American journal of preventive medicine
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This study seeks to estimate health care expenditures and use associated with hypertension, focusing on differences among racial and ethnic groups. ⋯ This study reveals differences in health care expenditures and use associated with hypertension among racial and ethnic groups. Future studies are needed to examine potential drivers of these differences.
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Updating the Quality Family Planning recommendations is an essential step toward offering all people evidenced-informed, person-centered, equitable, and inclusive sexual and reproductive health care. What constitutes quality sexual and reproductive health care constantly evolves as scientific research generates new evidence. ⋯ Today's sexual and reproductive health context is also complex and evolving against the backdrop of an increasing awareness of the impact of structural and interpersonal racism, classism, discrimination (or bias) based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and ableism on health and sexual and reproductive health care. The Office of Population Affairs of the HHS sought to be responsive to these complex conditions by centering equity in the update of its Quality Family Planning recommendations from start to finish, including in its approach to reviews of published literature, the creation of expert and technical workgroups to assess the literature and make recommendations, and actively engaging persons with lived experience to gather their insights so that the final product could genuinely respond to the needs of the community.
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National-level data suggest that gun owners in the U.S. carry concealed weapons in public at growing rates. This research investigates whether these trends are associated with state adoption of more permissive concealed carry-licensing laws between 2002 and 2019. ⋯ State-level concealed carry licensing may inform public health and safety policies as large restrictive U.S. states transition to more permissive concealed carry-licensing laws.
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Meta Analysis
Physical activity volume, intensity, and mortality: Harmonized meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.
It is unclear whether moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is associated with a lower mortality risk, over and above its contribution to total physical activity volume. ⋯ The total volume of physical activity was associated with a lower risk of mortality to a greater extent than the contribution of MVPA to physical activity volume. Integrating any intensity of physical activity into daily life may lower mortality risk in middle-aged and older adults, with a small added benefit if the same amount of activity is performed with a higher intensity.