Browsing by Subject "public health"
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2020 Aspen-Nicholas Water Forum Water Affordability and Equity Briefing Document
(2020-08-12)The importance of water and sanitation for public health is once again visible and may change the trajectory of the water sector moving forward. Given that water is essential for public health, what must be done to ensure ... -
"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
(2014)Between 1890 and 1965, the ideology of government responsibility for maternal and child health represented a continuous and central goal that fueled programs and institutional networks of progressive and liberal social policy ... -
Assessing BRAC's Community Health Volunteer Program in Tanzania
(2012-04-20)Life expectancy in Tanzania is 58 years for women, and 53 for men (WHO 2011). Tanzania’s maternal mortality ratio is among the world’s highest at 454 per 100,000 births (UNDP); likewise, its infant mortality ratio is high ... -
Cookstove Interventions in Developing Countries: Designing Tools for Effective Program Evaluation
(2011-05-02)Approximately half of the world’s population depends on biomass and coal as fuel for household energy. Burning these fuels in traditional cookstoves creates detrimental social, health, and environmental impacts that can ... -
Do Drugstores Contribute to Urban Food Deserts?
(2009-12)Problem This project explores the possible role of competition from chain pharmacies in the lack of access to healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods by seeking to answer the question, “How and to what extent is the ... -
Durham Tech Mobile Health Lab: Strategies and Recommendations for Enhancing the Delivery of Mobile Care Services in Durham and Orange Counties
(2021-05-03)In 2020, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina awarded Durham Technical Community College a $1 million grant to launch a new mobile health lab. The program will deliver cross-disciplinary health education and outreach ... -
Evaluating the impact of evidence-based practice and policy in public health: A case study on parent-child interaction therapy
(2012-05-17)The purpose of this study was to explore the evidence-based practice movement and its implications for the realm of public health. The paper first described the evidence-based practice movement and examined its pros and ... -
Examining Wastewater Treatment Struggles in Lowndes County, AL
(2018-04-27)Many poor, rural Americans currently live without access to basic wastewater treatment, raising sobering environmental justice and public health issues. Recent research found a 34.5% incident rate of N. americanus (hookworm) ... -
Exploring Strategies to Address the Prevalence of Islamophobia in America
(2012-04-27)9/11 marked a notable rise in Islamophobia within American society that has since remained a prevailing reality. For the purposes of this paper, I define Islamophobia as a negative bias against Islam and/or Muslims expressed ... -
Optimising mHealth helpdesk responsiveness in South Africa: towards automated message triage.
(BMJ global health, 2018-01)In South Africa, a national-level helpdesk was established in August 2014 as a social accountability mechanism for improving governance, allowing recipients of public sector services to send complaints, compliments and questions ... -
Prescribed Fire: Balancing Public Health and Land Management Goals
(2022-05-22)Fire is a critical component of many natural disturbance regimes in the southeastern United States; however, a century of fire suppression policies has disrupted many such regimes and severely degraded ecosystems throughout ...
