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A nonpartisan, independent, health
policy center that serves as a catalyst for improving the health of Arkansans. |
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Publications: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
(ACHI Staff)
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Rust G, Satcher D, Fryer GE, Levine RS, Blumenthal DS. Triangulating on success: Innovation, public health, and medical care combine to reduce cause-specific U.S. mortality rates over a half-century (1950-2000). American Journal of Public Health. (in press).
Woolf SH, Johnson RE, Fryer GE, Rust G, Satcher D. The health impact of resolving racial disparities: an analysis of US mortality data. American Journal of Public Health. (2009) Sep; 98(9 Suppl):S26-28.
DeVoe JE, Wallace LS, Fryer GE. Measuring Patients' Perceptions of Communication with Healthcare Providers: Do Difference in Demographics and Socioeconomic Characteristics Matter? Health Expectations. (2009); 12(1):70-80.
Phillips RL, Dodoo MS, Green LA, Fryer GE, Bazemore AM, McCoy K, Petterson SM. Usual Source of Care: Another Source of Variation in Healthcare Expenditures. Health Affairs. (2009); 28(2):567-577.
Ryan KW, Card-Higginson P, Thompson JW: Am I My Brother's Keeper? A Proposal to Determine State Governments' Affirmative Duty to Advance Public Health [comment]. Journal of Health and Human Services [Invited/accepted Oct 2007]
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Cutler CB, Fryer GE, Miyoshi TJ, Weitzman M. Increased rates and severity of child and adult food insecurity in households with adult smokers. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. (2008); 162(11):1056-62.
Thompson JW, Wilson ID, Huckabee M: State Expenditures for Tobacco-Control Programs and the Tobacco Settlement. New England Journal of Medicine (letter) 348(7):663-664, February 13, ,2003
Articles
Thompson JW, "Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act of 2000", Supported through Initiated Act by ~ 2/3 voting Arkansans, November 7, 2000
Reports
History of the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement
Tobacco Settlement Summary Chart
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Trasande L, Liu Y, Fryer G, Weitzman M. Effects of childhood obesity on hospital care and costs, 1999-2005, Health Affairs (2009) Jul-Aug;28(4):w751-60. Epub 2009 Jul 9
McKinnon RA, Orleans CT, Kumanyika SK, Haire-Joshu D, Krebs-Smith SM, Finkelstein EA, Brownell KD, Thompson JW, Ballard-Barbash R: Considerations for an Obesity Policy Research Agenda. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 36(4): 351-357, April 2009.
Justus MB, Ryan KW, Rockenbach J, Katterapalli C, Card-Higginson P. Lessons Learned while Implementing a Legislated School Policy: Body Mass Index Assessments Among Arkansas's Public School Students. Journal of School Health 2007;77(10):706-713.
Ryan KW, Card-Higginson P, Shaw JL, Ganahl SA, Thompson JW: Public Health "Malpractice" and the Obesity Epidemic. Public Health Reports 2007; 122:414-416.
Ryan KW, Card-Higginson P, McCarthy S, Justus M, Thompson JW: Arkansas Fights Fat: Translating Research Into Policy To Combat Childhood And Adolescent Obesity. Health Affairs 2006;25(4):992-1004.
Thompson J, Shaw J, Card-Higginson P, Kahn R: Overweight among Students in Grades K-12 in Arkansas, 2003-04 and 2004-05 School Years. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports January 2006; 55(1):5-8.
Nadler EP, Brotman LM, Miyoshi T, Fryer GE, Weitzman M. A case for using the standard adult NIH criteria for weight loss surgery in morbidly obese adolescents. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, (in press).
Articles
Reports
Reversing Childhood & Adolescent Obesity: A Review of the Evidence, 2008
Year One 2003-2004
Year Two 2004-2005
Year Three 2005-2006
Year Four 2006-2007
Year Five 2007-2008
Year Six 2008-2009 Year Seven 2009-2010
School and District BMI Reports
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Articles
Reports
State Employee Health Risk Assessment and Wellness Strategy Program Summary
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Aitken M, Bowman SM, Card-Higginson P, Carson JE, Lin TM, Thompson JW, Zhao Y. Safety Restraint Use Linked to Hospital Use and Charges in Arkansas. The Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society January 2008, Vol. 104 No. 7: 161-164
Articles
Reports
Hospital Costs and Safety Belt Use in Arkansas
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Thompson JW, Tyson S, Card-Higginson P, Jacob RF, Wheeler G, Simpson PM, Bost JE, Ryan KW, Salmon DA. Impact of Addition of Philosophical Exemptions on Childhood Immunization Rates. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2007;32(3):194-201.
Thompson JW, Tyson S, Salmon DA, Sapsin JW, Teret S, Jacobs RF, Thompson JW, Ryan KW, Halsey NA: Public Health and the Politics of School Immunization Requirements. American Journal of Public Health [Commentary] May 2005, 95(5):778-783
Fairbrother G, Freed GL, Thompson JW: Measuring Immunization Coverage. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 19(3 Supp.):78-88, Oct 2000
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