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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Opinion
October 2024 Simon F. Haeder, Susan Webb Yackee,
Health disparities—the differences in access to health care and related services as well as in health utilization and outcomes—are influenced by… More
January 2024 David N. Pellow,
Research on the linkages among climate change, public health, and mental health is still in its early stages, with scholars just beginning to explore… More
December 2023 Sandro Galea, George J. Annas,
We are likely still too close to the Covid pandemic, too enmeshed in its ongoing risks, to fully evaluate what we did right and what we did wrong these past years, and how we can best plan for future pandemics. More
Quarterly Article
September 2023 Steven H. Woolf, Roy T. Sabo, Derek A. Chapman, Jong Hyung Lee,
Context: Increasing polarization of states reached a high point during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the party affiliation of elected officials often… More
August 2023 Peiyin Hung, Marion Granger, Nansi Boghossian, Jiani Yu, Sayward Harrison, Jihong Liu, Berry A. Campbell, Bo Cai, Chen Liang, Xiaoming Li,
Context: With the increases in nationwide hospital maternity unit closures, there is a greater need for telehealth services for the supervision,… More