Why do Americans have shorter life expectancy and worse health than do people in other high-income countries? [0.03%]
为什么美国人的预期寿命更短、健康状况比其他高收入国家更差？
Mauricio Avendano,Ichiro Kawachi
Mauricio Avendano
Americans lead shorter and less healthy lives than do people in other high-income countries. We review the evidence and explanations for these variations in longevity and health. Our overview suggests that the US health disadvantage applies...
Community health workers in low-, middle-, and high-income countries: an overview of their history, recent evolution, and current effectiveness [0.03%]
低收入、中等收入和高收入国家的社区卫生工作者：历史、近期发展及其目前效果概述
Henry B Perry,Rose Zulliger,Michael M Rogers
Henry B Perry
Over the past half-century, community health workers (CHWs) have been a growing force for extending health care and improving the health of populations. Following their introduction in the 1970s, many large-scale CHW programs declined durin...
Nature and health [0.03%]
自然与健康
Terry Hartig,Richard Mitchell,Sjerp de Vries et al.
Terry Hartig et al.
Urbanization, resource exploitation, and lifestyle changes have diminished possibilities for human contact with nature in urbanized societies. Concern about the loss has helped motivate research on the health benefits of contact with nature...
Improving adolescent health policy: incorporating a framework for assessing state-level policies [0.03%]
改善青少年健康政策：在州级政策评估中加入一个框架
Claire D Brindis,Kristin Moore
Claire D Brindis
Many US policies that affect health are made at the state, not the federal, level. Identifying state-level policies and data to analyze how different policies affect outcomes may help policy makers ascertain the usefulness of their public p...
Evaluation of systems-oriented public health interventions: alternative research designs [0.03%]
面向系统的公共卫生干预评价：替代研究设计
Robert W Sanson-Fisher,Catherine A D&#x;Este,Mariko L Carey et al.
Robert W Sanson-Fisher et al.
The need to provide sound evidence of the costs and benefits of real-world public health interventions has driven advances in the development and analysis of designs other than the controlled trial in which individuals are randomized to an ...
Aaron S Bernstein
Aaron S Bernstein
In the wake of a species extinction event unprecedented in human history, how the variety, distribution, and abundance of life on earth may influence health has gained credence as a worthy subject for research and study at schools of public...
Jeffrey R Harris,Peggy A Hannon,Shirley A A Beresford et al.
Jeffrey R Harris et al.
Most American workplaces are smaller, with fewer than 1,000 employees. Many of these employees are low-wage earners and at increased risk for chronic diseases. Owing to the challenges smaller workplaces face to offering health-promotion pro...
Peer support in health care and prevention: cultural, organizational, and dissemination issues [0.03%]
医疗卫生与保健中的同侪支持：文化、组织和传播问题
Edwin B Fisher,Muchieh Maggy Coufal,Humberto Parada et al.
Edwin B Fisher et al.
As reviewed in the article by Perry and colleagues (2014) in this volume, ample evidence has documented the contributions of peer support (PS) to health, health care, and prevention. Building on that foundation, this article discusses chara...
Lisa M Gargano,James M Hughes
Lisa M Gargano
Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are among the leading causes of death worldwide and have been on the rise over the past decade. Associations between microbial agents and development of chronic diseases have been m...
Implementing health reform: improved data collection and the monitoring of health disparities [0.03%]
卫生改革的实施：改进数据收集和监测健康差异
Rashida Dorsey,Garth Graham,Sherry Glied et al.
Rashida Dorsey et al.
The relative lack of standards for collecting data on population subgroups has not only limited our understanding of health disparities, but also impaired our ability to develop policies to eliminate them. This article provides background a...