Perspectives
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 30, 2017 | Commentary, Perspectives
TW: suicide If you are suicidal and need emergency help, call 911 immediately or 1-800-273-8255 if in the United States. If you are in another country, find a 24/7 hotline at www.iasp.info/resources/Crises_Centres. By January 1999, it rained, they...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
High obesity prevalence persists as a major issue for societies globally (IOM, 2012; WHO, 2013). Chronic overweight and obesity have high health, social, and economic costs (Hammond and Levine, 2010), and the benefits of achieving and maintaining healthy weight...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 13, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Obesity now affects 35 percent of men, 40 percent of women, and 17 percent of 2- to 19-year-old children and adolescents in the United States (Flegal et al., 2016; Ogden et al., 2016). Neither clinical nor environmental changes alone are sufficient to address a...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 4, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The Global Strategy for Health Workforce 2030 (WHO, 2016) outlines a set of milestones and strategies to expand and strengthen the health workforce that could better position countries to achieve universal health coverage and relevant sustainable development goals...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 5, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Abstract In this essay, we focus on the potential and promise that intersectionality holds as a lens for studying the social determinants of health, reducing health disparities, and promoting health equity and social justice. Research that engages intersectionality as...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 29, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Responsibility for cognitive, affective, and behavioral (CAB) health of children and adolescents (hereafter “youth”) has traditionally been shared among families, education systems, communities, and the health care delivery system. Within routine child health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 28, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Health disparities result from multifaceted variables including access to health care and discrimination associated with socioeconomic status, education, social support, insurance, race, ethnicity, and gender. The purpose of this paper is to identify lessons learned...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 31, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Scientists have a central role in addressing the challenges that face society. The primary purpose of research should be to inform policies and practices that address serious problems in our nation and world. Today in America, we have an alarming issue that is...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 31, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Health equity, the attainment of the highest level of health for all people, is yet to be realized for many populations in the United States. Health equity focuses on diseases and health care services, but is also broadly linked to social determinants, such as...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 24, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Our perspective is grounded in the proposition that health equity should be central or more significant than any other concern, principle, criterion, or value when prioritizing a national scientific agenda, setting care goals, organizing research and...
