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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"County health"”.
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A Secondary Analysis of County Health Statistics for the Galveston County of Texas Report
The health of Galveston County communities (as is common with many areas outside large urban cities) is not fully summarized in a single report; however, a descriptive analysis would benefit community partners such as the Research Education and Community Health coalition who are interested in …
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Childhood lead poisoning prevention: A program plan for Galveston County
… prevalence is decreasing nationwide, Galveston County lags considerably behind most sections of the country. In 2003, the United States prevalence of lead poisoning in children under 6 years old had dropped to 1.93%, while Galveston County remained at 11.5% and its largest city, Galveston, was …
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Location, Location, Location: Assessing the Role of Context in Moderating the Relationship Between Childhood Adversity and Mental Health Burden
… experiences (ACEs) have profound mental health implications throughout the life course. While literature has focused on individual risk factors for ACEs and their burden on health, there are social and physical environmental contextual factors outside the individual that have been …
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Spousal Caregivers: Caregiving in Their Own Words
… given to caregivers receiving services from the county health department, and statistical information from national and local resources. Caregiver identity, evaluation of social support, the duality of uncertainty in illness, and the significance of the audience were described. The participants …
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Wellness Program Effect on the Health Parameters of Female Employees Aged 25 to 60 Years of Age Targeting Physical Activity and Nutrition Therapy.
… purpose of the study was to determine if the health parameters of female employees would improve, as measured in the posttest data, following the completion of a 12-week employee wellness program. The participants included 17 female employees from the Carter County Health Department located in …
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Tuberculosis: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control in the United States and Worldwide
… government agencies, non-government agencies, healthcare professionals, and the public is needed to ensure the implementation and adherence of control strategies that will lead to the eradication of TB. This capstone will focus on the epidemiological and clinical aspects of TB, and the TB …
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Loneliness as a risk factor for mortality and morbidity
… loneliness as a significant concern to physical health, although its meaning for overall health outcomes is still unclear. The precise impact of loneliness on life expectancy and on specific disease processes remains unknown. With regression modeling techniques, this thesis uses data from the …
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Social organization of authenticity in Mexican restaurants
… workers perceive and experience during regular county health inspections demonstrates the influence of public discourse on the marking of ethnic restaurants.
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"What We Eat Matters": Perspectives on Food and Health in the Mexican Im/migrant Farmworker Communities in Indian River County, Florida
… Anthropological scholarship shows that health issues within im/migrant groups in the U.S. are poorly understood from a sociocultural and local perspective. In Indian River County, Florida, farmworker leaders created a community garden in response to health problems in this community. …
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Host Specific Microbial Source Tracking and Quantification Using the Partial 16SrRNA Gene Sequence of Bacteroides on the Wilson's Creek Tributary in Southwest Missouri
<p>Fecal contamination is a major issue that county health departments address to protect the many individuals that enjoy recreational streams. Pathogens that accompany fecal contamination can cause severe human health problems. Many different point and non-point sources of fecal contamination …
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The Effects of Needle Play on Pre-School Children's Anxiety Concerning Injections
… pre-school children who were receiving routine health care and injections for immunizations or PPDs (purified protein derivative) at a county health department in the southeast. After obtaining informed consent, children were randomly assigned to either a control group (n = 10) or experimental …
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Development of Woman-Centred Midwife-led Model of Care through Participatory Methods for the Uasin Gishu County Hospital, Kenya
… users (women), service providers (midwives), and health administrators to ensure representativeness of the model. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore, through participatory methods, the views of women midwives and health service managers on current maternity care, and describe …
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A study of public access television as a means to increase the health awareness of adults
… access television programs produced by the Wayne County Health Department, Richmond, Indiana had been an effective source of health information in helping raise health awareness for adult residents who have access to cable television. The secondary purpose of the study was to gather information …
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Producing Malaria Indicators Through District Health Information Software (DHIS2): Practices, Processes And Challenges In Kenya
… information systems. Deficiencies in routine health information systems in many malaria endemic countries are well recognized and interventions such as the computerization of District Health Information Systems have been implemented to improve data quality, demand and use. However, little is …
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Cayucos Community Health Plan
… leading causes of death and primary driver of health care costs, cannot be effectively addressed through education or preventative health alone. A physical environment that promotes health—through access to healthy food, opportunities for physical activity, quality housing, transportation …
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A Tale of Two Risks: The Framing of HIV Transmission Risk in Health Brochures
The framing of a health issue such as HIV transmission risk may directly impact public opinion, which plays a significant role in the formation of health policies. Brochures are an important piece of HIV treatment and prevention efforts, so it is essential to understand how HIV transmission is …
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Evaluation of Montana's HIV Prevention Social Marketing Campaign: A Descriptive Study
… and one comparison community: Lewis and Clark County. The intervention began in March 2006, and data was collected in the intervention communities for the first four months of the campaign and included four areas. First, HIV testing data was evaluated throughout the campaign to assess the …
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