When the Public Agenda Clashes with Research

When religious freedom clashes with access to care.

n engl j med 371;7 nejm.org august 14, 2014 596 penetrant genetic mutations that predictably result in disease, clinical sequencing will enable individual screening, monitoring, prevention, and treatment of medically actionable conditions. On the other hand, there will be a large proportion of potentially deleterious variants associated with medium-sized odds ratios for disease and variable phe...

A public health nursing research agenda.

Public health nurses (PHNs) use many interventions to prevent illness and promote the health of populations. Unfortunately, generating evidence regarding PHN practice is not explicitly identified as a research priority area of the major national funding agencies. Nor has PHN, as a profession, had a strong enough research agenda to drive practice improvement on a population-level and to drive fu...

Research-agenda Bias: letters to the editor

Strengthening the public research agenda for social determinants of health.

i i v t A t i s c n N t o P n g n g i s the nation’s health research agency, the mission of the NIH is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living ystems and the application of that knowledge to enhance ealth, lengthen life, and reduce the burdens of illness nd disability. In addition to improving our understandng of the biological bases of health and disease, NIHuppor...

Public Library Service to Children and Teens: A Research Agenda

THISPAPER DEALS WITH FOUR SIGNIFICANT UNANSWERED QUESTIONS related to children’s and young adult services in public libraries: 1.How have public library services to children and young adults developed over time? 2. How and why do young people use public libraries? 3. How can we evaluate the effectiveness of public library service for young people? 4.Why should policymakers fund public library s...