Annual Review of Public Health
Vol. 9:203-221 (Volume publication date May 1988)
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.pu.09.050188.001223
Ronald Labonté, Katia Mohindra, and Ted Schrecker
Vol. 32, 2011
In recent decades, public health policy and practice have been increasingly challenged by globalization, even as global financing for health has increased dramatically. This article discusses globalization and its health challenges from a vantage of ...Read More
Figure 1: Global poverty: World Bank $1.25/day poverty line. Source: Data from Reference 24. Note that East Asia and Pacific includes China; South Asia includes India.
Figure 2: Global poverty: World Bank $2.50/day poverty line. Source: Data from Reference 24. Note that East Asia and Pacific includes China; South Asia includes India.
Figure 3: Quadruple burden of disease in South Africa: percentage of overall years of life lost, 2000. Source: (16). “Pre-transitional causes” of death include communicable diseases, maternal and peri...
David R. Williams, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Brigette A. Davis
Vol. 40, 2019
In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in part by the striking persistence of racial/ethnic inequities in health and ...Read More
Coady Wing, Kosali Simon, Ricardo A. Bello-Gomez
Vol. 39, 2018
The difference in difference (DID) design is a quasi-experimental research design that researchers often use to study causal relationships in public health settings where randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are infeasible or unethical. However, causal ...Read More
Briony Swire-Thompson and David Lazer
Vol. 41, 2020
The internet has become a popular resource to learn about health and to investigate one's own health condition. However, given the large amount of inaccurate information online, people can easily become misinformed. Individuals have always obtained ...Read More
Figure 1: User ratings of apricot kernels receive a 4.60 out of 5 efficacy score for cancer on WebMD (130).
Figure 2: Survival of patients with colorectal cancers receiving alternative medicine (blue solid line) versus conventional cancer treatment (orange dashed line). Figure adapted with permission from J...
Figure 3: Percentage of US adults who say they have a great deal of confidence in the people in the scientific community, medicine, and the press between 1972 and 2018. Figure adapted with permission ...
L. Rowell Huesmann and Laramie D. Taylor
Vol. 27, 2006
▪ Abstract Media violence poses a threat to public health inasmuch as it leads to an increase in real-world violence and aggression. Research shows that fictional television and film violence contribute to both a short-term and a long-term increase in ...Read More
Figure 1 : The relative strength of known public health threats.
