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It is important for clinicians and community members to receive up-to-date information about the microbiological and elemental composition of local water supplies. Clinicians play an important role in helping their patients to interpret water quality data and understand the potential impact of water quality on their health. Expanding the medical school curriculum to include environmental health, public health, and health disparities-including disparities related to environmental quality and waterborne hazards-is key to clinicians' fulfilling this role.

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Climate Change and Public Health Policy.

J Law Med Ethics

March 2017

Jason A. Smith, M.T.S., J.D., is an Assistant Professor at California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California. His research focuses on issues of public health law and policy. He has worked on issues of food policy, the First Amendment and public health, and climate change and health. He received a B.A. from the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, an M.T.S. from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. Jason Vargo, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Global Health Institute and Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. His research centers on environmental health and urbanization at the local and global scales. He received his B.S.E. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, his M.P.H. from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and masters and Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Sara Pollock Hoverter, J.D., LL.M., is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Harrison Institute for Public Law at Georgetown Law. Her practice includes supporting policy planning and implementation for state and local governments in the areas of health, climate change, and food policy. She received a B.A. from Yale University in New Haven, CT, a J.D. cum laude from Georgetown Law, and an LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C.

Climate change poses real and immediate impacts to the public health of populations around the globe. Adverse impacts are expected to continue throughout the century. Emphasizing co-benefits of climate action for health, combining adaptation and mitigation efforts, and increasing interagency coordination can effectively address both public health and climate change challenges.

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This article begins with a brief discussion of findings on causal factors leading to allegations of sexual violence in health care facilities and then offers the author's account of 4 such cases that he reviewed, 3 of which occurred in psychiatric units. These cases show remarkably similar variables, especially involving decisions to allow male and female patients to commingle, the inadequate physical layout of the units, poor or absent video surveillance, and staff unacquainted with institutional policies on patient safety or refusing to enforce relevant rules. These variables arguably amount to "failures of foreseeability" that reasonably cautious health care personnel should recognize as facilitating or enabling sexual violence.

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Science fiction: Boldly going for 50 years.

Nature

September 2016

Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He writes frequently about science, technology and culture; his latest books are Universal Foam 2.0 and Frankenstein 2018 (in progress).

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Context: Communal blogs facilitate online narratives by providing opportunities for individuals to co-construct meaning and to engage in discussion about lived health experiences.

Objective: To examine the role of health as a connective narrative among individuals organizing collectively in an online community. The "We are the 99 percent" Tumblr blog emerged as a spontaneous community platform of the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US.

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Burnout among osteopathic otolaryngology residents: identification during formative training years.

J Am Osteopath Assoc

August 2014

From the Department of Otolaryngology at A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri (Drs Yost and Burchett); Research Support at A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Missouri (Ms Johnson); and Emory Voice Center and the Department of Otolaryngology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Johns).

Context: Studies of burnout among allopathic physicians have shown many deleterious effects for both physicians and patients. To our knowledge, no studies have quantified burnout among osteopathic physicians.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of burnout, mentoring, and resident training satisfaction among US osteopathic otolaryngology residents compared with previously published data for allopathic otolaryngology residents.

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Ocular syphilis in a patient with HIV.

JAAPA

April 2014

Stephanie D. Kurtz is a PA in hematology/oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. At the time this article was written, Francois Rollin was chief resident at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

Patients who are HIV-positive and have ocular complaints may have ocular syphilis as coinfection with HIV and syphilis is common, and genital ulcerative diseases may facilitate HIV infection. Early treatment with IV penicillin can reduce the risk of vision loss.

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Reports or allegations of sexual attacks in healthcare facilities are extremely upsetting and sometimes not given the attention they deserve. In June 2011, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a remarkable report on sexual attacks occurring in Veterans Affairs (VA) health facilities that not only raised awareness of the magnitude of the problem but that detailed numerous system weaknesses in VA facilities that might have enabled such attacks. This article discusses some of the GAO's findings as well as other instances of sexual attacks, such as occurred in the criminal prosecution of Paul Serdula, a former health professional who might have sexually assaulted hundreds of women.

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Background. Psychiatric diagnoses are important for treatment planning. There are a number of current challenges in the area of psychiatric diagnosis with important treatment implications.

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Cancer screening and age in the United States and Europe.

Health Aff (Millwood)

April 2011

Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

We compare cancer screening rates between the United States and Europe. Many European countries have organized screening programs, whereas the U.S.

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Do prevention or treatment services save money? The wrong debate.

Health Aff (Millwood)

May 2009

Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Health improvements and cost savings are achievable by providing targeted, evidence-based, and cost-effective health promotion and disease prevention programs that reduce modifiable risk factors, often the cause of costly chronic diseases. Adopting commonsense health practices does not require expensive technology, medication, specialty training, or elaborate treatment facilities. Instituting environmental, policy, and normative interventions, in addition to individual behavior change programs, can shift our thinking about how we pay for health.

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Estimates of the excess health care costs from the exposure of children to tobacco smoke are not available in the United States. We use two nationally representative databases and current econometric techniques to estimate annual health care costs attributable to secondhand exposure by adults in the household. The point estimate closest to significance (p = .

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Since the discovery of HIV/AIDS and the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, there have been many observations regarding the causes of HIV/AIDS deaths, opportunistic infections, and coexisting diseases such as non-AIDS-defining malignancies. The bulk of the literature worldwide has been epidemiologic and has involved cross-linkage of both HIV/AIDS and cancer registries. Prior retrospective studies have also utilized death certificates.

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Reframing the debate over health care reform: the role of system performance and affordability.

Health Aff (Millwood)

February 2008

Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

The failure to pass comprehensive national health care reform requires a new approach for framing and structuring the debate. Since 85 percent of Americans have health insurance, framing the debate around the affordability of coverage is important. More important is understanding the factors responsible for driving growth in spending, and crafting effective interventions.

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Objective: This study assessed patterns of psychopharmacological treatment for bipolar disorder.

Method: Intake treatment data were examined for the first 500 patients in the Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD) study (1998 to 1999). Diagnoses were assessed by using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV mood modules.

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Women comprise the fastest growing group of persons with AIDS. They are often diagnosed later in the disease, when antiretroviral therapy (ART) is strongly indicated. Antiretroviral therapy has transformed the course of HIV/AIDS to a treatable, chronic illness.

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The rise in health care spending and what to do about it.

Health Aff (Millwood)

January 2006

Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Reforms for slowing the growth in health care spending and increasing the value of care have largely focused on insurance-based solutions. Consumer-driven health care represents the most recent example of this approach. However, much of the growth in health care spending over the past twenty years is linked to modifiable population risk factors such as obesity and stress.

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Purpose: To provide nurse practitioners with a basic understanding of the pathophysiology, clinical characteristics, diagnostic methods, and management of Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome.

Data Sources: Selected research and clinical articles.

Conclusions: WPW syndrome is the most common form of ventricular preexcitation.

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This study tracks the diffusion of generic fluoxetine after its release in August 2001 within the largest U.S. pharmacy benefit manager (PBM).

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