Occupational Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Indigenous Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 2020-2022.

To characterize occupational determinants of health and well-being for American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) populations in the United States using a nationally representative data set. We conducted a descriptive analysis and multivariable logistic regression using National Health Interview Survey data (2020-2022) to compare demographic and work characteristics across 3 groups of AIAN individuals: non-Hispanic (n = 558), Hispanic (n = 304), and those with at least 1 other racial identity (n = 653). The total unweighted sample was 88 701.

Emergent occupational injuries presenting to hospital during increasing and extreme heat days in Illinois (USA).

The changing climate and rising occurrence of heat events may impact incidence and severity of occupational traumatic injuries. The objective of this research is to characterize the association between daily hospital presentations for work-related traumatic injuries and temperature in Illinois, USA. The Illinois outpatient and inpatient hospital databases were used to identify work-related traumatic injuries treated in Illinois hospitals during the summer months from May to September between 2017 to 2023.

How to … Co-design Education With Healthcare Consumers.

Health professions education cultures and practices are changing, with increasing calls to actively partner with healthcare consumers across the education continuum, including informing health professions education content, curriculum design and pedagogical approaches. This movement towards valuing and foregrounding lived experience expertise in health professions and clinical education has clear benefits for learners, including developing more humanistic, person-centred health professionals and practice. For healthcare consumers, it offers an opportunity to shift traditional power relations in health professions education through meaningful partnership and increased agency to improve education and the outcomes of healthcare.

Assessing the Impact of an Integrated Community Care Program on Unplanned Hospital and Emergency Department Representations: Interrupted Time Series Analysis.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the Community Care Program, which was the amalgamation of three outreach services-post-acute care, Residential In-Reach, and the Hospital Admission Risk Program-into a single integrated care model. Specifically, we assessed its effects on unplanned hospital readmissions and emergency department re-presentations at 30-, 60- and 90-days post-enrolment.

Methods: A pragmatic, real-world, population-based observational study was conducted using an interrupted time series analysis.

Not your common neck pain: Longus coli tendonitis.

Longus coli tendonitis is a rare etiology of neck pain, occurring so infrequently that a prevalence is difficult to determine. Typical symptoms include neck pain, neck stiffness and an elevation of inflammatory markers, raising a concern for an infectious etiology. Radiographic imaging is essential to establish a diagnosis and differentiate between life-threatening infectious pathologies, including meningitis and abscesses leading to airway compromise.