Annual Review of Public Health
Vol. 13:385-398 (Volume publication date May 1992)
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.pu.13.050192.002125
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
J. Lawrence Aber and and Neil G. Bennett Dalton C. Conley Jiali Li
Vol. 18, 1997
Poverty has been shown to negatively influence child health and development along a number of dimensions. For example, poverty–net of a variety of potentially confounding factors—is associated with increased neonatal and post-neonatal mortality rates, ... Read More
Figure 1: Basic model for investigating the effects of poverty on child outcomes.
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.
