Top Research Papers on Health

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory, empirical evidence, and public policy. The ninth edition offers updated material throughout, including two new chapters: Disparities in Health and Health Care (Chapter 7) examines issues of race, ethnicity, income, gender, and geography with respect to health care access, health inputs, and health outcomes; Pandemic Economics (Chapter 9) introduces a new and simplified economic treatment of epidemics and pandemics within...

Using a socioecological framework, interacting domains of individual, social, and contextual influences on sleep health are described, which suggest a multilevel approach is needed for addressing disparities in sleep health.

This chapter synthesizes what is known about the relationship between social disadvantage and measures of low health literacy (LHL), and reviews the research examining whether LHL is an explanatory factor connecting social disadvantage, health outcomes, and health disparities.

Probability and nonprobability‐based studies of US transgender persons identify different disparities in health and health care access.

This work discusses major empirical findings and theoretical implications of health care utilization, barriers to care, health behaviors, and health outcomes, which demonstrate how SGMs continue to experience structural- and interactional-level inequalities across health and medicine.

This study seeks to introduce the construct of financial health into the domain of public health as a useful root term that underlies other individual measures of economic hardship and demonstrate through outcomes on financial, physical and mental health among low-income caregivers of young children that it belongs in the canon of social determinants of health.

A history of community health workers integration with health care in the United States is provided; evidence of the impact of CHW programs on population health, experience, costs of care, and health equity is described; and considerations for CHW program expansion are identified.

The readers will find a wealth of knowledge and new insight concerning sharing concepts, and implications of health promotion particularly in health care, and an updated summary of significant salutogenic notions that serve as resources for well-being and health enhancement in this book.

Six vital directions to improve the care and quality of life for all older Americans are identified as part of the National Academy of Medicine's Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2021 initiative.

An overview of generic HRQoL measures used widely in epidemiological studies, health services research, population studies, and randomized clinical trials is provided and hybrid measures such as the SF-6D and the PROMIS-Preference are considered.

Future health literacy intervention research should focus on improving the quality of health communication that reaches a diversity of populations, especially by improving frontline professional skills and support.

It is argued that SDGs can do so, ultimately advancing health while offering co-benefits across society, and if and how the Sustainable Development Goals can support intersectoral collaboration to promote health.

This open access book is a practical introduction to multilevel modelling or multileVEL analysis (MLA) – a statistical technique being increasingly used in public health and health services research and guides the analysis of real-life data sets.

China has experienced many drastic social and economic changes and shifts in people's lifestyles since the 1990s, in parallel with the fast rising prevalence of obesity. About half of adults and a fifth of children have overweight or obesity according to the Chinese criteria, making China the country with the highest number of people with overweight or obesity in the world. Assuming that observed time trends would continue in the future, we projected the prevalence of and the number of people affected by overweight and obesity by 2030, and the associated medical costs. The rising incidence of ...

The second edition of this book contains 32 chapters divided into 4 main sections that discuss the theoretical foundations of One health; methods, skills and perspectives for the practice of One Health; the application of Onehealth in infectious and non-infectious diseases and governance and capacity building.

It is hypothesize that the addition of structural determinants and root causes will identify racism as a cause of inequities in maternal health outcomes, as many of the social and political structures and policies in the United States were born out of racism, classism, and gender oppression.

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the North of England. It relates this evidence to long-term trends taking place in patterns of health in Britain as a whole and explores how far health inequalities can be explained by variations in material deprivation. The book provides a detailed examination of the correlation between health and wealth, or ill-health and deprivation in Britain in the 20th century but the book has an enduring relevance as the Covid Pandemic has once again shown that regi...

Evidence for the benefits and possible risks associated with consumption of cow’s milk and the relationship of milk consumption to the r...

Co-ordinated approaches at the individual, community and society levels are needed to reduce loneliness.

This work endeavors to define health as a compendium of organizational and dynamic features that maintain physiology, including features of spatial compartmentalization, maintenance of homeostasis over time, and an array of adequate responses to stress.

The problem of antibiotic resistance should be understood within the framework of socioeconomic and ecological efforts to ensure the sustainability of human development and the associated human–natural ecosystem interactions.

The governance of oceans and health interactions (especially in Europe) is described, and a list of elements for potential future research priorities on oceans and human health is proposed.

Seven Latin American countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru (LAC-7) have made great efforts to strengthen their primary health care systems over the past decades.This contributed to some important health outcomes.Life expectancy at birth has increased in LAC-7 countries, reaching 78.5 years on average in 2019 (a gain of 3 years since 2000 compared to 3.6 years across other OECD countries).Infant mortality has been halved over the past two decades, going from 21 deaths per 1 000 live births in 2000 to 10.8 in 2020.However, the COVID-19 pandemic inflected a la...

The results indicate that chronic conditions are strongly associated with food insecurity and higher health care spending, and efforts to alleviate food insecurity should consider the dual burden of chronic conditions.

Evidence demonstrating that trans adults in the USA are affected by disparities in physical and mental health and in access to health care, relative to cisgender (nontrans) persons is synthesized.

The olfactory nuisance, due to the emissions of active molecules, is mainly associated with unproperly managed waste disposal and animal farming, and the relationship between toxicity and odor nuisance should be always analyzed in detail evaluating on the characteristics of the airborne mixture and the type of the source involved.

One Digital Health aims to digitally transform future health ecosystems, by implementing a systemic health and life sciences approach that takes into account broad digital technology perspectives on human health, animal health, and the management of the surrounding environment.

The review shows that the wearable medical devices developed so far have been designed for use on all parts of the human body, including the head, limbs, and torso, and predicts that with the development of science and technology and the popularization of personalized health concepts, wearable devices will play a greater role in the field of health care and become better integrated into people’s daily lives.

For over 15-years, proponents of the One Health approach have worked to consistently interweave components that should never have been separated and now more than ever need to be re-connected: the health of humans, non-human animals, and ecosystems.

The reviewed studies indicated that OHI assisted in making subsequent health related decisions such as asking questions during a consultation, increased professional visits, improved adherence to the advice of a physician, being more compliant with taking medication, and improved self-care.

There is a range of educational offerings on climate-health, gaps in those offerings at many institutions, and challenges and opportunities for instituting or developing curricula.

This Comment sets out a practical approach to protecting the mental health of health-care workers based on contemporary evidence.

The future resilience of healthcare services will depend on having sufficient numbers of nurses who are adequately resourced to face the coming challenges, including pan‐national infections such as the new coronavirus COVID‐19.

Implementing digital health in cancer care must address variability of digital health literacy in recipients, including groups living with disadvantage and older and younger people, in order to be effective.

Adolescents follow the health authorities' guidelines and appear highly literate, however, high fidelity requires great sacrifice because the required measures seem to collide with certain aspects that are important for the adolescents' HRQoL.

This Health Policy paper compares three types of health systems in their response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and synthesises four essential recommendations to reimagine governance, policies, and investments for better health towards a more sustainable future.

National spending estimates stratified by health condition, age group, sex, type of care, and type of payer and modeled for each year from 1996 through 2016 show low back and neck pain had the highest amount of health care spending in 2016.

Spending for all patients with ESKD in the individual market and Medicare, who might not represent patients who are targeted by the steering efforts of facilities, and whether patients receive other cost-sharing assistance is examined.

A multilevel systems framework is applied to assist in understanding the diverse and complex interactions of forces affecting worker health and wellbeing, and how trending changes in employment and working conditions have been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Findings from a large, multinational survey of health professionals that examined their views of climate change as a human health issue are reported and recommendations on how to strengthen and support health professional education and advocacy activities to address the human health challenges ofClimate change are offered.