Expanding options to recruit, grow, and retain the public health workforce.

The public health workforce continues to atrophy due to mass and early retirement, under-funding, slow hiring processes, lack of advancement opportunities, and shifting policies. Organizational research into workforce sustainability is crucial for ensuring a robust, diverse staff capable of delivering essential public health services. We examined career ladders, a potential solution to workforce challenges, through interviews with 10 health departments (HDs) across seven states.

Trilogies: Lessons from 50 Years Facilitating Community-based Health Assessments and Planning in Appalachia.

Involvement of community and organizational groups is fundamental to most public ventures. Most social, health, economic, and educational improvements in Appalachia have been characterized by successfully integrating community input and finding ways to encourage organizational change and collaboration. Managing group process and related facilitation skills are fundamental competencies for public health professionals and others guiding change efforts.

The Worst of Times: Depressive Symptoms Among Racialized Groups Living With Dementia and Cognitive Impairment During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

To explore differences in depressive symptoms for older adults (Black, Latinx, and White) by cognitive status during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Data from the Health and Retirement Study identified older adults as cognitively normal, cognitively impaired without dementia (CIND), and persons living with dementia (PLWD). Multiple linear regression analyses examined associations between cognitive status and depressive symptoms among these racialized groups.

Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Caring for Muslims.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion across the world and in the United States. Adherents of Islam are known as Muslims. Globally, Muslims comprise the second largest religious group with 1.

The International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism Commentary on the National Kidney Foundation and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Nutrition in Chronic Kidney Disease.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the National Kidney Foundation collaborated to provide an update to the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for nutrition in chronic kidney disease (CKD). These guidelines provide a valuable update to many aspects of the nutrition care process. They include changes in the recommendations for nutrition screening and assessment, macronutrients, and targets for electrolytes and minerals.

Path Analysis of Campus Walkability/Bikeability and College Students' Physical Activity Attitudes, Behaviors, and Body Mass Index.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between the walkability/bikeability of college campuses and students' body mass index (BMI) with student physical activity (PA) attitudes and behaviors as potential mediators.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Thirteen university campuses.

Nuclear medicine practices in the 1950s through the mid-1970s and occupational radiation doses to technologists from diagnostic radioisotope procedures.

Data on occupational radiation exposure from nuclear medicine procedures for the time period of the 1950s through the 1970s is important for retrospective health risk studies of medical personnel who conducted those activities. However, limited information is available on occupational exposure received by physicians and technologists who performed nuclear medicine procedures during those years. To better understand and characterize historical radiation exposures to technologists, the authors collected information on nuclear medicine practices in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Career disaffection among surgeons in the era of managed care.

The purpose of this paper is to assess career satisfaction of surgeons in the era of managed care. The method of this assessment is by membership survey of the Southeastern Surgical Congress and the Western Surgical Association. Members were queried about their demographic characteristics, some aspects of the business of their practices, their attitudes toward retirement, their perception of the effectiveness of organized medicine as a socioeconomic advocate, and a comparison of each surgeon's career satisfaction before and during the era of managed care.