Public Health
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...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
The adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to socioeconomic and health disparities in the United States, with a disproportionate impact among low-income persons and communities of color. However, these disparities documented over the...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 22, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Abstract Since the publication of our integrated framework for the prevention and treatment of obesity and related chronic diseases in 2015, more than 140 Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) have been established in an effort to develop multi-sectoral...
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 | Mar 5, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> ABSTRACT | The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Since 1995, the global community has experienced six outbreaks that the World Health Organization (WHO), as authorized in a 2005 revision of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 13, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction Child health is unique. Unlike adults, children are rapidly developing—physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally. They are highly susceptible to positive and negative interactions with adults, especially parents and caregivers. A child’s...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 29, 2019 | Commentary, Perspectives
Every day in the United States, health professionals confront the effects of firearm injury. In emergency rooms, trauma centers, ambulatory offices, and acute care and rehabilitation facilities, health professionals and the health systems they work within...
by Talia Lewis | Mar 25, 2019 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Despite significant progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States, HIV prevention and treatment disparities among key populations remain a national public health concern. While new HIV diagnoses are increasing among people under age...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 3, 2018 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The central idea of early disease detection and treatment is essentially simple. However, the path to its successful achievement (on the one hand, bringing to treatment those with previously undetected disease, and, on the other, avoiding harm to those...
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