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Background: Shigellosis is diarrheal disease caused by highly infectious Shigella bacteria. Shigella can spread in multiple ways, including sexual contact. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are particularly at risk for shigellosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScreening Accuracy of BMI for Adiposity Among 8- to 19-Year-Olds.
Pediatrics
July 2024
Departments of Pediatrics and Public Health Science, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Background And Objectives: Although the limitations of BMI have long been recognized, there are recent concerns that it is not a good screening tool for adiposity. We therefore examined the cross-sectional relation of BMI to adiposity among 6923 8- to 19-year-olds in the National Health and Nutrition Survey from 2011 through 2018.
Methods: Participants were scanned with dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry.
Objective: To describe the prevalence, characteristics, and health-related outcomes of children with diagnosed health conditions and functional difficulties who do not meet criteria for having a special health care need based on the traditional scoring of the Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Screener.
Methods: Data come from the 2016 to 2021 National Survey of Children's Health (n = 225 443). Child characteristics and health-related outcomes were compared among 4 mutually exclusive groups defined by CSHCN Screener criteria and the presence of both conditions and difficulties.
Proposed Framework for Developing and Evaluating Total Worker Health ® Education and Training Programs.
J Occup Environ Med
August 2024
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA (T.A.K.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, retired (A.M.C.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA (D.F.W.); and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Atlanta, GA (M.L., L.C.C.).
Objective: Propose a framework for developing and evaluating Total Worker Health ® (TWH) education and training efforts by implementing institutions.
Methods: This is a review of TWH information from symposia, workshops, academic offerings, and publications, along with a review of education and training development and evaluation resources applicable across various disciplines.
Results: Examples of knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) are provided for each TWH core competency, and a framework for developing and evaluating a TWH competency-based education or training program.
Should We Be Testing for Mycoplasma genitalium on Initial Presentation? Trends in Persistent/Recurrent Urethritis Among Men Presenting for Care in STD Clinics, 2015-2019, STD Surveillance Network.
Sex Transm Dis
July 2024
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention (NCHHSTP), Atlanta, GA.
Background: Mycoplasma genitalium is a major contributor to persistent/recurrent urethritis cases. However, there are limited published studies on recent trends of persistent/recurrent urethritis.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted of men presenting with symptomatic urethritis in 16 sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics from 2015 to 2019.
Workplace Psychosocial Factors, Work Organization, and Physical Exertion as Risk Factors for Low Back Pain Among US Workers: Data From the 2015 National Health Interview Survey.
J Occup Environ Med
June 2024
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio (T.S., T.A., M.-L.L.); and University of California-Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California (H.Y.).
Objective: To evaluate the association between workplace psychosocial, organization, and physical risk factors with low back pain (LBP) among US workers.
Methods: 2015 National Health Interview Survey data were analyzed to calculate the prevalence rates and prevalence ratios for LBP across levels of workplace psychosocial and organizational risk factors among 17,464 US adult workers who worked ≥20 hours per week. Results were also stratified by workplace physical exertion.
Trends in Otitis Media Ambulatory Visits in American Indian and Alaska Native Children During the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Period and the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Pediatr Infect Dis J
April 2024
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Infectious Disease Readiness and Innovation, Arctic Investigations Program, Anchorage, Alaska.
Otitis media-associated outpatient visits among American Indians/Alaska Natives children <5 years old decreased by 52% (100 to 48 per 100 children per year) from 2003 to 2019. Otitis media visits decreased by another 50% from 2019 to 2020, but rebounded between 2020 and 2021 back to a rate similar to 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLocally Acquired Melioidosis Linked to Environment - Mississippi, 2020-2023.
N Engl J Med
December 2023
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (J.K.P., M.G.E., M.C.T., P.D., K.O., J.E.G., C.A.B., E.S., R.T., C.A.G., J.S.S., W.A.B., Z.P.W., M.E.N., A.R.H.); the Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson (J.H., C.B., G.A., D.W., K.T., P.B.); the Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix (C.A.B.); and the Louisiana Department of Health, Baton Rouge (T.S., G.B.).
Melioidosis, caused by , is a rare but potentially fatal bacterial disease endemic to tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. It is typically acquired through contact with contaminated soil or fresh water. Before this investigation, was not known to have been isolated from the environment in the continental United States.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Over 30,000 mpox cases were reported during the 2022 mpox outbreak with many cases occurring among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Decreases in U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Total Worker Health ® Program : The Third Decade.
J Occup Environ Med
January 2024
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Atlanta, Georgia (L.C.C.); Advanced Technologies & Laboratories, Gaithersburg, Maryland (A.L.S.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC (C.-C.C., A.M.C., S.L.T., J.H.); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio (H.L.H.).
Trends in Patient's Use of Sexual Health Services During COVID-19 in a Network of STD Clinics, STD Surveillance Network, 2019 to 2021.
Sex Transm Dis
October 2023
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Surveillance and Data Science Branch, Division of STD Prevention (NCHHSTP), Atlanta, GA.
Article Synopsis
- The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted services at sexual health care clinics, leading to a sharp decline in patient visits and the use of telehealth services during 2020.
- Data from seven STD clinics revealed a 68% decrease in clinic visits and 76% drop in unique patients in April 2020 compared to the same month in 2019, with telehealth peaking in December 2020.
- Despite efforts to adapt, by December 2021, these clinics had not returned to pre-pandemic visit levels, indicating ongoing challenges in patient engagement and potential risks for untreated STIs.
Project Save Lives: A Hospital-Based Peer Overdose Intervention.
J Public Health Manag Pract
May 2023
Overdose Data to Action Program, Florida Department of Health in Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida (Mss Salmo, Prieto, and Goldman); Gateway Community Services, Inc, Jacksonville, Florida (Mr Bodin and Dr Pomm); and Premier Biotech, Inc, Jacksonville, Florida (Ms Klein). Overdose Data to Action is a grant based program with 100% of its funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Since 2003, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) has administered the Model Practice Award Program to commemorate the outstanding work of local health departments that have demonstrated creative and dynamic action in addressing identified public health needs. This nationally recognized award has been bestowed to over 3,000 local health departments since its inception and provides local health departments with a shared database of hundreds of health departments and over 850 best practices that are immediately replicable in their communities without having to “reinvent the wheel.” In 2022, five outstanding local health department programs were recognized as Model Practices and sixteen programs were recognized as Promising Practices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInjuries That Happen at Work Lead to More Opioid Prescriptions and Higher Opioid Costs.
J Occup Environ Med
December 2022
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-Economic Research and Support Office, Washington, DC (Drs Asfaw and Pana-Cryan); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)-Economic Research and Support Office, Cincinnati, Ohio (Mr Quay, Dr Bushnell).
Objectives: This study aimed to compare opioid prescription incidence, supply days, and cost associated with occupational injury and other injury-caused conditions.
Methods: We used Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data for 2010-2019. The MEPS provides information on medical conditions and associated medical encounters, treatments, and treatment costs, as well as demographic, education, health, working status, income, and insurance coverage information.
Background: Shigella species, which cause acute diarrheal disease, are transmitted via fecal-oral and sexual contact. To better understand the overlapping populations affected by Shigella infections and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States, we examined the occurrence of reported STIs within 24 months among shigellosis case-patients.
Methods: Culture-confirmed Shigella cases diagnosed from 2007 to 2016 among residents of 6 US jurisdictions were matched to reports of STIs (chlamydia, gonorrhea, and all stages of syphilis) diagnosed 12 months before or after the shigellosis case.
Remote Health: Optimizing the Delivery of Sexual Health Care.
Sex Transm Dis
November 2022
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention.
Advances in Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing at Home and in Nonclinical Settings Close to the Home.
Sex Transm Dis
November 2022
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
A commentary on recent successes and challenges for home STI specimen collection, for point-of-care test usage close to the home, and implications of COVID-19 self-tests for future STI self-test development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEffectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines in Ambulatory and Inpatient Care Settings.
N Engl J Med
October 2021
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Response Team, Atlanta (M.G.T., C.H.B., S. Reynolds, J.F., P.P., E.P.G., R.M.P., L.B., A.S., N.O., S.J.S., J.R.V., A.F., E.A.-B.); the Division of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Epidemiology, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City (E.S., K.D., N.G., J.A.); the Center for Biomedical Informatics, Regenstrief Institute (S.G., B.E.D., W.F.F., N.R.V.), Indiana University School of Medicine (S.G.), and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health (B.E.D., W.F.F., N.R.V.) - all in Indianapolis; Westat, Rockville, MD (S.W.B., R.J.B., M.E.L., E.A.R., M.D., Y.Z., P.S.); the Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research, Portland, OR (A.L.N., S.A.I.); the Department of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora (T.C.O., S. Rao, M.B.); HealthPartners Institute, Minneapolis (M.B.D., E.K.); the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (K.N., J.H.), and New York-Presbyterian Hospital (K.N.) - both in New York; the Vaccine Study Center, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland (N.L., K.G., B.F., O.Z., N.P.K.); and Baylor Scott and White Health, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Temple, TX (M.G.).
Background: There are limited data on the effectiveness of the vaccines against symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) currently authorized in the United States with respect to hospitalization, admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), or ambulatory care in an emergency department or urgent care clinic.
Methods: We conducted a study involving adults (≥50 years of age) with Covid-19-like illness who underwent molecular testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We assessed 41,552 admissions to 187 hospitals and 21,522 visits to 221 emergency departments or urgent care clinics during the period from January 1 through June 22, 2021, in multiple states.
Article Synopsis
- The CDC launched the Strengthening the US Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG) initiative in 2016 to improve rapid detection and response strategies for antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea across multiple jurisdictions.
- Funded jurisdictions worked on better specimen collection for gonorrhea testing, rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and enhanced data communication, collecting over 58,000 specimens between 2018 and 2019.
- The initiative successfully expanded testing and partner services, finding only a small percentage of cases with significant antibiotic resistance, and hopes to inform future public health strategies against gonococcal resistance.
Background: Reduced antibiotic susceptibility (RS) in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) may increase treatment failure. Conducting tests of cure (TOC) for patients with RS-GC may facilitate identification of treatment failures.
Methods: We examined 2018 to 2019 data from 8 jurisdictions participating in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Strengthening US Response to Resistant Gonorrhea project.
Background: Responding effectively to outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea (ARGC) in the future will likely prove challenging. Tabletop exercises (TTXs) may assist local, state, and federal public health officials evaluate existing ARGC outbreak response plans, strengthen preparedness and response effectiveness, and identify critical gaps to address before an outbreak.
Methods: In 2018 to 2019, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated with state partners to develop and implement TTXs to simulate a public health emergency involving an ARGC outbreak.
Background: Control of the pediatric HIV epidemic is hampered by gaps in diagnosis and linkage to effective treatment. The 2015-2016 Malawi Population-based HIV impact assessment data were analyzed to identify gaps in pediatric HIV diagnosis, treatment, and viral load suppression.
Methods: In half of the surveyed households, children ages ≥18 months to <15 years were tested using the national HIV rapid test algorithm.
Background: Disease intervention specialists (DIS) prevent syphilis by ensuring treatment for patients' sex partners through partner notification (PN). Different interpretations of how to measure partners treated due to DIS efforts complicates PN evaluation. We measured PN impact by counting partners treated for syphilis after DIS interviewed the patient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevention and Attenuation of Covid-19 with the BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 Vaccines.
N Engl J Med
July 2021
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Response Team, Atlanta (M.G.T., A.L.F., L.G., J.M.L., Y.M.Y., G.J., J. Mak, B.L., Y.Z., J.Z., A.K., Y.L., M.D., S.T., J.B., E.A.-B., M.L.A., P.K., A.M.F.); the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson (J.L.B., K.L., K.E., X.S., J.G., S.B., P.R.); Kaiser Permanente Northwest Center for Health Research, Portland, OR (A.L.N., H.C.G., J.L.K.); the Whiteside Institute for Clinical Research (M.J.O.), St. Luke's Regional Health Care System (H.T., M.J.O.), Duluth, MN; University of Utah, Salt Lake City (S.K.Y., K.H., M.S.T., A.L.P., R.T.B.); the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield (J. Meece, E.S., L.I.), and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Madison (E.H., K.G., A.B., E.R.) - both in Wisconsin; Abt Associates, Rockville, MD (L.E.W.O., L.J.E., M.G.W., K.D.G., M.K.H., T.C.M., B.P.P., D.R.H.); the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami (A.J.C.-M., N.S.-S.); and Baylor Scott and White Health, Dallas (K.D., T.Z., M.E.S., M.G.), and Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Bryan (M.G.) - both in Texas.
Background: Information is limited regarding the effectiveness of the two-dose messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) and mRNA-1273 (Moderna) in preventing infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and in attenuating coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) when administered in real-world conditions.
Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study involving 3975 health care personnel, first responders, and other essential and frontline workers. From December 14, 2020, to April 10, 2021, the participants completed weekly SARS-CoV-2 testing by providing mid-turbinate nasal swabs for qualitative and quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) analysis.