marisela Gutiérrez-Vega, Gisel Flores-Montoya, Michelle Del Rio, Juan M. Alvarez, Alexander Obeng, Ganga Hettiarachchi,
Child lead poisoning, the longest-standing child public health epidemic in US history, is associated with socioeconomic inequity and perpetuates health inequality. Current methods for testing and detection are no longer suited to the demographics and magnitude of the problem. More
January 2023 Taryn A. G. Quinlan, Amelia L. Mitchell, Glen P. Mays,
Context: Improving maternal and child health (MCH) care in the United States requires solutions to address care access and the social determinants… More
December 2022 Alexander D. McCourt, Sarah A. White, Sachini Bandara, Theo Schall, Daisy J. Goodman, Esita Patel, Beth McGinty,
Context: Amid increasing drug use among pregnant individuals, legislators have pursued policies intended to reduce substance use during pregnancy.… More
December 2022 Y. Tony Yang, Sherrie Flynt Wallington, Stephanie Morain,
Policy strategies to promote access to—and use of—paternity leave (and leave for non-birth parents more broadly) can therefore promote a healthier and more equitable society. More
February 2022 Jessica L. Webster, David Paul, Jonathan Purtle, Robert Locke, Neal D. Goldstein,
Context: Rates of preterm birth and infant mortality are alarmingly high in the United States. Legislated efforts may directly or indirectly reduce… More
August 2021 Jeff Niederdeppe, Liana B. Winett, Yiwei Xu, Erika Franklin Fowler, Sarah E. Gollust,
Investments in early childhood education can have a long-lasting impact on health and well-being. This study by Jeff Niederdeppe of Cornell University and colleagues compared types of messages to garner public support, including simple advocacy messages, policy narratives (short stories with a setting, characters, and a plot that offers a policy solution to a social problem), and inoculation messages (messages designed to prepare audiences for building resistance to opposing messages). The authors found that narrative messages may be particularly effective in persuading individuals inclined to oppose such policies, while inoculation messages may protect favorable child care policy attitudes. More
