Publications by authors named "John Faust"
Background: The purpose of this study was to determine if patient age could accurately identify disrupted articular cartilage overlying an osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) lesion of the femoral condyle in adolescents. This could have important implications for imaging and treatment decisions.
Methods: All patients from 2001 to 2014 who were arthroscopically treated for a femoral condyle OCD were included in this Institutional Review Board-approved study.
Cumulative Environmental Impacts: Science and Policy to Protect Communities.
Annu Rev Public Health
January 2017
Many communities are located near multiple sources of pollution, including current and former industrial sites, major roadways, and agricultural operations. Populations in such locations are predominantly low-income, with a large percentage of minorities and non-English speakers. These communities face challenges that can affect the health of their residents, including limited access to health care, a shortage of grocery stores, poor housing quality, and a lack of parks and open spaces.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: We used an environmental justice screening tool (CalEnviroScreen 1.1) to compare the distribution of environmental hazards and vulnerable populations across California communities.
Methods: CalEnviroScreen 1.
Early-onset scoliosis is potentially fatal if left untreated. Although surgical management with growing instrumentation may be necessary, this is not a panacea and is associated with high complication rates. Recent evidence has demonstrated that nonsurgical treatment can be an effective early management strategy in delaying or even precluding the need for surgery, especially surgery with growing instrumentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArticle Synopsis
- Polluting facilities and hazardous sites tend to be located in low-income communities of color, which already experience multiple health stressors, highlighting a need to factor socioeconomic status into risk assessments.
- A pilot study introduces a screening method that assesses cumulative impacts by evaluating pollution burdens alongside community characteristics, aiming to highlight areas needing more focus for environmental justice.
- The method evaluates five components—exposures, public health effects, environmental effects, sensitive populations, and socioeconomic factors—while addressing challenges in data integration and methodological choices to ensure the robustness of the assessment.
Article Synopsis
- The California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) is developing guidelines for assessing "cumulative impacts" of environmental pollution on communities.
- This new screening methodology considers various pollution sources and their combined effects, taking into account sensitive populations and socioeconomic factors.
- The tool aims to identify communities disproportionately affected by pollution, ranking them based on their cumulative impact while avoiding quantitative health impact estimates.
Cumulative risks and impacts have taken on different meanings in different regulatory and programmatic contexts at federal and state government levels. Traditional risk assessment methodologies, with considerable limitations, can provide a framework for the evaluation of cumulative risks from chemicals. Under an environmental justice program in California, cumulative impacts are defined to include exposures, public health effects, or environmental effects in a geographic area from the emission or discharge of environmental pollution from all sources, through all media.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine radiographically the anatomic length difference between the nasal and oral aerodigestive tracts and to clarify gaps in the literature regarding standardized landmark measurements and documentation techniques in transnasal esophagoscopy, as opposed to traditional transoral esophagoscopy.
Study Design: This is a prospective radiographic cohort study.
Methods: Digital computerized tomography measurement techniques were used to determine the difference in length between the nasal and oral aerodigestive tracts.