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US State Restrictions and Excess COVID-19 Pandemic …

A, Percentage of individuals subject to 7 activity restrictions and required to wear a mask outside the home. B, Daily percentage of adults stating they always wear a mask when …

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The Quintuple Aim for Health Care Improvement

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought long-overdue and much-needed attention to the lack of health equity in the US and around the world. Nearly everywhere, socially marginalized …

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Public Opinion on Public Health During the Pandemic

Beyond trust, when given a list of issues broadly identified by public health experts as being within the domain of public health agencies, Democrats have a more expansive view of the role of …

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Screening for Social Determinants of Health During …

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have mandated inpatient screening of selected social determinants of health (SDOH) needs starting in 2024. 1 However, wide scale screening …

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Climate Change and Health—A New JAMA Series

This issue includes a JAMA Insights article titled “Introduction to JAMA Climate Change and Health Series” that discusses how climate change has been linked to changes in the …

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Factors Associated With Overuse of Health Care Within …

Removed outlier with beta coefficient = −3.4. The beta coefficients generated as each health system’s fixed effects represent composite low-value care use by that health system relative to …

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Physical Activity, Fitness, and Cardiovascular Health

When addressing patients’ health behaviors, it can be helpful to emphasize behavior changes that offer the greatest health benefit. On the basis of prior epidemiologic studies, smoking is often …

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Widening Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in the US, 2010 …

As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened …

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Risk of New Retinal Vascular Occlusion After mRNA …

Key Points. Question How often are patients diagnosed with new-onset retinal vascular occlusion (RVO) after messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccination compared with 2 historically used …

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Quantification of Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of …

Key Points. Question How do social determinants of health vary across multiple dimensions and geographic space?. Findings In this cross-sectional study of 71 901 census tracts with …

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Crucial Questions for US Health Policy in the Next Decade

With the inauguration of President Biden and a shift in control of the US Senate from Republicans to Democrats, the landscape for health policy has changed substantially in 2021. Just as the …

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Comparative Risks of Potential Adverse Events Following COVID …

Supplement 1. eTable 1. ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes Used to Define the Serious Adverse Event Outcomes in This Study. eTable 2. Participant Loss to Follow-up in the 28 Days Following the …

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Public Health Interventions and Overdose-Related

Key Points. Question What is the projected association between opioid overdose-related outcomes among US persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) and public health interventions …

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Air Pollution and Health—New Advances for an Old Public Health …

The link between air pollution exposure and increased mortality and morbidity is firmly supported by a broad evidence base. The 2015 Global Burden of Diseases Study, a 195-country …

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Digital Health—The Need to Assess Benefits, Risks, and Value

This Viewpoint reviews the regulatory, ethical, and security issues attending the explosive growth in digital health technologies (apps, devices, and systems) and proposes a framework for …

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Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Federal Programs

Although high-quality, affordable health care is essential to addressing medical conditions when they arise, the strongest predictor of health outcomes in the US is not medical care but rather …

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Changes in US Hospital Financial Performance During the COVID …

Key Points. Question How did the financial position of hospitals change during the COVID-19 public health emergency?. Findings In this national cohort study of 4423 hospitals, 3337 (75%) …

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Health Care in the United States: A Right or a Privilege

The United States is about to embark on a great challenge: how to modify the current system of providing health care coverage for its citizens. However, the fundamental underlying question …

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The Pillars of Health Disparities Science

Race and ethnicity, conceptualized together herein as an identity social construct, is the first pillar of health disparities science. Racial and ethnic categorizations, based on phenotype, are …

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The Future of Behavioral Health—Harnessing the Potential of …

The toll of mental illness in the US is substantial: 1 in 5 adults live with a mental illness. As the population ages, greater numbers of individuals will need care for the comorbidities associated …

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Performance Measures and Visits at Federally Qualified Health …

Key Points. Question How did quality measures and visit volumes change at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in 2020 to 2021 compared with before the COVID-19 pandemic?. …

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Health Equity in the VHA From Veterans’ Perspectives by Race and …

Importance Advancing equitable patient-centered care in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) requires understanding the differential experiences of unique patient groups.. Objective …

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