Public Health
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 25, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives
Despite efforts to increase rates of immunization among Medicare patients, especially racial and ethnic minorities, these rates remain well below Healthy People 2020 targets [1]. It is not difficult to conclude that we need to learn more about how and why...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 4, 2018 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Today’s public health challenges are complex and crosscutting. Antimicrobial resistance, pollution, food security, biosafety, biosecurity, and emerging and reemerging infectious diseases are associated with changes in land use, population growth,...
by Laura DeStefano | Mar 26, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives
“America, the land of opportunity” has been the historical rallying cry inspiring individuals to work their hardest to succeed. Although today’s children will determine our nation’s future prosperity, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that individuals are...
by Laura DeStefano | Nov 27, 2017 | Commentary, Perspectives
Racism affects health through both direct means (for example, the chronic activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and associated stress hormones, which increases susceptibility to several chronic conditions [1]) and indirect means (for example,...
by Laura DeStefano | Nov 6, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Businesses are gaining a greater understanding of the effect that employee health and the health of the communities in which businesses reside has on their success. No matter the size, type, or location of a business, many of them are proactively...
by Laura DeStefano | Oct 9, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In 2016 the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) held the fourth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 7, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This article is a joint publication initiative between Preventing Chronic Disease and NAM Perspectives. Summary Public health is what we do together as a society to ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. Although many sectors play key...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 7, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Diet- and activity-related illnesses—such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, and type 2 diabetes—can shorten life spans and adversely impact quality of life. Over the past 15 years, the public health field has made important progress in addressing these...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Antimicrobial Usage and Interventions: A Brief History from 1950 to the Present Antimicrobials for veterinary purposes came on the market in the 1950s, followed shortly by antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), because of their growth-enhancing effects to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The antibiotic resistance problem is caused by the evolution and transfer of genes that confer resistance to medically important antibiotics into human pathogens. The acquisition of such resistance genes by pathogens complicates disease treatment, increases...
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