{"title":"Wellness Coaching in a Summer Internship Program to Address the Mental Health Pandemic Among College Students, 2022-2023.","authors":"Sadé Mulkey,Christopher Knaub,Mishelle Rodriguez,Dana Thomas,Hallie Williams,Mariya Bahrenburg,Paul J Fleming","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308014","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we describe and present evaluation data for an innovative initiative and approach that integrate a wellness program into a summer pathway program for underrepresented undergraduate students in public health to address the students' mental health needs. This collaborative partnership and integrated wellness approach provide opportunities for summer programs at academic institutions to creatively address the needs of the students they serve. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print April 17, 2025:e1-e4. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308014).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"137 1","pages":"e1-e4"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143849546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tuyet Mai Ha Hoang,Radia DeLuna,Elise Albertson,Ainslee Wong,Aaron Santoyo,Victoria Ferrara
{"title":"Beyond Boundaries: Navigating Challenges and Charting the Future of Reproductive Health Care in the Post-Roe Landscape.","authors":"Tuyet Mai Ha Hoang,Radia DeLuna,Elise Albertson,Ainslee Wong,Aaron Santoyo,Victoria Ferrara","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308084","url":null,"abstract":"We explored the challenges facing abortion providers after Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization was decided in 2022. We conducted six focus groups with 26 abortion providers between October 2023 and April 2024. Two themes emerged: (1) there was a lack of comprehensive patient care, and (2) we must forge a collective future for reproductive health. Our findings demonstrate that abortion bans contribute directly to the increasing burden on providers and to diminishing resources. We identify recommendations and multilevel solutions from stakeholders to address care coordination challenges. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print April 17, 2025:e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308084).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"17 1","pages":"e1-e5"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143849560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David H Jernigan,Katrina Forrest,Catherine Patterson,Brian Castrucci
{"title":"Passing Policies That Promote Urban Health: Lessons From the CityHealth Project.","authors":"David H Jernigan,Katrina Forrest,Catherine Patterson,Brian Castrucci","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308036","url":null,"abstract":"Cities are important laboratories for cross-sectoral collaboration and advancing equity. CityHealth, a project of the de Beaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, used legal epidemiology to identify, score, and promote nine city-level policies important to population health in the 40 largest US cities from 2017 to 2021. The project supported 86 policy changes over five years. These results demonstrate possibilities for encouraging passage of city-level health-enhancing policies and the need to move beyond scoring and ranking to direct policy advocacy. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print April 10, 2025:e1-e4. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308036).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"25 1","pages":"e1-e4"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebastià March,José Miguel Carrasco,Álvaro Flores-Balado,Aitana Muñoz-Haba,Ana Pereira-Iglesias,Gustavo Andrés Zaragoza
{"title":"Potential Global Effects of the Rise of the Far Right on Public Health.","authors":"Sebastià March,José Miguel Carrasco,Álvaro Flores-Balado,Aitana Muñoz-Haba,Ana Pereira-Iglesias,Gustavo Andrés Zaragoza","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308016","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of the far right is growing globally. This calls for a critical examination of its potential public health implications. Characterized by authoritarianism, injustice, racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, divisive rhetoric, and a propensity for violence, the far right often employs denialist arguments against scientific evidence, including opposition to environmental protection policies. We conducted a narrative review of existing evidence to assess the impact of these elements on public health. The findings suggest that the rise of the far right could have significant negative effects on population health. As a consequence, we advocate that the public health field and society at large must take a deliberate stance in response to this emerging reality. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print April 10, 2025:e1-e10. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308016).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"25 1","pages":"e1-e10"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xuesong Han, Kewei Sylvia Shi, Qinjin Fan, Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Xin Hu, K Robin Yabroff
{"title":"Medicaid Expansion and US Mortality Rates During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2018-2022.","authors":"Xuesong Han, Kewei Sylvia Shi, Qinjin Fan, Parichoy Pal Choudhury, Xin Hu, K Robin Yabroff","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To examine the association of state Medicaid expansion status with mortality changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. <b>Methods.</b> Deaths among individuals 20 to 64 years of age in 3142 counties were identified from 2018 to 2022 mortality surveillance data. Age-adjusted mortality rates were calculated for each county and by cause of death. Changes in mortality rates before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic (2018-2019 vs 2021-2022) in Medicaid expansion states relative to nonexpansion states were calculated after adjustment for county sociodemographic factors and state COVID-19 vaccination rates. <b>Results.</b> All-cause mortality rates increased in 2020-2021 nationwide and decreased slightly in 2022. Overall, the increase was slower in Medicaid expansion states, leading to a net decrease of 31.8 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 20.9, 42.8) deaths per 100 000 person-years associated with Medicaid expansion from 2018-2019 to 2021-2022. The decrease was largest for deaths from heart disease and liver disease and was observed across subpopulations stratified by sex, age, and race. <b>Conclusions.</b> Increases in mortality rates were slower in Medicaid expansion states than in nonexpansion states during the COVID-19 public health emergency, suggesting a protective effect of Medicaid expansion on population health during the pandemic. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. Published online ahead of print April 3, 2025:e1-e10. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308045).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"e1-e10"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathalie Huguet, Jorge Kaufmann, Heather Holderness, Jeremy Erroba, Gretchen Mertes, Anna Steeves-Reece, Rachel Springer, John Heintzman, Miguel Marino
{"title":"Medicaid Eligibility Expansion Regardless of Immigration Status and Insurance Coverage Among Latinos Seen in Community Health Centers, 2018‒2023.","authors":"Nathalie Huguet, Jorge Kaufmann, Heather Holderness, Jeremy Erroba, Gretchen Mertes, Anna Steeves-Reece, Rachel Springer, John Heintzman, Miguel Marino","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To assess whether Latino patients receiving care in community-based health centers (CHCs) in US states that expanded Medicaid eligibility regardless of immigration status to adults 50 years and older had greater insurance coverage after the eligibility amendment compared with states that did not expand eligibility. <b>Methods.</b> We performed a retrospective cohort study, using electronic health record data from 40 602 nonpregnant CHC patients aged 50 to 64 years living in states that expanded eligibility (OR, CA) or that did not (AK, CT, IN, MN, MT, NC, NJ, OH, WA) with a visit in both 2018-2019 (before policy change) and 2021-2023 (after policy change). <b>Results.</b> Among Spanish-preferring Latinas, the overall Medicaid-insured difference-in-difference estimate across all 3 years after the amendment was positively moderate (average treatment effect on treated [ATT] = +7.04; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.10, 13.98); however, this effect was greatest in the third year after the amendment (ATT = +21.82; 95% CI = 14.04, 29.59), and this was accompanied by a substantial drop in third year uninsured visit rates (ATT = -15.45; 95% CI = -24.77, ‒6.13). We observed the same pattern for Spanish-preferring Latinos. <b>Conclusions.</b> The findings suggest that expanding Medicaid eligibility regardless of immigration status improved access to health insurance for some Latino communities. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. Published online ahead of print April 3, 2025:e1-e10. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308052).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"e1-e10"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advancing the Study of Power: Opportunities and Priorities for Understanding Population Health Inequities.","authors":"Megan M Reynolds, Sandro Galea","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this essay, we provide an overview of how power has been conceptualized in public health and allied fields and describe recent advances connecting power to the topic of health inequities. To aid researchers in capitalizing on these historical and contemporary insights, we offer 6 concrete suggestions for empirical work. Systematic analyses involving these recommendations can help return public health scholars to foundational principles of the field and test the limits of power as an explanatory factor in population health inequities. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. Published online ahead of print April 3, 2025:e1-e7. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308015).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"e1-e7"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143778730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katy B Davis, Martha Shumway, Joy Walker-Jones, Yvette P Cuca
{"title":"The HERS<b>+</b> Intensive Outpatient Program: Promising Substance Use Intervention in Primary Care for Black Women With HIV.","authors":"Katy B Davis, Martha Shumway, Joy Walker-Jones, Yvette P Cuca","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307842","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307842","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As part of the Health Resources and Services Administration's Black Women First Initiative, the University of California, San Francisco, Women's HIV Program implemented the Health, Empowerment, and Recovery Services Plus (HERS+) intensive outpatient program (IOP)-an adapted version of the Matrix Model of IOP-to address substance use among Black women with HIV in a trauma-informed primary care setting. The intervention's promise was reflected in decreases in recent use of methamphetamine and tobacco; reduced methamphetamine, cannabis, and tobacco involvement; and an increase in social support. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(S1):S13-S17. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307842).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 S1","pages":"S13-S17"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11947489/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143727306","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":"OSHA Injury Data: An Opportunity for Improving Work Injury Prevention.","authors":"David Michaels, Gregory R Wagner","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307934","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307934","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Millions of US workers are seriously injured on the job annually. These injuries have a significant and deleterious impact on injured workers, their families, and their communities. The limitations of the historical work injury surveillance systems have constrained research into the distribution and determinants of work injuries and efforts to improve allocation of limited injury prevention resources. Most work injury data sets suffer from significant limitations and fail to include a sizable proportion of work injuries. In recent years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has begun to collect and make available to the public more detailed data on work injuries at thousands of high hazard establishments. These data sets provide the opportunity to greatly improve our work injury surveillance system. Researchers are now using these data to investigate and compare injury risk in industries and high-hazard firms where workers are at increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders. However, these rich data sets are underused. Maintaining and facilitating access to accurate, current data can contribute to improved prevention of work-related injuries and deaths. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(4):588-595. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307934).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"588-595"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11903066/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143412788","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}
Michelle Bosché, Rachel Krust, Archon Fung, Aditya S Pawar
{"title":"Exploring Democratic Deliberation in Public Health: Bridging Division and Enhancing Community Engagement.","authors":"Michelle Bosché, Rachel Krust, Archon Fung, Aditya S Pawar","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307998","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 4","pages":"500-505"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11903086/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143613005","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}