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Restoring Health to Health Reform: Integrating Medicine and Public Health to Advance the Population\u27s Wellbeing [PDF]

, 2011
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a major achievement in improving access to health care services. However, evidence indicates that the nation could achieve greater improvements in health outcomes, at a lower cost, by shifting its focus ...
Gostin, Lawrence O., Hardcastle, Lorian E., Jacobson, Peter D., Record, Katherine L.   +3 more
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Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Children With Brain Tumors: Interaction of Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Neurological Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich, Manali Zope, Peter M. Fantozzi, Cassie N. Kline, Iris Paltin, Matthew C. Hocking   +5 more
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Source Quantification of PM10 and PM2.5 Using Iron Tracer Mass Balance in a Seoul Subway Station, South Korea

Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021
In this study, we simultaneously measured the PM10 and PM2.5 mass concentrations and their heavy metal content for three days at a subway station in Seoul to investigate the airborne PM flows.
Jihwan Son, Kwangrae Kim, Seungmi Kwon, Seung-Myung Park, Kwangtae Ha, Yunmi Shin, Mijin Ahn, Seogju Cho, Jinho Shin, Yongseung Shin, Gangwoong Lee   +10 more
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A Great Reckoning: Healing a Growing Divide: A Summary of the Boston Indicators Report 2009 [PDF]

, 2009
Summarizes the Boston Indicators Project's findings on the city's economic, social, and technological progress in civic vitality, cultural life and the arts, economy, education, environment, health, housing, public safety, technology, and ...

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Therapeutic Apheresis for Intravenous Methylprednisolone‐Refractory Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder: Clinical and Radiological Outcomes in a Single‐Center Case Series

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a relapsing autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. High‐dose intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) is the standard first‐line therapy for acute attacks, although some patients remain refractory.
Wataru Horiguchi, Daisuke Katagiri, Takeyuki Watadani, Shunichi Matsuda, Hiroshi Kaneko, Noritoshi Arai   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive assessment of health hazards faced by people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in Denver, Colorado (October – November 2023)

BMC Public Health
Background Unsheltered living settings, such as encampments, pose significant health hazards to those residing in them. However, limited understanding of these hazards hinders efforts to address the health and safety needs of unsheltered individuals ...
Caroline J. Waddell, Perri C. Callaway, Cara C. Drehoff, Ella Keenan, Jenny Loth Hill, Christina Christensen, Julanne “Juls” V. Wilson, Kristen E. Marshall, Briana Sprague, Nick Laramee, Jessica P. Sherman   +10 more
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Neighbourhood sociodemographic factors and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the Netherlands: an ecological analysis

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background While overall COVID-19 vaccine uptake is high in the Netherlands, it lags behind in certain subpopulations. Aim We aimed to explore the characteristics of groups with lower COVID-19 vaccine uptake at neighbourhood level to inform the strategy ...
Lisanne J. E. Labuschagne, Naomi Smorenburg, Jan van de Kassteele, Ben Bom, Anne C. de Weerdt, Hester E. de Melker, Susan J. M. Hahné   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Healthy publics: enabling cultures and environments for health [PDF]

Palgrave Communications, 2018
AbstractDespite extraordinary advances in biomedicine and associated gains in human health and well-being, a growing number of health and well-being related challenges have remained or emerged in recent years. These challenges are often ‘more than biomedical’ in complexion, being social, cultural and environmental in terms of their key drivers and ...
Stephen Hinchliffe, Mark A. Jackson, Katrina Wyatt, Anne E. Barlow, Manuela Barreto, Linda Clare, Michael H. Depledge, Robin Durie, Lora E. Fleming, Nick Groom, Karyn Morrissey, Laura Salisbury, Felicity Thomas   +12 more
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Science, public participation and spin [PDF]

, 2004
This chapter deals with the relationship between scientific research, government regulation and public perceptions of risk. Two issues that have had a significant public profile and engendered vigorous debate will be discussed to show how the specific ...
Ninnes, Ted
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The predominant relationship between sexual environment characteristics and HIV-serodiscordant condomless anal sex among HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) [PDF]

, 2016
In some studies, situational factors have been shown to be stronger predictors of condomless sex than individual risk factors. Cross-sectional relationships between condomless anal sex (CAS) with HIV-serodiscordant partners and risk factors across ...
Elsesser, Steven, O'Cleirigh, Conall, Perry, Nicholas S., Safren, Steven A., Taylor, S. Wade   +4 more
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