Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Enrollment and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Nulliparous Individuals.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between changes in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) enrollment during pregnancy from 2016 to 2019 and rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes in U.S. counties in 2019.

Where are they and how do they perform? Measuring long-term career outcomes of public health doctoral recipients.

Background: Doctoral recipients of public health play pivotal roles in the support and leadership of the public health industry and academic research. We conducted this study to assess and track the long-term career outcomes of public health PhDs (PHPhD).

Methods: We linked data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to the Survey of Earned Doctorates and tracked the long-term career outcomes and job placements of PHPhD from 2001 to 2017.

Food insecurity, fruit and vegetable consumption, and use of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Appalachian Ohio.

Food insecurity and inadequate nutrition are two major challenges that contribute to poor health conditions among U.S. households.

Transportation Factors and Postoperative Attendance and Weight Loss Through 24 Months.

Purpose: Transportation, access to follow-up care, and association with weight loss are understudied in the bariatric population. The objective of this study was to determine how transportation variables associate with postoperative attendance and weight loss through 24 months.

Materials And Methods: Seven hundred eighty-seven patients (81.

Proximity to High/Moderate vs Low Diversity Selection Food Stores and Patient Weight loss through 24 Months.

Purpose: Explorations into the neighborhood food environment have not adequately extended to adults with obesity who undergo bariatric surgery. The objective of this study is to determine how diversity of food selection at food retail stores within proximities of 5- and 10-min walks associate with patient postoperative weight loss over 24 months.

Materials And Methods: Eight hundred eleven patients (82.

The BARI-hoods Project: neighborhood social determinants of health and postoperative weight loss using integrated electronic health record, census, and county data.

Background: While social determinants of health (SDoH) have gained attention for their role in weight loss following bariatric surgery, electronic health record (EHR) data provide limited information beyond demographics associated with disparities in weight loss.

Objective: To integrate EHR, census, and county data to explore disparities in SDoH and weight loss among patients in the largest populous county of Ohio.

Setting: Seven hundred seventy-two patients (82.

A State Health Department and Health Information Exchange Partnership: An Effective Collaboration for a Data-Driven Response for COVID-19 Contact Tracing in Maryland.

Background: Accurate, complete, timely data were essential to effective contact tracing for COVID-19. Maryland Department of Health partnered with Maryland's designated health information exchange, Chesapeake Regional Information System for Our Patients (CRISP), to establish data enhancement processes that provided the foundation for Maryland's successful contact tracing program.

Methods: Hourly, electronic positive COVID-19 test results were routed through CRISP to the contact tracing data platform.

Patient Access, Utilization, and Perceptions of Neighborhood and Built Environment Resources.

Purpose: There is a critical need to explore bariatric patients' perceptions of existing neighborhood and built environment resources and supports to assist with postoperative behavior change and weight loss maintenance. The objective of this study was to survey postoperative patients to determine neighborhood food retail, fitness facility, and options for outdoor activity access, utilization, satisfaction, and perceptions of resources.

Materials And Methods: A convenience sample of postoperative patients from a single academic surgical center in the USA (N = 44) completed an online survey about access, utilization, satisfaction, and safety for food retail, fitness facility, and outdoor activity options in their neighborhoods.

Examination of the relationship of diet quality with cardiometabolic risk factors in apparently healthy college students.

Background: Preliminary evidence indicates that subclinical cardiometabolic abnormalities are present in apparently healthy nonobese young adults. Poor dietary habits may be a contributing factor.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the presence of cardiometabolic abnormalities in apparently healthy college students and to assess the relationship between diet quality and cardiometabolic risk factors.

Data providing detailed county level information for eWIC rollout in Ohio.

By October 2020, states across the nation must deliver benefits for the WIC program via electronic benefits transfer, also referred to as eWIC. The state of Ohio made the transition from 2014 to 2015 and staggered implementation across counties. In this article, we present county-level data on the specific dates Ohio counties changed to eWIC.

The trade-offs of teamwork among STEM doctoral graduates.

Teamwork has increasingly become prevalent in professional fields such as academic science, perhaps partly because research shows that teams tend to produce superior work. Although research on teamwork has typically focused on its impact on work products, we complement that work by examining the degree to which teamwork influences salary, hours worked, and overall job satisfaction. Drawing on microdata collected through the National Science Foundation's Survey of Doctorate Recipients as well as the Survey of Earned Doctorates, we find that doctoral degree holders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields tend to earn substantially higher salaries and work more hours when they engage in teamwork.

Milk Vending Does Not Improve College Students' Milk and Calcium Intakes.

In the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, overall diet quality decreases, including a reduction in both dairy and calcium consumption. The objective of this pilot study was to determine the impact of milk vending on milk and calcium intakes in college students. Participants were 124 college students living in dorms at a large public university (Fall 2012).

Antecedents and near-term consequences for interdisciplinary dissertators.

Given the complexity of questions studied by academicians, institutions are increasingly encouraging interdisciplinary research to tackle these problems; however, neither the individual-level pathways leading to the pursuit of interdisciplinary research nor the resulting market outcomes have been closely examined. In this study, we focus attention on the individuals who complete interdisciplinary dissertations to ask "who are they and how do they fare after earning the PhD?" Since interdisciplinary research is known to be relatively risky among academics, we examine demographic variables that are known to be associated in other contexts with risk-taking before considering whether interdisciplinarians' outcomes are different upon graduating. First among our three main findings, students whose fathers earned a college degree demonstrated a 1.

Healthy Concessions: High School Students' Responses to Healthy Concession Stand Changes.

Background: A previous sales data analysis demonstrated success in selling healthier items at a concession stand. Questions remained regarding student satisfaction and whether the intervention reached non-health-conscious students.

Methods: Cross-sectional anonymous samples of students at a large midwestern high school were surveyed before and after an intervention improved the number of healthier items available at the concession stand.

Marketing Vegetables in Elementary School Cafeterias to Increase Uptake.

Objectives: Children do not eat enough servings of vegetables, underscoring the need for effective interventions encouraging this behavior. The purpose of this research was to measure the impact that daily exposure to branded vegetable characters has on vegetable selection among boys and girls in elementary schools.

Methods: In a large urban school district, 10 elementary schools agreed to participate in the study.

Slim by Design: Kitchen Counter Correlates of Obesity.

Background The home is one place where people can control what foods are available and how the environment is arranged. Given the impact of environments on health, the objective of this study is to determine whether the presence of foods on a person's kitchen counter are associated with their body mass index (BMI). Method In Study 1, a nationwide sample of 500 households was asked to inventory their kitchen and provide their height and weight.

A plant to plate pilot: a cold-climate high school garden increased vegetable selection but also waste.

Aim: Can high school gardens in cold climates influence vegetable intake in the absence of nutrition education?

Methods: This study followed a before/after design where student tray-waste data were collected using the quarter-waste method. The study took place March-April 2012 in a high school in upstate New York. The subjects were 370 enrolled high school students that purchased lunch from the school cafeteria.

New Year's res-illusions: food shopping in the new year competes with healthy intentions.

Objective: How do the holidays--and the possible New Year's resolutions that follow--influence a household's purchase patterns of healthier foods versus less healthy foods? This has important implications for both holiday food shopping and post-holiday shopping.

Methods: 207 households were recruited to participate in a randomized-controlled trial conducted at two regional-grocery chain locations in upstate New York. Item-level transaction records were tracked over a seven-month period (July 2010 to March 2011).

Chefs move to schools. A pilot examination of how chef-created dishes can increase school lunch participation and fruit and vegetable intake.

To demonstrate the feasibility of introducing a main dish designed by a professional chef in the National School Lunch Program and to document the impact on child participation, a chef was recruited to design pizza to be served in an upstate New York school district. The pizza was designed to meet both the cost and ingredient requirements of the NSLP. High school students were significantly more likely to select the pizza prepared by the chef.

Chocolate milk consequences: a pilot study evaluating the consequences of banning chocolate milk in school cafeterias.

Objectives: Currently, 68.3% of the milk available in schools is flavored, with chocolate being the most popular (61.6% of all milk).

Concession stand makeovers: a pilot study of offering healthy foods at high school concession stands.

Background: Concession stands at high school events are exempt from the US Department of Agriculture regulations for school foods. Concessions are generally stocked with unhealthy foods since healthy foods are believed to have lower sales and profit margins.

Methods: Concession stand sales for two seasons of high school fall sports in Muscatine, Iowa were compared.

Calorie reductions and within-meal calorie compensation in children's meal combos.

Objective: What happens if a fast-food restaurant chain lowers the calories in a children's meal bundle (CMB), mainly by reducing the portion size of French fries? This study examines how such changes may influence within-meal selections. Specifically, do lower-calorie changes lead to within-meal calorie compensation?

Methods: Item-level anonymous transaction data were collected for thirty chain-owned representative U.S.