Discussion Paper

Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media: Phase 2 — Considerations for Non-Accredited Nonprofit Organizations, For-Profit Entities, and Individual Sources

by Madeleine Deye | May 23, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction A recent review suggests that 5.03 billion individuals use the Internet worldwide, with approximately 4.70 billion, or 59% of the global population, using some form of social media (Kemp, 2022). While it is challenging to determine overlap across...

Achieving Oral Health for All through Public Health Approaches, Interprofessional, and Transdisciplinary Education

by Madeleine Deye | Feb 13, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  With the publication of the World Health Assembly’s (2021) Resolution on Oral Health, the World Health Organization’s Global Strategy on Oral Health, and the draft Global Oral Health Action Plan 2023–2030, oral health is now recognized as an integral and...

Health Technology for All: An Equity-Based Paradigm Shift Opportunity

by Madeleine Deye | Dec 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Executive Overview The health of the U.S. population faces a seemingly intractable shortfall in the prospects for large numbers of people, including and especially people of color, long confronting the consequences of structural racism. Yet, rather than focus...

A Global Equity Model (GEM) for the Advancement of Community Health and Health Equity

by Madeleine Deye | Nov 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction The United States has shown that higher health care spending does not guarantee better health outcomes. Despite consistently leading the world in health care spending per capita, U.S. population health outcomes are poor (Papanicolas et al., 2018)....

Accountable Communities for Health: What We Are Learning from Recent Evaluations

by Madeleine Deye | Oct 31, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Background Accountable Communities for Health (ACHs) are multisector, community-based partnerships that bring together health care, public health, social services, other local partners, and residents to address the unmet health and social needs of the...

Meeting the Moment: Addressing Barriers and Facilitating Clinical Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnosis

by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 29, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction Clinical diagnosis is essentially a data curation and analysis activity through which clinicians seek to gather and synthesize enough pieces of information about a patient to determine their condition. The art and science of clinical diagnosis...

The Influenza Imperative: An Urgent Need to Leverage Lessons from COVID-19 to Prepare for a Global Response to Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza

by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and...

Eighth Annual DC Public Health Case Challenge: Addressing Infectious Diseases Using a Population Health Approach: Prevention and Control of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections in Young Adults 18-24

by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 8, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  This discussion paper provides an overview of the eighth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/), a competition held in 2021 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the...

The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 27, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Digital Health in the 21st Century Over the past several decades, the development and accelerated advancement of digital technology has prompted change across virtually all aspects of human endeavor. The positive and negative effects of these changes have been...

Community Power and Health Equity: Closing the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 13, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Introduction The last few decades have seen an upsurge in research linking health outcomes to the “conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age,” commonly referred to as the social determinants of...