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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"Health screening"”.
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Certified Nurse Midwives' Barriers Toward Sexual Health Screening Practices
… sexual heath are important components of general health screenings. Reports of sexual health screening practices are limited to physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners. No research exists to describe sexual health screening practices of certified nurse-midwives (CNMs), a group of advanced …
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Culturally Sensitive Technology-Enhanced Mental Health Screening in Integrated Primary Care
The integration of primary care and mental health care is a requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and has challenged primary care providers to address gaps in the quality of care provided for patients with mental health issues. Vulnerable populations, such as the …
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Optimal Data-driven Methods for Subject Classification in Public Health Screening
… a subject, is an essential component of public health screening. For many diseases, the concentration of disease-related biomarkers may exhibit a wide range, particularly among the disease positive subjects, in part due to variations caused by external and/or subject-specific factors. Further, a …
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Exploring Mental Health Screening and Linkage to Care among Young African American Men
… White males, which increases the risk of mental health concerns and risk behaviors. However, young Black/American men are less likely to seek mental health screening and linkage to care (LTC) services than other racial/ethnic groups. The purpose of the current study was to use a Theory of Planned …
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Implementing a Social Determinants of Health Screening Tool at a Federally Qualified Health Center
Abstract Social determinants of health (SDOH) are social conditions, forces, and systems shaping individuals’ daily lives. Education, employment, income, safety, social support, and access to healthy food items and exercise are all social conditions that impact individual and community health …
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Optimal Risk-based Pooled Testing in Public Health Screening, with Equity and Robustness Considerations
… group testing is used in various contexts (e.g., screening donated blood or for sexually transmitted diseases), a lack of understanding of how an optimal grouping scheme should be designed to maximize classification accuracy under a budget constraint hampers screening efforts. We study Dorfman and …
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Robust and Equitable Public Health Screening Strategies, with Application to Genetic and Infectious Diseases
Public health screening plays an important role in the overall healthcare system. As an example, consider newborn screening, a state-level initiative that screens newborns for life-threatening genetic disorders for which early treatment can substantially improve health outcomes. Another topical …
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Implementing Mental Health Screening Assessment and Navigation (MH-SCAN) in a Community Oncology Clinic: Evaluations and Efficacy
… Moncrief Cancer Institute implemented Mental Health Screening, Assessment, and Navigation (MH-SCAN) as standard of care. This study evaluated factors associated with screening positive for depression, as well as the impact of Mental Health Patient Navigation on depression treatment engagement …
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Mental Health Screening of Veterans Diagnosed with Cancer: Analyzing Psychological Distress and Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Psychological Help
<p>Studies analyzing mental health care utilization in veterans with a co-occurrence of a medical and psychological diagnosis are still underrepresented in the literature. The primary purpose of this study is to examine psychological screening methods of veterans diagnosed with cancer and …
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Social determinants of health screening and referral program in an academic primary care clinic : a quality improvement project
Background: Screening for social determinants of health (SDOH) is critical to meeting the needs of patients and accounts for 30-55% of health outcomes. This indicates overall health is influenced by social factors in addition to healthcare and lifestyle. Screening and addressing SDOH allows …
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Social determinants of health screening and referral follow up initiative : a quality improvement project in an academic primary care clinic
Background: Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) refer to the circumstances present in the surroundings where individuals are born, reside, acquire knowledge, engage in employment, participate in leisure activities, practice religion, and grow old, which have an impact on a diverse array of …
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Baseline concussion assessments can identify mental disorders: the SCAT-5 Symptom Evaluation compared to other screening tools in South African club rugby
… but often go undiagnosed. Although mental health screenings are not routinely conducted in rugby, the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool – Fifth Edition (SCAT-5) is widely performed and measures affective, cognitive, sleep, and physical symptoms. This study investigated the psychometric …
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Pharmacist monitoring of patient health in the community
… in order to make significant improvements in the health of the people and has placed an emphasis on shifting care to the primary sening. This research has explored the potential role of the community pharmacist in health promotion in the pharmacy, and at general medical practices. The feasibility …
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Expert-free eye alignment and machine learning for predictive health
… device in order to realize a system for scalable screening of the eye fundus. The goal of this work is to demonstrate enabling technologies that remove dependence on expert operators and explore the usefulness of this approach in the context of scalable health screening. I will present a system …
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Changes of Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognosis of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in Korea
… cancer was attributed to early diagnosis by health screening with neck ultrasonography and fine needle aspiration cytology. However, several studies suggested the possibility of true increment in thyroid cancer, based on the fact that large size tumor also increased, as well small size tumor. …
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The Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Transgender Health Resource Bundle
… experience disproportionate social and health disparities that can negatively impact quality of life. Healthcare barriers due to gender based discrimination and lack of medical insurance and culturally competent providers contribute to low levels of access to preventative health care …
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Child and Family Clinic-Plus Program: How to Involve Children and Families in Mental Health Screenings in a Clinic Setting
… survey to seek strategies to improve the mental health screening rate for the Child and Family Clinic-Plus program in a clinic setting. The Child and Family Clinic-Plus program is a package involving broad-based screening in natural environments, comprehensive assessment, and evidence-based …
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Validating the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool to Improve Surveillance of Mental Health Issues Among Canadian Varsity Athletes
… (SCAT-5) symptom evaluation scale as a potential screening tool for anxiety and depression symptoms among varsity athletes at baseline. The sample consisted of 436 varsity athletes from York University. Two model structures of the SCAT-5 symptom evaluation scale were compared to identify which …
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Prediction and analysis of degree of suicidal ideation in online content
… illness and lack of access to quality mental health care. Recently such models have been applied to online data, such as social media postings to augment mental health screening. Despite the potential of these methods, online ML classifiers still perform poorly in multi-class settings. In this …
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The Dividual Self: Ethno-Psychology, Idioms of Distress and Explanatory Models of Mental Illness in Karachi, Pakistan
… essential to develop culturally sensitive mental health screening tools and interventions. This exploratory study used qualitative methods to understand the cultural manifestations of distress in a population of mental health practitioners, patients and laypeople (N=30) in Karachi, Pakistan. We …
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