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As a reader of The Nation’s Health, you’re not just receiving award-winning
regular news coverage: You also have access to our special
sections, reports and series, which take a deep dive into pressing public health topics.
Recent reports have explored health equity, injuries and sexual violence. Our series
on social determinants of health — which spanned multiple issues and included
infographics and a podcast — continues to draw acclaim.
Coming in our April issue, The Nation’s Health will bring
you another special section, this time on climate justice and health — a major issue facing the nation and world.
In the meantime, read and share these timely reports:
ADDRESSING HEALTH EQUITY
In states
and regions across the U.S., partners are joining together to build health equity.
Equity councils
cross sectors to target roots of disparities: Partnerships elevate state, local work
Independent councils are working to eliminate health disparities from the grassroots up.
State plans
bring health equity focus to community level: Social determinants of health key
Health equity strategies help public health agencies formulate
steps to improve the health of all community members.
FOCUSING ON
SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Public
health is repositioning itself at the national, state and local levels to focus on social determinants of health.
Healthy, safe
housing linked to healthier, longer lives: Housing a social determinant of health
Housing is a major social determinant that affects a person’s health and well-being.
Income inequality:
When wealth determines health: Earnings influential as lifelong social determinant of health
Science shows that low income is a significant risk factor in health, well-being and life expectancy.
PREVENTING SEXUAL ASSAULTS
A
public health approach focused on root causes can help prevent sexual assaults.
Campus sexual
violence: Working to end it together: CDC strategies benefit schools, students
Sexual violence can be dramatically reduced through primary
prevention, which seeks to lower risk factors that contribute to harmful behavior.
CDC rape prevention
program brings health lens to violence: Funding benefits work in every state
CDC’s Rape Prevention and Education Program advances and integrates primary prevention
strategies through a network of collaborative, multi-sector partners.
PREVENTING HARM FROM INJURIES, VIOLENCE
Injuries and violence are major public health issues in the United States, leading to 214,000 deaths annually.
CDC reporting
system helps prevent violent deaths: Data help communities build programs
Data experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and across the country
are helping communities find ways to prevent some people from early deaths.
Prevention
driving health response to opioid epidemic: CDC prescribing guide shifting approach
Confronting an opioid overdose epidemic that kills nearly 100
Americans every day takes a combination of interventions across sectors. But a
common thread throughout is viewing the problem not as an epidemic of abuse, but as an epidemic of addiction.
SUPPORTING THE ALL OF US RESEARCH PROGRAM
The All of Us Research Program is recruiting 1 million people for an unprecedented biomedical research program.
Americans
stepping up to share their health data with All of Us: Research program marks
first anniversary
The federal program
provides medical information to improve health outcomes and ways of preventing
and treating chronic illnesses and diseases for millions of people.
Health providers play important role in All of Us enrollment
Dozens of health care provider organizations nationwide are
working to enroll All of Us study participants.
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