Data mining nutrition, minorities, people with disabilities, unintended consequences

The Lancet: Public Health Published:September 21, 2020DOI: Chandni Maria Jacob, MSc : Despina D Briana, MD : Prof Gian Carlo Di Renzo, MD : Prof Neena Modi, FMedSci : Flavia Bustreo, MD : et al. Summary Resilient societies respond rapidly and effectively to health challenges and the associated economic consequences, and adapt to be more responsive to future challenges. Although it is only possible to recognise resilience retrospectively, the COVID-19 pandemic has occurred at a point in human...

The Lancet EDITORIAL| VOLUME 396, ISSUE 10263 , P1607, NOVEMBER 21, 2020 Excerpts The prospect of preventing illness and death, and avoiding the harm and misery of extended restrictions, is a cause for optimism. But although it is right to be hopeful and encouraged, we are far from ending COVID-19 as a public health issue. Pfizer and Moderna together project that there will be enough vaccine for 35 million individuals in 2020, and perhaps up to 1 billion in 2021. As a result, many millions...

US Census data users can create custom tabulations with various available Public Use Microdata sets and vintages

Immune evasion, a virological game changer is as important as the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Dealing with immune evasion will require a re-evaluation of public health strategies, and the creation of a new, evidence-based social contracts.

In partnership with First 5 Humboldt and funded by the First 5 California Home Visiting Coordination Grant, the California Center for Rural Policy has just released the Humboldt County Home Visiting Program Environmental Scan. The findings and recommendations in the environmental scan are grounded in partner workgroups, interviews, and surveys that occurred in 2020-21 and capture the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on home visiting services. Excerpts: "The organizations that provide home...

Exposure to childhood adversity is a global public health concern. Meta-analyses have shown that exposure to adverse childhood experiences are directly and intergenerationally associated with poor mental and physical health outcomes and result in considerable economic costs to society. However, the potential role of adverse childhood exposures in associations between social inequalities and poor long-term health outcomes is largely uncharted.

The panelists will share challenges and opportunities before us at the federal, state, and local levels to reimagine a robust, responsive and just public health system.

(What information should the Census Bureau be collecting and correlating in order to better identify communities at greater risk for a traumatic childhood environment.

As a clinician, researcher and policy specialist devoted to the prevention and treatment of the ill effects of child abuse and neglect (CAN) I read “Recommendations for Population-Based Applications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Position Statement by the American College of Preventive Medicine” (Sherin KM, Stillerman A, Chandrasekar L, Went N, Niebuhr DW. Recommendations for Population-Based Applications of the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study: Position Statement by the...

Successful health equity strategies must be inclusive, and focus on all marginalized and minoritized persons and their communities. Any lesser view will continue to yield a faulty health equity equation.

“YES!” was the response of Gaile Osborne, executive director of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (FFANC), when asked for input on a new program to help foster and kinship care families learn how to support the brain development of young children. “I love these Brain Insights materials. How soon can we start?” said Osborne upon receiving the "The First 60 Days ” booklet on myths about newborns and their caregivers and the eight “ Neuro-Nurturing ” ringed books. The materials delivered...