2012 Annual Review of Public Health (Volume 33) April 2012
Symposium: Comparative Approaches to Reducing Health Disparities
Editorial: Dedication of Volume to Barbara Starfield
Jonathan E. Fielding, Ross C. Brownson, and Lawrence W. Green.
Online at: http://bit.ly/GAUqwH
“……….This volume is dedicated to Barbara Starfield, a public health luminary who championed the critical importance of primary care as the fundamental building block for every medical care system. Barbara decried the lack of emphasis on primary care in American medicine.
She pointed out the low percentage of primary care doctors who graduated in the
Her comparison of
Trained as a pediatrician and health care researcher, Barbara was a convincing and thoughtful scholar. She was University Distinguished Service Professor at Johns Hopkins from 1994 to her death. She was also Director of the Johns Hopkins University Primary Care Research Center. Barbara was a careful researcher, carefully amassing evidence that identified key characteristics of an effective primary care system. But she was also a cherished mentor to such a great number of health service researchers.
Barbara was a productive member of our Editorial Advisory Board, which selects topics and authors to appear in the Annual Review of Public Health. She was also a valued contributor to this series in past years and was the senior author on an important article in this current volume, as well. Barbara was also the cofounder and first President of the International Society for Equity in Health, with the mission to contribute knowledge that could further equity in the distribution of health care…..”
Table of Contents at: http://bit.ly/GCsQjB
Health Disparities Research in Global Perspective: New Insights and New Directions
Shiriki Kumanyika
Health Inequalities: Trends, Progress, and Policy
Sara N. Bleich, Marian P. Jarlenski, Caryn N. Bell, and Thomas A. LaVeist
Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Health Disparities
Ana V. Diez Roux
How Society Shapes the Health Gradient: Work-Related Health Inequalities in a Comparative Perspective
Christopher B. McLeod, Peter A. Hall, Arjumand Siddiqi, and
Disparities in Infant Mortality and Effective, Equitable Care: Are Infants Suffering from Benign Neglect?
Diane L. Rowley and Vijaya Hogan
Clinical Care and Health Disparities
B. Starfield, J. Gérvas, and D. Mangin
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
A Review of Spatial Methods in Epidemiology, 2000–2010
Amy H. Auchincloss, Samson Y. Gebreab, Christina Mair, and Ana V. Diez Roux
Early Intervention to Reduce the Global Health and Economic Burden of Major Depression in Older Adults
Charles F. Reynolds III, Pim Cuijpers, Vikram Patel, Alex Cohen, Amit Dias, Neerja Chowdhary, Olivia I. Okereke, Mary Amanda Dew, Stewart J. Anderson, Sati Mazumdar, Frank Lotrich, and Steven M. Albert
Preventability of Cancer: The Relative Contributions of Biologic and Social and Physical Environmental Determinants of Cancer Mortality
Graham A. Colditz and Esther K. Wei
The Hurrider I Go the Behinder I Get: The Deteriorating International Ranking of
Stephen Bezruchka
Unintentional Injuries: Magnitude, Prevention, and Control
Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Adnan A. Hyder, Hadley K. Herbert, and Kent Stevens
Environmental and Occupational Health
Community-Based Approaches to Controlling Childhood Asthma
Noreen M. Clark
Future Challenges to Protecting Public Health from Drinking-Water Contaminants
Eileen A. Murphy, Gloria B. Post, Brian T. Buckley, Robert L. Lippincott, and Mark G. Robson
Speed Limits, Enforcement, and Health Consequences
Rune Elvik
Toward a Systems Approach to Enteric Pathogen Transmission: From Individual
Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, James Trostle, Reed J.D. Sorensen, and Katherine F. Shields
Public Health Practice
Advertising of Prescription-Only Medicines to the Public: Does Evidence of Benefit Counterbalance Harm?
Barbara Mintzes
Economic Evaluation of Pharmaco- and Behavioral Therapies for Smoking Cessation: A Critical and Systematic Review of Empirical Research
Jennifer Prah Ruger and Christina M. Lazar
Policies for Healthier Communities: Historical, Legal, and Practical Elements of the Obesity Prevention Movement
Samantha K. Graff, Manel Kappagoda, Heather M. Wooten, Angela K. McGowan, and Marice Ashe
Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration
Dora M. Dumont, Brad Brockmann, Samuel Dickman, Nicole Alexander, and Josiah D. Rich
Quitlines and Nicotine Replacement for Smoking Cessation: Do We Need to Change Policy?
John P. Pierce, Sharon E. Cummins, Martha M. White, Aimee Humphrey, and Karen Messer
Systems Science Methods in Public Health: Dynamics, Networks, and Agents
Douglas A. Luke and Katherine A. Stamatakis
Health Services
From Small Area Variations to Accountable Care Organizations: How Health Services Research Can Inform Policy
Harold S. Luft
Suicide Mortality in the
Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael, and Catherine Barber
The Medicalization of Chronic Disease and Costs
Kenneth E. Thorpe and Meredith Philyaw
The Methods of Comparative Effectiveness Research
Harold C. Sox and Steven N. Goodman
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