Publications by authors named "P W Weinstein"
Background: This study protocol describes a community-based intervention that will seek to reduce added sugar intake in Yup'ik Alaska Native children by targeting reductions in sugar-sweetened fruit drinks.
Methods: A two-group non-randomized design will be used to evaluate the intervention in three Yup'ik communities in Alaska focusing on children age 1 to less than age 12 years with a minimum enrollment target of 192 children. Families in the intervention arm will participate in a program consisting of five sessions plus four brief check-ins, all delivered by a Yup'ik Community Health Worker.
Drivers of human infection in the Pacific Islands: A systematic review.
Epidemiol Infect
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that is increasingly threatening public health, particularly in Pacific Island communities, where local factors influencing infections are not well understood.
- A systematic review of 42 studies revealed that human infections in the Pacific Islands are linked to sociodemographic, lifestyle, and environmental factors, such as male gender, Indigenous ethnicity, heavy rainfall, and interactions with animals.
- Suggested prevention strategies include improving disease reporting, enhancing community water safety and rodent control, public health campaigns, and specific occupational safety measures in regions like New Zealand where work-related exposures are common.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to compare the motor examinations done by the clinical neurosurgery team with the ISNCSCI assessments, since the latter can be time-consuming and impractical during acute spinal cord injuries.
- - Researchers analyzed data from the TRACK-SCI registry, which included 72 pairs of motor examinations from 63 patients, and found strong correlations between the two methods, indicating that neurosurgery motor examinations can effectively substitute for ISNCSCI exams.
- - The results showed a very high agreement between the scores from both types of examinations with low bias, suggesting that clinical neurosurgery evaluations are reliable for assessing neurological function after spinal cord injuries.
Humans have evolved in direct and intimate contact with their environment and the microbes that it contains, over a period of 2 million years. As a result, human physiology has become intrinsically linked to environmental microbiota. Urbanisation has reduced our exposure to harmful pathogens, however there is now increasing evidence that these same health-protective improvements in our environment may also be contributing to a hidden disease burden: immune dysregulation.
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