Arjee Javellana Restar, Kellan Baker, Grace Wang, Karen Ashley, April Joy Damian
{"title":"Community Health Workers as Catalysts for Mental Health Promotion in Transgender and Nonbinary Communities.","authors":"Arjee Javellana Restar, Kellan Baker, Grace Wang, Karen Ashley, April Joy Damian","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307898","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307898","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 1","pages":"34-36"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628707/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142778906","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}
Danielle M Krobath, Jourdyn A Lawrence, Benjamin W Chrisinger, Adolfo G Cuevas
{"title":"Safeguarding SNAP as an Effective Antihunger Program: Myths and Potential Harms of Adding Diet Quality as a Core Objective.","authors":"Danielle M Krobath, Jourdyn A Lawrence, Benjamin W Chrisinger, Adolfo G Cuevas","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307863","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"37-41"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628702/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142556937","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":"Subscription Form.","authors":"","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.1.104","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.1.104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 1","pages":"104"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628700/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142779110","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":"Moving Targets: The Dynamic Nature and Imperfect Measurement of Social Constructs.","authors":"Randall L Sell","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307901","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"12-14"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628703/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142602671","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":"Strategies to Increase the Population-Level Impact of Naloxone Distribution in Communities Highly Affected by the Overdose Crisis.","authors":"Brandon D L Marshall","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307887","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307887","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628719/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142602766","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}
Michael S Rendall, Mieke C W Eeckhaut, Katie Gifford, Constanza Hurtado-Acuna
{"title":"Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) and Early Childbearing Revisited: Births and Birth Intendedness After LARC Removal in a State Medicaid Population (2012-2020).","authors":"Michael S Rendall, Mieke C W Eeckhaut, Katie Gifford, Constanza Hurtado-Acuna","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307844","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307844","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To analyze births and birth intendedness after long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) removal among Medicaid-insured women. <b>Methods.</b> We linked all Delaware women with a Medicaid-covered LARC removal in 2012 to 2020 (n = 8047) to birth records and to Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) pregnancy intendedness survey responses (n = 241). <b>Results.</b> Births within 3 years of a Medicaid-covered LARC removal were much more likely to be to women in their 20s compared with all Medicaid births (63.5% vs 53.4%; <i>P</i> < .001). The intended proportion for births within 3 years of Medicaid-covered LARC removal (65.2%) was higher than for all Medicaid-covered births (58.8%; <i>P</i> = .08) and was consistently above 60% across all age groups younger than 30 years. <b>Conclusions.</b> A state Medicaid-insured population's use of highly effective reversible contraception was associated with births being concentrated among women in their 20s and with consistently high fractions of intended births across younger ages at birth. <b>Public Health Implications.</b> Programs and policies may consider LARC access for its potential to increase low-income women's reproductive autonomy by enhancing their ability to achieve births at the age of their choosing. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(1):95-102. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307844).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"95-102"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628715/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142399129","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":"Manhattan's Street Trees: An Unfinished Public Health Story.","authors":"John M Harris","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307856","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307856","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stephen Smith launched a 40-year effort to bring trees to New York City streets in 1872, the year he founded the American Public Health Association (APHA). Smith argued that street trees would mitigate the adverse health effects of Manhattan's summer heat and help purify the air. The young APHA endorsed Smith's position and gave trees a prominent role in urban sanitation, but public health turned away from trees and urban reform movements as it adopted a biomedical public health model in the late 19th century. Nevertheless, Smith wrote and campaigned for a successful 1902 law requiring the New York City Parks Department to assume management of street trees in the name of public health. He then led a 1914 campaign to force the department to uphold his law. New York's street tree program has had an erratic trajectory, but it now generally follows Smith's vision. Public health could play a bigger role in creating greener cities and mitigating climate change with more field research and the health in all policies approach that Smith used to bring trees to Manhattan's streets in 1914. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(1):66-74. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307856).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"66-74"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628711/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142556935","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":"Mastheads.","authors":"","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.1.1-2","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.1.1-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628704/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142778933","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 Path Forward Is Health.","authors":"Brian Selzer","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307915","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 1","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628705/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142779140","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}
Patricia R Freeman, Alexander Y Walley, T John Winhusen, Emmanuel A Oga, Jennifer Villani, Timothy Hunt, Redonna K Chandler, Douglas R Oyler, Brittni Reilly, Kitty Gelberg, Christian Douglas, Michael S Lyons, JaNae Holloway, Nathan A Vandergrift, Joella W Adams, Katherine Asman, Trevor J Baker, Candace J Brancato, Debbie M Cheng, Janet E Childerhose, James L David, Daniel J Feaster, Louisa Gilbert, LaShawn M Glasgow, Dawn A Goddard-Eckrich, Charles Knott, Hannah K Knudsen, Michelle R Lofwall, Katherine R Marks, Jason T McMullan, Carrie B Oser, Monica F Roberts, Abigail B Shoben, Michael D Stein, Scott T Walters, Josie Watson, Gary A Zarkin, Rebecca D Jackson, Jeffrey H Samet, Sharon L Walsh, Nabila El Bassel
{"title":"Effect of the Communities That HEAL Intervention on Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution: A Cluster-Randomized, Wait-List Controlled Trial.","authors":"Patricia R Freeman, Alexander Y Walley, T John Winhusen, Emmanuel A Oga, Jennifer Villani, Timothy Hunt, Redonna K Chandler, Douglas R Oyler, Brittni Reilly, Kitty Gelberg, Christian Douglas, Michael S Lyons, JaNae Holloway, Nathan A Vandergrift, Joella W Adams, Katherine Asman, Trevor J Baker, Candace J Brancato, Debbie M Cheng, Janet E Childerhose, James L David, Daniel J Feaster, Louisa Gilbert, LaShawn M Glasgow, Dawn A Goddard-Eckrich, Charles Knott, Hannah K Knudsen, Michelle R Lofwall, Katherine R Marks, Jason T McMullan, Carrie B Oser, Monica F Roberts, Abigail B Shoben, Michael D Stein, Scott T Walters, Josie Watson, Gary A Zarkin, Rebecca D Jackson, Jeffrey H Samet, Sharon L Walsh, Nabila El Bassel","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307845","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307845","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To determine whether the Communities That HEAL (CTH) intervention is effective in increasing naloxone distribution compared with usual care. <b>Methods.</b> The HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-Term) Communities Study (HCS) is a cluster-randomized, parallel-arm, wait-list controlled implementation science trial testing the impact of the CTH intervention on increasing the use of evidence-based practices to lower opioid-related overdose deaths. Communities (n = 67) highly impacted by opioid overdose in Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Ohio were allocated to CTH intervention (n = 34) or wait-list comparison (usual care; n = 33) arms. The primary outcome for this study was the number of naloxone units distributed in HCS communities during the comparison period (July 1, 2021‒June 30, 2022), examined using an intent-to-treat negative binomial regression model. <b>Results.</b> Naloxone distribution was 79% higher in the CTH intervention versus usual care arm (adjusted relative rate = 1.79; 95% confidence interval = 1.28, 2.51; <i>P</i> = .001; adjusted rates of naloxone distribution 3378 vs 1884 naloxone units per 100 000 residents), when controlling for urban‒rural status, state, baseline opioid-related overdose death rate, and baseline naloxone distribution rate. <b>Conclusions.</b> The CTH intervention increased naloxone distribution compared with usual care in communities highly impacted by the opioid crisis. <b>Trial Registration.</b> ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04111939. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(1):83-94. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307845).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"83-94"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11628717/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142399128","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}