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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Public health crisis"”.
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Sick ‘scapes : boutique and corporate food geographies and Mexico’s public health crisis
… arranged to reinforce and deepen pre-existing health, gender, race, and class inequalities. Throughout the country there is an emerging elite boutique food movement heralded by public health officials and food activists as healthy and sustainable, yet, paradoxically, the country is also …
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Gun Violence: A Public Health Crisis The Role Physicians can Play in Keeping Communities Safe
Gun violence is a public health crisis in the United States. Research shows that violence functions similarly to a communicable disease. An exposure such as someone witnessing violence or being a victim of violence is a major risk factor to the exposed person becoming a perpetrator of violence …
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"Liquid Poison": picturing a public health crisis through visual storytelling in the Nineteenth Century Press
… news accounts of New York City's "swill milk crisis" as reported in <i>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</i> were examined to illuminate the role of the illustrated newspaper in the development visual journalism. It is argued that visual reporting offered a new narrative about "swill milk" …
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Covid-19 in the Developing World: Managing One of The Gambia's Most Fatal Public Health Crisis
… while highlighting a case study on The Gambia’s public health response between March 2020 to March 2021. The Gambia government missed an opportunity during a crucial grace period between December 2019 and March 17, 2020 (when the West African country confirmed its first case), to plan and …
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Managing emergency care operations through optimal patient routing decisions and predictive demand estimation during public health crisis
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Self-Regulatory Brain Networks of Eating Behavior
Obesity is currently a public health crisis in North America not sparing the rapidly expanding population of older adults. While lifestyle interventions remain the most popular treatment for obesity, many individuals fail to monitor their eating behavior and lose weight. The over-reaching purpose …
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Visualizing global drug flows : transnational connections to the overdose crisis in New England, USA
… an opioid overdose antidote used in the public health crisis of drug overdose deaths in Massachusetts, USA. Beginning locally in Massachusetts, I filmed parents reflecting on losing children to overdoses, first responders administering naloxone to save overdose victims, and public health …
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Moral Implications of Emergency Department Crowding
… ED to operate beyond its capacity" has become a public health crisis in the United States. ED crowding can lead to compromised care which threatens the moral values medicine has been built upon (Cowan and Trzeciak 2005). This thesis offers a brief history of the development of hospital based EDs …
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Isoniazid preventive therapy in HIV infected children on antiretroviral therapy living in a high tuberculosis prevalence area a randomized controlled trial
… (TB) and HIV are dual epidemics and a public health crisis in Southern Africa. An estimated 2.5 million children are living with HIV, of which 2.3 million live in Sub-Saharan Africa, with an estimated 230 000 child deaths from AIDS. In 2010 there were an estimated 8 million incident …
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The impact of domestic savings, financial depth, and financial innovation on economic growth in sub-Saharan African countries
… on economic growth before-during-and-after a public health crisis. To get a clear picture on whether the Ebola period resulted in different dynamics in the relationship between financial depth and economic growth, this study examines two samples: the full sample (spanning from 1980 to 2022 …
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Novel Diagnostic Approaches for Genetic and Environmental Sources of Mitochondrial Dysfunction
… their pathogenesis is paramount to tackling this public health crisis. Current research indicates that the primary cause of these diseases is mitochondrial dysfunction in the affected patients. While genetics plays a role in these conditions, lifestyle choices and exposure to toxins also …
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Childhood Obesity and School-Based Interventions: An Evidence-Based Best Practice Guideline
<p>Childhood obesity is a public health crisis that continues to grow in size and whose</p> <p>impact threatens the future well-being of today’s children. The causes are complex and multi-factorial; and the consequences are both chronic and serious in nature. Insulin resistance, glucose …
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Assessing the viability of implementing explicit mandatory corporate social responsibility regulation in South African law
… disaster of the 20th century; and the Financial Crisis of 2007–08 which sparked the Great Recession, the most-severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.1 The COVID-19 pandemic is another catastrophic event which has changed the course of human history in a multitude of ways. The COVID-19 …
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LIFE AND DEATH IN THE U.S.A.
… and attendant shifts in the distribution of health and illness at the dawn of the 21st century. Through the analytic lens of the political economy of public health, I shed novel light on the upstream determinants of America's overdose epidemic, which is claiming tens of thousands of lives …
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A persuasive television remote control for the promotion of health and well-being
… have repeatedly voiced concerns about the public health crisis that looms over a largely sedentary U.S. population. Principal among these concerns is the continuing upward trend in lifestyle-related disorders such as obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Within the last two decades, substantial …
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Computational Molecular Docking Studies of Small Molecule Inhibitors With the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variants: In-Silico Drug Discovery Using Virtual Screening and Drug Repurposing Approaches
… 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in 2019 has caused a global public health crisis of nearly unprecedented scale. In the years following the outbreak, the scientific community has mobilized to develop several vaccines and treatments. Drug repurposing as a strategy for drug development has produced many of the …
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Educational Farms as Tools for Advancing Youth Well-Being in Underrepresented Food Desert Communities
Food insecurity represents a significant public health crisis affecting individuals across the United States, with food deserts, areas lacking access to nutritious food due to transportation barriers and absence of grocery stores serving as primary contributors to this challenge. This issue …
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A Sample of Selected Secondary School Leader Perceptions of Necessary Skills Before, During, and After the Coronavirus Pandemic
… While many school facilities closed during the public health crisis, the learning continued. During the pandemic, educational leaders were tasked with creating environments that allowed students to thrive academically, behaviorally, and emotionally from beyond the classroom walls. By identifying …
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Prescribed fire and deer ticks: a management method for the primary vector of Lyme disease in the eastern United States
<p>The United States is currently amid a public health crisis caused by the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, that is responsible for Lyme disease. A deer tick, Ixodes scapularis, is the primary vector for these bacteria in the Eastern United States and its explosive population increase and range …
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The Ebola Experience: Media Lessons For Nurse Leaders
… media scrutiny which occurred during the Ebola crisis.</p> <p>Purpose: For decades nursing scholars have called for a new media image for the nursing profession, yet most of the nursing literature has focused on the profession’s poor media image rather than effective media communication …
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