The federally mandated World Trade Center Health Program provides limited health benefits for qualifying health conditions related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A qualifying health condition is an illness or health condition for which the member's exposure to airborne toxins, any other hazard, or any other adverse condition resulting from the 9/11 terrorist attacks is considered substantially likely to be a significant factor in aggravating, contributing to, or causing the illness or health condition. These qualifying health conditions are listed in federal regulations. The regulations also provide a process for amending this list. This commentary describes the methods developed for adding health conditions to the list of qualifying health conditions and discusses changes to the list that have occurred during the Program's 2011-2020 period.
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J Public Health Manag Pract
November 2024
Author Affiliations: Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Drs White and Elliott, Ms Cunnington, and Dr Greece); Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Drainoni); Evans Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences, Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Drainoni); Department of Health, Law, Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Drainoni); and Winthrop Department of Public Health & Clinical Services, Winthrop, Massachusetts (Ms Hurley).
Objective: A pipeline is required to build a qualified and diverse public health workforce. Work-education programs offer public health students experiential learning, training, and a pathway to public health professions. However, there is a gap in the literature to guide public health practice on the types of programs, their components, and their potential impact.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Nurs Adm
January 2025
Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor (Dr Brown), Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois; Professor (Dr Pajarillo), Adelphi University, Garden City, New York; Instructor (Baker), Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; Assistant Professor (Dr Kabigting), Adelphi University, Garden City, New York; Adjunct Assistant Professor (Dr Bajwa), MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, Massachusetts; Professor (Dr Dowling-Castronovo), Monmouth University, West Long Beach, New Jersey; Director/Chair (Dr Kaufman), Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Dean (Dr Santee), RWJBarnabas Health/Trinitas School of Nursing, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Adjunct Faculty (Dr Seibold-Simpson), State University of New York Delhi School of Nursing; and Nursing Consultant/Mentor (Dr Lee), Ames, Iowa.
Background: The numbers of nursing school admissions and, thus, future nursing graduates are directly affected by the lack of qualified ANEs.
Methods: A consortium of diverse ANEs was formed to research these questions using the nominal group technique.
Results: Two central themes emerged from the consortium: support and collaboration.
Fam Community Health
January 2025
Author Affiliations: University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California (Mr Peterson), Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Dr de Haro), Department of Family Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Drs Kilgore and Billimek), Department of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Dr Sorkin), Department of Computer Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California (Dr Gago-Masague).
Background And Objectives: As telehealth grows in ubiquity, it is important to understand the barriers and facilitators to telehealth utilization in historically marginalized populations. This study utilizes the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to assess correlates of the intention to utilize video consultations among low-income Hispanic patients.
Methods: This cross-sectional observational study included participants (N = 138) recruited from a federally qualified health center affiliated with a large university health system.
Front Nutr
December 2024
State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Diagnosis and Therapy, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Background: Evidence on the relationship between the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and mortality in breast cancer (BC) survivors remains inconclusive. Moreover, rare studies have explored the effect of individual HEI components on survival in this population. This study explored the association between the HEI-2020, including total and 13 component scores, and mortality in BC survivors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Open
December 2024
Human Development and Family Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
Introduction: Despite evidence of variation in how concerns about falling influence physical activity, many of the currently available knowledge syntheses merely assume that this relation is uniform across populations and contexts. Therefore, we propose a scoping review protocol to guide a summary of the bodywork that has examined the association between concerns about falling and physical activity in adult populations, with an eye on the availability of empirical evidence of moderation.
Methods And Analyses: Studies reporting on both the concepts of concerns about falling and physical activity among samples with a mean age≥18 years will be included.
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