Underinsurance in the United States: an interaction of costs to consumers, benefit design, and access to care [0.03%]
美国的保障不足：消费者成本、福利设计和获得护理机会的相互作用
Shana Alex Lavarreda,E Richard Brown,Claudie Dandurand Bolduc
Shana Alex Lavarreda
Underinsurance is most commonly defined as the state in which people with medical coverage are still exposed to financial risk. We argue that the adequacy of health insurance coverage should also be assessed in terms of the adequacy of spec...
Using marketing muscle to sell fat: the rise of obesity in the modern economy [0.03%]
营销肌肉的力量：现代经济中的肥胖问题
Frederick J Zimmerman
Frederick J Zimmerman
The large increase in obesity in the past 30 years has often been explained in rational choice terms; for example, a decline in food prices has engendered greater food consumption. On closer examination, this kind of explanation does not fi...
Advances and current themes in occupational health and environmental public health surveillance [0.03%]
职业健康和环境公共卫生监测的新进展和当前主题
Jeffrey D Shire,Gary M Marsh,Evelyn O Talbott et al.
Jeffrey D Shire et al.
The essential purpose of public health surveillance is to monitor important health outcomes and risk factors and provide actionable information to practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and the public to prevent or ameliorate exposure, ...
Toward a fourth generation of disparities research to achieve health equity [0.03%]
迈向第四代差距研究以实现健康公平
Stephen B Thomas,Sandra Crouse Quinn,James Butler et al.
Stephen B Thomas et al.
Achieving health equity, driven by the elimination of health disparities, is a goal of Healthy People 2020. In recent decades, the improvement in health status has been remarkable for the U.S. population as a whole. However, racial and ethn...
Alanna C Morrison,Roberta B Ness
Alanna C Morrison
Sodium consumption is a target for prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The relationship between sodium intake and blood pressure (BP) is well-established, but the relationship with CVD is less clear. This review focuses on studies i...
Action on the social determinants of health and health inequities goes global [0.03%]
卫生和社会决定因素及健康不平等的行动走向全球
Sharon Friel,Michael G Marmot
Sharon Friel
Marked health inequities exist between regions, between countries, and within countries. Reducing these inequities in health requires attention to the unfair distribution of power, money, and resources and the conditions of everyday life. T...
Promoting global population health while constraining the environmental footprint [0.03%]
在限制环境足迹的同时促进全球人口健康
A J McMichael,C D Butler
A J McMichael
Populations today face increasing health risks from human-induced regional and global environmental changes and resultant ecological nonsustainability. Localized environmental degradation that has long accompanied population growth, industr...
Douglas P Jutte,Leslie L Roos,Marni D Brownell
Douglas P Jutte
Linked administrative databases offer a powerful resource for studying important public health issues. Methods developed and implemented in several jurisdictions across the globe have achieved high-quality linkages for conducting health and...
The health care workforce: will it be ready as the boomers age? A review of how we can know (or not know) the answer [0.03%]
婴儿潮世代渐入老年：医疗队伍准备好了吗？综述如何才能得知（或者不知道）答案
Thomas C Ricketts
Thomas C Ricketts
The baby-boom generation will reach the age of eligibility for Medicare starting in 2011. This large group of Americans will require more health care, and more health care workers will be needed to meet those needs. Understanding the needs ...
Russell V Luepker
Russell V Luepker
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) became the leading cause of chronic disease morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries in the twentieth century. In many nations, it peaked and began to decline, while in developing countries it is risi...