Pilot of a Community Health Worker Video Intervention for Immigrant Day Laborers at Occupational Health Risk.

Immigrant day laborers suffer from disproportionate occupational health risks from hazardous reconstruction jobs after natural disasters. We conducted a randomized controlled trial of a short-video educational intervention to improve safety knowledge and intent to engage in safety preventive behaviors among 98 Hispanic day laborers (49 randomized to video and 49 control). The short video featured a male and a female who narrated 3 stories of day laborers who were injured while doing construction work in post-Katrina New Orleans.

Spatial fine-mapping for gene-by-environment effects identifies risk hot spots for schizophrenia.

Spatial mapping is a promising strategy to investigate the mechanisms underlying the incidence of psychosis. We analyzed a case-cohort study (n = 24,028), drawn from the 1.47 million Danish persons born between 1981 and 2005, using a novel framework for decomposing the geospatial risk for schizophrenia based on locale of upbringing and polygenic scores.

Latino immigrant day laborer perceptions of occupational safety and health information preferences.

Background: We address immigrant day laborers' experiences with occupational safety in the construction industry in New Orleans, and opinions about content and method of communication for educational interventions to reduce occupational risks.

Methods: In 2011, we conducted seven focus groups with 48 Spanish-speaking day laborers (8 women, 40 men, 35 years on average). Focus group results are based on thematic analysis.

Prioritizing environmental health risks in the UAE.

This article presents the results of a comparative environmental risk-ranking exercise that was conducted in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to inform a strategic planning process led by the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD). It represents the first national-level application of a deliberative method for comparative risk ranking first published in this journal. The deliberative method involves a five-stage process that includes quantitative risk assessment by experts and deliberations by groups of stakeholders.

Urologic diseases in America Project: analytical methods and principal findings.

Purpose: The burden of urological diseases on the American public is immense in human and financial terms but it has been under studied. We undertook a project, Urologic Diseases in America, to quantify the burden of urological diseases on the American public.

Materials And Methods: We identified public and private data sources that contain population based data on resource utilization by patients with benign and malignant urological conditions.