scholarly journals Autonomous vehicles: Developing a public health research agenda to frame the future of transportation policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 245-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis J. Crayton ◽  
Benjamin Mason Meier
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Transportation Policy ◽  
The Future

‘Back to the future’ - public health research into the next century

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Walter W. Holland ◽  
Beverley Fitzsimons ◽  
Michael O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Future

The Behavioral Immune System and Attitudes About Vaccines

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ Clay
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Disgust Sensitivity ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Behavioral Immune System ◽  
The Future ◽  
Sources Of Contamination

The present research utilized evolutionary theory to examine the relation between the behavioral immune system (i.e., disgust sensitivity) and attitudes about vaccines. The findings from the studies suggest that higher levels of dispositional disgust sensitivity is predictive of more negative attitudes toward vaccines. These findings are consistent with several recent publications and thus have broad implications for public health research associated with vaccines. In Study 1, participants reporting higher dispositional disgust sensitivity (specifically, contamination disgust) tended to report more negative attitudes about vaccines. Study 2 replicated this result in a nonstudent sample using additional measures of disgust sensitivity more closely associated with aversion to perceived sources of contamination. Study 2 also revealed that beliefs about the likelihood of contracting illness in the future were unrelated to vaccine attitudes. Implications for the observed relation between intuitive aversion to contamination and vaccine attitudes are discussed.

scholarly journals Introduction: Public Health and the Promise of Palestine

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Danya M. Qato
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Public Health Discourse ◽  
Health Discourse

This introductory essay contextualizes the special collection of papers on the pandemic and seeks to map the terrain of extant public health research on Palestine and the Palestinians. In addition, it is a contribution in Palestine studies to a nascent yet propulsive conversation that has been accelerated by Covid-19 on the erasure of structures of violence, including those of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, within the discipline of epidemiology. Using public health as an analytic, this essay asks us to consider foundational questions that have long been sidelined in the public health discourse on Palestine, including the implications for health and health research of eliding ongoing settler colonialism. Rather than ignoring and reproducing their violence, this essay seeks to tackle these questions head-on in an attempt to imagine a future public health research agenda that centers health, and not simply survivability, for all Palestinians.

A Critical Research Agenda for Social Justice and Public Health

2019 ◽  
pp. 531-552
Author(s):  
Nancy Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Research Questions

Critical and creative work can and must be done to determine why injustice exists, including who gains and who loses and how it wreaks its woe, thereby generating knowledge for both rectifying harm and creating just and sustainable solutions. Critical research questions focus on: What is the evidence that social injustice harms health? What can be done to prevent this harm? There are four key reasons to develop a research agenda for social justice in public health: (1) ignorance forestalls action. (2) The “facts” never “speak for themselves.” (3) Specificity matters. (4) Research can exacerbate, and even generate, rather than help rectify social inequalities in health. This chapter discusses a proposal for a public health research agenda that advances issues of social justice and includes four components: theory, monitoring, etiology, and prevention. For each component, the author delineates broad principles and provides specific examples.

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