A Review of Opportunities to Improve the Health of People Involved in the Criminal Justice System in the United States [0.03%]
美国刑事司法体系中人员健康的改善机会综述
Nicholas Freudenberg,Daliah Heller
Nicholas Freudenberg
In the past decade, many constituencies have questioned the efficacy, cost, and unintended consequences of mass incarceration in the United States. Although substantial evidence now demonstrates that US incarceration policies have had unint...
Eduardo Villamor,Erica C Jansen
Eduardo Villamor
The timing of puberty has important public health, clinical, and social implications. The plasticity of sexual development onset could be a mechanism that adapts to prevailing environmental conditions. Early-life nutrition may provide cues ...
Catherine M Crespi
Catherine M Crespi
Studies in which clusters of individuals are randomized to conditions are increasingly common in public health research. However, the designs utilized for such studies are often suboptimal and inefficient. We review strategies to improve th...
Jose M Martin-Moreno,Meggan Harris,Elke Jakubowski et al.
Jose M Martin-Moreno et al.
Given the broad scope and intersectoral nature of public health structures and practices, there are inherent difficulties in defining which services fall under the public health remit and in assessing their capacity and performance. The aim...
Kevin Fiscella,Mechelle R Sanders
Kevin Fiscella
The annual National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports document widespread and persistent racial and ethnic disparities. These disparities result from complex interactions between patient factors related to social disadvantage, clin...
Angela K McGowan,Mary M Lee,Cristina M Meneses et al.
Angela K McGowan et al.
To improve health in the twenty-first century, to promote both access to and quality of health care services and delivery, and to address significant health disparities, legal and policy approaches, specifically those focused on civil right...
Amit Prasad,Chelsea Bettina Gray,Alex Ross et al.
Amit Prasad et al.
The research community has shown increasing interest in developing and using metrics to determine the relationships between urban living and health. In particular, we have seen a recent exponential increase in efforts aiming to investigate ...
Spatial Data Analysis [0.03%]
空间数据分析
Sudipto Banerjee
Sudipto Banerjee
With increasing accessibility to geographic information systems (GIS) software, statisticians and data analysts routinely encounter scientific data sets with geocoded locations. This has generated considerable interest in statistical modeli...
Heather Wipfli,Jonathan M Samet
Heather Wipfli
Today's global tobacco epidemic may represent one of the first instances of the globalization of a noninfectious cause of disease. This article focuses on the first century of the global tobacco epidemic and its current status, reviewing th...
Roger Strasser,Sophia M Kam,Sophie M Regalado
Roger Strasser
Compared to their urban counterparts, rural and remote inhabitants experience lower life expectancy and poorer health status. Nowhere is the worldwide shortage of health professionals more pronounced than in rural areas of developing countr...