ArticleThe Milbank quarterly2021
Population Health Science: Fulfilling the Mission of Public Health.
Article in The Milbank quarterly, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of Studies Describing the Effectiveness, Acceptability, and Potential Harms of Place-Based Interventions to Address Loneliness and Mental Health Problems.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluating the "right@home" randomized trial of nurse home visiting using linked administrative data at school transition.International journal of population data science · 2024Trial
- Nurse home visiting to improve child and maternal outcomes: 5-year follow-up of an Australian randomised controlled trial.PloS one · 2022Trial
- Students' knowledge, perceived access, and attitudes toward population health integration in undergraduate nursing education.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Harnessing routinely collected data for the evaluation of early years interventions: insights from a scoping review of evaluation studies.International journal of population data science · 2026Article
- The importance of universal child and family health services for equitable early development.The Medical journal of Australia · 2025Article
- Population health and public health: Commonalities and differences.Journal of public health dentistry · 2025Article
- Investigating Employment Quality for Population Health and Health Equity: A Perspective of Power.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Religion and Death in the United States: A Meta-Regression Comparative Assessment of Between-County Mortality Heterogeneity in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Born in Bradford's Better Start (BiBBS) interventional birth cohort study: Interim cohort profile.Wellcome open research · 2022Article
- Trends in health equity in mortality in the United States, 1969-2019.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Civilian Use of Deadly Force in Self-Defense: Public Health, Stand Your Ground.American journal of public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Policy Points The historical mission of public health is to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy, and yet the field of public health has been distracted from this mission by an excessive reliance on randomized-control trials, a lack of formal theoretical models, and a fear of politics. The field of population health science has emerged to rigorously address all of these constraints. It deserves ongoing and formal institutional support.
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