Welcome to the Public Health Report.

In this week's episode, our host Laura Sheckter reports on three papers and some breaking news.

Topic 1- Increasing mortality gap between Democratic and Republican counties

Haider J Warraich, Pankaj Kumar, Khurram Nasir, Karen E Joynt Maddox, Rishi K Wadhera. Political environment and mortality rates in the United States, 2001-19: population based cross sectional analysis. BMJ, 2022; e069308 DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-069308

Topic 2- Physician mistreatment impacts the U.S. healthcare system

Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Colin P. West, Christine A. Sinsky, Mickey Trockel, Michael Tutty, Daniel Satele, Lindsey Carlasare, Tait Shanafelt. Physicians’ Experiences With Mistreatment and Discrimination by Patients, Families, and Visitors and Association With Burnout. JAMA Network Open, 2022; 5 (5): e2213080 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.13080

Topic 3- A model that could be used as a policy planning tool to combat the opioid crisis

Tse Yang Lim, Erin J. Stringfellow, Celia A. Stafford, Catherine DiGennaro, Jack B. Homer, Wayne Wakeland, Sara L. Eggers, Reza Kazemi, Lukas Glos, Emily G. Ewing, Calvin B. Bannister, Keith Humphreys, Douglas C. Throckmorton, Mohammad S. Jalali. Modeling the evolution of the US opioid crisis for national policy development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022; 119 (23) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2115714119

Topic 4- Cigarette labels with graphic warnings led smokers to hide packs

John P. Pierce, Sheila Kealey, Eric C. Leas, Kim Pulvers, Matthew D. Stone, Jesica Oratowski, Elizabeth Brighton, Adriana Villaseñor, David R. Strong. Effect of Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarette Pack–Hiding Behavior Among Smokers. JAMA Network Open, 2022; 5 (6): e2214242 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.14242

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