8 results match your criteria: "Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta[Affiliation]"
Despite growth in numbers of organizational antimicrobial stewardship programs, antimicrobial resistance continues to escalate. Interprofessional education and collaboration are needed to make these programs appropriately responsive to the ethically and clinically complex needs of patients at the end of life whose care plans still require antimicrobial management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Access to dental care in mixed-race and predominantly African American wards in the District of Columbia (DC) was investigated in relation to community development.
Methods: This study used high-resolution geographic information system (GIS) tools to map all general dentistry and periodontal practice locations in DC wards. The spatial analysis contextualized each ward's land use and demographic data obtained from DC government reports.
How Can the Experiences of Black Women Living With HIV Inform Equitable and Respectful Reproductive Health Care Delivery?
AMA J Ethics
February 2021
Assistant professor of behavioral, social, and health education sciences at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Black women living with HIV (BWLWH) contend with injuries of injustice, which manifest in restricted reproductive autonomy and decision-making power in social and medical settings. Mitigating threats to reproductive autonomy calls for innovations that consider patients' needs and offer insights on how historically situated marginalization influences today's institutional, political, and economic systems and shapes reproductive decision making. In addition to cross-disciplinary expertise and collaboration, integrating structural competency into reproductive health care requires demonstrating respect for the autonomy, lived experiences, and preferences of BWLWH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmergency Declarations for Public Health Issues: Expanding Our Definition of Emergency.
J Law Med Ethics
June 2019
Gregory Sunshine, J.D., serves as a public health analyst with the Public Health Law Program in the Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Gregory oversees research on topics such as disaster and public health emergency declarations, state Ebola monitoring and movement policies, isolation and quarantine, and medical countermeasures, and he has published on topics such as gubernatorial emergency authorities, Ebola and the law, and tribal emergency declarations. Gregory earned his J.D. with a certificate in health law from the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, Maryland, and his bachelor of arts in political science from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Nancy Barrera, J.D., M.P.H., is a senior attorney with the California Department of Public Health, Office of Legal Services. Nancy has extensive experience in public health and has advised various public health programs, including tobacco control, chronic diseases, vital records, injury control, family health programs, health care quality, health equity, and civil rights. Currently, she advises the communicable diseases and emergency preparedness programs on important public health legal issues. Nancy earned her J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California, and her M.P.H. from San Jose State University, California. Aubrey Joy Corcoran, J.D., M.P.H., is the health unit chief in the Education and Health Section of Arizona's Office of the Attorney General, where she practices public health law. Aubrey Joy's practice includes litigation at the administrative, trial, and appellate levels in Arizona and federal courts. She earned her J.D. with a certificate in health law from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona and her M.P.H. from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Matthew Penn, J.D., M.L.I.S., is the director of the Public Health Law Program within CDC's Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support. In this role he provides critical legal expertise and leadership to advance public health practice through law. Matthew developed expertise in legal preparedness issues as lead counsel for South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's Office of Public Health Preparedness, the South Carolina Advisory Committee for the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals, and the South Carolina Pandemic Influenza Ethics Task Force. Mr. Penn earned his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law and his M.L.I.S. from the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Emergency declarations are a vital legal authority that can activate funds, personnel, and material and change the legal landscape to aid in the response to a public health threat. Traditionally, declarations have been used against immediate and unforeseen threats such as hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and pandemic influenza. Recently, however, states have used emergency declarations to address public health issues that have existed in communities for months and years and have risk factors such as poverty and substance misuse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLoosening restrictions on the scope of practice for PAs.
JAAPA
January 2019
E. Kathleen Adams is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga. Sara Markowitz is a professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Economics at Emory University. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
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 = .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVariation in state Medicaid expenditures 1984-92: the behavioral impact of the matching federal grant.
J Health Care Finance
December 2000
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Although the federal Medicaid matching grant was designed to decrease disparities in state Medicaid spending, significant inequities persist. A potential reason for this is that states substitute federal for state funds and therefore expenditures in low-income, low-spending states are not stimulated. This study uses a fixed-effects model on pooled state expenditure data for 1984-92 to examine the fiscal response of states to the federal Medicaid grant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFState maternal and child expenditures and low birthweight infants: a descriptive analysis.
J Health Care Finance
December 2000
Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia 30345, USA.
This study examines the relationship over time between state public health spending for maternal and child health and rates of low birthweight infants. Using expenditure data from the Public Health Foundation and National Center for Health Statistics, we compare the 10 states with the highest and lowest rates of low birthweight infants in 1980 and the 10 states with the most improved and least improved low birthweight rates over a 10-year period. We hypothesize that the 10 states with the best low birthweight rates and 10 states with the most improvement in low birthweight rates will be the states with the highest levels of maternal and child health expenditures per birth.
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