{"title":"Mixed signals: The inadequacy of provider‐per‐enrollee ratios for assessing network adequacy in California (and elsewhere)","authors":"Simon F. Haeder, D. Weimer, D. Mukamel","doi":"10.1002/wmh3.466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/wmh3.466","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44463898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rana Mustafa, Sarah K Purdy, Fina B Nelson, Timothy J Tse, Daniel J Wiens, Jianheng Shen, Martin J T Reaney
{"title":"Canadian policy changes for alcohol-based hand rubs during the COVID-19 pandemic and unintended risks.","authors":"Rana Mustafa, Sarah K Purdy, Fina B Nelson, Timothy J Tse, Daniel J Wiens, Jianheng Shen, Martin J T Reaney","doi":"10.1002/wmh3.463","DOIUrl":"10.1002/wmh3.463","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic led to major changes in public policies to address supply chain disruption and escalated the price of consumer disinfectant products. To address market demands on alcohol-based hand rubs and disinfectants, Health Canada implemented major changes to the regulations regarding composition, handling, transportation, and packaging to insure product availability. Furthermore, accelerated licensing of ingredients and packaging did not meet standard medical quality guidelines yet were authorized for manufacturing and packaging of alcohol-based hand rubs and disinfectants. The accountability associated with these policy changes were reactive, including industry self-reporting, consumer reporting, and Health Canada advisories and recalls that were responsive to products after they were available in the market. Nonetheless, Canadian public health policy increased hand sanitizers availability. However, some of the interim policies have raised major public health concerns associated with ethanol quality, packaging, and labeling, and enforcement of regulations. In this paper, we review the changes in the Canadian regulations amid the current pandemic and we evaluate the unintended health risks that might arise from these changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8441665/pdf/WMH3-9999-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39451483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corona, climate, chronic emergency: War communism in the twenty‐first century Andreas Malm Verso, 2020, 215 pp. ISBN 9781839762178.","authors":"Sam Friedman","doi":"10.1002/WMH3.433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/WMH3.433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/WMH3.433","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A guide to the scientific career: Virtues, communication, research, and academic writing Edited by Mohammadali M. Shoja, Anastasia Arynchyna, Marios Loukas, Anthony V. D'Antoni, Sandra M. Buerger, Marion Karl, and R. Shane Tubbs Wiley Blackwell, 2020, 742 pp. ISBN: 9781118907429.","authors":"Prabakaran Shankar, Mohammed Alshakka","doi":"10.1002/WMH3.461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/WMH3.461","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/WMH3.461","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46239132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaster by choice. How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes Ilan Kelman Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN: 9780198841340.","authors":"Betty C. Jung","doi":"10.1002/WMH3.452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/WMH3.452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/WMH3.452","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48924425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming out to the streets: LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness Brandon A. Robinson California: University of California Press, 2020, 249 pp. PDF. eBook $29.95. ISBN 9780520971073.","authors":"Alexis I. Carraway","doi":"10.1002/WMH3.456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/WMH3.456","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/WMH3.456","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43650676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring the implications of the relationship between BMI and household consumptions for countries in transition","authors":"L. Fan, N. Habibov, Rong Luo, A. Auchynnikava","doi":"10.1002/WMH3.451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/WMH3.451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":"13 1","pages":"328-348"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/WMH3.451","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42742064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tales of two planets: Stories of climate change and inequality in a divided world (First) J. Freeman Penguin Books, 2020, 320 pp. ISBN 9780143133926 (paperback).","authors":"Ayushi Rai","doi":"10.1002/WMH3.453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/WMH3.453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":"13 1","pages":"395-396"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/WMH3.453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42628460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Call for the World Health Organization to Create International Classification of Disease Diagnostic Codes for Post-Intensive Care Syndrome in the Age of COVID-19.","authors":"Brian C Peach, Michael Valenti, Mary Lou Sole","doi":"10.1002/wmh3.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wmh3.401","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), a condition found in survivors of critical illness, is characterized by persistent physical, cognitive, and psychological sequelae that impact the quality of life after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU). At present, there are no International Classification of Disease (ICD) billing codes for this condition. Without financial alignment, clinicians cannot diagnose PICS, hindering tracking of its prevalence and impeding policy development for this condition. Clinicians should be screening for PICS in all survivors of critical illness, particularly those with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Results from single-center studies suggest over 75 percent of ARDS survivors develop PICS. With nearly 5 percent of patients with COVID-19 requiring ICU admission for ARDS, it is important for clinicians to be able to diagnose PICS in survivors, and researchers to be able to track it. Member states should impress upon the World Health Organization to create ICD-10 codes for PICS.</p>","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":"13 2","pages":"373-382"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/wmh3.401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25564595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana M Progovac, Nathaniel M Tran, Brian O Mullin, Juliana De Mello Libardi Maia, Timothy B Creedon, Emilia Dunham, Sari L Reisner, Alex McDowell, Natalie Bird, María José Sánchez Román, Mason Dunn, Cynthia Telingator, Frederick Lu, Aaron Samuel Breslow, Marshall Forstein, Benjamin Lê Cook
{"title":"Elevated Rates of Violence Victimization and Suicide Attempt Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients in an Urban, Safety Net Health System.","authors":"Ana M Progovac, Nathaniel M Tran, Brian O Mullin, Juliana De Mello Libardi Maia, Timothy B Creedon, Emilia Dunham, Sari L Reisner, Alex McDowell, Natalie Bird, María José Sánchez Román, Mason Dunn, Cynthia Telingator, Frederick Lu, Aaron Samuel Breslow, Marshall Forstein, Benjamin Lê Cook","doi":"10.1002/wmh3.403","DOIUrl":"10.1002/wmh3.403","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The extent to which violent victimization may explain higher rates of suicidality for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) populations is not well-understood. We identified likely-TGD patients using 2008-2019 electronic health record data and compared them with non-TGD patients to characterize differences in suicide attempt, ideation, and violent victimization. TGD patients (n = 916) had more suicide attempts (5.2 vs. 0.4 percent), ideation (20.5 vs. 1.8 percent), and violent victimization (5.4 vs. 1.7 percent, all p < .001) than non-TGDs (n = 511,026). Violent victimization and TGD cohort were independent predictors of suicide attempt (odds ratios [ORs], 7.23 and 10.84) and ideation (ORs, 6.83 and 11.03, all p < .001). We did not observe a differential impact of violent victimization for gender minorities. TGD patients are at higher baseline risk for suicidality, which is higher still for those experiencing violent victimization. Routine screening for both outcomes, including in primary care settings, may improve treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":44943,"journal":{"name":"World Medical & Health Policy","volume":" ","pages":"176-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11867620/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45823575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}