Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Infection Among a Population of Blood Donors in the Kpandai District of Northern Ghana: A Five-Year Retrospective Study from 2014 to 2018.

abstract：:Seasonal influenza has serious impacts on morbidity and mortality and has a significant economic toll through lost workforce time and strains on the health system. Health workers, particularly emergency medical services (EMS) workers have the potential to transmit influenza to those in their care, yet little is known ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Subramaniam DP,Baker EA,Zelicoff AP,Elliott MB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor persons continue to smoke at high rates and suffer grave health effects. We have been working with our community partners since 2008 to help poor people in the surrounding neighborhoods stop smoking through a multi-phase CBPR intervention known as CEASE. Our study used qualitative methods to identify factors that...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： O'Keefe AM,Bustad K,Apata J,Sheikhattari P,Abrams NR,Mahmud A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents frequenting indoor tanning facilities may have an increased risk of skin cancer. The high level of indoor tanning by this age group may be due, in part, to the large number of tanning facilities in US cities. This study examined how facilities are distributed throughout one large county. Based on ecologica...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Patel MR,Mayer JA,Slymen DJ,Weeks JR,Hurd AL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the availability of HPV prophylactic vaccines, uptake has been suboptimal in the US. In the state of Hawaii, HPV vaccine coverage has decreased among females and remains low among males aged 13-17. The reasons for low uptake are unknown and may indicate the existence of critical barriers to HPV vaccination. Th...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Tom A,Robinett H,Buenconsejo-Lum L,Soon R,Hamilton M,Francisco-Natanauan P,Cruz MR,Balajadia R,Hernandez BY

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the role of promotoras--briefly trained community health workers--in depression care at community health centers. The intervention focused on four contextual sources of depression in underserved, low-income communities: underemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, and violence. A multi-method desi...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Waitzkin H,Getrich C,Heying S,Rodríguez L,Parmar A,Willging C,Yager J,Santos R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sample of 13,500 adolescents (53% female and 47% male) who participated in all four waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study used multilevel regression to examine the influence of early structural community adversity (as measured by rates of community poverty, single-parent hea...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Wickrama KA,O'Neal CW,Lott RE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hispanic women have more than a 1.5-fold increased cervical cancer incidence and mortality compared to non-Hispanic white women in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control recommends the HPV vaccine for females at ages 11 and 12 years, though it is approved for females aged 9-26 to protect against the primar...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kepka D,Coronado GD,Rodriguez HP,Thompson B

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use of touch-screen mobile devices renders them potential fomites for the transmission of bacterial pathogens among users of different ages. The objectives of the present research were to isolate bacteria from mobile phones, perform molecular and phylogenetic identification, and determine the antibiotic...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Campista-León S,Garcia-Guerrero JT,Olimón-Andalón V,Peinado-Guevara LI

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data on the effectiveness of strategies for the recruitment of American Indians (AIs) into research is needed. This study describes and compares methods for identifying and recruiting AI tobacco users into a pilot study. Community-based strategies were used to recruit smokers (n = 35), e-cigarette users (n = 28), and ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Carroll DM,Brame LS,Stephens LD,Wagener TL,Campbell JE,Beebe LA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urban food swamps are typically situated in low-income, minority communities and contribute to overweight and obesity. Changing the food landscape in low income and underserved communities is one strategy to combat the negative health consequences associated with the lack of access to healthy food resources and an abu...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Ortega AN,Albert SL,Sharif MZ,Langellier BA,Garcia RE,Glik DC,Brookmeyer R,Chan-Golston AM,Friedlander S,Prelip ML

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the implementation of the Papanicolaou test, there has been a significant decline in the incidence of cervical cancer over the last 50 years. Despite this reduction, each year there are approximately 11,000 women in the United States diagnosed with cervical cancer, the second most common type of cancer in women ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rogers NM,Cantu AG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this Community-based National Epidemiological Household Survey, conducted between 1990-1993, were to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Saudi Arabia and to examine its association with the socio-demographic characteristics of the adult population. A sample of Saudis 20 years and ove...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： al-Nuaim AA,Bamgboye EA,al-Rubeaan KA,al-Mazrou Y

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the injury effects of bike share programs and the helmet usage status in bike share programs. We conducted a systematic review of peer reviewed scientific literature. Searches were conducted in three databases (Pubmed, Scopus, and Web of Science) on March 1 2020 to identify all articles on the injury in...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Chen S,Cui H,Tang M,Wang Y,Zhang M,Bai Y,Song B,Shen Z,Gu D,Yin Z,Liu G

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia disproportionately reside in communities with limited access to healthy foods. Collaborations with local corner stores to provide healthy food options have been identified as an evidence-based intervention that could be used to increase food access. This paper describes the commun...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rollins L,Carey T,Proeller A,Anne Adams M,Hooker M,Lyn R,Taylor O,Holden K,Henry Akintobi T

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout the 1980's, HIV antiretroviral therapy was non-existent or insufficient, and patients admitted to hospitals were frequently terminal. In 1988 we evaluated the HIV related hospitalizations at the Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and found that only 1.3 % of the patients had an advanced directiv...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： de Caprariis PJ,Carballo-Diéguez A,Thompson S,Lyon C

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the cholera outbreak in Haiti demonstrated just how unprepared the country is to rapidly isolate an outbreak of this magnitude, and its vulnerability to the COVID-19 pandemic. This communication briefly examines the health system in Haiti and its vulnerability toward the COVID-19 outbreak. ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Louis-Jean J,Cenat K,Sanon D,Stvil R

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Black women die of breast cancer at a much higher rate than white women. Recent studies have suggested that this racial disparity might be even greater in Chicago than the country as a whole. When data describing this racial disparity are presented they are sometimes attributed in part to racial differences in tumor b...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Whitman S,Ansell D,Orsi J,Francois T

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women of reproductive age are at higher risk for depression than men; and depressive behaviors and endocrine imbalances could lead to adverse birth outcomes. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether maternal depression during pregnancy affected adverse birth outcomes, specifically preterm birth and small f...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Smith KF,Huber LR,Issel LM,Warren-Findlow J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seventy-nine question survey concerning AIDS was administered to 142 students in a high school senior class in Manhasset, Long Island, an affluent New York City suburb with a low incidence of AIDS. The instrument elicited information about knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, behaviors, and risks. Overall knowledge lev...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Imperato AM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of the degree of fit between the special needs of the elderly and the service mix and payment level of ambulatory services offered under the Medicare program is presented in this second part of a two-part study of geriatric office care. Results from interviews with a focus group of 60 practicing clinicians, i...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Fahs MC,Muller C,Schechter M

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the degree to which local health departments (LHDs) are preparing to replace retiring top executives. Questionnaires were sent to all 134 local health departments in Ohio. It is typical of many states in terms of the organization of LHDs. Ninety-two LHD top executives responded. The questionnaire a...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Schmalzried H,Fallon LF Jr

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy and the events surrounding it are generally viewed as feminine issues exclusively for women. In sub-Saharan Africa, believing that pregnancy and the events that follow are guided by nature, a lot of superstition is attributed in the event of complications, which result in poor maternal outcomes. Maternal mor...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Nwakwuo GC,Oshonwoh FE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The advent of the novel H1N1 virus prompted the Houston Department of Health and Human services (HDHHS) to use the existing sentinel surveillance system to effectively monitor the situation of novel H1N1 virus in the Houston metropolitan area. The objective of this study was to evaluate the demographic characteristics...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Khuwaja S,Mgbere O,Awosika-Olumo A,Momin F,Ngo K

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food insecurity (FI) affects more than one in five American children and is increasingly addressed during pediatric primary care. Its relevance during subspecialty care, including in the treatment of chronic conditions like epilepsy, is largely unknown. This study sought to determine the FI prevalence among children w...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： O'Malley JA,Klett BM,Klein MD,Inman N,Beck AF

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite availability of a safe, effective vaccination, uptake and completion rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination remain low in the United States. This is particularly true in the southeast, which also sees some of the highest rates of HPV-associated (HPVa) cancers. We aimed to identify areas in Alabama in ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Vickers M,Green CL,Lee HY,Pierce JY,Daniel CL

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sugary drink consumption is associated with many adverse health outcomes, including weight gain, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. These beverages are widely marketed and ubiquitously available. This analysis explores sugary drink consumption across all age groups among New York City (NYC) residents using repres...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Elfassy T,Adjoian T,Lent M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2003, Seattle implemented an all-ages bicycle helmet law; King County outside of Seattle had implemented a similar law since 1994. For the period 2000-2010, the effect of the helmet legislation on helmet use, helmet-preventable injuries, and bicycle-related fatalities was examined, comparing Seattle to the rest of ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kett P,Rivara F,Gomez A,Kirk AP,Yantsides C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Describe cultural beliefs related to diabetes in Minnesota Somali children with type 1 diabetes (T1D), and compare their diabetes control to that of non-Somali children with diabetes. A cross-sectional study involving Somali children ≤ 19 years with T1D at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital and Ch...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Sunni M,Farah M,Hardie C,Dhunkal AM,Abuzzahab MJ,Kyllo JH,Bellin MD,Nathan B,Moran A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A confederate civilian physician shot and killed a white Union officer who was drilling Negro troops in Norfolk, Virginia. With no question as to guilt, President Abraham Lincoln decided to have a medical expert conduct a professional sanity/insanity examination. Documentation indicates that legal and political factor...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Spiegel AD

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza can spread quickly among children and caregivers in child day care settings. Vaccination is the most effective method to prevent influenza. We determined 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (pH1N1) and seasonal influenza vaccination rates during the 2009-2010 influenza season among child care center employees, ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： de Perio MA,Wiegand DM,Evans SM

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00