Rebuilding Caribbean Environmental Health Post-Crisis Programs: A Preliminary Study for Virtual Mentorship.

After the hurricanes in 2017 in the U.S. Caribbean, it was essential to rebuild, strengthen, and sustain essential environmental health (EH) services and systems.

Investing in Retail Food Safety: Assessing the NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model Grant Program's Distribution Through an SDOH Lens.

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) have a major impact on community health and quality of life. Healthy People 2030 has an increased focus on SDOH, given their contribution to health disparities and inequalities as a social phenomenon. Despite advances in food hygiene and sanitation, structural disparities related to SDOH leave food systems vulnerable.

Preliminary Analysis of an Advanced Health Care Practitioner-Led Home-Visit Primary Care Program for High-Risk Patients Reduced Health Care Costs and Utilization.

MemorialCare Medical Group (MCMG) designed and implemented an advanced health care practitioner (AHP)-led home-visit primary care program to address the needs of a frail older adult population, who struggled with arriving for in-office care. We sought to perform a preliminary analysis to determine the program's efficacy. We conducted a retrospective review of patients enrolled in the program through tabulation of total costs of care, inpatient visits (IPVs), emergency department visits (EDVs), and 30-day readmissions (30DRs) 1-year pre-enrollment and postenrollment.

Nitrous Oxide-Induced Subacute Combined Degeneration in a 38-Year-Old Pregnant Female After Recreational Use.

Nitrous oxide (N2O) misuse creates a diagnostic dilemma due to its clinical presentation, difficulty in identification, and toxicity related to its chronic abuse, with resultant morbidity and mortality. Chronic abuse can lead to myeloneuropathy and subacute combined degeneration in otherwise healthy individuals. Health professionals should be aware of the commercial availability and abuse of N2O by the public, and N2O toxicity should be included in the differential diagnosis in patients presenting with myelopathy of unknown etiology.

Health and dental care expenditures in the United States from 1996 to 2016.

Introduction: As total health and dental care expenditures in the United States continue to rise, healthcare disparities for low to middle-income Americans creates an imperative to analyze existing expenditures. This study examined health and dental care expenditures in the United States from 1996 to 2016 and explored trends in spending across various population subgroups.

Methods: Using data collected by the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, this study examined health and dental care expenditures in the United States from 1996 to 2016.

Linkage between Neighborhood Social Cohesion and BMI of South Asians in the Masala Study.

Unlabelled: . South Asians in the United States have a high prevalence of obesity and an elevated risk for cardiometabolic diseases. Yet, little is known about how aspects of neighborhood environment influence cardiometabolic risk factors such as body mass index (BMI) in this rapidly growing population.

Encrusted Ureteral Stent in a Spanish Speaking Female: A Case of a Forgotten Stent Lost in Translation.

Ureteral stents are used to establish patency in a non-draining ureter, as they are commonly placed in etiologies such as ureteral obstruction and urological surgery. One complication that occurs with stent placement is the absence of follow-up to remove the device. This may be due to a myriad of reasons, including non-compliance and lack of patient education.

Maxillary Osteomyelitis in a Patient with Pansinusitis and Recently Diagnosed Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.

Given the rarity of osteomyelitis of the maxilla, a confirmed diagnosis requires extensive investigation into the possible underlying causes of the disease. The most common causes of osteomyelitis of the jaw are periodontal infections and sinusitis with contiguous seeding and infection of the bone. Even in those affected by these potential causes, an immunocompromised state is usually present for an extensive infection to occur.

Oral health as a gateway to overall health and well-being: Surveillance of the geriatric population in the United States.

Aims: Little evidence exists to confirm that better oral health is associated with better overall health and well-being. The present study aimed to examine the impact of oral health on the overall health of the population greater than 65-year old in the entire United States.

Methods And Results: Data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015-2016 were used.