Deciphering the imperative: translating public health quality improvement into organizational performance management gains.

abstract：:As calls are made for a more patient-centered health care system, it becomes critical to define and measure patient perceptions of health care quality and to understand more fully what drives those perceptions. This chapter identifies conceptual and methodological issues that make this task difficult, including the co...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Sofaer S,Firminger K

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environment can be thought of in terms of physical and social dimensions. The social environment includes the groups to which we belong, the neighborhoods in which we live, the organization of our workplaces, and the policies we create to order our lives. There have been recent reports in the literature that the s...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Yen IH,Syme SL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, people are more likely to have poor oral health if they are low-income, uninsured, and/or members of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, or rural populations who have suboptimal access to quality oral health care. As a result, poor oral health serves as the national symbol of social inequality. Th...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Northridge ME,Kumar A,Kaur R

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1985 and 1992, serious youth violence in the United States surged to unprecedented levels. The growing use of firearms to settle disputes has contributed to this phenomenon. Youth are most often victimized by one of their peers. In response to this problem, a wide variety of programs have been implemented in a...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Kellermann AL,Fuqua-Whitley DS,Rivara FP,Mercy J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of air pollution and human health have evolved from descriptive studies of the early phenomena of large increases in adverse health effects following extreme air pollution episodes to time-series analyses based on the use of sophisticated regression models. In fact, advanced statistical methods are necessary t...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Bell ML,Samet JM,Dominici F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the face of growing world human and animal populations and rapid environmental change, the linkages between human, animal, and environmental health are becoming more evident. Because animals and humans have shared risk to health from changing environments, it seems logical to expand the perspective of public health...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Rabinowitz P,Conti L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health is created largely outside the health sector. Engagement in health governance, policy, and intervention development and implementation by sectors other than health is therefore important. Recent calls for building and implementing Health in All Policies, and continued arguments for intersectoral action, may str...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： de Leeuw E

更新日期：2017-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Late effects of exposure to certain environmental hazards as a consequence of their active military service have become an issue of particular concern to veterans and the public at large. Approximately one out of four Americans is a veteran or a family member of a veteran. The US military develops and uses increasingl...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Bullman TA,Kang HK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a consequence of global aging of the human population, the occurrence of cognitive impairment and dementia is rapidly becoming a significant burden for medical care and public health systems. By the year 2020, the WHO predicts there will be nearly 29 million demented people in both developed and developing countrie...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Haan MN,Wallace R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social epidemiology seeks to describe and quantify the causal effects of social institutions, interactions, and structures on human health. To accomplish this task, we define exposures as treatments and posit populations exposed or unexposed to these well-defined regimens. This inferential structure allows us to unamb...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Kaufman JS

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Home injuries cause more than 30,000 deaths and 12 million nonfatal injuries annually in the United States. They generate an estimated $222 billion in lifetime costs annually. Despite some data limitations in documenting home as the location of an injury, much progress has been made in identifying effective prevention...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Gielen AC,McDonald EM,Shields W

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant pathology is a field of biology that focuses on understanding the nature of disease in plants as well as on more practical aspects of preventing and controlling plant diseases in crop plants that are important to agriculture. Throughout history, plant diseases have had significant effects on human health and wel...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Scholthof KB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Environmental tobacco smoke" (ETS) is the term used to characterize tobacco combustion products inhaled by nonsmokers in the proximity of burning tobacco. Over 3800 compounds are in tobacco smoke, many of which are known carcinogens. Most ETS exposure is from sidestream smoke emitted from the burning tip of the cigar...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Eriksen MP,LeMaistre CA,Newell GR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several key factors bear on the interpretation of prevention trials and observational studies that inform prevention strategies. These factors include the underlying disease process and aspects of the intervention: sustainability of behavior change, the time course of the intervention within the disease process, dose ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Colditz GA,Taylor PR

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing number of large health data bases available represents a valuable resource for health care research. Many available data bases, however, have subtle and/or complex defects in their design as well as in the quality of the data themselves. The apparent ease and economy of using pre-collected data cannot elim...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Connell FA,Diehr P,Hart LG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Managed care has become the dominant method for financing and delivering care for common mental health problems and for people with severe, chronic mental health conditions. Despite the rapid growth of managed mental health care, there is very little research available to guide policy choices. Managed care has led to ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Durham ML

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies suggest that income replacement is low for many workers with serious occupational injuries and illnesses. This review discusses three areas that hold promise for raising benefits to workers while reducing workers' compensation costs to employers: improving safety, containing medical costs, and reducing litigat...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Boden LI

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An abundance of research has documented health inequalities by race and socioeconomic position (SEP) in the United States. However, conceptual and methodological challenges complicate the interpretation of study findings, thereby limiting progress in understanding health inequalities and in achieving health equity. Fu...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Nuru-Jeter AM,Michaels EK,Thomas MD,Reeves AN,Thorpe RJ Jr,LaVeist TA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to traffic noise is associated with stress and sleep disturbances. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently concluded that road traffic noise increases the risk for ischemic heart disease and potentially other cardiometabolic diseases, including stroke, obesity, and diabetes. The WHO report focused on who...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Münzel T,Kröller-Schön S,Oelze M,Gori T,Schmidt FP,Steven S,Hahad O,Röösli M,Wunderli JM,Daiber A,Sørensen M

更新日期：2020-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Research to develop and ensure diffusion of smoking prevention programs must (a) be based on an appreciation of the social, psychological, and biological determinants at each stage in the onset process, (b) disentangle major interactions between program content, participant, provider, and setting factors as they deter...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Best JA,Thomson SJ,Santi SM,Smith EA,Brown KS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agent-based modeling is a computational approach in which agents with a specified set of characteristics interact with each other and with their environment according to predefined rules. We review key areas in public health where agent-based modeling has been adopted, including both communicable and noncommunicable d...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Tracy M,Cerdá M,Keyes KM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a health burden in lower- and middle-income countries, putting pressure on public health efforts to scale up interventions. This article reviews current efforts in interventions on a population and individual level. Population-level interventions include ongoing efforts to re...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Gaziano TA,Pagidipati N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review examines the first two studies conducted pursuant to a Congressional mandate that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency analyze the effects of the Clean Air Act on the "public health, economy, and the environment of the United States." While these studies indicate that overall, the nation received good ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Krupnick A,Morgenstern R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide an important avenue for undertaking an agnostic evaluation of the association between common genetic variants and risk of disease. Recent advances in our understanding of human genetic variation and the technology to measure such variation have made GWAS feasible. Over th...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Witte JS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: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, survivors are characterized by a variety of health problems, including motor de...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： McCormick MC,Litt JS,Smith VC,Zupancic JA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a worldwide population of 6 billion, in the year 2000, approximately 10 million cancers were diagnosed, and there were an estimated 6.2 million cancer deaths. Whereas the universality of cancer incidence and mortality is established, the burden of cancer by type or organ site is distributed unequally between develo...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Schottenfeld D,Beebe-Dimmer JL

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two contrasting reviews (authored by Abrams et al. and Glantz & Bareham) in this volume have reached opposing conclusions on the effects of electronic cigarettes in a debate that is dividing the scientific and professional communities that have devoted careers to controlling the manufacture, advertising, sale, and use...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Green LW,Fielding JE,Brownson RC

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linked administrative databases offer a powerful resource for studying important public health issues. Methods developed and implemented in several jurisdictions across the globe have achieved high-quality linkages for conducting health and social research without compromising confidentiality. Key data available for l...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Jutte DP,Roos LL,Brownell MD

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the prevalence of gambling and related mental disorders from a public health perspective. It traces the expansion of gambling in North America and the psychological, economic, and social consequences for the public's health, and then considers both the costs and benefits of gambling and the histor...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Shaffer HJ,Korn DA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of an outpatient prescription drug benefit under Medicare has become a conspicuous omission in the face of accelerated growth in prescription drug expenditures and increased availability of highly effective medications. This article provides a critical review of the empirical evidence on the effect of drug co...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Adams AS,Soumerai SB,Ross-Degnan D

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00