JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2814
Crystal D Taylor, A Mark Fendrick, Lesly A Dossett
{"title":"Redefining Cancer Screening Coverage-Screening to Diagnosis.","authors":"Crystal D Taylor, A Mark Fendrick, Lesly A Dossett","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2814","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2814","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e242814"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11453166/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332196","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3008
Claudia Côté-Picard, Danielle M Coombs, Qiang Li, Chris G Maher, Gustavo C Machado
{"title":"Shifting From Opioids to Simple Analgesics for Emergency Care of Patients With Low Back Pain: A Secondary Analysis of the SHAPED Cluster Randomized Trial.","authors":"Claudia Côté-Picard, Danielle M Coombs, Qiang Li, Chris G Maher, Gustavo C Machado","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3008","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e243008"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11437380/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332197","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2802
Margae J Knox, Elizabeth A Hernandez, Jennifer Ahern, Daniel M Brown, Hector P Rodriguez, Mark D Fleming, Amanda L Brewster
{"title":"Rental Housing Deposits and Health Care Use.","authors":"Margae J Knox, Elizabeth A Hernandez, Jennifer Ahern, Daniel M Brown, Hector P Rodriguez, Mark D Fleming, Amanda L Brewster","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2802","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.2802","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Housing deposits and tenancy supports have become new Medicaid benefits in multiple states; however, evidence on impacts from these specific housing interventions is limited.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the association of rental housing deposits and health care use among Medicaid beneficiaries receiving social needs case management as part of a Whole-Person Care (Medicaid 1115 waiver) pilot program in California.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cohort study compared changes in health care use among a group of adults who received a housing deposit between October 2018 and December 2021 along with case management vs a matched comparison group who received case management only in Contra Costa County, California, a large county in the San Francisco Bay Area. All participants were enrolled in health and social needs case management based on elevated risk of acute care use. Data analysis took place from March 2023 to June 2024.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Rental housing deposit funds that covered 1-time moving transition costs. Funds averaged $1750 per recipient.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Changes in hospitalizations, emergency department visits, primary care visits, specialty care visits, behavioral health visits, psychiatric emergency services, or detention intakes during the 6 months before vs 6 months after deposit receipt. Changes 12 months before and after deposit receipt were examined as a sensitivity analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 1690 case management participants, 845 received a housing deposit (362 [42.8%] <40 years old; 422 [49.9%] male) and 845 received case management only (367 [43.4%] <40 years old; 426 [50.4%] male). In adjusted analyses, deposit recipients had no statistically significant differential changes in health care use for any measure compared to participants who received case management alone. Twelve-month sensitivity analyses yielded consistent results.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this cohort study, compared to case management only, housing deposits with case management were not associated with short-term changes in health care use. There may be other unmeasured health benefits or downstream benefits from greater case management engagement. States considering housing deposits as an expanded Medicaid benefit may need to temper expectations about short-term health care use impacts.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e242802"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11380099/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141753","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3128
Lin Yang, Adetunji T Toriola
{"title":"Menopausal Hormone Therapy Use Among Postmenopausal Women.","authors":"Lin Yang, Adetunji T Toriola","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3128","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) is the treatment of choice for symptoms of menopause. However, its adoption is hindered by the risk-benefit trade-off in relation to acute and chronic diseases.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate trends in and correlates of MHT use among postmenopausal women in the US from 1999 to March 2020.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This serial cross-sectional analysis of MHT use used data from the nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Participants included noninstitutionalized US postmenopausal women from 10 NHANES study cycles (1999-2000 to 2017-March 2020 [pre-COVID-19 pandemic]). Data were analyzed from December 2023 to April 2024.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>NHANES study cycle.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Prevalence of MHT use was extracted from the prescription medication data collected during NHANES household interviews. MHT formulations were determined by hormone type.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data on 13 048 US postmenopausal women (47.1% ≥65 years old) were analyzed. From 1999 to 2020, the prevalence of MHT use decreased among women of all age groups, from 26.9% (95% CI, 22.6%-31.7%) in 1999 to 4.7% (95% CI, 3.4%-6.5%) in 2020. Until 2002, MHT use was highest among women aged 52 to 65 years, but since 2005, MHT use has been highest among women younger than 52 years. MHT use decreased by 23.5% (95% CI, 11.4%-35.6%), 31.4% (95% CI, 23.4%-39.5%), and 10.6% (95% CI, 6.3%-14.8%) for women younger than 52 years, 52 years to younger than 65 years, and 65 years and older, respectively. Prevalence of MHT use decreased from 13.8% (95% CI, 8.5%-21.7%) to 2.6% (95% CI, 1.5%-4.6%) for Hispanic women, 11.9% (95% CI, 8.5%-16.3%) to 0.5% (95% CI, 0.2%-1.1%) for non-Hispanic Black women, and 31.4% (95% CI, 27.1%-36.1%) to 5.8% (95% CI, 4.1%-8.2%) for non-Hispanic White women. Non-Hispanic White women consistently had the highest prevalence of MHT use. Estrogen-only formulation accounted for more than 50% of the MHT for most study periods. The prevalence of MHT use varied by family income-to-poverty ratio, health insurance coverage in all racial and ethnic groups, weight, and smoking status among non-Hispanic White women, as well as by education attainment among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic women.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Results of this cross-sectional study show that over the past 2 decades, MHT use declined among US postmenopausal women of all age and racial and ethnic groups. Women of racial and ethnic minority groups had lower prevalence of MHT use compared to non-Hispanic White women.</p>","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e243128"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11437377/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332195","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3135
Tara K Iyer, JoAnn E Manson
{"title":"Recent Trends in Menopausal Hormone Therapy Use in the US: Insights, Disparities, and Implications for Practice.","authors":"Tara K Iyer, JoAnn E Manson","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3135","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e243135"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142336631","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3404
{"title":"Error in Supplement.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e243404"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11437392/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332192","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3176
Kevin H Nguyen, Timothy W Levengood, Allegra R Gordon, Leesh Menard, Heidi L Allen, Gilbert Gonzales
{"title":"Inequities in Self-Reported Social Risk Factors by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.","authors":"Kevin H Nguyen, Timothy W Levengood, Allegra R Gordon, Leesh Menard, Heidi L Allen, Gilbert Gonzales","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3176","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Sexual minority (ie, people who self-identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and other nonheterosexual identities) and gender minority (ie, people who self-identify as transgender, nonbinary, or other noncisgender identities) adults report worse health outcomes compared with heterosexual and cisgender adults, respectively. Although social risk factors (SRFs; eg, housing instability) are associated with health outcomes, little is known about the prevalence of SRFs among sexual and gender minority adults.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To examine differences in the prevalence of SRFs by sexual orientation and gender identity among adults.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cross-sectional study used Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data collected from January 2022 to February 2023 for adults aged 18 years or older residing in 22 US states.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Self-reported sexual orientation and gender identity.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Outcome measures were dissatisfaction with life, lack of emotional support, social isolation, employment loss in the past 12 months, Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program participation in the past 12 months, insufficient food, inability to pay bills, inability to pay utilities, lack of transportation, and stress. Survey weights were applied. Multivariable linear regression models were used to measure the association between sexual orientation and gender identity for each outcome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study sample comparing outcomes by sexual orientation included 178 803 individuals: 84 881 men (48.5%; 92.9% heterosexual; 7.1% sexual minority) and 93 922 women (51.5%; 89.4% heterosexual; 10.6% sexual minority). The study sample comparing outcomes by gender identity included 182 690 adults (99.2% cisgender; 0.8% gender minority). Of sexual minority women, 58.1% reported at least 1 SRF compared with 36.5% of heterosexual women. Sexual minority women were significantly more likely to report social isolation (difference, 7.4 percentage points [PP]; 95% CI, 4.9-10.0 PP) and stress (difference, 12.2 PP; 95% CI, 9.8-14.7 PP) compared with heterosexual women. A greater proportion of sexual minority men (51.1%) reported at least 1 SRF than heterosexual men (34.0%); the largest magnitudes of inequity were in dissatisfaction with life (difference, 7.9 PP; 95% CI, 5.8-10.1 PP) and stress (difference, 6.7 PP; 95% CI, 4.5-8.9 PP). Of gender minority adults, 64.1% reported at least 1 SRF compared with cisgender adults (37.1%). Gender minority adults were significantly more likely to report social isolation (difference, 14.8 PP; 95% CI, 9.9-19.7 PP) and stress (difference, 17.0 PP; 95% CI, 11.9-22.1 PP).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this cross-sectional study, sexual and gender minority adults were significantly more likely to report multiple SRFs. These findings suggest that policie","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e243176"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11437382/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332194","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0534
{"title":"JAMA Health Forum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.0534","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e240534"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141751","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3713
Sara N Bleich, Juliana Cohen, Erica Kenney
{"title":"It Is Back to School Time-The Status of Healthy School Meals for All Students.","authors":"Sara N Bleich, Juliana Cohen, Erica Kenney","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e243713"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142300713","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}
JAMA Health ForumPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3368
Larry Levitt
{"title":"Medical Debt-The Canary in the Coal Mine for Health Care Affordability.","authors":"Larry Levitt","doi":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3368","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3368","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53180,"journal":{"name":"JAMA Health Forum","volume":"5 9","pages":"e243368"},"PeriodicalIF":9.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142134417","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}