Christopher Dye,Philippe Glaziou,Katherine Floyd et al.
Christopher Dye et al.
The target for TB elimination is to reduce annual incidence to less than one case per million population by 2050. Meeting that target requires a 1,000-fold reduction in incidence in little more than 35 years. This can be achieved only by co...
Steven M Teutsch,Jonathan E Fielding
Steven M Teutsch
The success of public health has been its ability to understand contemporary health problems, to communicate the needs successfully, to identify solutions, and to implement them through programs and policies. In the past 50 years, those suc...
Advertising of prescription-only medicines to the public: does evidence of benefit counterbalance harm? [0.03%]
处方药面向公众的广告：疗效证据能够抵消潜在危害吗？
Barbara Mintzes
Barbara Mintzes
Since the global withdrawal of rofecoxib (Vioxx) in 2004, concerns about public health effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have grown. A systematic review of the research evidence on behavioral, health, and cost effects, publis...
Early intervention to reduce the global health and economic burden of major depression in older adults [0.03%]
早介入以减少老年人主要抑郁症的全球健康和经济负担
Charles F Reynolds rd,Pim Cuijpers,Vikram Patel et al.
Charles F Reynolds rd et al.
Randomized trials for selective and indicated prevention of depression in both mixed-aged and older adult samples, conducted in high-income countries (HICs), show that rates of incident depression can be reduced by 20-25% over 1-2 years thr...
Amy H Auchincloss,Samson Y Gebreab,Christina Mair et al.
Amy H Auchincloss et al.
Understanding the impact of place on health is a key element of epidemiologic investigation, and numerous tools are being employed for analysis of spatial health-related data. This review documents the huge growth in spatial epidemiology, s...
How society shapes the health gradient: work-related health inequalities in a comparative perspective [0.03%]
社会如何塑造健康差异：工作相关健康的不平等比较视角
Christopher B McLeod,Peter A Hall,Arjumand Siddiqi et al.
Christopher B McLeod et al.
Analyses in comparative political economy have the potential to contribute to understanding health inequalities within and between societies. This article uses a varieties of capitalism approach that groups high-income countries into coordi...
Health disparities research in global perspective: new insights and new directions [0.03%]
全球视角下的卫生不公平研究：新见解和新方向
Shiriki Kumanyika
Shiriki Kumanyika
This commentary introduces this volume's symposium on "Comparative Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities." Disparities in the health of socially and economically disadvantaged compared with more advantaged populations are observed world...
Kenneth E Thorpe,Meredith Philyaw
Kenneth E Thorpe
U.S. health care spending has increased dramatically in the past several decades, consuming 17.6% percent ($2.6 trillion) of GDP in 2010. Although historical spending drivers do not account for this recent increase, two major changes in pop...
Sarah Stewart de Ramirez,Adnan A Hyder,Hadley K Herbert et al.
Sarah Stewart de Ramirez et al.
The World Health Organization estimates injuries accounted for more than 5 million deaths in 2004, significantly impacting the global burden of disease. Nearly 3.9 million of these deaths were due to unintentional injury, a cause also respo...
B Starfield,J Gérvas,D Mangin
B Starfield
Health disparities, also known as health inequities, are systematic and potentially remediable differences in one or more aspects of health across population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically. This to...