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：:The increasing number cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) infections in the general population in Indonesia raises questions concerning the public's knowledge and attitudes regarding this pandemic. To determine the correlation between the general public's knowledge and attitudes regarding the COVID-19 outbreak 1 m...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Sari DK,Amelia R,Dharmajaya R,Sari LM,Fitri NK

更新日期：2021-02-01 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：:Preventing the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (causative agent for COVID-19) requires implementing contact and respiratory precautions. Modifying human behavior is challenging and requires understanding knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) regarding health threats. This study explored KAPs among people in Ecuador. A...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Bates BR,Moncayo AL,Costales JA,Herrera-Cespedes CA,Grijalva MJ

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal influenza continues to impose a substantial healthcare and economic burden in the United States each year. This study assessed influenza vaccination rates among the uninsured population, determined the need for free flu vaccines, and analyzed associations of vaccination status with access, beliefs, and sociod...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Chen G,Kazmi M,Chen D,Phillips J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an infectious disease that is specific to the liver, causing both acute and chronic hepatitis. This study determined the trend of HBV infection among blood donors in the Kpandai District Hospital from January 2014 to December 2018. Retrospective analysis of donor profiles for a per...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Bawah AT,Kinanyok S,Abaka-Yawson A,Mwintumah B,Ngambire LT,Darko R,Hamid AM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care-delays can further exacerbate racial and ethnic health disparities in novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related complications. The purpose of our study was to describe and evaluate a Patient Engagement Messaging campaign (PEM campaign) promoting health care seeking behaviors among community and rural clin...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Mayfield CA,Sparling A,Hardeman G,de Hernandez BU,Pasupuleti N,Carr J,Coltman K,Neuwirth Z

更新日期：2020-10-30 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：:To identify significant predictors of the adoption of more than one tick-exposure and tick-borne disease risk reduction behavior among a cross-section of Indiana residents. Study participants were recruited through quota sampling, before completing an online self-administered questionnaire in Qualtrics. The most adopt...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Omodior O,Luetke M,Kianersi S,Colón A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health Service Package is the package of services that the government is providing or is aspiring to provide to its citizens in an equitable manner. The Ethiopia Family Health Service Package is part of the health extension program consisting of antenatal care, delivery service, postnatal care, immunization, and famil...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Kide F,Baraki N,Oljira L,Gebreyesus A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent increases in childhood obesity rate among the Hispanics living in the US is a major public health concern. To date, interventions seeking to reduce childhood obesity often target the youth or the parents; however, few engage both groups within the intervention. This systematic review explores current studie...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Tamayo MC,Dobbs PD,Pincu Y

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Community health fair has been used informally as a way of offering health promotion, education, and screening services onsite to underserved and hard to reach populations such as the newcomers. To utilize an annual health fair for the assessment of the overall perception of health status of newcomers in relation to t...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Salman K,Turek JM,Donovan C

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Exceptional precautionary measures have been adopted to stop the transmission and control of COVID-19 through the world and Pakistan is facing lockdown in this scenario. Public loyalty to precautionary measures is affected by their knowledge, attitude, risk factors and practices (KAP) towards COVID-19. The present stu...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Afzal MS,Khan A,Qureshi UUR,Saleem S,Saqib MAN,Shabbir RMK,Naveed M,Jabbar M,Zahoor S,Ahmed H

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess perceptions of risk and related factors concerning COVID-19 epidemic among residents in Chongqing city, China. METHODS:With convenience sampling, a web questionnaire survey was conducted among 476 residents living in Chongqing on February 13rd to 14th in 2020, when citizens just started to get back...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： He S,Chen S,Kong L,Liu W

更新日期：2020-06-26 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：:Disparities in outcomes for vulnerable women is an ongoing problem. Homelessness and breast cancer treatment outcomes is understudied. This is a descriptive study exploring types of homelessness and treatment delays at an urban safety net hospital providing care to a vulnerable patient population.This study is a retro...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Festa K,Hirsch AE,Cassidy MR,Oshry L,Quinn K,Sullivan MM,Ko NY

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the sexually transmitted infections (STIs), cervical cancer, and human papillomavirus virus (HPV) vaccine-related awareness and knowledge among married Bhutanese refugee and Nepali women living in eastern Nepal. Participants were recruited from a women's health camp in Jhapa District in eastern Nep...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Bhatta MP,Johnson DC,Lama M,Maharjan B,Lhaki P,Shrestha S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus vaccination (HPV) remains low in the United States. The inpatient postpartum setting provides an innovative opportunity to vaccinate eligible patients. This study evaluated two different interventions to improve HPV vaccination rates in hospitalized postpartum patients: a nurse based protocol and ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Park SK,Holschneider CH,Chen J,Saleeby E,Singhal R

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C (HCV) care cascades have been described in diverse clinical settings, patient populations and countries, highlighting the steps in HCV care where improvements can be made and resources allocated. However, more research is needed to examine barriers to HCV treatment in rural, underserved populations and in ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Hachey DM,Holmes JT,Aubuchon-Endsley NL

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital toxoplasmosis (CT) is a zoonosis resulting from the fetal transmission of the obligate intracellular parasite, T. gondii, transplacentally in pregnant women usually in the first trimester of pregnancy. This research consisted in the review of indexed articles made in the Ecuador in the period between the ye...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Velásquez Serra GC,Piloso Urgiles LI,Guerrero Cabredo BP,Chico Caballero MJ,Zambrano Zambrano SL,Yaguar Gutierrez EM,Barrera Reyes CG

更新日期：2020-02-01 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：:Falls prevention research and practice has focused primarily on older adults, yet healthy and productive aging does not begin at age 65. To help fill this gap in knowledge, the purpose of this study was to explore the falls experiences and prevention program preferences of adults in mid-life who had experienced falls ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Chippendale T,Bhojwani S,Conley M,Dela Cruz F,DiPietro L,Kasser D,Kent R,Lam J,Scrivanich A,Takamatsu A

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-study of 83 articles published from 1981 to 2016 was conducted on Hispanics access to health care in the US. Few of these studies have included acculturation and even fewer the role of social capital as important factors that impact healthcare access for this population. Among those that do include these two fa...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Rodriguez-Alcalá ME,Qin H,Jeanetta S

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health disparities have long affected American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. Transformations are needed in academia to help understand Indigenous 'ways of knowing.' Lifting the voices of AI/ANs in telling their stories could improve the education of students, faculty and the lay public. We collaborated...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Carney PA,Taylor C,Frutos R,Spector D,Brodt E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed neighborhood-level association between jail incarceration and premature mortality and estimated the number of potentially avertable premature deaths associated with jail incarceration in NYC. The study outcome was premature mortality rate and the main predictor of interest was jail incarceration ra...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Reilly KH,Johns E,Noyan N,Schretzman M,Tsao TY

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagas disease (CHD) has become a challenge in Spain due to the high prevalence of immigrants coming from endemic areas. One of the main difficulties for its control and elimination is its underdiagnosis. The identification and integral treatment of CHD are key to increasing rates of diagnosis, overcoming psycho-socia...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Gómez I Prat J,Peremiquel-Trillas P,Claveria Guiu I,Choque E,Oliveira Souto I,Serre Delcor N,Sulleiro E,Espasa M,Pastoret C,de Los Santos JJ,Ouaarab H,Albajar Viñas P,Ascaso Terren C

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between two food-related hardships-food insecurity and living in a food desert-on waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). Data on participants from waves I and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) were analyzed. The associati...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Testa A,Jackson DB

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HPV-related cancers can be prevented through HPV vaccination, however uptake and completion of the vaccination in the state of Georgia remains suboptimal. The research team conducted two online focus groups with members of the Georgia Cancer Control Consortium HPV Work Group in efforts to better understand the role th...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： King AR,Moon T,Agnew G,Bednarczyk RA

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：: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：:Although it was presumed that moderate exercise is a healthy practice but long term high intensity exercise is not, studies observed a life expectancy benefit for both high-intensity endurance and fast power sports athlets, but the data for contact sports are conflicting. Therefore, the author aimed to investigate the...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Keller K

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine Hepatitis A (HAV) and Hepatitis B (HBV) screening, and the risk of HBV reactivation during Hepatitis C (HCV) therapy with direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). A retrospective chart review was performed of patients treated with second generation DAA therapy from January 2014 to Se...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Davison J,O'Shea A,Waterbury N,Villalvazo Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine levels of food security among American Indians (AI) living in the Midwest and possible correlations between food security levels and various health outcomes, diet, and demographic variables. This study used a cross-sectional design to determine health behaviors among AI. Part...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Berryhill K,Hale J,Chase B,Clark L,He J,Daley CM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 58 million nonsmokers in the U.S. encounter secondhand smoke that leads to tobacco-related diseases and deaths every year, making voluntary household smoking bans an important public health goal. American Indians/Alaska Natives are rarely included in research related to household smoking bans. Further, most ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Comiford A,Garroutte E,Barbosa-Leiker C,Chen S,McDonell M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this article unfortunately contains mistakes. 1. On page 315, in the last sentence under the "Tobacco Use" subheading, the percentage should read "59.3%" rather than "55.6%". 2. On page 315, in the last sentence under the "Secondhand Smoke Exposure" subheading, the percentage "28.2%" should rea...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Petersen AB,Stewart HC,Walters J,Vijayaraghavan M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virtually all large employers engage in corporate philanthropy, but little is known about the extent to which it is directed toward improving community health. We conducted in-depth interviews with leaders of corporate philanthropy from 13 of the largest manufacturing companies in the US to understand how giving decis...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： McHugh M,Farley D,Maechling CR,Dunlop DD,French DD,Holl JL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determined prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization among female clients at three hair salons in Connecticut using an anonymous tablet based screening tool. While many may assume that women receive services at hair salons, victims of IPV are often isolated by their partners and unable to ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Beebe RF,DiVietro SC,Dunn M,Bentivegna K,Clough ME,Lapidus GD,Joseph DK

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women residing in Eastern Africa are disproportionately affected by cervical cancer. Previous studies have identified risky sexual behavior as a major risk factor for cervical cancer. However, population-based studies examining the relationship between sexual behavior and cervical cancer screening are currently lackin...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Haile ZT,Kingori C,Chavan B,Francescon J,Teweldeberhan AK

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unmet social needs contribute significantly to health outcomes, yet they are not routinely assessed in health care settings. Identifying modifiable social needs and feasible tools to assess them may improve health and decrease costs. We conducted 18 focus groups with 115 participants, stratified by age (18-35, 36-64, ...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Careyva BA,Hamadani R,Friel T,Coyne CA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of Greenland is diminishing and environmental and social shifts implicate food availability and the health of reproductive age women. There is little knowledge of the grocery store food environment in Greenland. To address this gap and provide baseline information the present study measured food availab...

journal_title：Journal of community health

authors： Watson ZA,Shanks CB,Miles MP,Rink E

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00