Addressing social and health needs in health care: Characterizing case managers' work to address patient-defined goals.

Objective: To test quantitative process measures characterizing the work of social needs case managers as they assisted patients with diverse health-related needs-spanning both medical and social domains.

Study Setting And Design: The study analyzed secondary data on 7076 patients working with 147 case managers from the CommunityConnect social needs case management program in Contra Costa County, California from 2018 to 2021. The service-designed to be holistic with a focus on social determinants as root causes of health issues-helped patients navigate social services, health care, and mental health care.

Air quality and respiratory health in children.

Air pollution is a leading modifiable risk factor for various cardio-respiratory outcomes globally, both for children and for adults. Children are particularly susceptible to the adverse effects of air pollution due to various physiological and behavioural factors. Children are at a higher risk of outcomes such as acute respiratory infections, asthma and decreased lung function due to air pollution exposure; the risk varies in different geographical regions, depending on the source of air pollution, duration of exposures and concentration.

Health awareness and the transition towards clean cooking fuels: Evidence from Rajasthan.

Ensuring affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 is part of the internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDG7). With roughly 3 billion people still lacking access to clean cooking solutions in 2017, this remains an ambitious task. The use of solid biomass such as wood and cow dung for cooking causes household air pollution resulting in severe health hazards.

Postoperative Anemia Predicts Length of Stay for Geriatric Patients Undergoing Minimally Invasive Lumbar Spine Fusion Surgery.

Introduction: We hypothesize that postoperative anemia will predict length of stay (LOS) for geriatric patients undergoing minimally invasive (MIS) lumbar spine fusions.

Materials And Methods: Patients who underwent MIS lateral and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion between January 2017 and March 2018 at an academic tertiary care referral center were selected. Eighty-one patients were included.