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Enhancing Methods for Research on Cannabis: A Workshop Report Open

Jonathan M. Samet, Jessica L. Barrington‐Trimis, Lisa Bero, Ashley Brooks‐Russell, Meghan Buran , et al. · 2025

Aims Progressive legalization of medical and recreational cannabis markets at the state-level has led to rapid growth of medical and recreational cannabis markets and to product diversification with emerging products having high concentrat…

Health Equity in Preventive Services: The Role of Primary Care. Open

Steven M. Teutsch, Timothy S. Carey, Michael Pignone · 2025

Despite continued improvements in survival from preventable diseases, significant disparities remain. Black men have a 25% higher mortality rate from heart disease than non-Hispanic White men and a 20% higher mortality rate from cancer.

A framework for synthesizing intervention evidence from multiple sources into a single certainty of evidence rating: Methodological developments from a US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee Open

Ned Calonge, Paul G Shekelle, Douglas K Owens, Steven M. Teutsch, Autumn Downey , et al. · 2022

Despite research investment and a growing body of diverse evidence there has been no comprehensive review and grading of evidence for public health emergency preparedness and response practices comparable to those in medicine and other pub…

Teutsch et al. Respond Open

Steven M. Teutsch, J. Mac McCullough, Sanne Magnan · 2021

AffiliationsSteven Teutsch is with the Center for Health Advancement, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. J. Mac McCullough is with the College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix. Sa…

Changing the Public’s Health Story: Reducing Wasteful Medical Care Spending—Introduction to the Special AJPH Section Open

Sanne Magnan, Steven M. Teutsch · 2020

Screening for Gonorrhea: Recommendation Statement Open

Ned Calonge, Diana B. Petitti, Janet D. Allan, Alfred O. Berg, Paul Frame , et al. · 2020

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that clinicians screen all sexually active women, including those who are pregnant, for gonorrhea infection if they are at increased risk for infection (that is, if they are young…

Death by scientific method: Estimated mortality associated with the failure to conduct routine prospective cumulative systematic reviews in medicine and public health Open

Robert A. Hahn, Steven M. Teutsch · 2020

Failure to routinely assess the state of knowledge as new studies accumulate results in 1) non-use of effective interventions, 2) continued use of ineffective or harmful interventions, and 3) unnecessary research. We use a published cumula…

Reduction in US Health Care Spending Required to Meet the Institute of Medicine’s 2030 Target Open

J. Mac McCullough, Matthew Speer, Sanne Magnan, Jonathan E. Fielding, David A. Kindig , et al. · 2020

Objectives. To quantify changes in US health care spending required to reach parity with high-resource nations by 2030 or 2040 and identify historical precedents for these changes. Methods. We analyzed multiple sources of historical and pr…

Excess Medical Care Spending: The Categories, Magnitude, and Opportunity Costs of Wasteful Spending in the United States Open

Matthew Speer, J. Mac McCullough, Jonathan E. Fielding, Elinore Faustino, Steven M. Teutsch · 2020

Landmark reports from reputable sources have concluded that the United States wastes hundreds of billions of dollars every year on medical care that does not improve health outcomes. While there is widespread agreement over how wasteful me…

Male Mortality Trends in the United States, 1900-2010: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities Open

Wanda K. Jones, Robert A. Hahn, R. Gibson Parrish, Steven M. Teutsch, Man‐Huei Chang · 2019

Objectives: Male mortality fell substantially during the past century, and major causes of death changed. Building on our recent analysis of female mortality trends in the United States, we examined all-cause and cause-specific mortality t…

Masthead Open

Matthew L. Boulton, William Wadland, Robert B. Wallace, Caroline R. Richardson, Ann Arbor , et al. · 2019

Masthead Open

Matthew L. Boulton, William Wadland, Robert B. Wallace, Caroline R. Richardson, Ann Arbor , et al. · 2018

Evidentiary needs of US public health departments with a mission to advance equity and health: a qualitative analysis Open

Kimberly Danae Cauley Narain, Frederick J. Zimmerman, Jessica Richards, Jonathan E. Fielding, Brian L. Cole , et al. · 2018

Objectives We sought the perspectives of lead public health officials working to improve health equity in the USA regarding the drivers of scientific evidence use, the supply of scientific evidence and the gap between their evidentiary nee…

Trends in Mortality Among Females in the United States, 1900–2010: Progress and Challenges Open

Robert A. Hahn, Man‐Huei Chang, R. Gibson Parrish, Steven M. Teutsch, Wanda K. Jones · 2018

Improvements in social and environmental determinants of health probably account for decreased mortality rates among females in the early 20th century, partially offset by increased smoking. In the second half of the century, other public …

Getting to Average Life Expectancy: It Takes Commitment Open

Steven M. Teutsch · 2017

AffiliationsSteven Teutsch is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; the Public Health Institute, Oakland, CA; and the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for H…

Core Metrics Pilot Project: A Case Study Open

Suzanne Ryan‐Ibarra, Dana Pearlman, Sue Grinnell, Krista D. Hanni, Genoveva Islas , et al. · 2017

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Epidemiology a Major Focus of a New National Academies Report Open

Steven M. Teutsch, Rohit Varma, Edwin C. Marshall · 2017

Social Determinants of Health: Building Wide Coalitions Around Well-Honed Messages Open

Jonathan E. Fielding, Steven M. Teutsch · 2017

An editorial is presented which addresses the social determinants of health and public health spending in America, and it mentions what the authors refer to as the problems that are associated with the bloated medical care system in the U.…

Prevention Priorities: Guidance for Value-Driven Health Improvement Open

George Isham, Eduardo Sánchez, Warren A. Jones, Steven M. Teutsch, Steven H. Woolf , et al. · 2017

The National Commission on Prevention Priorities released its first ranking of clinical preventive services in 2001.[1][1] A rigorous methodology was developed that allowed for comparisons to be made across clinical preventive services on …

How Can Economics Advance Prevention? Open

Sherry Glied, Steven M. Teutsch · 2016

The British economist Lionel Robbins once described economics as the study of "human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses."1Robbins L. An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Sci…

Economics and Local Public Health Departments Open

Steven M. Teutsch, Jonathan E. Fielding · 2016

Local public health agencies are responsible for protecting, maintaining, and improving the health of everyone in their jurisdictions. That responsibility is more than simply preventing and treating disease. In accord with the Ottawa chart…

Strengthening the Use of Economics in Informing U.S. Public Health Policy Open

Steven M. Teutsch, Sherry Glied, Kakoli Roy · 2016

How a Population Health Approach Improves Health and Reduces Disparities: The Case of Head Start Open

Steven M. Teutsch, Ariella Herman, Carol Teutsch · 2016

Good health is a life-long process. Many of the most critical behaviors are established in early childhood and need reinforcing at each life stage. To encourage physical activity, for example, young children should engage in fun, active pl…

Return on Investment and Economic Evaluation Open

Steven M. Teutsch, Denise Koo, Scott D. Grosse · 2015

Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of public health and primary care clinicians from across the United States, this book explains why population health is receiving so much attention from policy makers in states and federal agencies, t…

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