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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"public health interventions"”.
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ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS.
… are the reasons for this thesis. The practice of public health incorporating medicine’s cognitive contents along with contributions from other fields of human activities is basically a moral enterprise. It is important that limitations from the whole continuum of these interventions are recognized …
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The use of patient choice in public health interventions for HIV treatment and prevention. A systematic review
… the published HIV literature to describe interventions in which patients are given a choice in their HIV care, and examine the impact of patient choice on reported health outcomes among studies including a non-choice comparison group. Methods: We searched PubMed and reference lists, from 1 …
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Exploring the Contributing Factors to Achieving HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in Malawi
… government’s diplomatic leadership approach, public health interventions implemented through PEPFAR, and donor coordination in reaching HIV/AIDS epidemic in Malawi. Additionally, proposed solutions for PEPFAR moving forward were considered including congressional reauthorization, targeted …
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Calling the shots on vaccination: when is the state justified in overturning a refusal to vaccinate?
Public perceptions of vaccination have changed greatly since George Bernard Shaw unleashed his diatribe against the practice. Today it is recognised that, far from spreading disease, vaccination is one of the cheapest and most effective public health interventions. Immunization against infectious …
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Machine Learning for Injuries Cause of Death Assignment: A New Method for the Global Burden of Disease Study
… in many low income countries.1,2 Effective public health interventions and decision making rely on accurate estimates of injuries burden; however, inconsistent and unreliable coding of injuries deaths has complicated this task over time. In particular, a large portion of injuries deaths are …
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Calling the shots on vaccination: when is the state justified in overturning a refusal to vaccinate?
Public perceptions of vaccination have changed greatly since George Bernard Shaw unleashed his diatribe against the practice. Today it is recognised that, far from spreading disease, vaccination is one of the cheapest and most effective public health interventions. Immunization against infectious …
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Estimating HIV incidence from multiple sources of data
… correctly evaluate the effectiveness of targeted public health interventions and to accurately predict the HIV- related burden imposed on healthcare services. Bayesian CD4-based multi-state back-calculation methods are a key tool for monitoring the HIV epidemic, providing estimates of HIV …
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Community health workers in Khayelitsha : motivations and challenges as providers of care and players within the health system
Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in health care in South Africa and similar countries, but relatively little is known about CHW motivations and experiences in the provision of care. This thesis considers these issues in three parts: 1. A protocol for a study of community …
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Some public health associations with specific enteropathogens in childhood diarrhoea in Cape Town
… identify associations that suggested potential public health interventions that could target the electrolytes disturbances. It is possible that by identifying association with the enteropathogens directly, one could identify public health interventions to avoid seasonal electrolyte disturbances. …
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Population health in Namibia: an analytical approach
… objectives: Namibia aims to improve population health and human development. As there is limited research to date exploring the sociodemographic patterns of disease and healthcare access in the country, this thesis aimed to assess the burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases, the …
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Using Theory of Change to design and evaluate complex mental health interventions in low and middle income countries: the case of PRIME
Background: Many health interventions are complex and consist of several interacting components (Medical Research Council 2008). These components include multiple causal strands, outcomes and levels of governance and may result in unexpected outcomes and non-linear change (Glouberman and Zimmerman …
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Incorporating the Pre-symptomatic Stage in the Discrete-Time Kermack-McKendrick Model
… models being general, flexible when including public health interventions and easier to implement computationally than continuous-time models, it is a powerful tool for exploring infectious diseases such as COVID-19. To demonstrate this potential, a numerical investigation is performed on how …
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The magical realism of metaphor: cross-cultural comparisons in use of metaphor in cognition
… Implications in the domains of education and public health interventions are briefly noted.
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CDC’S COVID-19 VACCINATION MESSAGES AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: A STUDY ON FACEBOOK POSTS
<p>Government health agencies utilize social media for public health interventions. This study examines how CDC, the national public health agency of the United States, use <em>Facebook</em> to disseminate COVID-19 vaccine messages and to get public engagement towards them over the past two years …
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Epigenetics and biopolitics: moving away from using punitive policies to address opioid use in pregnancy
… drug use in pregnancy and related negative health outcomes for both mothers and infants. It demonstrates how these policies perpetuate racial injustice through existing systemic oppressive structures. Leveraging epigenetics to draw a link between the environment and the maternal-fetal dyad …
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Diffusion of New Psychoactive Substances: understanding population motives, harms and intervention needs
… others fail to do so, to identify appropriate public health interventions to reduce harm. Methodology A mixed methods approach was undertaken, which comprised four studies. The first study involved a critical analysis of the appropriateness of Rogers’ DOI to explain the diffusion of NPS. This …
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Cultivating Quality of Life: Assessing Diet, Physical Activity, and Mental Health Among Arab-American Breast Cancer Survivors - Uncovering Barriers and Facilitators for Holistic Well-Being
… dietary practices, physical activity, and mental health. Despite increasing survivorship rates in this population, there remains a significant gap in the literature addressing their unique post-treatment experiences and needs. Employing a convergent parallel mixed-methods design, this study …
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Optimizing COVID-19 control measures using multi-objective deep reinforcement learning
… reinforcement learning as a method of optimizing public health interventions by shedding light on the optimum COVID-19 control methods for various scenarios and models. Findings show that the suggested strategies are efficient in figuring out the best preventive actions by striking a balance …
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An agent-based approach to HIV/AIDS epidemic modeling : a case study of Papua New Guinea
… which will then shed light on appropriate interventions and prevention measures. ABMs facilitate the development of network-based public health interventions. Such interventions, like home-based care programs, may have great promise in Papua New Guinea.
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Advancing Pandemic Response: Integrated Strategies for Testing, Prediction, and Bias Mitigation
… in artificial intelligence (AI) models used for healthcare decision-making.</p> <p>The first study introduces a global screening strategy designed to optimize resource use and increase testing capacity, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where resources are limited. This …
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