Dear Public Health Service Officers,
For your information and awareness, the Office of the Surgeon General invites you to view the new 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 was recently posted online.
Please see below the issue’s table of contents as well as the summaries of a few articles of interest to USPHS (PDFs are attached).
Sincerely,
Commissioned Corps Communications
New PHR issue articles of interest to OASH:
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- Faith-Based Organizations and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination: Challenges and Recommendations
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have historically been key players in public health outreach. This commentary offers recommendations for public health agencies on how to effectively partner with FBOs to facilitate the COVID-19 vaccination. - How Do Urban Environments Affect Young People’s Mental Health? A Novel Conceptual Framework to Bridge Public Health, Planning, and Neurourbanism
- Faith-Based Organizations and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination: Challenges and Recommendations
Urban living is linked to higher risk of mental illness, which is concerning given ongoing global urbanization. This review synthesizes existing knowledge on urban places and mental health and examines the emerging field of neurourbanism–a multidisciplinary study of the effect of urban environments on mental health and brain activity–to enhance public health practice and research.
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- Experiences of Safety-Net Practice Clinicians Participating in the National Health Service Corps During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This study finds that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased stress and worsened mental health and wellbeing of clinicians who provide care to low-income and racial and ethnic minority communities, including clinicians participating in the National Health Service Corps program. - Adolescent Consent to COVID-19 Vaccination: The Need for Law Reform
While the COVID-19 vaccine is now approved for adolescents, parents’ immunization hesitancy remains high. This legal commentary, covered extensively in the news, argues that states should enact laws to authorize adolescent consent to vaccination when parental consent is withheld. - Essential but Ill-Prepared: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects the Mental Health of the Grocery Store Workforce
- Experiences of Safety-Net Practice Clinicians Participating in the National Health Service Corps During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article, covered by several news outlets, finds high levels of COVID-19 related mental health distress among grocery store employees. Authors call for coordinated, equity-based policies and worker safety initiatives that prioritize employee safety and health.
New PHR Issue Table of Contents:
Public Health Reports- Volume 137, Number 1 (January/February 2022)
Commentary
Addressing the STI Epidemic Through the Medicaid Program: A Roadmap for States and Managed Care Organizations
Naomi Seiler, Katie Horton, William S. Pearson, Ryan Cramer, Madina Adil, Darla Bishop, and Claire Heyison
Faith-Based Organizations and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination: Challenges and Recommendations
Jeff Levin, Ellen L. Idler, and Tyler J. VanderWeele
Case Study
“The Most Disastrous and Fatal Epidemic”: Mortality Statistics During the 1890 Russian Influenza Epidemic in Connecticut
E. Thomas Ewing
Expansion of Preexposure Prophylaxis Capacity in Response to an HIV Outbreak Among People Who Inject Drugs—Cabell County, West Virginia, 2019
Nathan W. Furukawa, Mathew Weimer, Kara S. Willenburg, Michael E. Kilkenny, Amy D. Atkins, R. Paul McClung, Zachary Hansen, Kathleen Napier, Senad Handanagic, Neal A. Carnes, Jeffrey Kemp Rinderle, Robyn Neblett-Fanfair, Alexandra M. Oster, and Dawn K. Smith
Tropical Review
Research Synthesis, HIV Prevention Response, and Public Health: CDC’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Project
Linda J. Koenig, Cynthia M. Lyles, Darrel Higa, Mary M. Mullins, and Theresa A. Sipe, for the HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Project
How Do Urban Environments Affect Young People’s Mental Health? A Novel Conceptual Framework to Bridge Public Health, Planning, and Neurourbanism
Adrian Buttazzoni, Sean Doherty, and Leia Minaker
Systematic Review
Nonmedical Marijuana Use and Cardiovascular Events: A Systematic Review
Peter K. Yang, Erika C. Odom, Roshni Patel, Fleetwood Loustalot, and Sallyann Coleman King
Public Health Methodology
Creation of State Antibiogram and Subsequent Launch of Public Health–Coordinated Antibiotic Stewardship in New Hampshire: Small State, Big Collaboration
Hannah M. Leeman, Benjamin P. Chan, Carly R. Zimmermann, Elizabeth A. Talbot, Michael S. Calderwood, Apara R. Dave, Paul Santos, and Katrina E. Hansen
Developing National Genotype-Independent Indicators for Recent Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Transmission Using Pediatric Cases—United States, 2011-2017
Alexia V. Harrist, Clinton J. McDaniel, Jonathan M. Wortham, and Sandy P. Althomsons
Research
Design and Methodology of the Study of Associated Risks of Stillbirth (SOARS) in Utah
Carla L. DeSisto, Nicole Stone, Barbara Algarin, Laurie Baksh, Ada Dieke, Denise V. D’Angelo, Leslie Harrison, Lee Warner, and Holly B. Shulman
Tuberculosis Outbreak Associated With Delayed Diagnosis and Long Infectious Periods in Rural Arkansas, 2010-2018
Sarah M. Labuda, Clinton J. McDaniel, Amish Talwar, Anthwan Braumuller, Sarah Parker, Stephanie McGaha, Carolynne Blissett, Jonathan M. Wortham, Leonard Mukasa, and Rebekah J. Stewart
Comparing Routine HIV and Hepatitis C Virus Screening to Estimate the Effect of Required Consent on HIV Screening Rates Among Hospitalized Patients
Uriel R. Felsen, Aileen Tlamsa, Lorlette Moir, Shuchin Shukla, Devin Thompson, Jeffrey M. Weiss, Moonseong Heo, and Alain H. Litwin
Distance Between Home and the Admitting Hospital and Its Effect on Survival of Low Socioeconomic Status Population With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
Emi Minejima, Joshua Wang, Stormmy Boettcher, Lihua Liu, Mimi Lou, Rosemary C. She, Suzanne L. Wenzel, Brad Spellberg, and Annie Wong-Beringer
Essential but Ill-Prepared: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects the Mental Health of the Grocery Store Workforce
Brian Mayer, Mona Arora, Sabrina Helm, and Melissa Barnett
Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence by Community Survey and Residual Specimens, Denver, Colorado, July–August 2020
Kiersten J. Kugeler, Laura J. Podewils, Nisha B. Alden, Tori L. Burket, Breanna Kawasaki, Brad J. Biggerstaff, Holly M. Biggs, Rachael Zacks, Monique A. Foster, Travis Lim, Emily McDonald, Jacqueline E. Tate, Rachel K. Herlihy, Jan Drobeniuc, Margaret M. Cortese, the Denver Community Seroprevalence Assessment Team
County-Level Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 in Nursing Homes, United States, June 1, 2020–January 31, 2021
Adam Hege, Sandi Lane, Trent Spaulding, Margaret Sugg, and Lakshmi S. Iyer
Experiences of Safety-Net Practice Clinicians Participating in the National Health Service Corps During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Donald E. Pathman, Jeffrey Sonis, Jerry N. Harrison, Robert G. Sewell, Jackie Fannell, Marc Overbeck, and Thomas R. Konrad
Law and the Public’s Health
Adolescent Consent to COVID-19 Vaccination: The Need for Law Reform
Robert S. Olick, Y. Tony Yang, and Jana Shaw
From the Schools and Programs of Public Health
Columbia University Master of Public Health Core Curriculum: Implementation, Student Experience, and Learning Outcomes, 2013-2018
Samantha Garbers, Dana March, Julie Kornfeld, Sabrina R. Baumgartner, Maggie Wiggin, Lauren A. Westley, Diana Ballesteros-Gonzalez, Marlyn Delva, and Linda P. Fried