2020 in AJPH: A Review and Thank You to Our Authors
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: [...]despite the large influx of papers, our peer reviewers managed to keep pace and render 2105 decision recommendations to our editors, most within 12 days of accepting the invitation to review. 9 Articles in the journal also echoed the uproar against racism and assertions of White supremacy articulated in the massive demonstrations that followed the murder of George Floyd.10,11 From the beginning of the pandemic, our editorial strategy has been to focus on post-COVID-19 reconstruction. Because it takes three to four months from submission to publication of a research paper or analytic essay in AJPH, we could not publish time-sensitive results about the evolution of the pandemic. Alpren et al. described the control of an outbreak of HIV infection among people who inject drugs during 2015 to 2018 in two cities in northeastern Massachusetts, which resulted in a significant decline in new HIV diagnoses, but also observed that opioid use was fueling HIV transmission in Massachusetts and likely in other urban settings.17 Cicero et al. also reported that polysubstance use needed to be taken into consideration to effectively meet the treatment, prevention, and policymaking challenges ofthe opioid epidemic.18 Another significant area of public health in which the pandemic exacerbated problems is workplace health and safety. A meta-analysis by Wang et al., showing that e-cigarettes used as consumer products are not associated with increased smoking cessation but that free e-cigarettes provided as a clinical intervention are, contributes support to the FDA strategy.23 Finally, Norris et al. described the evolution of abortion access in Ohio between 2010 and 2018,24 an issue that has been exacerbated by the imperviousness ofthe previous administration to the anxiety of pregnant women infected by COVID-19.
Author: Alfredo Morabia
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3158646776