Dear Public Health Service Officers,
For your information and awareness, the Office of the Surgeon General invites you to view the current issue of Public Health Reports (PHR), the official journal of the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service, which has recently come out online.
Below you will find the table of contents of this issue as well as the brief summaries of a few articles in it that may be of interest to you (PDFs attached).
Papers of Interest to USPHS Commissioned Corps:
This case study co-authored by OSG’s RADM Orsega and CAPT Guyton discusses Corps Care program to enhance Commission Corps officers’ resilience and its role in the Corps’ response to Zika and COVID-19.
This commentary offers recommendations for translating national-level COVID-19 reopening plans for local public health leaders. Authors suggest that success depends on local leaders’ strong voices to influence policy makers.
This study used innovative Google mobility analyses to compare the effectiveness of various mandatory policies for social distancing during early COVID-19 pandemic. Authors find that state-wide stay-at-home orders and bars/restaurants limits were effective, while other interventions, such as local stay-at-home orders, nonessential business closures, bans on large gatherings, and school closures, were not.
Mayors have considerable influence on the health policy in their cities. This study assesses US mayors’ perceptions, attitudes, and priorities related to public health. Results should help public health researchers and practitioners more effectively communicate their research and recommendations to local policy makers.
Table of Contents:
Public Health Reports- Volume: 136, Number: 2 (March/April 2021)
Commentary
Challenges in Translating National and State Reopening Plans Into Local Reopening Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joshua R. Vest, Justin Blackburn, and Valerie A. Yeager
Brief Report
Preteen Behaviors and Sexual Orientation of High School Students Who Report Depressive Symptoms, United States, 2015-2017
Douglas D’Agati, Geoffrey D. Kahn, and Karen L. Swartz
Case Study/Practice
A Model for Syphilis Screening in the Emergency Department
Justin A. Yax, Joshua D. Niforatos, Daniel L. Summers, Margaret H. Bigach, Christine Schmotzer, Barbara M. Gripshover, and Ann Avery
Using Dental Health Care Personnel During a Crisis: COVID-19 Pandemic in the Bronx, New York
Victor Badner and Mana Saraghi
USPHS Corps Care: Force Health Protection for Public Health Officers During the Ebola and COVID-19 Responses
Ian A. Myles, Daniel R. Johnson, Hanah Pham, Ava Adams, Jerome Anderson, Marina Banks-Shields, Andrea G. Battle, Mary L. Demby, Deborah Hastings, Robin Marie Lewis, Ingrid B. Pauli, Jennifer A.M. Vedder, Cole Weeks, Marion L. Willbright, Cedric B. Guyton, Susan Orsega, and Kimberly Shay Litton-Belcher
Public Health Methodology
Training and Incorporating Students in SARS-CoV-2 Case Investigations and Contact Tracing
Kristen Pogreba Brown, Erika Austhof, Ayeisha M. Rosa Hernández, Caitlyn McFadden, Kylie Boyd, Jayati Sharma, Sarah Battaglia, Alexandra Shilen, and Kelly M. Heslin
Research
Perceptions of Public Health Priorities and Accountability Among US Mayors
Luisa Godinez Puig, Katharine Lusk, David Glick, Katherine L. Einstein, Maxwell Palmer, Stacy Fox, and Monica L. Wang
Predictors of HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Initiation Among Public Health Clients in Rural and Small Urban Areas in Iowa
M. Bryant Howren, Shelby L. Francis, Linnea A. Polgreen, Cody Shafer, Angela Hoth, and Michael E. Ohl
National Support for a Menthol Cigarette Sales Ban
Lauren Czaplicki, Barbara Schillo, Shyanika W. Rose, Yitong Zhou, and Donna Vallone
Differences in Opioid Overdose Mortality Rates Among Middle-Aged Adults by Race/Ethnicity and Sex, 1999-2018
Rachel A. Hoopsick, Gregory G. Homish, and Kenneth E. Leonard
Leveraging 31 Million Google Street View Images to Characterize Built Environments and Examine County Health Outcomes
Quynh C. Nguyen, Jessica M. Keralis, Pallavi Dwivedi, Amanda E. Ng, Mehran Javanmardi, Sahil Khanna, Yuru Huang, Kimberly D. Brunisholz, Abhinav Kumar, and Tolga Tasdizen
Persistence and Pervasiveness: Early Wave Opioid Overdose Death Rates Associated With Subsequent Overdose Death Rates
Joel E. Segel and Tyler N.A. Winkelman
Routine Screening and Linkage to Care for Hepatitis C Virus in an Urban Safety-Net Health System, 2017-2019
Bijou R. Hunt, Christopher Ahmed, Kimberly Ramirez-Mercado, Christopher Patron, and Nancy R. Glick
What Strategies Are Hospitals Adopting to Address the Opioid Epidemic? Evidence From a National Sample of Nonprofit Hospitals
Berkeley Franz, Cory E. Cronin, and Jose A. Pagan
Food Worry in the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alina Engelman, Raylene Paludneviciene, Kathryn Wagner, Katja Jacobs, and Poorna Kushalnagar
The Immediate Effect of COVID-19 Policies on Social-Distancing Behavior in the United States
Rahi Abouk and Babak Heydari
Acknowledgment of Reviewers