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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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Aligning US Spending Priorities Using the Health Impact Pyramid …

WEBThere is a systematic misalignment in public sector spending in the United States, with health care spending vastly outstripping social services and public health …

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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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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 health, and equity …

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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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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 …

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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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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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What Is Population Health

WEBWe propose that the defini- tion be “the health outcomes of a group of individuals, in- cluding the distribution of such outcomes within the group,” and we argue that the field of …

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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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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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Introduction The Picture of Health

WEBThe Picture of Health creates a path for readers, students in particular, into the study of public health. The pictures we present aim to explain to the reader four …

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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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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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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 …

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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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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 …

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Health Worker Mental Health: Addressing the Current Crisis and …

WEBHealth Care System Changes and Reported Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Registered Nurses. Our survey data from more than 1000 nurses indicate that …

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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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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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