Lori Dorfman,Ingrid Daffner Krasnow
Lori Dorfman
Media advocacy blends communications, science, politics, and advocacy to advance public health goals. In this article, we explain how media advocacy supports the social justice grounding of public health while addressing public health's "wi...
Douglas S Diekema
Douglas S Diekema
Despite the impact vaccination has had on the control and prevention of many infectious diseases, some parents choose not to vaccinate their children. Although there is no federal law requiring vaccination of children in the United States, ...
Commentary: Generating rigorous evidence for public health: the need for new thinking to improve research and practice [0.03%]
评论：公共卫生的证据生成：改善研究与实践的新思路迫在眉睫
Ross C Brownson,Ana V Diez Roux,Katherine Swartz
Ross C Brownson
This commentary describes the concept of evidence-based public health, including the limitations of evidence. Increased attention to evidence may have numerous benefits for public health practice, including access to higher-quality informat...
Social movements in health [0.03%]
健康领域的社会运动
Theodore M Brown,Elizabeth Fee
Theodore M Brown
Most public health practitioners know that public health has relied on biomedical advances and administrative improvements, but it is less commonly understood that social movements in health have also been sources of motivation for populati...
Combining the power of stories and the power of numbers: mixed methods research and mixed studies reviews [0.03%]
故事与数字的力量结合：混合研究方法和综合研究报告
Pierre Pluye,Quan Nha Hong
Pierre Pluye
This article provides an overview of mixed methods research and mixed studies reviews. These two approaches are used to combine the strengths of quantitative and qualitative methods and to compensate for their respective limitations. This a...
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to health care quality: the impacts of regulation and report cards [0.03%]
自上而下与自下而上的医疗服务质量改进途径：政策管制和报告卡的影响
Dana B Mukamel,Simon F Haeder,David L Weimer
Dana B Mukamel
The high cost of the US health care system does not buy uniformly high quality of care. Concern about low quality has prompted two major types of public policy responses: regulation, a top-down approach, and report cards, a bottom-up approa...
Emily Goldmann,Sandro Galea
Emily Goldmann
We present in this review the current state of disaster mental health research. In particular, we provide an overview of research on the presentation, burden, correlates, and treatment of mental disorders following disasters. We also descri...
Causal inference considerations for endocrine disruptor research in children's health [0.03%]
儿童健康内分泌干扰物研究的因果推理考量
Stephanie M Engel,Mary S Wolff
Stephanie M Engel
Substantial population exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, combined with available biomarkers and public concern, has resulted in an explosion of human health effects research. At the same time, remarkable shifts in the regulations ...
Ronald C Kessler,Evelyn J Bromet
Ronald C Kessler
Epidemiological data are reviewed on the prevalence, course, socio-demographic correlates, and societal costs of major depression throughout the world. Major depression is estimated in these surveys to be a commonly occurring disorder. Alth...
Current perspective on the global and United States cancer burden attributable to lifestyle and environmental risk factors [0.03%]
关于全球及美国可归因于生活方式和环境危险因素的癌症负担的现状展望
David Schottenfeld,Jennifer L Beebe-Dimmer,Patricia A Buffler et al.
David Schottenfeld et al.
Our objective is to provide a current perspective on the avoidable causes of global and US cancer incidence and mortality. Cancer registry-based incidence patterns, population behavioral risk-factor survey data, and systematic reviews of ep...