Prevention
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 29, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
The week of February 14, 2021, will be forever ingrained in the memories of Central Texas residents. Winter Storm Uri blanketed the region in ice and snow, leading to devastating and unprecedented circumstances. Most residents lost electricity, and the water...
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Dec 2, 2019 | Commentary, Perspectives
One of the most neglected social determinants of health is access to adequate transportation. While housing, education, social inequality (as reflected by the Gini coefficient), and income are widely recognized as important factors of well-being, it is striking...
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