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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Health decision-making"”.
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Computational modeling of health decision-making
Value-based decision making consists of weighting stimulus attributes to compute stimulus value and guides choice such that the stimulus with highest value is chosen. While successful in maximizing value in the short-term, this does not always lead to long-term advantageous choices. Incorporating …
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Sexual Health Decision-Making and Service Utilisation among Kenyan Queer Womxn and Trans Men
… men are a neglected populations regarding sexual health status, education, and service provision globally, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Little is known about their sexual health risk behaviour. In Kenya, the Penal Code criminalises consensual same-sex activity. Public sector …
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Understanding the Service Needs of Gang-Involved Youth: Social Identity and Ecological Influences on Health Decision-Making
… members of communities experiencing significant health disparities (e.g., youth of color, poor). Yet, research and policy narratives routinely center delinquency, violence, and legal system intervention with limited attention to health and well-being. To develop relevant and responsive service …
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in silico Public Health: The Essential Role of Highly Detailed Simulations in Support of Public Health Decision-Making
Public Health requires a trans-disciplinary approach to tackle the breadth and depth of the issues it faces. Public health decisions are reached through the compilation of multiple data sources and their thoughtful synthesis. The complexity and importance of these decisions necessitates a variety …
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Information and Decision-Making Preferences of Community Dwelling Elderly People with Diabetes Mellitus
<p>Little is known about the decision-making preferences of the growing population of elderly people with diabetes mellitus who dwell in the community. The increased diversity of treatments for chronic illness has led health care providers to examine the information and decision-making preferences …
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Sexual health in relation to religious beliefs: perceptions of young women living in Khayelitsha
… in the world, in addition to other sexual health-related issues. A vast majority of its population is also religiously affiliated with Christianity. This study sought to understand how young women living in Khayelitsha experience the relationship between sexual health and religion within …
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Disease Surveillance and Implications on Public Health Decisions: Example of invasive Salmonellosis in sub-Saharan Africa
… developed and prequalified through the World Health Organization (WHO) while several vaccines against iNTS disease are currently undergoing clinical testing. Throughout the development process of new vaccines, different surveillance methods need to be deployed to allow an initial accurate …
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Examining the use of infectious disease modelling in outbreak response
… been brought to the forefront of national public health decision making during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the field is highly technically developed, transformation of insights from infectious disease modelling into policy in a clear, timely, and relevant manner is oftentimes less thoroughly …
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The Rhetorical Making Of An Illness: Medical Refusal, Trope, And Improvisation In A Somali Women'S Health Center
… come to understand autism, specifically, and health and illness, more broadly, and how these understandings influence medical decision-making. This study, developed in partnership with a Somali women's health center, asks how Somali parents understand autism, use services, and navigate divides …
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Self-Controlled Food and Leisure Activity Decision-Making
… weight status, age, and attribute weightiness on health decision-making in females and males. Participants completed an online experiment consisting of self-reports, attribute rating tasks, and mouse-tracking choice tasks. Stress, coping, and weight status were obtained from self-reports. The food …
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The relationship between self-care agency, self-care, and health in the pregnant adolescent
… factors, self-care agency, self-care, and health in pregnant adolescents, 14-19 years. Prenatal adolescent clinics at two research sites were used to select 100 volunteer adolescents by convenience nonprobability sampling. The mean age of the adolescents in this study was 17.48 years; half …
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Public Health Governance at the Watershed Scale: Exploring Opportunities for Multi-sector Governance to Advance Planetary Health in Northeastern Massachusetts
Many health and environmental regulations apply only within specific political or administrative boundaries, creating a mismatch between the spatial scale of natural systems which impact health and the spatial extents of relevant regulations. For example, in Massachusetts, local Boards of Health …
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MATHEMATICAL MODELLING FOR REAL-TIME AND PROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
… diseases are a major threat to population health and often require decisions to be made under uncertainty about current and future dynamics. Mathematical models provide a way to combine mechanistic knowledge with surveillance data and to evaluate alternative intervention strategies. …
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Testing times: New Zealand’s clinical laboratories under the 1990s health sector reforms
… a recent period of major neo-liberally driven health sector change in New Zealand. Internationally, although estimates of expenditure on laboratory services vary, the importance attributed to their pivotal role in health decision-making and expenditure is consistent. Consequently, changes …
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Health Surveillance of Thinhorn Sheep (Ovis dalli) Herds in British Columbia and Alaska
The health of wildlife populations influences their sustainability in the face of ecological challenges. There is a paucity of information about the health status of free ranging thinhorn sheep populations (Ovis dalli), despite their economic, ecological, and cultural significance. Identification …
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Community perceptions and factors associated with contraceptive use among adolescent females in Mazabuka district, Zambia
… information necessary for Sexual Reproductive Health decision-making. Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) has increasingly been on national health agendas of many countries, including Zambia. One of the major causes of these agendas is the concern against early childbearing. Access …
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Essays on the Behavioral Economics of Mental Health and Belief Formation
… behavioral economics to study topics in mental health, decision-making, and belief formation. They leverage randomized experiments to evaluate the impact of three interventions, and new ``lab-in-the-field'' incentivized surveys and games to measure outcomes. The first chapter studies the effects …
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The molecular epidemiology of Salmonella Typhi and applications for policy
… and two have been prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO); a small number of countries have introduced TCVs into their national immunization programs. However, many countries lack primary surveillance data to inform decision-making for TCV introduction. Here, aiming to aggregate …
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Uncertainty in Decision-making Within the Dental Context of Malaysia’s Multi-ethnic Population – a Mixed-methods Study
… is an inherent part of healthcare, particularly in decision-making. Shared decision-making in many Asian contexts faces challenges due to language barriers, religious practices, hierarchical clinical norms, and collectivist approaches to decision-making. Under uncertain …
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Exploring the Experiences and Perceptions of Individuals who have Completed the Discovery Health Family History Tool, and how the Personalised Report has Impacted their Lives
… the gold standard for the collection of family health history (FHH) information and the stratification of disease risk, it is underutilised in health care due to various practitioner and patient barriers. Electronic patient-facing tools have been designed to interrogate FHH, with the capability …
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