Browsing by Department "Global Health Institute"
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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Timely Otitis Media Treatment through a Community Health Worker Delivered School Screening Program
(2023-04-19)In certain settings, otitis-media related hearing loss forms a large proportion of total hearing loss cases. Delays to timely otitis media diagnosis and appropriate treatment leads to more serious otitis media cases, sometimes ... -
A Policy Analysis of No Hit Zones: What are barriers to No Hit Zone implementation?
(2018-12-05)No Hit Zones (NHZs) represent a new policy to prevent corporal punishment and to ensure healthy environments for children and their families. NHZs designate spaces where no hitting of any kind is tolerated and serve as an ... -
Analyzing the Connections Among Water Access, Sanitation, Malaria and Diarrhea Outcomes in Rural Central Uganda
(2016-04-22)Access to safe water and sanitation around the world has increased significantly in the past few decades. The United Nations claims that 91% of the world’s population has access to safe water, exceeding the Millennium Development ... -
Assessing the Health Needs and Barriers to Accessing Health Care in a Predominantly Latinx Immigrant Community in North Florida
(2020-04-18)On average, the Latinx population in the US has a higher rate of being uninsured and faces numerous social determinants, such as lower educational attainment and lower income, which can impede access to healthcare services. ... -
Augmenting Research on South Asian and South Asian Women's Health in America: The Case for Data Disaggregation
(2023-04-19)South Asian Americans are a rapidly growing ethnic group in the United States. They experience an array of health disparities that are not well-understood or addressed partially due to a lack of research on the health ... -
Caregiver Perspectives on Social Support for Individuals Living with Psychotic Disorders in Tanzania
(2021-04-20)In low-resource settings like Tanzania, individuals living with psychotic disorders must rely on their families for much of their financial and social support, thus leading family members to informally become their primary ... -
Combining cross-sectional survey data with geographic activity space to examine the relationship between place and youth HIV risk behavior in Kenya
(2017-04-23)Adolescents (15-24) comprise 37% of the nearly 1 million new HIV infections in southern and eastern Africa each year (UNAIDS, 2016a), representing a particularly vulnerable and important at-risk population. Despite increasing ... -
Determinants of Secondary School Attrition and Related Health Factors among Female Youth in Rural Kenya
(2016-04-28)This paper investigates the determinants of secondary school attrition and related health factors among female students in rural Kenya. To explore the relationship between attrition determinants and negative health outcomes, ... -
Drug Development for Neglected Tropical Diseases: DNDi and the Product Development Partnership (PDP) Model
(2016-04-25)Abstract Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), including leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, sleeping sickness, dengue fever, and schistosomiasis to name a few, are endemic in 149 countries and impact 1.4 billion people- often ... -
Ecological Modeling for Public Health: Predicting Hotspots of Human and Vector Contact in Rural Madagascar
(2019-04-12)Vector-borne diseases account for almost one-fifth of all infectious disease cases globally, and are a particularly pressing public health issue in low and middle-income countries. In Madagascar, ticks and flea vectors are ... -
Equity in Healthcare Access: Using Cultural Competency Training to Bridge the Gap between Providers and Latino Patients in Durham, NC
(2022-04)Alongside Asians, Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States with a projected population of 99.8 million by 2050 and 111.22 million by 2060. With this significant uptick comes an inevitable diversification ... -
Evaluating the Patient Experience of Women Receiving Mobile Health App Facilitated HPV-Based Cervical Cancer Screening
(2020-04-17)Cervical cancer is a disease that disproportionately burdens countries with less developed healthcare infrastructures where the populations have less access to healthcare resources. Screening for cervical cancer is essential ... -
Exploring Machista Gender Roles and Psychosocial Well-being: An Exploratory Analysis in Camasca, Honduras
(2019-04-20)There is a severe lack of mental health research in rural regions of Latin America like Camasca, Honduras, where typically there exists a societal construct of hypermasculinity and patriarchal authority termed machismo. ... -
Exploring the Link Between Mental Health of Caregivers and the Orphaned and Abandoned Children They Care for: An Investigation in Delhi, India
(2020-04)Alternative care models for orphaned and abandoned children (OACs) have recently become a priority, especially in nations like India, with high populations of OACs. Despite the shift from institutional care towards a family-based ... -
Global Equity Challenges in COVID-19 Vaccine Purchasing
(2021-04-21)A rush to preemptively secure COVID-19 vaccines resulted in high income countries hoarding an excess supply while low- and middle-income countries are prevented from equitable access. Previous work on equity in vaccine purchasing ... -
Increasing Glaucoma Detection in Roatán, Honduras: The Value of Education and Intraocular Pressure Screenings
(2023-04-11)Glaucoma is an ocular neuropathy that damages the optic nerve, leading to vision loss and blindness. Insidious in its presentation and difficult to diagnose, glaucoma is asymptomatic until irreversible harm is caused. Accounting ... -
Influence of social support on childhood vaccine uptake in a migrant community in Roatan, Honduras
(2019-04-01)According to the World Health Organization, greater social support from family, friends, and community members is correlated with better health outcomes. In the migrant community of La Colonia on the island of Roatán, Honduras, ... -
Is Alternative Rite of Passage the Key to Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting? A case study of the Samburu of Kenya
(2016-04-25)While Female Genital Cutting (FGC) has been condemned worldwide and seen as a violation of women’s right, individuals in communities that still practice the rite claim that it is an integral and respectable component of ... -
Medical pluralism in beliefs and practices surrounding epilepsy care in Uganda
(2019-04-22)Background: In the context of a massive epilepsy treatment gap in Sub-Saharan Africa, people with epilepsy consult multiple sources of treatment, including biomedical, traditional and pastoral providers. Thus, in this study, ...
