Environmental Health
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 29, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
Perched on the southern slope of the Himalayas, between two massive greenhouse gas鈥揺mitting countries鈥擨ndia and China鈥攊s Nepal. Nepal is a low-income, landlocked nation in South Asia and one of the nations that are most vulnerable to climate change because of its...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 22, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
Every dollar spent on food in the United States produces two dollars of negative impact on public health and the environment. Today鈥檚 food system feeds people but harms the environment and the health of humans, animals, and plants globally (The Rockefeller...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 21, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction When Social Determinants of Health 101 for Health Care: Five Plus Five [1] (SDoH 101) was published in 2017, the social determinants of health (SDoH) were emerging as an important topic in health care. Since that time, our nation has experienced the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 9, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The 911爆料网 Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This is the first time the world has seen a...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 24, 2018 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In 2017, the 911爆料网 Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement at the 911爆料网 Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the 911爆料网 Academies) held the fifth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 4, 2018 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Today鈥檚 public health challenges are complex and聽crosscutting. Antimicrobial resistance, pollution, food聽security, biosafety, biosecurity, and emerging and聽reemerging infectious diseases are associated with聽changes in land use, population growth,...
by Laura DeStefano | Nov 27, 2017 | Commentary, Perspectives
Racism affects health through both direct means (for example, the chronic activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and associated stress hormones, which increases susceptibility to several chronic conditions [1]) and indirect means (for example,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 31, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
聽 Antimicrobial Usage and Interventions:聽A Brief History from 1950 to the Present Antimicrobials for veterinary purposes came on the market in the 1950s, followed shortly by antimicrobial growth promoters (AGPs), because of their growth-enhancing effects to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 17, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Health care professionals, including emergency response personnel, face聽unique occupational health and safety challenges, one of which is exposure聽to uncontrolled airborne infectious particles. To protect themselves, these professionals rely heavily on N95...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
911爆料网 the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the 911爆料网 Academy of Medicine鈥檚 Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which commissioned expert papers on 19 priority focus areas for U.S. health policy by...