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March 2024 Tracy Lam-Hine, Sarah Forthal, Candice Y. Johnson, Helen B. Chin,
Racial inequities in health and well-being began in the United States with colonization and slavery and have persisted as direct consequences of… More
February 2024 Jonathan C. Heller, Marjory L. Givens, Sheri P. Johnson, David A. Kindig,
When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More
February 2024 Paul Kershaw, Verena Rossa-Roccor,
Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More
February 2024 James René Jolin, Minsoo Kwon, Elizabeth Brock, Jonathan Chen, Aisha Kokan, Ryan Murdock, Fatima Cody Stanford,
Health policymakers have insufficiently addressed care for people with obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m2) in the United States. Current… More
February 2024 Laura M. Gottlieb, Danielle Hessler, Holly Wing, Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha, Yuri Cartier, Caroline Fichtenberg,
Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More
January 2024 Ted Cho, Vrushab Gowda, Henning Schulzrinne, Brian J. Miller,
Virtually all modern medical devices now include embedded software, ranging from basic user interfaces and network connectivity to sophisticated… More
January 2024 Timothy W. Levengood, Rena M. Conti, Sean Cahill, Megan B. Cole,
Our scoping review provides a roadmap of the questions being asked about the 340B program and an initial synthesis of the answers. More
January 2024 David A. Kindig, Yasmin Mohd Ariffin, Hannah Olson-Williams,
This study finds that every percent of evangelicals in a county is associated with 4.01 more premature deaths per 100,000 population and 0.13% fair/poor health. More
January 2024 Caleb Dresser, Zachary Johns, Avery Palardy, Sarah McKinnon, Suellen Breakey, Ana M. Viamonte Ros, Patrice K Nicholas,
An exploration of opportunities to move the US health care system toward climate readiness through institutional motivators, efforts to address barriers to action, and broad-based engagement of the health care workforce. More
January 2024 Seth A. Berkowitz,
This article argues that social democracy requires political contestation but has greater potential than multisector collaboration to improve population health and health equity. More
September 2023 Monica Aggarwal, Brian Hutchison, Reham Abdelhalim, G. Ross Baker,
Context: Despite significant investments to transform primary care, Canada lags behind its peers in providing timely access to regular doctors or… More
September 2023 Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Sharon Tafolla, Fabiola M. Perez-Lua,
The tensions among state immigrant policies, local immigration climates, and federal policy changes indicate that state immigrant policies are not implemented equally across state communities, resulting in challenges and limited benefits from policies for many immigrant communities. More
September 2023 Steven H. Woolf, Roy T. Sabo, Derek A. Chapman, Jong Hyung Lee,
Context: Increasing polarization of states reached a high point during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the party affiliation of elected officials often… More
August 2023 Lauren McGivern,
Although it will not fully solve patent barriers to the access of medicines, implementation of compulsory licensing (and specifically those for the import and export of pharmaceutical products) will provide governments with another tool to safeguard their population’s public health. More
August 2023 Peter J. Neumann, Elliott Crummer, James D. Chambers, Sean R. Tunis,
Context: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s accelerated-approval pathway expedites patient access to promising treatments. However,… More
August 2023 Peiyin Hung, Marion Granger, Nansi Boghossian, Jiani Yu, Sayward Harrison, Jihong Liu, Berry A. Campbell, Bo Cai, Chen Liang, Xiaoming Li,
Context: With the increases in nationwide hospital maternity unit closures, there is a greater need for telehealth services for the supervision,… More
August 2023 Justin M. Lopez, Holly Wing, Sara L. Ackerman, Danielle Hessler, Laura M. Gottlieb,
Context: A growing crop of national policies has emerged to encourage health care delivery systems to ask about and try to address patients’ social… More
August 2023 Anne M. Roux, Kaitlin K. Miller, Sha Tao, Jessica E. Rast, Jonas Ventimiglia, Paul T. Shattuck, Lindsay L. Shea,
Context: Employment is a key social determinant of health. As such, high rates of unemployment, underemployment, and poverty across the rapidly… More
July 2023 Chanee D. Fabius, Safiyyah M. Okoye, Mingche M. J. Wu, Andrew D. Jopson, Linda C. Chyr, Julia Burgdorf, Jeromie Ballreich, Danny Scerpella, Jennifer L. Wolff,
A framework and analyses describing the variable relationships between LTSS-relevant environmental factors and person-reported care experiences. More
July 2023 Katelyn Girtain, Sural Shah, Ana C. Monterrey, J. Raul Gutierrez, Mark Kuczewski, Julie M. Linton,
The United States is home to 44.9 million immigrants who contribute unique assets, economic stability, and rich lived experiences to communities… More
July 2023 Stephen Molldrem, Anthony K J Smith, Alexander McClelland,
On October 17th, 2022, the US Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) adopted a nonbinding resolution about domestic molecular HIV… More