Mark T Hughes,Thomas J Smith
Mark T Hughes
Palliative care has been one of the most rapidly growing fields of health care in the United States in the past decade. The benefits of palliative care have now been shown in multiple clinical trials, with increased patient and provider sat...
Kurt C Stange,Rebecca S Etz,Heidi Gullett et al.
Kurt C Stange et al.
Metrics focus attention on what is important. Balanced metrics of primary health care inform purpose and aspiration as well as performance. Purpose in primary health care is about improving the health of people and populations in their comm...
Aligning leadership across systems and organizations to develop a strategic climate for evidence-based practice implementation [0.03%]
跨系统和组织协调领导力以构建基于证据实践实施的战略性环境
Gregory A Aarons,Mark G Ehrhart,Lauren R Farahnak et al.
Gregory A Aarons et al.
There has been a growing impetus to bridge the gap between basic science discovery, development of evidence-based practices (EBPs), and the availability and delivery of EBPs in order to improve the public health impact of such practices. To...
Precarious employment: understanding an emerging social determinant of health [0.03%]
不稳定的就业：了解一个新兴的社会健康决定因素
J Benach,A Vives,M Amable et al.
J Benach et al.
Employment precariousness is a social determinant that affects the health of workers, families, and communities. Its recent popularity has been spearheaded by three main developments: the surge in "flexible employment" and its associated er...
Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in the comparative risk assessment of household air pollution [0.03%]
千万人死亡：我们是如何知道的以及这意味着什么？家庭空气污染比较风险评估方法
Kirk R Smith,Nigel Bruce,Kalpana Balakrishnan et al.
Kirk R Smith et al.
In the Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) done as part of the Global Burden of Disease project (GBD-2010), the global and regional burdens of household air pollution (HAP) due to the use of solid cookfuels, were estimated along with 60+ othe...
Hearing loss in an aging American population: extent, impact, and management [0.03%]
美国老龄人口的听力损失：范围、影响及应对策略
Kathleen E Bainbridge,Margaret I Wallhagen
Kathleen E Bainbridge
Despite contributing substantially to disability in the United States, age-related hearing loss is an underappreciated public health concern. Loss of hearing sensitivity has been documented in two-thirds of adults aged 70 years and older an...
Laura S Rozek,Dana C Dolinoy,Maureen A Sartor et al.
Laura S Rozek et al.
Improved understanding of the multilayer regulation of the human genome has led to a greater appreciation of environmental, nutritional, and epigenetic risk factors for human disease. Chromatin remodeling, histone tail modifications, and DN...
D L Katz,S Meller
D L Katz
Diet is established among the most important influences on health in modern societies. Injudicious diet figures among the leading causes of premature death and chronic disease. Optimal eating is associated with increased life expectancy, dr...
Practice-based evidence in public health: improving reach, relevance, and results [0.03%]
基于实践的公共卫生证据：提高覆盖面、相关性和成效
Alice Ammerman,Tosha Woods Smith,Larissa Calancie
Alice Ammerman
The most threatening public health challenges today are chronic and complex and require joint effort from academic researchers in partnership with clinical and public health practitioners to identify and implement sustainable solutions that...
Logan MacLean,Susan Hassmiller,Franklin Shaffer et al.
Logan MacLean et al.
As the demand for health care consistently rises and many individuals, even within developed countries, lack access to primary care services, a better understanding of how primary care is defined, the main causes of the primary care shortag...