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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Article
December 2020 Frederick J. Zimmerman,
The United States is failing in population health. Life expectancy in the United States is falling for the first time since reliable mortality records… More
Quarterly Opinion
November 2020 Sherry Glied,
Many advocates hope that addressing the quality of housing, or similar social needs, can help us escape from the quagmire of ever-increasing US health… More
November 2020 Sandro Galea,
This was supposed to be an election about health. For the first three years of his presidency, Donald Trump presided over what appeared to be a robust… More
November 2020 Arline T. Geronimus, Jay A. Pearson, Erin Linnenbringer, Alexa K. Eisenberg, Carmen Stokes, Landon D. Hughes, Amy J. Schulz,
Context: US population health inequity remains entrenched, despite mandates to eliminate it. To promote a public health approach of consequence in… More
October 2020 Amanda L. Brewster, Taressa K. Fraze, Laura M. Gottlieb, Jennifer Frehn, Genevra F. Murray, Valerie A. Lewis,
Context: One of the most important possibilities of value‐based payment is its potential to spur innovation in upstream prevention, such as… More
October 2020 David A. Kindig,
“Medical measures appear to have contributed little to the overall decline in mortality in the United States since about 1900.” Readers might assume… More
October 2020 Jennifer Karas Montez,
The troubling trend in US life expectancy and the widening disparities in life expectancy across the United States have deep roots. This article… More
September 2020 Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani, Luisa Pettigrew, Harry Rutter, May CI Van Schalkwyk,
Context: “Nudges” and other behavioral economic approaches exploit common cognitive biases (systematic errors in thought processes) in order to… More
September 2020 Seth A. Berkowitz, Shreya Kangovi,
Americans are dying at startling rates, not only from COVID-19 but also its reverberating socioeconomic effects: massive unemployment, food… More
September 2020 Somava Saha, Bruce B. Cohen, Julia Nagy, Marianne E. McPherson, Robert Phillips,
The past five years has seen a substantial increase in initiatives and activities that foster community-level multisector collaboration to advance… More
