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

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：:The broad scope of the public health mission leads to an increasingly diverse workforce. Given the range of feeder disciplines and the reality that much of the workforce does not have formal training in public health science and practice, a pressing need exists for training and education throughout the workforce. Just...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Koo D,Miner K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeless women are a large and diverse group, constituting one fifth of the US homeless adult population. Although most homeless women do not have major mental illness, homeless women exhibit disproportionately high rates of major mental disorders and other mental problems. Rates of mental disorders are highest among ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Robertson MJ,Winkleby MA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present in this review the current state of disaster mental health research. In particular, we provide an overview of research on the presentation, burden, correlates, and treatment of mental disorders following disasters. We also describe challenges to studying the mental health consequences of disasters and discu...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Goldmann E,Galea S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, there has been growing interest in improving black men's health and the health disparities affecting them. Yet, the health of black men consistently ranks lowest across nearly all groups in the United States. Evidence on the health and social causes of morbidity and mortality among black men...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Gilbert KL,Ray R,Siddiqi A,Shetty S,Baker EA,Elder K,Griffith DM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review provides a synthesis of published public health and social science literature to determine how process evaluation has been used to examine community participation and its intermediary role in health and social change outcomes. Community participation is defined, and its relationship to other community-deve...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Butterfoss FD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a growing impetus to bridge the gap between basic science discovery, development of evidence-based practices (EBPs), and the availability and delivery of EBPs in order to improve the public health impact of such practices. To capitalize on factors that support implementation and sustainment of EBPs, it ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Aarons GA,Ehrhart MG,Farahnak LR,Sklar M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Controversy persists regarding the utility of school-based interventions for obesity prevention and control and for related health promotion. This article reviews the pertinent evidence, based partly on a recent systematic review and meta-analysis by the author and colleagues. Of 64 relevant papers, 21 papers represen...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Katz DL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The realm of diagnostic assays for detection of acute infections is rapidly changing from antibody detection to pathogen detection, from clinical laboratory based to point-of-care based, from single analyte detection to multiple analyte detection, and is more focused on detection using less invasive approaches for col...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Robertson BH,Nicholson JK

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Some 80% of elderly Medicare beneficiaries have private supplemental insurance. Approximately 50% of these have some form of medigap of privately purchased coverage. Those holding private coverage tend to be younger, more highly educated, and white. Women are more likely to hold medigap type plans, and men are more li...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Morrisey MA

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The elderly population in America is growing in size owing to declining death rates, increasing life expectancy, and the aging of the baby boomers. Although the prevalence of chronic illness and disability increases with age, successful aging in the elderly population is widespread, and the elderly are generally healt...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Rice DP,Fineman N

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High blood pressure (hypertension) is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease. It is highly prevalent in the US general population, especially in those who are old, African American, or socially disadvantaged. Prevalence is also high and increasing worldwide. Awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Whelton PK

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews evidence on hospitals' and health systems' impacts on community health improvement. We begin with an overview of the history of community benefit and then discuss the lack of a widely accepted definition and measurement of community benefit activities as well as the expectations and accountability...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Shortell SM,Washington PK,Baxter RJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the nudge approach to behavior change has emerged from the behavioral sciences to challenge the traditional use of regulation in public health strategies to address modifiable individual-level behaviors related to the rise of noncommunicable diseases and their treatment. However, integration and testi...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Hansen PG,Skov LR,Skov KL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Economic evaluation of pharmaceutical products, or pharmacoeconomics, is a rapidly growing area of research. Pharmacoeconomic evaluation is important in helping clinicians and managers make choices about new pharmaceutical products and in helping patients obtain access to new medications. Over the last few years, the ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Schulman KA,Linas BP

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：: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：:We describe an econometric technique, instrumental variables, that can be useful in estimating the effectiveness of clinical treatments in situations when a controlled trial has not or cannot be done. This technique relies upon the existence of one or more variables that induce substantial variation in the treatment v...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Newhouse JP,McClellan M

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Exposure assessment is the weakest element in nutritional epidemiologic studies. In the absence of an adequate arsenal of biomarkers of intake in the United States, food frequency questionnaires are widely used to assess habitual frequency of consumption of foods. These tools need to be designed for the population und...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Kohlmeier L,Bellach B

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to measure public health practice have taken on various forms and focused on different aspects of the system of public health practice over the past century. Before 1990, measurement was primarily based on a series of self-assessment instruments initiated under the auspices of the Committee on Administrative P...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Turnock BJ,Handler AS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality care for infant mortality disparity elimination requires services that improve health status at both the individual and the population level. We examine disparity reduction due to effective care and ask the following question: Has clinical care ameliorated factors that make some populations more likely to have...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Rowley DL,Hogan V

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All diseases have a genetic predisposition. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) by large international consortia are discovering genetic variants that contribute to complex diseases. However, nutrient information is missing, which is essential for the development of dietary advice for prevention and management of ...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Simopoulos AP

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:A growing body of literature suggests that more unequal societies have more polluted and degraded environments, perhaps helping explain why more unequal societies are often less healthy. We summarize the mechanisms by which inequality can lead to environmental degradation and their relevance for public health. We revi...

journal_title：Annual review of public health

authors： Cushing L,Morello-Frosch R,Wander M,Pastor M

更新日期：2015-03-18 00:00:00