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Am J Public Health
January 2025
Yin Wang, Kevin Callison, and Charles Stoecker are with the Department of Health Policy and Management and Julie H. Hernandez is with the Department of International Health and Sustainable Development, Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
To assess the impact of state COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care workers (HCWs) on health sector employment in the United States. Using monthly state-level employment data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages between January and October 2021, we employed a partially pooled synthetic control method that accounted for staggered mandate adoption and heterogeneous treatment effects. We conducted analyses separately for the 4 health care subsectors-ambulatory health care services, hospitals, nursing and residential care, and social assistance-with an additional analysis of 2 industry groups-skilled nursing care and community care for the elderly-under the nursing and residential care subsector.
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January 2025
Department of Psychology and Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience, York University, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada.
Developing ways to predict and encourage vaccine booster uptake are necessary for durable immunity responses. In a multi-nation sample, recruited in June-August 2021, we assessed delay discounting (one's tendency to choose smaller immediate rewards over larger future rewards), COVID-19 vaccination status, demographics, and distress level. Participants who reported being vaccinated were invited back one year later (n = 2547) to report their willingness to receive a booster dose, along with reasons for their decision.
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January 2025
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
Unlabelled: COVID-19 tremendously disrupted the global health system. People of all ages were at risk of becoming infected. Frequent school closures raised concerns about both the physical and mental health of school-age children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Public Health Manag Pract
January 2025
Author Affiliations: Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences and Health (Ms Williams and Dr Yang) and School of Public Health (Dr Lu, Dr Weber, Dr Cook, Mr Wang, and Dr Yang), University of Nevada Reno, Reno, Nevada.
Objectives: To investigate the association between smoking behavior and COVID-19 hospitalization, integrating individual and regional factors such as community resilience and social determinants of health (SDOH), addressing gaps in existing research.
Design: Retrospective cohort study utilizing multilevel analytical methods to evaluate the effects of individual smoking status and regional SDOH on COVID-19 hospitalization.
Setting: Washoe County, Nevada, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 5, 2020, to April 30, 2021).
BJU Int
January 2025
Department of Urology, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
Objectives: To summarise the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on urological practice globally with a focus on Australian initiatives, as the pandemic resulted in radical changes in healthcare infrastructure and policies.
Methods: We conducted a literature review of the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), Excerpta Medica dataBASE (EMBASE) and Web of Science medical databases. The key terms used to conduct our search algorithm comprised of 'COVID', 'wait list or wait time or delay', 'urology', 'surgery' and 'outcomes', and generated 231 articles.
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