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The “Journal Watch” category of GHhub compiles articles headlines and abstracts from the top 30+ global/public health journals based on impact factors and user feedback. Most of the journals are listed in the right hand column toward of this page under “journals.” We look for new articles on a daily basis and hope this category provides a quick way to peruse 100s of the latest articles in minutes.
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By Health Economics Journal
SUMMARY In this study, respondents were randomly allocated to three variants of the payment card format and an open-ended format in order to test for convergent validity. The aim was to test whether preferences (as measured by willingness to pay additional tax) would be affected by framing the willingness-to-pay question differently. Results demonstrated that valuations were highly sensitive to whether respondents were asked to express their maximum willingness to pay per month or per year. Another important finding is that the introduction of a binary response filter prior to the payment card follow-up tends to eliminate the positive aspects of introducing a payment card and produces response patterns that are much in line with those of the open-ended contingent valuation format. However, although a filter will impact on the distribution of willingness-to-pay bids and on the rate of zero and protest bids, the overall impact on the welfare estimate is minor.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch | Read More »
By PLoS Medicine Blog
For someone who was lucky enough to grow up and live in a country where guns aren’t household objects, it is difficult to understand America’s addiction to guns and the political resistance to gun control measures despite support for some controls within the general public. The recent failure of the US government to pass the Manchin-Toomey bill, a relatively limited move to strengthen background checks when purchasing guns in the US, demonstrates how difficult it will be for the substantial gun control laws to be passed in America. The bill itself is not straight forward to understand if, like me, you’re not used to reading government legalese but you can read the full text on Senator Toomey’s website and simpler explanations can be found in the accompanying press release and on the Politifact website. Ultimately, the measures were voted down much to the frustration of President Barack Obama who noted, “there were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn’t do this.” Bizarrely, the Southern region director for Organizing for Action (Obama’s grass roots campaign organization) whose job was to build up community support for gun violence prevention legislation was shot by a stray bullet only days after the amendment failed. Image Credit: Mista Stagga Lee, flickr In addition to strengthened background checks, one of the proposals in the failed measure was to establish a 12-member National Commission on Mass Violence to conduct a comprehensive factual study of incidents of mass violence.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Injury,Journal Watch,Noncommunicable Disease,Policy & Systems,Politics | Read More »
By PLoS Medicine Blog
Image Credit: Flickr snre The following new articles are published in PLOS Medicine this week: Continuing with the series providing a global perspective on integrating mental health, Sylvia Kaaya and colleagues discuss the importance of integrating mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms. Clinical depression, alcohol abuse, and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders are highly prevalent in people living with HIV and have negative consequences for treatment outcomes and cost of care. The prognosis and treatment for colorectal cancer depend on five pathological stages (0–IV), each of which has a different treatment option and five year survival rate. Pierre Laurent-Puig and colleagues present a novel transcriptome-based classification of colon cancer associated with prognosis that is based on molecular subtypes, clinical and pathological factors, and common DNA alterations. These findings could help classify colorectal cancer into six robust molecular subgroups that might help identify robust prognostic genetic signatures, new prognostic subgroups, and targets for future drug development
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Cancer,Journal Watch | Read More »
By GHHub
The death of an Ohio teen from varicella should serve as a reminder that catch-up vaccination of older children and adolescents can prevent severe complications and death from infection with varicella-zoster virus. via JAMA Network | JAMA | Ohio Varicella Death Is Vaccination Wake-up Call.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Infectious Disease,Journal Watch,Vaccinations | Read More »
By GHHub
Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders occur frequently in patients with HIV and are associated with negative outcomes, including reduced adherence to antiretroviral medications (cART), and diminished quality of life. A review of PubMed and PsychInfo from 2001 to 2012 revealed a dearth of evaluated mental health services in HIV primary care, particularly in [...]
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in HIV/AIDS,Infectious Disease,Journal Watch,Mental Health,Noncommunicable Disease | Read More »
By GHHub
Teens who have a classmate die of suicide are more likely to consider taking, or attempt to take, their own lives, according to a new study. via Schoolmates of suicide victims at higher risk | Reuters.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch,Mental Health,Noncommunicable Disease | Read More »
By GHHub
As many as 35 percent of Mexican young adults may have a genetic predisposition for obesity, said a University of Illinois scientist who conducted a study at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosί. via Genetic risk for obesity found in many Mexican young adults.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch,Noncommunicable Disease | Read More »
By GHHub
A study of veterans at high risk for developing lung cancer shows that low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) can be highly effective in helping clinicians spot tiny lung nodules which, in a small number of patients, may indicate the earliest stages of the disease. LDCT uses less than a quarter of the radiation of a conventional [...]
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Cancer,Journal Watch,Noncommunicable Disease | Read More »
By GHHub
By studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, a trans-Atlantic research team has identified a five-amino acid fragment of prosaposin that significantly reduces metastatic spread in mouse models of prostate, breast and lung cancer. The findings suggest that a prosaposin-based drug could potentially block metastasis in a variety of [...]
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Cancer,Journal Watch,Noncommunicable Disease | Read More »
By Tropical Med and Intl Health
Objectives To assess depression and PTSD prevalence among the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) and evaluate whether sexual risk behaviour, STIs, HIV and alcohol use were significantly higher among those who screened positive. Methods Consenting active-duty male RDF personnel, aged 21 years, completed an anonymous sexual risk survey linked to HIV rapid testing that included standardised assessments for PTSD (PCL-M), depression (CES-D) and alcohol use (AUDIT). PTSD and depression prevalence were calculated (data available for 1238 and 1120 participants, respectively), and multivariable regression analyses were conducted. Results 22.5% screened positive for depression, 4.2% for PTSD and 3.4% for both. In adjusted analyses, odds of either depression or PTSD were significantly higher in participants reporting STI symptoms (OR = 2.27, 2.78, respectively) and harmful alcohol use (OR = 3.13, 3.21, respectively).
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch | Read More »
By Social Science and Medicine
Publication date: July 2013 Source:Social Science & Medicine, Volume 89 Author(s): Tetyana Pudrovska , Deborah Carr , Michael McFarland , Caitlyn Collins Using the 1957–2011 data from 3682 White non-Hispanic women (297 incident breast cancer cases) in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, United States, we explore the effect of occupation in 1975 (at age 36) on breast cancer incidence up to age 72. Our study is motivated by the paradoxical association between higher-status occupations and elevated breast cancer risk, which presents a challenge to the consistent health advantage of higher social class. We found that women in professional occupations had 72122% and women in managerial occupations had 57–89% higher risk of a breast cancer diagnosis than housewives and women in lower-status occupations. We explored an estrogen-related pathway (reproductive history, health behaviors, and life-course estrogen cycle) as well as a social stress pathway (occupational experiences) as potential explanations for the effect of higher-status occupations. The elevated risk of breast cancer among professional women was partly explained by estrogen-related variables but remained large and statistically significant
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch | Read More »
By Social Science and Medicine
Publication date: July 2013 Source:Social Science & Medicine, Volume 89 Author(s): Chun-Tung Kuo , Tung-liang Chiang Relative deprivation has been hypothesized as one explanation for the association between income inequality and health. However, few studies have examined the effect of relative deprivation on psychosocial and behavioral outcomes. Using a cross-sectional data from the National Survey on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Health Promotion in Taiwan, this study examined the relationship between relative deprivation and physical health (self-rated health), psychosocial health (depressive symptoms), and behavioral health (smoking) among working-age Taiwanese men and women. We found that higher relative deprivation (measured by the Yitzhaki Index) is significantly associated with a higher prevalence of poor self-rated health, depressive symptoms, and current smoking in both genders. After controlling for demographic variables and absolute income, the prevalence ratios (PRs) of reporting poor health for each 10,000 NT-dollars higher in the Yitzhaki Index are between 1.25 and 1.57, depending on the reference groups.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch | Read More »
By Social Science and Medicine
Publication date: July 2013 Source:Social Science & Medicine, Volume 89 Author(s): Godfrey E. Siu , Janet Seeley , Daniel Wight There is increasing evidence in SSA that once infected with HIV men are disadvantaged compared to women in terms of uptake of treatment. In Uganda fewer men are on treatment, they tend to initiate treatment later, are difficult to retain on treatment and have a higher mortality while on treatment. This article discusses how men’s response to HIV infection relates to their masculinity.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch | Read More »
By BMC Public Health
Background: Sex and individual differences in biological maturity status can influence height, weight, and body fat. Thus, the rigorous control of these variables seems necessary for estimating overweight and obesity in adolescents. The aims of this study were to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity and over-fatness in Azorean adolescents and to examine the contributions of chronological age, sex, estimated maturity status, and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) to the risk of overweight and obesity and over-fatness. Methods: The sample comprised 1,206 youth aged 11–15 years (626 boys and 580 girls) from the Azores Islands, Portugal. Body mass, stature, and skinfolds (triceps and subscapular) were measured.
May 22nd, 2013 | Posted in Journal Watch | Read More »
