Patient profiles, initial hospital encounter characteristics, and hospital re-encounters of patients with a hospital emergency department visit or inpatient admission for major depressive disorder.

Objectives: To gain a better understanding of the characteristics of patients with a hospital encounter for major depressive disorder (MDD) and evaluate associated hospital resource utilization, hospital charges and costs, and hospital re-encounters.

Methods: Adult patients with a hospital encounter (i.e.

Health care utilisation in treatment-resistant depression: a Swedish population-based cohort study.

Objective: To investigate the health care utilisation (HCU) among patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) compared to patients with depression not meeting TRD criteria.

Methods: Nationwide Swedish registers were used to identify patients 18-69 years old with incident depression and antidepressant treatment. Patients were followed prospectively and defined as having TRD at start of the third distinct consecutive treatment episode.

Factors that encourage and discourage policy-making to prevent childhood obesity: Experience in the United States.

Policy-makers throughout the world seek to address childhood obesity prevention, yet little is known about factors that influence policy-makers' decisions on this topic. From September 2014 to April 2015, we conducted 43 semi-structured interviews about factors that encourage and discourage policy-makers' support for childhood obesity prevention policies. We interviewed policy-makers (n = 12) and two other groups engaged with childhood obesity prevention policies: representatives of non-governmental organizations (n = 24) and academics (n = 7).

The Voices for Healthy Kids Campaign and US State Legislation to Prevent Childhood Obesity.

We documented childhood obesity legislative activity in all 50 US states that occurred in parallel to the first year of Voices for Healthy Kids (Voices), a campaign to mobilize evidence-based legislation addressing childhood obesity. We identified 217 bills in the year before Voices (November 2012 to October 2013) and 304 bills at follow-up (November 2013 to October 2014). In states with active Voices grantees, the bill enactment rate was 50% higher (increasing from 10% at baseline to 15% at follow-up).