Browsing by Subject "Public Health"
Now showing items 1-20 of 20
-
Access and Absence: A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Effect of North Carolina School Health Centers on Student Absenteeism
(2014-04-25)The first school-based health center (SBHC) was introduced in North Carolina in Greene County in 1983. Over the last thirty years, School Health Centers (SHCs), which include school-based, school-linked, mobile units and ... -
Anthropology, knowledge-flows and global health.
(Global public health, 2010-01)Global health programmes are damaged by blockages in the upward flow of information from localities and regional centres about realities of professional practice and about patients' lives and conditions of treatment. Power ... -
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. ... -
Brazilian road traffic fatalities: a spatial and environmental analysis.
(PLoS One, 2014)BACKGROUND: Road traffic injuries (RTI) are a major public health epidemic killing thousands of people daily. Low and middle-income countries, such as Brazil, have the highest annual rates of road traffic fatalities. In ... -
Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how we regulate narcotics and antibiotics.
(J Med Ethics, 2013-12)Governments across the globe have squandered treasure and imprisoned millions of their own citizens by criminalising the use and sale of recreational drugs. But use of these drugs has remained relatively constant, and the ... -
Diagnostic Performance of a Rapid Syphilis Test Among Pregnant Women in Peru
(2011)<bold>Background:</bold> Maternal and congenital syphilis are pressing concerns in Latin America, with consequences ranging from newborn mental retardation to perinatal death. Widespread, accurate screening and timely penicillin ... -
Febrile Disease Epidemiology and Geospatial Modeling in Southern Sri Lanka
(2011)As a subproject under the collaboration between Ruhuna University in Sri Lanka and Duke University, this study focused on the identification of socioeconomic and ecological determinants of febrile illness in Galle district. ... -
Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls.
(Environ Health Perspect, 2012-06)BACKGROUND: Tropospheric ozone and black carbon (BC), a component of fine particulate matter (PM ≤ 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter; PM(2.5)), are associated with premature mortality and they disrupt global and regional climate. ... -
Implementation of the HEART Pathway: Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.
(Critical pathways in cardiology, 2018-12)OBJECTIVE:The HEART Pathway is an evidence-based decision tool for identifying emergency department (ED) patients with acute chest pain who are candidates for early discharge, to reduce unhelpful and potentially harmful ... -
Informing the Cultural Translation of a Weight loss Intervention for Overweight/Obese Adults in Beijing
(2011)Objectives: To inform the cultural translation of a US behavioral intervention (iOTA) for the Chinese population. Methods: We conducted a systematic literature review, counseling Chinese collaborators' experiences, and conducted ... -
Life and Liberty: Economic, Political and Ethical Issues Arising from 21st Century Quarantines for Influenza
(2017-04-24)Quarantine is a word that elicits fear among many. However, it is also a long-utilized and important policy tool for controlling the spread of infectious diseases. This thesis considers the role of quarantine for influenza ... -
Medicalization as a Rising Rational Myth: Population Health Implications, Reproduction, and Public Response
(2011)In this dissertation, I study medicalization, a wide spread phenomenon in this world but understudied in the current literature. The main theoretical focus of this dissertation is on expanding the medicalization theories. ... -
Mortality among heroin users and users of other internationally regulated drugs: A 27-year follow-up of users in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program household samples.
(Drug and alcohol dependence, 2015-11)In contrast to research on more restricted samples of drug users, epidemiological studies open up a view of death rates and survivorship of those who have tried heroin a few times, with no acceleration toward sustained use ... -
Prevalence and Genotype Distribution of Human Papillomavirus in Women with Cervical Histopathology in Haiti
(2010)The development of HPV vaccines has generated a great deal of hope that the burden of cervical cancer may be eliminated over the next several decades. However, this enthusiasm may be premature if the genotypes associated ... -
Recommendations for future university pandemic responses: What the first COVID-19 shutdown taught us.
(PLoS biology, 2020-08-27)The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic challenged universities and other academic institutions to rapidly adapt to urgent and life-threatening situations. It forced most institutions to shut down nearly every aspect of their research and ... -
Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study.
(Psychological science, 2020-10)It has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 is transmitted between individuals. It stands to reason that the spread of the virus depends on sociocultural ecologies that facilitate or inhibit social contact. In particular, ... -
Spatial distribution of bednet coverage under routine distribution through the public health sector in a rural district in Kenya.
(PLoS One, 2011)Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are one of the most important and cost-effective tools for malaria control. Maximizing individual and community benefit from ITNs requires high population-based coverage. Several mechanisms ... -
Statistical competencies for medical research learners: What is fundamental?
(J Clin Transl Sci, 2017-06)INTRODUCTION: It is increasingly essential for medical researchers to be literate in statistics, but the requisite degree of literacy is not the same for every statistical competency in translational research. Statistical ... -
The effectiveness of public health interventions against COVID-19: Lessons from the Singapore experience.
(PloS one, 2021-01)<h4>Background</h4>In dealing with community spread of COVID-19, two active interventions have been attempted or advocated-containment, and mitigation. Given the extensive impact of COVID-19 globally, there is international ... -
What is an epidemic? Currents in contemporary bioethics.
(J Law Med Ethics, 2014)
