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April 2023 Kushal T. Kadakia, Karen B. DeSalvo,
As the public health sector begins an unprecedented data modernization effort, scholars and policymakers should ensure ongoing reforms are aligned with the five components of an ideal public health data system: outcomes and equity oriented, actionable, interoperable, collaborative, and grounded in a robust public health system. More
April 2023 Neil K. Mehta,
The most recent figures for the United States are startling (even for an obesity researcher): 42% of US adults were classified as being obese in 2017. More
April 2023 Hedwig Lee, Savannah Larimore, Michael Esposito,
Emerging scholarship has situated policing as an undeniable social determinant of health and wellbeing in the United States. Still, progress in understanding the precise role that law enforcement plays in the production of population health has been slowed by significant, long-standing data limitations. More
April 2023 Roshanak Mehdipanah,
This Perspective demonstrates that housing insecurity—which encompasses the dimensions of housing unaffordability, inaccessibility, and inadequacy—is a major public health issue with strong ramifications affecting households, neighborhoods, and cities. More
April 2023 Ninez A. Ponce, Riti Shimkhada, Paris B. Adkins-Jackson,
In this commentary, we focus on data equity in racialized and minoritized groups by commenting on the institutional commitments, notably community-partnered initiatives put forth as priorities by the Biden Administration in 2021. More
April 2023 Bianca K. Frogner, Davis Patterson, Susan M. Skillman,
This article considers the actions needed to recruit and retain a diverse population health workforce that meets population needs, and the policies needed to support this workforce to successfully address population health. More
April 2023 Paula M. Lantz, Katherine Michelmore, Michelle H. Moniz, Okeoma Mmeje, William G. Axinn, Kayte Spector-Bagdady,
The Dobbs decision reversed a nearly 50-year precedent of constitutionally protected federal access to abortion nationwide, relegating its legal oversight back to individual states and territories. In the absence of a constitutionally protected right to abortion care, states are now free to set strict legal parameters around access to abortion.3 More
April 2023 Paula M. Lantz, Daniel S. Goldberg, Sarah E. Gollust,
Increased recognition of the negative consequences of a medicalized view of health is essential, with a focus on education and training of clinicians and health care managers, journalists, and policymakers. More
April 2023 Jennifer Karas Montez, Jacob M. Grumbach,
This perspective highlights the tectonic changes in US states’ policy contexts in recent decades and their profound impact on population health. More
April 2023 Peter Muennig,
From Aristotle to Fredrich Engels, great thinkers have hypothesized that access to resources, such as knowledge, money, health care, and housing, are more important for health than any medicines a physician could offer. More
