Uses of electronic health records for public health surveillance to advance public health [0.03%]
电子健康档案在我国公共卫生监测中的应用和发展
Guthrie S Birkhead,Michael Klompas,Nirav R Shah
Guthrie S Birkhead
Public health surveillance conducted by health departments in the United States has improved in completeness and timeliness owing to electronic laboratory reporting. However, the collection of detailed clinical information about reported ca...
Daniel W Webster
Daniel W Webster
Gun violence is a major threat to the public's health and safety in the United States. The articles in this volume's symposium on gun violence reveal the scope of the problem and new trends in mortality rates from gunfire. Leading scholars ...
The response of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the obesity epidemic [0.03%]
美国疾病控制和预防中心针对肥胖流行病的应对措施
William H Dietz
William H Dietz
The recognition of the obesity epidemic as a national problem began in 1999 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) publication of a series of annual state-based maps that demonstrated the rapid changes in the prevalen...
Policy dilemmas in Latino health care and implementation of the Affordable Care Act [0.03%]
拉美少数人健康政策的难题以及平价医疗法案的实施问题
Alexander N Ortega,Hector P Rodriguez,Arturo Vargas Bustamante
Alexander N Ortega
The changing Latino demographic in the United States presents a number of challenges to health care policy makers, clinicians, organizations, and other stakeholders. Studies have demonstrated that Latinos tend to have worse patterns of acce...
Penelope Hawe
Penelope Hawe
Complexity-resulting from interactions among many component parts-is a property of both the intervention and the context (or system) into which it is placed. Complexity increases the unpredictability of effects. Complexity invites new appro...
Daniel W Webster,Garen J Wintemute
Daniel W Webster
This article summarizes and critiques available evidence from studies published between 1999 and August 2014 on the effects of policies designed to keep firearms from high-risk individuals in the United States. Some prohibitions for high-ri...
Jeffrey A Butts,Caterina Gouvis Roman,Lindsay Bostwick et al.
Jeffrey A Butts et al.
Scholars and practitioners alike in recent years have suggested that real and lasting progress in the fight against gun violence requires changing the social norms and attitudes that perpetuate violence and the use of guns. The Cure Violenc...
Andrea C Gielen,Eileen M McDonald,Wendy Shields
Andrea C Gielen
Home injuries cause more than 30,000 deaths and 12 million nonfatal injuries annually in the United States. They generate an estimated $222 billion in lifetime costs annually. Despite some data limitations in documenting home as the locatio...
Cross-sector partnerships and public health: challenges and opportunities for addressing obesity and noncommunicable diseases through engagement with the private sector [0.03%]
跨界合作与公共健康：通过与私营部门合作应对肥胖和非传染性疾病的挑战与机遇
Lee M Johnston,Diane T Finegood
Lee M Johnston
Over the past few decades, cross-sector partnerships with the private sector have become an increasingly accepted practice in public health, particularly in efforts to address infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Now the...
Katharine Wulff,Darrin Donato,Nicole Lurie
Katharine Wulff
Whether a community is in the path of a natural disaster, the target of an act of terror, or simply striving to meet the demands of increasingly dense urban populations, a community resilience paradigm can help communities and individuals n...