How well global dietary intake estimates agree: a case of sodium consumption
AbstractGlobal dietary data repositories are key components of nutrition surveillance. The two most comprehensive databases, the Global Dietary Database (GDD) and the Global Burden Disease (GBD), provide national dietary intake estimates but use different data sources and models to generate estimates. To explore the agreement between GDD and GBD estimates, we compared country-specific average daily sodium intakes in 169 countries over a 28-year period using descriptive statistics, the Bland –Altman method, and prevalence exceeding the intake reference level of 2.3 g/day. We detected a staggering 36% difference between G...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 23, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Telling truth with data visuals: a guide for public health professionals
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 15, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Inequalities in women ’s health insurance coverage before and after the implementation of universal health insurance in Indonesia
AbstractIndonesia implemented a National Social Security System (Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional, JKN) in 2014. To examine the changes in the magnitude of socioeconomic inequity in women's health insurance coverage among those of reproductive age, we conducted a repeated cross-sectional study design using data from the Indonesia Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 2012 and 2017, before and after the implementation of JKN. Results showed that while the JKN program helped to increase health insurance coverage among Indonesian women of childbearing age, low education level and household wealth status were associated with a...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 12, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Diets high in subsidized foods and chronic kidney disease in Hispanic communities in the United States: the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
AbstractPrior research shows that diets high in government subsidized foods may be associated with cardiometabolic disease risk factors. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between diets high in subsidized foods and the development of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and other cardiometabolic risk factors in United States (US) Hispanics/Latinos. Using data from 16,172 Hispanics/Latino ’s living in the United States, we used the Cochran-Armitage test to assess the relationship between subsidized foods in the diets of participants and baseline characteristics. We used survey-weighted Poisson regression models to examine w...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 12, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Critical assessment of the effectiveness of different dust control measures in a granite quarry
This study evaluates the efficacy of various pollution control measures implemented in granite quarries. It aimed to provide a comprehensive critical assessment of the effectiveness of various dust control measures, considering their mechanisms, impact on air quality, and implications for worker health and community welfare. The strategy involved compiling and systematically analysing existing research articles, literature, and industry reports. The investigation identified three primary categories of measures: engineering controls, water-based suppression methods, and technological solutions. The study highlighted the sig...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 10, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Perceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among health professional students in Australia: a qualitative study
AbstractUsing two qualitative data sources: free-text responses to an open-ended question of an online survey and subsequent interviews and focus groups, we explored perceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among health professional students enrolled in Australian universities during the pandemic with data collected from October 2021 to April 2022. Students provided free-text responses to the open-ended question (n = 313) in the online survey and participated in interviews or focus groups (n = 17). Data analysis revealed three themes, includingperceptions of COVID-19 seriousness and the risk of contrac...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 9, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Correlation between tobacco control policies and tobacco prevention in Mexico: a sub-national analysis
This study aims to determinate the correlation between tobacco control policies (TCP) and the prevalence of tobacco use in the 32 Mexican states during the 2016 –2017 period. This is an ecological study that measured TCP by the Tobacco Control Scale (TCS) which assigns a score (0–100) based on the level of these component’s implementation: price, prohibition in public spaces, expenditures of public information campaigns, publicity prohibitions, health warnings, and treatments. We analyzed the associations between the TCS scores and prevalence of tobacco use extracted from the National Survey of Drug, Alcohol and Toba...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 4, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
“Because We Are Afraid”: voices of the undocumented in a new immigrant destination in the United States
AbstractThe purpose of this study is to explore immigrants ’ perceptions of their daily lives in a state with anti-immigrant policies in the United States. Using snowball sampling, researchers recruited a sample of 30 Latino immigrants in southwest Montana. The research team conducted semi-structured interviews in Spanish and analyzed the data using thema tic analysis. We identified four themes: difficulty accessing healthcare, frustration over the inability to obtain driver’s licenses, challenges related to employment, and desire to make a life in Montana. Fear permeated all topics. Lack of documentation presents comp...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - April 3, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Where is the money? Insights into China ’s post-COVID healthcare corruption-busting campaign
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 28, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Circumventing Iran's prohibition of alcoholic beverages through black markets: a deadly issue that needs to change policies
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - March 11, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
How denialist amplification spread COVID misinformation and undermined the credibility of public health science
AbstractDenialist scientists played an outsized role in shaping public opinion and determining public health policy during the recent COVID pandemic. From early on, amplification of researchers who denied the threat of COVID shaped public opinion and undermined public health policy. The forces that amplify denialists include (1) Motivated amplifiers seeking to protect their own interests by supporting denialist scientists, (2) Conventional media outlets giving disproportionate time to de nialist opinions, (3) Promoters of controversy seeking to gain traction in an ‘attention economy,’ and (4) Social media creating in...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 22, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 20, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Standing up for the people ’s health: the rainbow approach to fighting for health justice
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Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 8, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Certification and licensing of public health professionals in Taiwan
AbstractThis Viewpoint reviews the debate about whether the professionalization of public health practice should be approached through a certification and licensure system. It introduces the recent attempt at professionalizing public health in Taiwan with the newly enacted Public Health Specialists Act of 2020, regulating the Public Health Specialist (PHS) through a state-mandated certificate. The Viewpoint discusses the implications of this new PHS Act on Taiwan’s public health education and professionalization. The PHS model in Taiwan is one of the first of its kind around the globe. Advocat es of public health profe...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 7, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Segmentation and fragmentation of health systems and the quest for universal health coverage: conceptual clarifications from the Mexican case
AbstractHealth systems are complex entities. The Mexican health system includes the private and public sectors, and subsystems that target different populations based on corporatist criteria. Lack of unity and its consequences can be better understood using two concepts,segmentation andfragmentation. These reveal mechanisms and strategies that impede progress toward universality and equity in Mexico and other low- and middle-income countries.Segmentation refers to separation of the population by position in the labour market.Fragmentation refers to institutions, and to financial aspects, health care levels, states ’ sy...
Source: Journal of Public Health Policy - February 7, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
