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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Health trends"”.
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Mental Health Trends Among African American High School Students
<p>Adolescent mental health is a major public health issue in the U.S., with African American high school students facing a rapidly worsening crisis. While all youth show increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality, African American adolescents are at greater risk due to systemic …
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Detecting user demographics in twitter to inform health trends in social media
… knowledge and insights regarding population health conditions thanks to the diversity and abundance of online user-generated information (UGHI) relating to healthcare and well-being. However, users on social media and social networking sites often do not supply their complete demographic …
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Anticipating U.S. Population-level Health Trends Based on Individual-level Dynamics to Inform Public Policy Decisions.
North Carolina State University Theses Operations Research.
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Health and Fitness Awareness in Schools and Student Impact: A Quantitative Study
… can have an impact on student knowledge of health and fitness if they implement programs that educate students in that content area. This study gathered information, via student questionnaires, from two school sites, to compare student knowledge at a school that implemented a health and …
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Health in the medieval world: Regionality and the bioarchaeology of Ireland and Britain
This study assesses regional health patterns in early medieval Ireland and Britain by analysing and interpreting palaeopathological indicators of stress. This was achieved by incorporating the results of demographic and palaeopathological study into the specific historical contexts. Although …
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An online system for bioterrorism surveillance
… collecting and analyzing the statistical data on health trends. Since most bio-weapons start as animal diseases, using animals as indicators allow identification of a bioterrorism threat at earlier time than using humans.;Current bioterrorism surveillance systems based on animals focus only on …
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Disparities in Mental Health, Physical Health, and Substance Use Across Sexual Orientations in Adults
… for the design and implementation of public health interventions to improve health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. While prior studies have shown LGB individuals have elevated risk of poor mental health, poor physical health, and substance use, existing study designs may be …
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Changes in the prevalence of cognitive impairment among older Americans, 1993-2004: Overall trends and differences by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status
Research indicates that the health of the older population in the United States, as measured by most dimensions, has improved over the past two decades. Population-level changes in health have been attributed to increases in education and income and improvements in the treatment and control of …
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Health of Indiana Firefighters
… risk factor profiles, and barriers to a healthy lifestyle among firefighters at the local level. Purpose: This project examines the relationship between firefighting and chronic disease mortality, determines trajectories of cardiovascular risk factors in a cohort of new firefighters, and …
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Health and disease in two villages in South-Eastern Lesotho : a social anthropological perspective
… and mortality data identify major disease and health trends for large populations. It is also well known that high infant mortality rates, high incidence of infectious fevers, as well as the variety of diseases commonly associated with malnutrition, are correlated with social conditions of …
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Characteristics of Help-Seeking Among First-Year Community College Students
<p>Health trends among freshmen entering college indicate that 2-year college students are especially vulnerable to engaging in risky health behaviors, yet many do not seek help. There was a need to more directly assess those who use college health services and factors that enable them to seek help …
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A retrospective comparative analysis of the maternal and child health MDGs in Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda: Beyond 2015
… was unable to meet the maternal and child health MDG targets. This study seeks to retrospectively compare, the progress made on the maternal and child health related Millennium Development Goals namely: MDG4- Reduce child mortality and MDG5- Improve Maternal Health, in Burundi, Rwanda and …
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War and Unemployment in an Industrial Community: Barrow-in-Furness 1914-1926
… and social structure of the town, together with health trends and housing conditions. In doing so, the thesis will analyse the dual effects of higher wartime earnings and long term mass unemployment on popular health, and the role of housing reform in maintaining social stability. Having …
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Applications of Wastewater-Based Surveillance Within Rural and Unsewered Communities
… presents the opportunity to describe disease and health trends within human populations both more broadly and at a lower cost than clinical reporting. However, rural communities and 'unsewered' households, the latter of which typically treat household wastewater onsite via septic system, remain a …
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Time series analysis of limber pine (Pinus flexilis) health in the U.S. Rocky Mountains in response to white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) and bark beetles
… Rocky Mountains (MT, WY, CO) to characterize health trends in response to white pine blister rust (WPBR) and bark beetles (including mountain pine beetle, "MPB", and Ips spp., "Ips") over time. These plots were subsequently measured in 2011-2013 and again in 2016-17 to form a time series …
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Development, Implementation and Normalization of SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater and Environmental Monitoring
… been a valuable resource for monitoring public health trends and providing insights into community-wide substance use, such as pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs, tracking infectious diseases like poliomyelitis and viral hepatitis. Despite its promise, WEM was historically underutilized, mainly …
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The Neurocognitive Dynamics Underlying Loss of Control in Alcohol Misuse and Addiction
… why is this distinction often unnoticed until unhealthy patterns emerge? Alcohol consumption which detrimentally impacts one’s health, interpersonal dynamics, or ability to work- termed alcohol misuse- can, in its extremity, evolve into an addiction. This advanced stage is characterised by an …