Teen Sexting
Teenagers are using technology to explore their sexuality. However, older laws created specifically to address child pornography can be used to prosecute teen sexting.
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Opioid Overdose Deaths among the Formerly Incarcerated
The United States has underutilized prevention and treatment strategies in its response to opioid overdose death in people with a history of incarceration.
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A Rural Paradox: The Affordable Care Act or Medicaid?
Why do so many rural Americans who support Medicaid also support repealing the ACA?
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Prison Employee PTSD
The prison setting is a uniquely challenging work environment, with employees facing constant exposure to threat, violence, and trauma. Prison employees are at high risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Nurses Leading Collaborative Care
Martsolf and colleagues assessed the role of nurses in cross-collaborative health care systems, and the ways in which nurses are important to improving community health.
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The Way We Do Things Around Here
Cultural change in nursing homes requires consistency, institutional commitment, local champions, and focusing on the positive.
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Catholic Hospitals and a Woman’s Right to Know
Catholic hospitals often do not provide certain types of reproductive health care. Freedman and colleagues conducted research on women’s knowledge about hospital religious affiliation and its impact on their decisions about where to get care.
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Hacking Public Health
Everyone loves a hackathon, it seems. How much do hackathons really contribute to solving public health problems? Are they a meaningful new tool, or simply the latest fad?
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Water Quality Violations
Most Americans have access to safe drinking water, but communities in rural areas are most likely to experience water quality violations.
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Fieldnotes, Good Guys, and the Culture of HIV Care
Conversations between patients and providers that treat patients as unique individuals can help providers develop care plans to better match their patients’ lives.
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Spillover Effects: Police Killings and Black Americans’ Mental Health
Black Americans are three times more likely to be killed by police than White Americans, and five times more likely to be killed unarmed. Jacob Bor and colleagues conducted research to measure the mental health impact of police shootings.
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Are Post-9/11 Veterans Experiencing a New Version of Gulf War Illness?
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are reporting a similar constellation of symptoms that affect veterans deployed to the Persian Gulf in 1990-1991.
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Is There a Risk to Naloxone?
Naloxone is a life-saving intervention used to reverse drug overdose, but critics argue that it increases crime and promotes drug use. Ostrach and colleagues disagree, arguing that withholding it is immoral.
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Sports Specialization and Overuse Injuries
Sports participation in younger athletes has evolved from activities for fun to intense, specialized training. Recent data shows a relationship between socioeconomic status and overuse injury.
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