Health Disparities
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 21, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction When Social Determinants of Health 101 for Health Care: Five Plus Five [1] (SDoH 101) was published in 2017, the social determinants of health (SDoH) were emerging as an important topic in health care. Since that time, our nation has experienced the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 7, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction and Sector Overview Health systems in the U.S. are constituted by a number of different care delivery units and a diverse workforce of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 7, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction Gains in life expectancy and quality of life over the course of American history can be attributed to forward-looking investments in public...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is the largest public health surveillance system in the United States dedicated to monitoring a broad range of health-related behaviors among...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 27, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction Two fundamental mysteries characterize the health care sector’s embrace of the concept of population health [1]. Mystery A is why health care systems cannot control the extraordinary concentration of cost among the sickest 1–10 percent of patients....
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 27, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
When my brother told me he had been diagnosed with COVID-19, I was scared. My memory immediately jumped to visions of his childhood struggles with asthma, which he described as having an ever-tightening chain around his chest. I thought of intubated COVID-19...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 6, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction Training the future dental workforce in understanding the impacts of the social determinants of health (SDOH) can begin to prepare oral health specialists to identify and address health disparities and to promote overall health equity. Oral health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 23, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
This year, the U.S. Census Bureau is attempting to count every person living in the United States. The government has conducted such a census every 10 years since 1790, as required by the Constitution. [1] Census numbers determine how many representatives each...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 9, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
“Patients will sometimes come to the doctor’s office looking for me. I’m not always there. I’m a partner with the doctor’s office and part of your care team. But you’ll see me in the street, you’ll see me in your community center, at the YMCA, and also at your...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 8, 2019 | Commentary, Perspectives
In his first address to Congress, George Washington urged their promotion of “Science and Literature” as the surest basis of public happiness and as essential for democracy. He might be concerned to know that the most recent data, from 2015, show that U.S....
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