Public and population health evidence helps us understand how we deliver and integrate services that affect the health of communities, and how we promote healthy communities.
Shannon Brownlee and Judith Garber of AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, Lown Institute, highlight key recommendations to eliminate medication overload in older adults.
These appendices for a rapid evidence review on interventions for teen wellbeing include key definitions, methods, narrative summary of findings, findings by outcome, evidence tables, and a list of excluded reviews.
Including 34 systematic reviews and two large-scale interventions, this rapid evidence review makes recommendations for intervention and research design as well as highlights opportunities to more broadly focus interventions on social determinants of health.
Coverage and financing will continue to dominate the 2020 election debate. That makes it all the more important to explore how financing proposals by candidates of both parties can contribute to a broader population and public health agenda.
Larissa Nekhlyudov, AcademyHealth member and inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, highlights her work to develop a cancer survivorship care quality framework.
Health care is a leading issue in the 2020 election. But that doesn’t mean the debate addresses the issues public health advocates think are the most important. AcademyHealth Senior Scholar Edward L. Hunter offers his perspective on how the debate should be broadened to achieve fundamental change.
Mayors are key public health actors, often playing an important role in shaping social determinants - from housing to education to the physical urban environment. But how do mayors perceive the health of their communities and approach their role in promoting healthy places?
