Systems science methods in public health: dynamics, networks, and agents [0.03%]
系统科学在公共卫生中的应用:动态、网络及个体方法
Douglas A Luke,Katherine A Stamatakis
Douglas A Luke
Complex systems abound in public health. Complex systems are made up of heterogeneous elements that interact with one another, have emergent properties that are not explained by understanding the individual elements of the system, persist o...
From small area variations to accountable care organizations: how health services research can inform policy [0.03%]
从医疗服务的小规模差异到问责护理组织:健康服务研究如何影响政策制定
Harold S Luft
Harold S Luft
Much of health services research seeks to inform particular policy choices and is best characterized as policy-driven research. The reverse, research-driven policy, occurs when studies alter how people perceive reality, which eventually lea...
Policies for healthier communities: historical, legal, and practical elements of the obesity prevention movement [0.03%]
肥胖预防运动的历史、法律和实践要素:建设更健康社区的政策框架
Samantha K Graff,Manel Kappagoda,Heather M Wooten et al.
Samantha K Graff et al.
The U.S. population is facing an obesity crisis wrought with severe health and economic costs. Because social and environmental factors have a powerful influence over lifestyle choices, a national obesity prevention strategy must involve po...
Rune Elvik
Rune Elvik
This review summarizes current knowledge regarding the effects of speed limit enforcement on public health. Speed limits are commonly used around the world to regulate the maximum speed at which motor vehicles can be operated on public road...
Toward a systems approach to enteric pathogen transmission: from individual independence to community interdependence [0.03%]
从个体独立到社区相互依存:迈向系统方法研究肠道病原体传播
Joseph N S Eisenberg,James Trostle,Reed J D Sorensen et al.
Joseph N S Eisenberg et al.
Diarrheal disease is still a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide; thus a large body of research has been produced describing its risks. We review more than four decades of literature on diarrheal disease epidemiology. These stu...
Dora M Dumont,Brad Brockmann,Samuel Dickman et al.
Dora M Dumont et al.
An unprecedented number of Americans have been incarcerated in the past generation. In addition, arrests are concentrated in low-income, predominantly nonwhite communities where people are more likely to be medically underserved. As a resul...
Ana V Diez Roux
Ana V Diez Roux
Scientific and policy interest in health disparities, defined as systematic, plausibly avoidable health differences adversely affecting socially disadvantaged groups, has increased markedly over the past few decades. Like other research, re...
Preventability of cancer: the relative contributions of biologic and social and physical environmental determinants of cancer mortality [0.03%]
癌症的可预防性:生物因素以及社会和物理环境因素在癌症死亡率中的相对作用
Graham A Colditz,Esther K Wei
Graham A Colditz
Whereas models of cancer disparities and variation in cancer burden within population groups now specify multiple levels of action from biologic processes to individual risk factors and social and physical contextual factors, approaches to ...
Noreen M Clark
Noreen M Clark
The prevalence and burden of childhood asthma remain high and are increasing. Asthma hot spot neighborhoods around the country face particular challenges in controlling the effects of the condition. Increasing attention is being paid to dev...
Sara N Bleich,Marian P Jarlenski,Caryn N Bell et al.
Sara N Bleich et al.
Health inequalities, which have been well documented for decades, have more recently become policy targets in developed countries. This review describes time trends in health inequalities (by sex, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status), ...