The hurrider I go the behinder I get: the deteriorating international ranking of U.S. health status [0.03%]
越是加快后退越快：美国卫生状况的国际排名恶化
Stephen Bezruchka
Stephen Bezruchka
The health of societies can be measured by a range of mortality indicators, and comparisons of national parameters with those of other societies can be symbolic of health status and progress. Over the past century, health outcomes have been...
Lawrence W Green,Jonathan Fielding
Lawrence W Green
Unlike most government initiatives in health, the Healthy People initiative of the U.S. federal government was crafted and sustained not as a federal initiative, but as a "national initiative" eliciting participation from nongovernmental na...
Proportion of the decline in cardiovascular mortality disease due to prevention versus treatment: public health versus clinical care [0.03%]
心血管疾病死亡率下降有多少归因于预防而非治疗：公共卫生VS临床护理
Earl S Ford,Simon Capewell
Earl S Ford
Mortality rates from coronary heart disease (CHD), which had risen during the twentieth century in many countries, started declining in some countries during the 1960s. Once initial skepticism about the validity of the observed trends dissi...
L H Lumey,Aryeh D Stein,Ezra Susser
L H Lumey
We review human studies on the relation between acute exposures to prenatal famine and adult physical and mental health. These studies are observational and include exposures to a famine environment by natural or man-made causes or, more co...
Marie C McCormick,Jonathan S Litt,Vincent C Smith et al.
Marie C McCormick et al.
The high rate of premature births in the United States remains a public health concern. These infants experience substantial morbidity and mortality in the newborn period, which translate into significant medical costs. In early childhood, ...
Accelerating evidence reviews and broadening evidence standards to identify effective, promising, and emerging policy and environmental strategies for prevention of childhood obesity [0.03%]
加速证据审查，放宽证据标准，识别有效、有前景的政策和环境策略以预防儿童肥胖
Laura Brennan,Sarah Castro,Ross C Brownson et al.
Laura Brennan et al.
The childhood obesity epidemic has stimulated the emergence of many policy and environmental strategies to increase healthy eating and active living, with relatively few research recommendations identifying the most effective and generaliza...
Social determinants and the decline of cardiovascular diseases: understanding the links [0.03%]
社会决定因素与心血管疾病下降的关系：理解二者之间的联系
Sam Harper,John Lynch,George Davey Smith
Sam Harper
This article reviews the historical declines in cardiovascular mortality and provides an overview of the contribution of social and economic factors to disease change. We document the magnitude of declines in cardiovascular diseases and the...
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, ...