Publications by authors named "G D Sclar"
Article Synopsis
- People with structural vulnerabilities, like immigrants and those without housing or insurance, face significant barriers to COVID-19 testing, leading to disparities in testing compared to other populations.
- The study included interviews with 34 vulnerable individuals and 27 service providers, using a hybrid model to analyze reported barriers, including economic and legal issues that complicate access to testing.
- The findings highlight the need for public health strategies that address these structural barriers to improve access to testing and ensure equitable healthcare during future health crises.
Background: Poor child feces management contributes to enteropathogen exposure and, consequently, is associated with diarrheal disease and negative impacts on child growth. Despite high latrine coverage, only 37% of Indian households safely dispose of their child's feces into a latrine or have the child use the latrine, with the lowest rate in the state of Odisha at 12%. We evaluated a behavior change and hardware intervention designed to improve caregiver safe disposal of child feces and child latrine use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected people from structurally vulnerable communities. There was a need to improve COVID-19 testing in these communities to reduce viral spread and connect to treatment.
Objective: We created a partnership between an academic medical center and three community-based organizations (CBOs) to offer low-barrier COVID-19 walk-up testing clinics in Portland, Maine.
Child feces are an important source of fecal exposure in household environments. Typically, one of two behaviors is necessary to mitigate this risk: either caregivers dispose of their children's feces into a latrine or children learn how to use a latrine. Although past studies have examined factors associated with these two behaviors collectively (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Uptake of Government-promoted sanitation remains a challenge in India. We aimed to investigate a low-cost, theory-driven, behavioural intervention designed to increase latrine use and safe disposal of child faeces in India.
Methods: We did a cluster-randomised controlled trial between Jan 30, 2018, and Feb 18, 2019, in 66 rural villages in Puri, Odisha, India.