Urban Spatial Accessibility of Primary Care and Hypertension Control and Awareness on Chicago's South Side: A Study From the COMPASS Cohort.

Background: Understanding the relationship between hypertension and spatial accessibility of primary care can inform interventions to improve hypertension control and awareness, especially among disadvantaged populations. This study aims to investigate the association between spatial accessibility of primary care and hypertension control and awareness.

Methods: Participant data from the COMPASS (Chicago Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study) between 2013 and 2019 were analyzed.

Public mental health: a psychiatry and public health perspective.

Mental health issues are fast becoming one of society's greatest health challenges with evidence of higher levels of illness and strain on psychiatric services. The reasons for this trend of increasing mental health problems across the population are complex and there is an urgent need to research and deliver effective public mental health strategies. In this perspective piece we argue that psychiatrists and public health physicians have unique knowledge and perspectives on population mental health.