Publications by authors named "J Eberth"

Article Synopsis
  • Identifying high-risk areas for infectious diseases is crucial for effective public health responses, and this paper introduces a new prediction metric using a Bayesian spatio-temporal model.
  • The metric enhances current techniques by combining three key factors: the risk profile of an area, the trend of risk over time, and the influence of neighboring regions, all weighted appropriately for better accuracy.
  • Through simulations, the study confirms that local risk and neighborhood effects significantly enhance sensitivity, while trend analysis improves the specificity and overall predictive accuracy of risk assessments, evidenced by its application to COVID-19 data in South Carolina.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable strategic plan for provider engagement and outreach addresses barriers to the uptake of lung cancer screening, including lack of provider awareness and guideline knowledge about screening, concerns about potential harms from false-positive examinations, lack of time to implement workflows within busy primary care practices, insufficient infrastructure and administrative support to manage a screening program and patient follow-up, and implicit bias based on sex, race/ethnicity, social class, and smoking status. Strategies to facilitate screening include educational programming, clinical reminder systems within the electronic medical record, decision support aids, and tools to track nodules that can be implemented across a diversity of practices and health care organizational structures. PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: The American Cancer Society National Lung Cancer Roundtable strategic plan to reduce deaths from lung cancer includes strategies designed to support health care professionals, to better understand lung cancer screening, and to support adults who are eligible for lung cancer screening by providing counseling, referral, and follow-up.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Fine particulate matter 2.5 (PM) is a widely studied pollutant with substantial health impacts, yet little is known about the urban-rural differences across the United States. Trends of PM in urban and rural census tracts between 2010 and 2019 were assessed alongside sociodemographic characteristics including race/ethnicity, poverty, and age.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Although lung cancer screening (LCS) reduces lung cancer mortality among high-risk individuals, uptake overall remains low. With all cancer screening modalities, a period of diffusion among medical providers and the public is expected, with screening uptake exhibiting a distribution among early vs. late adoption.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF