{"title":"With New Editors, AJPH History Section Forges Forward.","authors":"Marian Moser Jones,Cassia Roth","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2024.307993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2024.307993","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"18 1","pages":"622-623"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819072","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}
Jonathon P Leider, Casey P Balio, Rachel Hogg-Graham, Nicole M Weiss, Abby Vogel, Sezen O Onal, Xiao Zang, Paula Kett, Joyce Edmonds, Harshada Karnik, Nathan Dockery, Bibin Joseph, Morgan Pak, Amy Belflower Thomas, Betty Bekemeier
{"title":"Enumeration 2024: What We Know and What We Wish We Knew About the Governmental Public Health Workforce in a COVID-19 Recovery Landscape.","authors":"Jonathon P Leider, Casey P Balio, Rachel Hogg-Graham, Nicole M Weiss, Abby Vogel, Sezen O Onal, Xiao Zang, Paula Kett, Joyce Edmonds, Harshada Karnik, Nathan Dockery, Bibin Joseph, Morgan Pak, Amy Belflower Thomas, Betty Bekemeier","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307960","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2024.307960","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Objectives.</b> To expand on previous enumerations by assessing the size and composition of the governmental public health workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, identifying workforce trends, occupational distributions, and potential gaps in staffing. <b>Methods.</b> From 2023 to 2024, using 2022 data in the United States, we conducted 3 distinct analyses: (1) estimating the total workforce size, (2) profiling occupation-specific distributions, and (3) evaluating the role and prevalence of public health nurses using novel data sources. For total counts, we used multiple imputation by chained equations to develop robust agency-level estimates and address missingness from multiple data sets. <b>Results.</b> State and local public health agencies grew to approximately 239 000 staff in 2022, up from an estimated 206 500 in 2019. The largest occupation groups included office and administrative support workers (37 576) and public health or community health nurses (29 387). We found that 73 478 (1.8%) of registered nurses nationwide served in governmental public health roles. <b>Conclusions.</b> The size of the workforce during the COVID-19 response has returned to 2008 levels although temporary staff largely constitute the increase. <b>Public Health Implications.</b> An undersized workforce leaves the United States vulnerable to future disasters and current challenges. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(5):707-715. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307960).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"707-715"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11983060/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143668889","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}
Helena J Chapman,Muge Akpinar-Elci,Laura H Kahn,Thomas J Doker
{"title":"Changing Ecosystems and the Role of One Health: Engaging Public Health Professionals.","authors":"Helena J Chapman,Muge Akpinar-Elci,Laura H Kahn,Thomas J Doker","doi":"10.2105/ajph.2024.307982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2024.307982","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"7 Sect Study Dis Child 1","pages":"658-662"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818985","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}
Emily M D'Agostino, Cody D Neshteruk, Tang Li, Jeremiah Davis, Isa Granados, Advika Kumar, Jeffrey Forde, Christoph P Hornik
{"title":"Going Places: An Active Transportation Intervention to Increase Youth Physical Activity, Durham, North Carolina, 2023-2024.","authors":"Emily M D'Agostino, Cody D Neshteruk, Tang Li, Jeremiah Davis, Isa Granados, Advika Kumar, Jeffrey Forde, Christoph P Hornik","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308012","DOIUrl":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308012","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Routine youth physical activity (PA) fosters healthy habits and lasting cardiometabolic benefits into adulthood; however, significant disparities in PA persist by race, ethnicity, and income. Active transportation is an optimal intervention target to promote youth PA equity by building transportation self-efficacy skills. Going Places, a multilevel transportation self-efficacy intervention, aims to increase underserved youth PA and cardiometabolic health. We demonstrate preliminary efficacy, based on increased levels of PA, improved transportation self-efficacy, and reduced barriers to transportation use and PA to support positive patterns for lifelong health. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2025;115(5):693-697. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308012).</p>","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":" ","pages":"693-697"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11983032/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143668891","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":"Monitoring Is Not Enough.","authors":"Arnaud Chiolero","doi":"10.2105/AJPH.2025.308085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7647,"journal":{"name":"American journal of public health","volume":"115 5","pages":"656-657"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11983047/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143958068","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":"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}