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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Public health campaigns"”.
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Implicit and explicit attitudes: an examination of the efficacy of anti-sugar public health campaigns
… efforts, in the form of an anti-sugar public health campaign (PHC), influence consumer attitudes toward SSBs. In this context, one's self-reported attitude (ie, conscious, explicit attitude) may not accurately reflect one's ‘true' attitude (ie, subconscious, implicit attitude). …
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Rhetorical Bridges: How Rhetoric Affects the Gap Between Knowledge and Behavior Change
Health-communication campaigns have long operated according to the belief that individuals can be persuaded to change hazardous health practices through education about the risks or benefits of certain behaviors. Health-communication scholars and practitioners have ascribed to a theory of behavior …
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A Tale of Two States: Texas v. California Firearm Mortality, Legislation, and Policies to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence in the United States
… day due to gun violence. This violence is a public health burden resulting in thousands of injuries and deaths every year. The age-adjusted firearm mortality rate per 100,000 from 2000-2015 ranges from 10.14-11.01 and is trending up. States address gun violence differently, either by …
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The Influence of Culture on the Views of Black African/African-Caribbean Men Living In the UK Towards Cancer
… to social systems and establishments, such as healthcare systems. Clinical risk factors such as smoking and obesity had different meanings and symbolisation through black eyes. There were macro- and micro-level similarities and differences between BA and BAC men. Cancer-related services, such …
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Cultivating School Food Community: An Ethnography on Nutritional Wellbeing in a Calgary Public School
The nutritional health of Canadian children has declined over the last 30 years. Public health campaigns and health education programs have been developed to address increased rates of obesity and overweight in young people. Schools are popular sites for health education programming in this regard. …
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Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism, Patients, and the Politics of Public Health in Hawai'i and Louisiana
… became intricately interwoven into U.S. public health policy from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, as American acquisition and management of island territories heightened public fears of leprosy as a ""foreign"" contagion and shaped the creation of restrictive …
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Tickborne Diseases in Long Island, New York
… the Northeast, tickborne infections are a major public health concern and a source of significant morbidity. Human-centric factors that influence tickborne disease risk include the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of individuals and communities. My study focused on Long Island, New York, a …
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Radio Power: An exploration of agency for the participants of a climate change communication campaign in South Africa
… change outcomes. While it has been effective in public health campaigns, it consistently fails at addressing more complex issues, or “wicked problems”, like as climate change. Inspired by agentic perspectives in development studies and the potential of radio as a critical thinking development, …
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Vaccines at the Intersection of Religion and Politics
… availability – is a rising threat to global health and has increased in recent years in higher income countries. This is a complex phenomenon with the potential to undo decades of progress toward eradicating communicable diseases. The recent COVID-19 pandemic introduced a new wave of vaccine …
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Hispanic cultural considerations in acute stroke care
… underrepresented group faces medical and health disparities that make their disease burden disproportionally high. For stroke, this burden presents as increased incidence and increase negative outcomes. This burden is partially due to Hispanics taking longer to present to the hospital with …
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Euphemistic rhetoric in advertising during the Comstock Era: the importance of persona and cultural context in the Lysol case
… time period. Ads encouraged women to stay young, healthy, and “dainty” for their husbands and families. The campaign relied on aspirational images of women who douched with Lysol as wealthy, healthy, and desired in long-term romantic marriages. Negatively toned ads warned women of the consequences …
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Influenza : a study of contemporary medical politics
… grown to be one of the largest and most visible public health policies. This dissertation considers contemporary influenza policy as a case study in what I call medical politics, in which a disease that for most people is rather unremarkable has become the focus of intense (and costly) public …
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Multi-level influences on seafood consumption among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants in New Orleans, Louisiana
… consumption based on the benefits for human health, yet only 10% of Americans meet the recommendation. The purpose of this study was to explore social-ecological factors associated with seafood consumption among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants in New Orleans, …
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Novel Approaches to Exposure Assessment and Dose Response to Contaminants in Drinking Water and Food
In the fields of water safety, food safety, and public communications, the overarching goal is to improve public health. Thus, this dissertation focuses on risk assessment and applying novel methods for exposure assessments and dose responses to contaminants in drinking water and foods. Factors …
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Knowledge and attitudes towards prostate cancer screening among males at Dzingahe Village, Limpopo Province
… cancer screening seems inadequate and remains a public health concern worldwide. This leads most men to be diagnosed with an advanced prostate cancer where cancer cells spread to other parts of the body. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of males towards prostate …
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The role of mindfulness in physical activity
Despite public health campaigns to promote physical activity (PA), physical inactivity affects 60% of the world population and continues to pose a risk of overweight and obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related cancers. Current interventions show small to moderate changes in PA and limited long-term …
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Exploring the Unique Characteristics of Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults in Tennessee
… received little attention in the medical and health fields, resulting in a lack of progress for this age group. Little is known about the unique biologic, epidemiologic, and psychosocial issues that play an integral role in the AYA cancer journey. The purposes of this study were to use the …
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A Daily Diary Examination of Microaggressions and Alcohol Use Among Emerging Adult Bisexual Women: The Role of Alcohol Demand
… information. In addition, at a larger level, public health campaigns can be implemented to raise awareness about microaggressions and policies can be enacted to discourage microaggressions.</p>
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A unified computational framework for modeling health policy adoption in complex real-world environments
… of any large-scale policy intervention from public health campaigns to urban planning and economic policy ultimately depends on how individuals and organizations respond to these programs. This presents a fundamental and persistent challenge in predictive modeling of real-world environments: …
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Vectors of Health: Epidemics, Ecologies, and the Reinvention of Mosquito Science in Brazil
… pathogenic viruses that are harmful to human health, such as Zika, dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever. Since the early 20th century, this insect has been the focus of scientific research and public health campaigns, framed as a conveyor of death and targeted as a winged enemy to be …
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