{"title":"Barriers to Gender-Affirming Care, Health Care Services, and Experiences of Health Care Provider Bias Among Transgender People in Nigeria.","authors":"Adedotun Ogunbajo,Temitope Oke,Calvin Fitch,Arjee Restar,Alphonso Barney,Olakunle Oginni,DeMarc Hickson","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308057","url":null,"abstract":"In the current study, we explored barriers to accessing gender-affirming care among transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) people in Nigeria. Between February and September 2021, we conducted focus group discussions with 25 adult TGD individuals residing in Nigeria. We found (1) a lack of trans-competent health care providers, (2) high medical costs, (3) limited access to accurate health information, (4) experiences of transphobia, and (5) a lack of trans-specific programming. Health care services that cater to the unique needs of TGD people in Nigeria are needed. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print May 1, 2025:e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308057).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"45 1","pages":"e1-e5"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902985","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":"Leveraging Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic to Support Vaccine Adherence.","authors":"Sarah R MacEwan","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"21 1","pages":"651-653"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819050","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 a Research and Policy Agenda on Housing and Health.","authors":"Giselle Routhier","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"3 1","pages":"640-642"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819076","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":"Table of Contents.","authors":"","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.5.619-620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.115.5.619-620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 5","pages":"619-620"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11983049/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143955900","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}
Carolyn Swope, Scott Markley, Shannon Whittaker, Amy Hillier
{"title":"How and Why Does Redlining Matter for Present-Day Health? Critical Perspectives on Causality, Cartography, and Capitalism.","authors":"Carolyn Swope, Scott Markley, Shannon Whittaker, Amy Hillier","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.308000","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.308000","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent years have seen an explosion of public health research on associations between historical redlining maps created by a US government agency, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), and present-day outcomes. Yet precisely how and why HOLC's surveys help us understand the underpinnings of present-day racial inequities remains unclear. We apply an interdisciplinary perspective to assess the contributions and limitations of this literature, particularly with regard to causal mechanisms and theoretical explanations. While research often frames HOLC redlining as a measure of structural racism that directly shapes present-day outcomes, we look instead to racial capitalism to understand how and why racialized housing policies are implemented. We argue that the HOLC maps represent symptoms, not causes, of systematic disinvestment in Black communities, that redlining was not produced by the federal government in isolation but was shaped by public‒private collaboration and infused with capitalist logics, and that redlining interacted with many other forms of racialized housing dispossession to shape present-day riskscapes. We conclude by offering conceptual and methodological recommendations for public health researchers, including suggestions for data sources other than HOLC maps. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(5):769-779. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.308000).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"769-779"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11983052/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143623189","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":"COVID-19 Policies and the Impact on STIs: Context, Equity, and Innovation.","authors":"Casey N Pinto,Stacey B Griner,Randolph D Hubach","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"38 1","pages":"631-633"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818967","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":"Housing as a Determinant of Health: A Population-Level Approach.","authors":"Andrew Fenelon","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"183 1","pages":"637-639"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818968","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}
Christopher Sellers,Ellen Kohl,Marianne Sullivan,Gretchen Gehrke,Jessica Varner,Mark Chambers,
{"title":"History of Risk Assessments of the Organophosphate Pesticide Chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency, 1980‒2024.","authors":"Christopher Sellers,Ellen Kohl,Marianne Sullivan,Gretchen Gehrke,Jessica Varner,Mark Chambers,","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2025.308073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2025.308073","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the history of risk assessments of the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), especially after a ban on household uses in 2000. Federal funding enabled more noncorporate and place-based scientific investigations of this pesticide's harms, including child-cohort epidemiology of populations impacted through environmental injustices. This article argues, first, that their findings challenged the thin knowledge base, mostly from corporate-sponsored toxicology, that originally justified chlorpyrifos's continued use. Second, for decades, outside a court-induced interval in 2015-2016, EPA's risk assessments favored \"de-placed\" toxicological modes and standards of knowledge-forged in the controlled environment of experimental laboratories-while marginalizing science gathered from the actual places and people EPA is supposed to protect. Third, agency officials stuck with a quantifiable, laboratory- and modeling-centered calculus for assessing health risks in part because a united front of corporate and corporate-consultant scientists harped on the uncertainties of newer findings. The article concludes that the agency needs to rethink its risk assessment practices and dependence, as well as more effectively account for financial conflicts of interest in evaluations of policy-relevant science. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print May 1, 2025:e1-e11. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308073).","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"68 1","pages":"e1-e11"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143902966","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":"<i>AJPH</i> and the Threat of Political Interference in Scientific Publishing.","authors":"Alfredo Morabia","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308100","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"626-627"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11983045/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143623186","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}
Catherine C Pollack, Georgia H Redd, Collin M Timm, Yukari C Manabe
{"title":"COVID-19 Policies and Sexually Transmitted Infections in 22 US States, January 2020-December 2021.","authors":"Catherine C Pollack, Georgia H Redd, Collin M Timm, Yukari C Manabe","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307957","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307957","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To quantify the effects of 5 jurisdiction-level COVID-19 policies on chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis rates in 22 US jurisdictions between January 2020 and December 2021. <b>Methods.</b> We applied a mixed-effects, negative binomial, interrupted time series model to estimate the impact that each policy of interest had on reported cases. <b>Results.</b> Mandatory stay-at-home periods were associated with a decrease in reported chlamydia (incident rate ratio [IRR] = 0.75; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.71, 0.80) and gonorrhea (IRR = 0.85; 95% CI = 0.78, 0.94) cases. We also observed decreased chlamydia case reporting when gatherings were restricted to 10 people (IRR = 0.88; 95% CI = 0.85, 0.92), masking was recommended (IRR = 0.90; 95% CI = 0.85, 0.97), or polymerase chain reaction testing was limited to symptomatic individuals (IRR = 0.72; 95% CI = 0.67, 0.77). Universal vaccine access corresponded to decreases in reported gonorrhea (IRR = 0.83; 95% CI = 0.75, 0.92) but increases in syphilis (IRR = 1.33; 95% CI = 1.04, 1.70) cases. We also observed effects by sex, race, and ethnicity. <b>Conclusions.</b> COVID-19 policies had disparate effects on sexually transmitted infection rates that varied across demographic groups. Overall results were attenuated after the first lockdown period (March-May 2020), but demographic variations persisted. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(5):789-798. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307957).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"789-798"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11983043/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466727","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}