Medicaid Expansion and Health Care Use Among Adults With Asthma and Low Incomes: The Adult Asthma Call-Back Survey
CONCLUSIONS: Investigating factors other than health insurance (eg, social determinants of health) that influence the use of asthma-related health care could advance knowledge of potential strategies to advance health equity for adults with asthma and lower incomes.PMID:38357871 | DOI:10.1177/00333549241228501 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - February 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Xiaoting Qin Maria C Mirabelli W Dana Flanders Joy Hsu Source Type: research
Association Between Social Vulnerability and SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Specimens Collected From Commercial Laboratories, United States, September 2021-February 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Among both children and adults, and during both the Delta and Omicron periods, counties with high SVI had significantly higher SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence than counties with low SVI did. These disparities reinforce SVI's value in identifying communities that need tailored prevention efforts during public health emergencies and resources to recover from their effects.PMID:38357883 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231223140 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - February 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tina J Benoit Yun Kim Yangyang Deng Zheng Li Lee Harding Ryan Wiegand Xiaoyi Deng Jefferson M Jones Iachan Ronaldo Kristie E N Clarke Source Type: research
Hepatitis C Virus Testing, Infection, and Cases Reported Through Public Health Surveillance During Expanded Screening Recommendations, United States, 2013-2021
CONCLUSIONS: HCV testing increased, suggesting improved universal screening. Various data sources are valuable for monitoring elimination progress.PMID:38344828 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231224199 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kathleen N Ly Justin K Niles Ruth B Jiles Harvey W Kaufman Mark K Weng Priti Patel William A Meyer William W Thompson Nicola D Thompson Source Type: research
Public Health Accountability in Action: The King County Pandemic and Racism Community Advisory Group
Public Health Rep. 2024 Feb 12:333549231223923. doi: 10.1177/00333549231223923. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAfter a tumultuous 3 years of pandemic-, political-, and race-related unrest in the United States, the public is demanding accountability to communities of color (defined here as American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and Hispanic people) to rectify historic and contemporary injustices that perpetuate health inequities and threaten public health. Structural racism pervades all major societal systems and exposes people to detrimental social determinants of health. Disrupting s...
Source: Public Health Reports - February 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kirsten Wysen Mat ías Valenzuela Wendy E Barrington Yordanos Teferi Aselefech Evans Bereket Kiros Michelle Merriweather Martha Zuniga Source Type: research
Cost Analysis of Implementing a 12-Month Recertification Criterion for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program's AIDS Drug Assistance Program in Washington State
CONCLUSIONS: Switching to a less frequent recertification process may improve health outcomes at a modest increase in cost in Washington State.PMID:38327231 | DOI:10.1177/00333549241227118 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - February 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Steven Erly Julia C Dombrowski Christine Khosropour Jennifer R Reuer Kandis Boersema Monisha Sharma Source Type: research
Growing Concern About Unsheltered Homelessness Among Veterans: Clinical Characteristics and Engagement in Health Care Services
CONCLUSIONS: Contemporary unsheltered homeless veterans are younger and Hispanic with some college education. Innovative public health approaches that better engage and reduce barriers to entry need to be tested for a diverse unsheltered homeless population.PMID:38323557 | DOI:10.1177/00333549241227155 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - February 7, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rebecca L Kinney Dorota Szymkowiak Jack Tsai Source Type: research
Telemedicine Trends and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Pandemic-World Trade Center Health Program, 2020-2021
Public Health Rep. 2024 Feb 1:333549231223143. doi: 10.1177/00333549231223143. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program, a limited federal health care program for eligible people exposed to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, expanded telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021). We analyzed service use trends from January 2020 through December 2021 to describe how the program implemented telemedicine services. About three-quarters (75%) of telemedicine visits were for mental health-related services. In the second quarter of 2020 (April-June), the number of teleme...
Source: Public Health Reports - February 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Alejandro Azofeifa Ruiling Liu Hannah Dupont Dori B Reissman Source Type: research
< em > MMWR < /em > Supplement on National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women-Seven Urban Areas, United States, 2019-2020
Public Health Rep. 2024 Jan 29:333549241231190. doi: 10.1177/00333549241231190. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38284159 | DOI:10.1177/00333549241231190 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - January 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: B Kaye Hayes Adrian Shanker Source Type: research
Federal Student Loan Debt in Public Health and the Opportunities for Loan Repayment Programs
CONCLUSIONS: As policy makers attempt to strengthen the public health workforce with a focus on funding and implementing the PHWLRP, the existing levels of student debt should be considered to ensure that programs such as the PHWLRP are funded and reflect the needs of graduates and government public health employers.PMID:38284160 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231223712 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - January 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Margaret Tait Emily Burke Tim Leshan Adriane Casalotti Heather Krasna Jonathon P Leider Source Type: research
Fluidity in Reporting Gender Identity Labels in a Sample of Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults, Los Angeles, California, and New Orleans, Louisiana, 2017-2019
CONCLUSIONS: Gender identity labels varied over time, suggesting that misclassification may occur if data from a single time point are used to define gender identity. Our study lays the foundation for launching studies to elucidate the associations between shifting gender identities and health outcomes.PMID:38284562 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231223922 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - January 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Manuel A Ocasio M Isabel Fernandez Demi H S Ward Marguerita Lightfoot Dallas Swendeman Gary W Harper Source Type: research
The Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Study: Methods and Initial Outcomes From an 18-Month Study of Patients in Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
CONCLUSIONS: Our results demonstrated the benefits of treatment retention not only on abstinence from opioid use but also on other quality-of-life metrics, with data collected during an extended period. The MOUD Study produced rich, multilevel data that can lay the foundation for an evidence base to inform OUD treatment and support improvement of care and patient outcomes.PMID:38268479 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231222479 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - January 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jill A Dever Marci F Hertz Laura J Dunlap John S Richardson Sara Beth Wolicki Bradley B Biggers Mark J Edlund Michele K Bohm Didier Turcios Xinyi Jiang Hong Zhou Mary E Evans Gery P Guy Source Type: research
Leveraging Public Health and Public School Partnerships for Local Surveillance of Positive Childhood Experiences
Public Health Rep. 2024 Jan 24:333549231223707. doi: 10.1177/00333549231223707. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChildhood psychosocial experiences can have a lifelong effect on health. These experiences can be measured together as positive and adverse childhood experiences or individually as positive childhood experiences (PCEs) or adverse childhood experiences. Most research on PCEs has focused on how PCEs promote health outcomes. However, limited research has been conducted on the prevalence of PCEs among adolescents in local areas served by public health departments. The St. Joseph County Department of Health developed a ...
Source: Public Health Reports - January 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Frank Spesia Nancy Swigonski Cassy White Mark D Fox Brett Enneking Source Type: research
Lessons Learned From Implementation of Mpox Surveillance During an Outbreak Response in Tennessee, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Future emerging infectious disease responses would benefit from standardized surveillance approaches that facilitate rapid implementation. Closer collaboration among informatics, laboratory, and clinical partners across jurisdictions and agencies in determining system priorities and designing workflow processes could improve flexibility of the surveillance platform and completeness and timeliness of laboratory reporting. Improved timeliness will facilitate public health response and intervention, thereby mitigating morbidity.PMID:38264963 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231223710 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - January 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Christine M Thomas Julie Shaffner Renee Johnson Caleb Wiedeman Mary-Margaret A Fill Timothy F Jones William Schaffner John R Dunn Source Type: research
An Evaluation of Messages to Promote Parental Intent to Vaccinate Children Aged & lt;12 Years Against COVID-19
CONCLUSIONS: Messages with themes of individual choice, health care provider recommendation, and altruism/community good may be used in future message campaigns. Further research is needed to refine message concepts related to altruism/community good.PMID:38240243 | PMC:PMC10851906 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231218725 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - January 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Isabella L Chan Kelsey Schwarz Nicole Weinstein Gordon Mansergh Ramzi W Nahhas Deborah Gelaude Robert Alexander Leslie Rodriguez Warren Strauss Torey Repetski Nancy Sullivan Everett Long Steve L Evener Adrienne Garbarino Laura M Mercer Kollar Source Type: research
Lessons Learned From Adolescent COVID-19 Vaccine Administration in Medically Underserved Communities
CONCLUSIONS: This assessment of the initial months of COVID-19 vaccine administration among adolescent health center patients suggests rapid response by health centers in several states, reaching beyond their adolescent patient population to support state-level pandemic response. Future research could examine processes to optimize strategic activation of health centers in public health emergency responses.PMID:38240272 | PMC:PMC10851897 | DOI:10.1177/00333549231218723 (Source: Public Health Reports)
Source: Public Health Reports - January 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sue C Lin Julie Fife Donney Lydie A Lebrun-Harris Source Type: research
