Browsing by Subject "Public Health"
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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 ... -
Broadening the Perspective on Gun Violence: An Examination of the Firearms Industry, 1990-2015.
(American journal of preventive medicine, 2017-11)<h4>Introduction</h4>Firearm violence injures or kills 100,000 Americans each year. This paper applies the Host-Agent-Vector-Environment model to this issue. Research on firearm violence tends to focus on two elements-the ... -
Carceral Care: Examining the Quality of Health Care for Pregnant Women in Jails in North Carolina
(2021-12-06)Most women who are incarcerated are of childbearing age and some individuals experience pregnancy while incarcerated. However, research on pregnancy in correctional facilities is limited to within prisons, even though healthcare ... -
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 ... -
COVID-19: The Time for Collaboration Between Long-Term Services and Supports, Health Care Systems, and Public Health Is Now.
(The Milbank quarterly, 2021-06)Policy Points To address systemic problems amplified by COVID-19, we need to restructure US long-term services and supports (LTSS) as they relate to both the health care systems and public health systems. We present both ... -
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 ... -
Elusive consensus: Polarization in elite communication on the COVID-19 pandemic.
(Science advances, 2020-07)Cues sent by political elites are known to influence public attitudes and behavior. Polarization in elite rhetoric may hinder effective responses to public health crises, when accurate information and rapid behavioral change ... -
Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the United States.
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022-04)Short-term probabilistic forecasts of the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States have served as a visible and important communication channel between the scientific modeling community and both the general ... -
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. ... -
Health Misinformation Exposure and Health Disparities: Observations and Opportunities.
(Annual review of public health, 2023-04)The concepts of health misinformation and health disparities have been prominent in public health literature in recent years, in part because of the threat that each notion poses to public health. How exactly are misinformation ... -
Health System Capacity for Epilepsy Care in Uganda: A Survey of Health Facilities In Western Uganda
(2023)BackgroundEpilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent seizure activity caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Over 80% of all cases globally occur in Low- and Middle-Income countries. ... -
How Misinformation Research Can Mask Relationship Gaps that Undermine Public Health Response.
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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 ... -
Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017.
(Nature, 2019-10-16)Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable ...
