Perspectives
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 26, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The United States is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis of prescription and illicit opioid misuse, use disorder, and overdose. In 2018, nearly 47,000 Americans died from an overdose involving opioids [174]. In 2018, 10.3 million people aged 12 years...
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 | Sep 21, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a consensus study report titled “Social Isolation and Loneliness in...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 21, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected nursing home residents. According to a New York Times database, nursing homes account for 8...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 31, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Samuel Little and Victoria Stubbs talked about “creating a brave space” for having difficult conversations [1]. Opening such conversations, which can expose painful pasts and personal vulnerabilities, is difficult but can be a first step in the healing process...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 17, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction This paper describes how members of the city planning department of Roanoke, Virginia, used public deliberation to incorporate community views into local government decision making, in service to health equity. The authors present an overview of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 10, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Ensuring high-quality, respectful, and appropriate management of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) in the context of the US opioid crisis is a critical and complex endeavor. At the end of the twentieth century, opioids became the standard...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 6, 2020 | 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. My sister, Dr. Lorna Breen, of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 3, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In the United States, 86 percent of office-based and 94 percent of hospital-based physicians currently use an electronic health record (EHR), incentivized by the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act [1,2]. While...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 27, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted education around the world. Institutions from preschool through higher education have either halted or significantly altered how education is provided, and the repercussions from this...
