{"title":"Street Trees and Public Health.","authors":"Alistair Woodward, Kirsty Wild","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307931","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307931","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"119-120"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715576/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142783953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Subscription Form.","authors":"","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.2.240","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.2.240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 2","pages":"240"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715589/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142942686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Ban and Perpetual Punishment for Justice-Affected Populations.","authors":"Kimberly R Dong","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307943","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307943","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"113-115"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715569/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margaret A Kadree, Patrick Wiggins, Lura Thompson, Cynthia Warriner, Michelle White
{"title":"Evaluation of a Chronic Care Management Model for Improving Efficiency and Fiscal Sustainability.","authors":"Margaret A Kadree, Patrick Wiggins, Lura Thompson, Cynthia Warriner, Michelle White","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307886","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307886","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chronic care management is effective. Barriers to program durability include dependence on the provider-nurse duo to carry out labor-intensive services and the lack of a fiscally sustainable model. Between January and October 2022, an expanded chronic care management team-consisting of a provider, nurse, community health worker, and pharmacist-conducted a four-month intervention in an ambulatory setting. This intervention, using a convenience sample of 134 Medicare patients with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes or hypertension, demonstrated statistically significant improvements in controlling type 2 diabetes (<i>P</i> < .01) and blood pressure (<i>P</i> < .001). Direct provider workload decreased, and the Medicare reimbursement rate was 85.5%. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(2):133-137. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307886).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"133-137"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715579/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hridika Shah, Alexander D McCourt, Sachini Bandara
{"title":"Laws Limiting Access to SNAP Benefits for People With Felony Drug Convictions: A Policy-Mapping Study.","authors":"Hridika Shah, Alexander D McCourt, Sachini Bandara","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307873","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307873","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To map US state Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) bans for individuals with felony drug convictions between 2004 and 2021. <b>Methods.</b> Using standard legal-mapping methodology, we categorized states as maintaining the lifetime ban imposed by federal law, modifying the lifetime ban, or fully opting out of the lifetime ban in each year. Among states with modified bans in 2021, we coded types of modifications. <b>Results.</b> As of 2021, 26 states and the District of Columbia fully opted out of the lifetime ban, 23 states modified bans, and 1 state maintained a lifetime ban. Among states with modified bans in 2021, 13 states required compliance with parole and probation, 12 states required drug treatment, 7 states required drug testing, and 9 states limited eligibility to certain populations. <b>Conclusions.</b> Most states effectively de-implemented the federal lifetime ban on SNAP for people with felony drug convictions by fully opting out or modifying bans over time. However, some states still had stringent modified ban provisions. <b>Public Health Implications.</b> These findings underscore the need to study the effects of this patchwork of drug conviction-related ban policies on substance use and nutrition-related outcomes. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(2):170-177. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307873).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"170-177"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715572/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David B Buller, Julia Berteletti, Carolyn Heckman, Kevin R J Schroth, Alan C Geller, Jerod L Stapleton, Irene Adjei, Anna Mitarotondo, Samantha R Guild, Jeffrey E Gershenwald, Robert Dellavalle, Sherry Pagoto
{"title":"Bills to Restrict Access to and Harm From Indoor Tanning Facilities in US State Legislatures, 1992‒2023.","authors":"David B Buller, Julia Berteletti, Carolyn Heckman, Kevin R J Schroth, Alan C Geller, Jerod L Stapleton, Irene Adjei, Anna Mitarotondo, Samantha R Guild, Jeffrey E Gershenwald, Robert Dellavalle, Sherry Pagoto","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307894","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307894","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To describe progression, content, and stringency of state legislation regulating indoor tanning and association with state government political party leadership. <b>Methods.</b> Trained research assistants used legal mapping methods to code legislative bills on indoor tanning introduced in US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. We calculated composite scores on the stringency of age restrictions and of warnings, operator requirements, and enforcement. We evaluated associations of the political party of the legislative sponsor and legislature majority. <b>Results.</b> Between 1992 and 2023, 184 bills were introduced in 49 of 50 states and DC (56 laws were enacted, and 126 bills failed). An under-18 ban was enacted in 22 states and DC. Party affiliation of the bill sponsor and legislature majority combined to affect bill passage and age restrictions. <b>Conclusions.</b> In many states, it took several years and proposed bills before a law on indoor tanning was enacted. Enacted bills were more stringent than failed bills. <b>Public Health Implications.</b> Increasing support for stringent regulations on indoor tanning is evident and may motivate other states or the federal government to prohibit minors from using indoor tanning facilities. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(2):191-200. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307894).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"191-200"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715574/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142685766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine V Williams, Mary G Krauland, Lee H Harrison, John V Williams, Mark S Roberts, Richard K Zimmerman
{"title":"Influenza Vaccination, Household Composition, and Race-Based Differences in Influenza Incidence: An Agent-Based Modeling Study.","authors":"Katherine V Williams, Mary G Krauland, Lee H Harrison, John V Williams, Mark S Roberts, Richard K Zimmerman","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307878","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307878","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To estimate the effect of influenza vaccination disparities. <b>Methods.</b> We compared symptomatic influenza cases between Black and White races in 2 scenarios: (1) race- and age-specific vaccination coverage and (2) equal vaccination coverage. We also compared differences in household composition between races. We used the Framework for Reconstructing Epidemiological Dynamics, an agent-based model that assigns US Census‒based age, race, households, and geographic location to agents (individual people), in US counties of varying racial and age composition. <b>Results.</b> Influenza cases were highest in counties with higher proportions of children. Cases were up to 30% higher in Black agents with both race-based and race-equal vaccination coverage. Compared with corresponding categories of White households, cases in Black households without children were lower and with children were higher. <b>Conclusions.</b> Racial disparities in influenza cases persisted after equalizing vaccination coverage. The proportion of children in the population contributed to the number of influenza cases regardless of race. Differences in household composition may provide insight into racial differences and offer an opportunity to improve vaccination coverage to reduce influenza burden for both races. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(2):209-216. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307878).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"209-216"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715590/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142612126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia M Goodman, Anna Steeves-Reece, Dawn M Richardson
{"title":"A Research Agenda to Maximize the Health Equity Impacts of Paid Family and Medical Leave Policies.","authors":"Julia M Goodman, Anna Steeves-Reece, Dawn M Richardson","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307929","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"129-131"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715587/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142783944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zainab Hans, Daniel B Lee, Marc A Zimmerman, Douglas J Wiebe
{"title":"Legacy of Racism and Firearm Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.","authors":"Zainab Hans, Daniel B Lee, Marc A Zimmerman, Douglas J Wiebe","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307891","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307891","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To examine whether, through interactions with preexisting socioeconomic status vulnerabilities, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated exposure to firearm violence among communities with a legacy of redlining (i.e., grading the creditworthiness of neighborhoods based on their sociodemographic composition). <b>Methods.</b> We used an exogenous population threshold whereby the Home Owners Loan Corporation graded neighborhoods only in US cities with populations of more than 40 000 and used a difference-in-difference strategy to examine the evolution of fatal firearm incidents between 2017 and October 2022. <b>Results.</b> After the COVID-19 pandemic began, fatal firearm violence increased significantly in low-graded neighborhoods that the Home Owners Loan Corporation had deemed risky for mortgage lending. The effect held consistently across various model specifications. <b>Conclusions.</b> Social and environmental constructs can interact in a complex manner to compound disadvantage and exacerbate the consequences of negative shocks for marginalized communities. <b>Public Health Implications.</b> Home Owners Loan Corporation policies contributed to widening racial disparities in firearm violence, highlighting the need for reinvestment in marginalized communities to keep future shocks from exacerbating vulnerability to adverse outcomes. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(2):161-169. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307891).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"161-169"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11715588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142602649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}