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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Public Health Epidemiology"”.
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A Middleware for Large-scale Simulation Systems & Resource Management
… of an integrated modeling environment to study public health epidemiology and network science.
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What influences the rise and fall of health research disciplines? Insights from a mixed-method investigation of occupational epidemiological research in the UK
Introduction Occupational Epidemiology (OE) has played a vital role in producing improvements in the working population’s health. Nonetheless, anecdotal evidence indicates that OE in the UK is facing many challenges and the research workforce, funding, and output in this area are declining. This …
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Trauma Informed Practices for Oakland Unite Service Providers
… substance abuse. These factors feed to greater healthy disparities and increased trauma in low-income communities – specifically in east and west Oakland. Measure Y, now called Oakland Unite, is the current violence prevention effort that is set for reauthorization in November 2014. In order for …
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The Impact of Military Sexual Trauma on Opioid Use Disorder and Related Outcomes in Men and Women Veterans
… (OUD) among U.S. Veterans enrolled in Veterans Health Administration (VA) care. Specifically, aims were to (1) assess the relationship between MST and OUD, (2) assess the relationship between MST and treatment for OUD among Veterans who have an OUD diagnosis, and (3) evaluate the potential role …
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Health Informatics Solution to Indoor Air Pollution: An Opportunity for Epidemiological Research
… improve the management of IAQ among population health and for environmental health to keep up with its technological counterpart, it is crucial to increase awareness around this subject and to provide innovative means of collecting IAQ data. Therefore, this Capstone paper encapsulates a project …
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Obesity and spatial context in Appalachia
… cancers. For these reasons, it is a complex health issue to address. The objective of this study is to identify the factors which are responsible for the spatial variation of adult obesity throughout the Appalachian region. In addition, preliminary examinations are made to identify potential …
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Community Impact of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Rural Uganda
… assess its effect on broad outcomes related to health, and economic and social development. Studies evaluating depression treatments in low-income countries usually focus on symptom remission and do not consider such broader effects in the community. The study was conducted in poor, severely …
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Multidimensional Epidemiological Transformations: Addressing Location-Privacy in Public Health Practice
… as significant, if not more so, is the right to health. With increasing globalisation and threats of natural disasters and acts of terrorism, this right is also becoming increasingly vulnerable. Public health practice – which is charged with the protection, promotion and mitigation of the health …
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Acute Pancreatitis. Studies on smoking and protease activation.
Background and aims: Activation of pancreatic proteases is considered to be a crucial event in the early phase of acute pancreatitis but the cause of this activation is not known. Most cases of acute pancreatitis can be attributed to either gallstone disease or alcohol abuse. However, little is …
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Targeting the human papillomavirus for prevention of cervical cancer
Different types of human papillomavirus (HPV) vary in the extent they cause precursor lesions (CIN) and cancer. There are limited long-term efficacy data on HPV testing in primary screening Among 72 cervical cancers in Mozambique, HPV 16 and 18 were the most frequent HPV types (69% of cases). …
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in a US Public University Cohort
… is important for university reopening and campus public health planning.
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Biomonitoring polybrominated diphenyl ethers in lactating women
<p>Breast milk is a valuable biological specimen for biomonitoring lipid-soluble polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). The goal of this project was to determine the levels of PBDEs in breast milk of lactating women from the Seacoast region of New Hampshire and to examine potential relationships …
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Comparative Whole-genome and Phenotype Analyses of Virulence Factors and Lethality in Nematode Challenge Assay among Aeromonas isolates
<p>Aeromonads are bacteria found globally in fresh and brackish waters, with some species causing water-borne diseases vertebrate hosts such as diarrhea and wound-infections in humans and motile <em>Aeromonas</em> septicemia in fish. Although many virulence factors have been described, determining …
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Curbing the Epidemic: Evolving Public Health Practices and Implications of Prenatal Syphilis Screening Patterns in Ontario, Canada
… screening. Methods: First, we surveyed Ontario public health units (PHUs) to identify changes to local prenatal syphilis screening recommendations between 2018 and 2023. Then, using provincial public health laboratory data from nine PHUs for 2019 to 2023, we examined the impact of rescreening …
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Association of Individual and Combined Metabolic Risk Factors with Cancer
… breast cancer points toward the need to develop public health strategies to manage these risk factors.;Keywords: Metabolic syndrome, metabolic risk factors, cancer, meta-analysis, breast cancer.
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Inequities in access to mental health care at intersections of race/ethnicity, gender identity, and gender modality: An application of Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA)
… by high rates of both mental illness and healthcare avoidance. Despite this, research examining the patterns of non-use of mental healthcare within this community is lacking, and has further suffered due to the difficulty of collecting large, population-based samples of transgender adults …
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Racial/Ethnic and Rural Differences in Alcohol Use, Care, and Related Outcomes among VA Patients Living with HIV
Alcohol use is common and particularly risky for people living with HIV (PLWH). Certain subpopulations of PLWH, such as racial/ethnic minorities and rural PLWH, may be at particularly increased risk of adverse alcohol-related outcomes. This dissertation describes differences in alcohol-related …
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Multilevel Analysis of Physical Activity Among US Adults Across US Census Regions: The Role of Environmental Contexts
<p>This study uses nationally representative data to explain the variation in physical activity among U.S. adults across four geographic regions of Northeast, Midwest, South, and West. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether environmental conditions inclusive of natural amenity, built …
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A GIS Analysis of the Environmental Variables Related to Rift Valley Fever Outbreaks
<p>Rift Valley fever is a mosquito-borne disease that causes widespread febrile illness and mortality in domestic animals as well as humans (Gaff, 2007). Rift Valley fever virus was first isolated in 1931 (Daubney, 1931), and since then, outbreaks have occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, southern …
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Pestens gåta : farsoter i det tidiga 1700-talets Skåne
… as far as the sources allow. Modern knowledge of epidemiology, medicine and medical history has been utilised in the analysis, not only in analysing diagnoses of the plague but also the other relevant diagnoses. This knowledge has been kept separate from what people knew then and how the initial …
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