Why We Need Urban Health Equity Indicators
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Global health challenges are increasingly more prominent as city populations continue to grow, making community health a priority.
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Smoking in Context
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the extent to which smoking prevalence varies across geographic areas, specifically communities, health regions, and provinces/territories in Canada, independent of individual characteristics. Geography contributed to the total variation in smoking at 8.4 percent.
RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America to Release Recommendations Report
March 12, 2009 | Story
Overall health will not improve until factors outside of the medical care system also are addressed.
Book Links National Order and Public Health to Poor Inner-City Neighborhoods
September 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Rodrick Wallace, PhD, and Deborah Wallace, PhD, conducted research and published a book addressing the social, economic and political decay that underlies the rise of AIDS, tuberculosis, drug abuse and violent crime.
Investigating the Effect of Social Changes on Age-Specific Gun-Related Homicide Rates in New York City During the 1990s
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines multiple factors that influenced homicide rates in New York City during the 1990s. New York City experienced a massive decline in homicides during that time frame, from 2,245 in 1990 to 633 in 1998. There are several theories about what policies and conditions led to this drop.
Watch the Archived Webcast for the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Community Health, Public Health, Primary Care, and Long-Term Care
December 6, 2009 | Story
The Initiative held the Forum on the Future of Nursing: Community Health, Public Health, Primary Care, and Long-Term Care on December 3, 2009, at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Infant Mortality and Income in 4 World Cities
January 1, 2005 | Journal Article
This study investigated the association between average income or deprivation and infant mortality rate across neighborhoods of 4 world cities. Using a maximum likelihood negative binomial regression model that controls for births, we analyzed data ...
Preparing Currently Employed Public Health Nurses for Changes in the Health System
May 1, 2000 | Journal Article
Identifying the skills needed by practicing public health workers if they are to successfully fill roles in the current and emerging public health system.
New Health & Society Scholars to Focus on Disparities, Prevention
July 13, 2009 | Story
Seventeen future health care leaders selected.
Identifying Needed New Public Health Skills, Along with Barriers to Achieving Them
November 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Investigators from Columbia University School of Nursing defined the knowledge and skills most needed by four groups of public health professionals to respond to changes in the US health system.