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Scholarly Publications
National Survey of Preventive Health Services in US Emergency Departments
November 2010
Study objective: We describe the availability of preventive health services in US emergency departments (EDs), as well as ED directors' preferred service and perceptions of barriers to offering...
A Model for Maternal Depression
August 2010
With the awareness of maternal depression as a prevalent public health issue and its important link to child physical and mental health, attention has turned to how healthcare providers can respond...
Other Publications
Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population
June 2010
Objectives: Emergency departments (EDs) are increasingly proposed as high-yield venues for providing preventive health education to a population at risk for unhealthy behaviors and unmet primary...
News
Stanford Researchers Uncover the Silent Cost of School Shootings
December 2019
At least 245 primary and secondary schools in the United States have experienced a shooting — killing 146 people and injuring 310 — since the country's first mass school shooting at Columbine High...
Mass Shootings: Public Face of a Much Larger Epidemic
August 2019
Americans have witnessed repeated mass shootings. The carnage in Texas and Ohio last weekend, which claimed 31 lives, has left the nation stunned and angry.