Jail Conditions And Mortality: Death Rates Associated With Turnover, Jail Size, And Population Characteristics.

In 2019, there were approximately ten million admissions to more than 3,000 US jails-facilities that had become increasingly deadly in the prior decades. Between 2000 and 2019, jail mortality rose by approximately 11 percent. Although incarceration is widely viewed as a health hazard, relationships between jail conditions and jail deaths are understudied.

Multianalyte Serum Biomarker Panel for Early Detection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.

Purpose: We determined whether a large, multianalyte panel of circulating biomarkers can improve detection of early-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

Materials And Methods: We defined a biologically relevant subspace of blood analytes on the basis of previous identification in premalignant lesions or early-stage PDAC and evaluated each in pilot studies. The 31 analytes that met minimum diagnostic accuracy were measured in serum of 837 subjects (461 healthy, 194 benign pancreatic disease, and 182 early-stage PDAC).

Help Without Hassles: Instituting Community-Based Care for U.S. Veterans after the War in Vietnam.

In 1979, the U.S. Congress approved funding for an outpatient, community-based "readjustment counseling" program to be overseen by the Veterans Administration (VA) and accessible to those who had served in the military during the era of the war in Vietnam.

Transitions in "Privatized" Prison Health Systems: Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Incarcerated People in Florida, 2011-2018.

To examine rates of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations among incarcerated people in Florida during a period when health care management in the state's prisons underwent transitions. We used Florida ED visit and hospital discharge data (2011-2018) to depict the trend in ED visit and hospital discharge rates among incarcerated people. We proxied incarcerated people using individuals admitted from and discharged or transferred to a court or law enforcement agency.

Assessment of Screen Exposure in Young Children, 1997 to 2014.

This study evaluates changes in types of screen time exposure among young children before and after the widespread availability of mobile devices.

"The Service I Rendered Was Just as True": African American Soldiers and Veterans as Activist Patients.

In this article, I examine how African American soldiers and veterans experienced and shaped federally sponsored health care during and after World War I. Building on studies of the struggles of Black leaders and health care providers to win professional and public health advancement in the 1920s and 1930s, and of advocates to mobilize for health care rights in the mid-20th century, I focus primarily on the experiences and activism of patients in the interwar years. Private and government correspondence, congressional testimony, and reports from Black newspapers reveal that African American soldiers and veterans communicated directly with policymakers and bureaucrats regarding unequal treatment, assuming roles as "policy actors" who viewed health and medical care as "politics by other means.

An exploratory international study into occupational therapy students' perceptions of professional identity.

Background/aim: The successful development and maintenance of professional identity is associated with professional development and retention in the health workforce. This paper explores students' perspectives on the ways pre-entry experiences and curricula content shape professional identity.

Methods: An online cross-sectional survey was sent to students enrolled in the final year of entry-level programmes in five countries.

The founding of Walter Reed General Hospital and the beginning of modern institutional army medical care in the United States.

When Walter Reed United States Army General Hospital opened its doors in 1909, the Spanish-American War had been over for a decade, World War I was in the unforeseeable future, and army hospital admission rates were steadily decreasing. The story of the founding of Walter Reed, which remained one of the flagship military health institutions in the United States until its 2011 closure, is a story about the complexities of the turn of the twentieth century. Broad historical factors-heightened imperial ambitions, a drive to modernize the army and its medical services, and a growing acceptance of hospitals as ideal places for treatment-explain why the institution was so urgently fought for and ultimately won funding at the particular moment it did.