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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"public health initiatives"”.
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Mass Political Discourse During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Critical Discourse Analysis Approach
… and social media, specifically complicating public health initiatives to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus and generally affirming the potentially toxic "post-truth" paradigms of the social media era. This pandemic provides an opportunity for observing counterproductive discourses from …
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Understanding adolescent and young people’s sexual health and development in a public health context: research studies and interventions
Sexual health risk-taking behaviour is typically initiated during adolescence and continues throughout teenage years and early adulthood at higher levels than at other life stages. For some groups (e.g. deprived and vulnerable populations) the risks can be greater still. Risk behaviours in early …
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Knowledge among nurses and medical doctors on animal bite management and use of anti-rabies vaccines in the Omusati region, Namibia
… region, Namibia. This includes knowledge of health care workers regarding wound care, administration of anti-rabies, and administration of Post-Exposure Prophylaxis using a quantitative research method, with a sample of 96 nurses and medical doctors. The research reveals significant knowledge …
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The Association between the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine and the Development of Autism: A Meta-Analysis
… associated with the vaccine carries widespread public health importance. The primary objective of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis of the association between the MMR vaccination and the development of autism. The meta-analysis was limited to studies with an experimental design, …
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Network and Algebraic Topology of Influenza Evolution
… influenza, particularly the problems that hamper public health initiatives to combat the virus. I introduce two new approaches: 1. The q2-coefficient, a method of quantifying pathogen surveillance, and 2. FluGraph, a technique that employs network topology to track the spread of seasonal influenza …
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Dirty Little Secrets: Prostitution and the United States Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study in Guatemala
… overlooked subject-groups of the United States Public Health Service's Sexually Transmitted Disease Inoculation Study, a human experiment that tested venereal disease prevention among vulnerable populations. The prostitutes were considered to be, although they were not always in actuality, …
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Case Study Research Public Health Grants: Exploring Grant Criteria Within Public and Private Foundations in Austin, Texas
… commonly used to make funding decisions within public and private foundations in Austin, Texas. Eight executive directors, program officers, and/or board trustees from eight community health foundations were interviewed. The goal was to extract information about the requirements, qualities, and …
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The Influence of Immigration Status on the General Health Outcomes of Adult BAME Migrants in East London
The health and well-being of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) adult migrants in East London are examined critically in this dissertation in relation to immigration status, social, cultural, and environmental factors. The background of the research, justification, and goals are established …
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From the Mouths of Babes: Infant Mortality and Medicalised Motherhood in County Durham, England, 1892-1914
… medical discourse focused on improving infant health outcomes was undergoing a dramatic shift that placed growing importance on the role of the mother and her abilities to raise the next generation of healthy imperial Britons. Within a national context, medical literature published by Medical …
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An exploratory analysis of public health communication interventions and their effect on GP referral rates.
… are placing growing pressure on primary healthcare services around the world. At scale, effective public health initiatives are seen as a ‘prevention is better than cure’ solution to the long-term mitigation of these challenges. This study reviews how referral rates from general …
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The role of a pharmacist in screening, communicating and reporting the risks of cardiovascular disease associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the perception of the population
… observed in the United Kingdom (UK). Despite public health initiatives and advances in clinical management, gaps in public awareness, risk perception, and medication safety, particularly concerning non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), pose significant challenges to effective …
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Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate a Self-Guided, Web-Based Mindfulness Program for Stress Reduction and Wellbeing Promotion
Background: Stress is a public health issue that has costly personal and societal effects. Stress-reduction interventions, such as those integrating mindfulness practices, have demonstrated significant improvements for stress and wellbeing outcomes when delivered to small, in-person groups. The …
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How do social relationships influence men’s weight?
… may be motivated to care for their weight and health to demonstrate their role as a “good father”; men do not seek “support” from friends for weight loss; and that men talk positively about potential weight loss advice a doctor could provide. This research also found that some women perceive …
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Meeting Women’s Health Needs in the Community: Assessment of the Physical Activity and Health Promotion Practices, Preferences and Priorities of Older Women Living with Cardiovascular Disease
… status, are more likely to experience non-CVD health conditions such as diabetes or arthritis, and will live with these health conditions for more years than men. Physical activity (PA) and cardiac rehabilitation (CR) participation is lower among women compared to men, but little is known about …
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Characterization of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Essential Workforce Members of a Large Urban Hospital in Los Angeles, CA
… Likert-type questions developed utilizing the Health Belief Model constructs of perceived susceptibility, threat, and self-efficacy. We included the California-based Healthy Places Index as a community-level variable to assess the influence Social Determinates of Health have on vaccine …
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Evolution of Surgery Risk in Crohn's Disease
… patients who are smokers at diagnosis. Thus, public health initiatives that reduce the prevalence of smoking in the general population may reduce the burden of Crohn’s disease.
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The association between air pollution and lung cancer in the north west of Adelaide: a case control study and air quality monitoring.
… undertaken as an indicator of future respiratory health risk. 142 lung cancer patients and 415 age, gender matched population controls were interviewed utilising an event history calendar. Lifetime exposure indices were calculated for cigarette smoking, passive smoking, occupation, air pollution …
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Conversational Multimodal LLMs for Food Nutritional Information Retrieval: A Systematic Evaluation
Accurate dietary monitoring underpins public health initiatives, chronic disease management, and personalized nutrition, yet manual food logging remains laborious and prone to error. At the same time, vision and language models have reached new levels of capability and offer the potential to infer …
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Transcending Traditional Approaches to Sexuality Education: A Case Study in Communicating, Constructing, and Defining Sex-Positive Sexuality Education
Guided by a social-ecological approach to health, this study explored a new approach to sex education--sex-positive sexuality education (SPSE). A collective case study was completed on three organizations that utilize a sex-positive approach to sexuality education--Good Vibrations, Scarleteen.com, …
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The influence of physical activity, sedentary time, and adiposity, on behavioral and neuroelectric measures of attentional inhibition
… detrimental not only to physical but cognitive health as well. However, the cognitive implications of these interrelated health factors are rarely examined together, therefore, little is known regarding the concomitant contribution of physical activity and adiposity to cognition. Furthermore, …
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