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Increasing capacity for ethnically-based community leaders to engage in policy change: assessing the impact of a train-the-trainer approach.
BMC Public Health
March 2025
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing disparities in healthcare access and outcomes, particularly among underserved communities. As one site participating in the NIH-funded Community Engagement Alliance Against COVID-19, our focus was to address COVID-19 disparities by training immigrant and refugee communities to advocate for their needs by increasing capacity to campaign for policy-level changes.
Objective: To evaluate the impact of a train-the-trainer policy advocacy program for ethnically-based community leaders within San Diego County using a mixed-methods evaluation.
Background: There has been a large number of immigration to Turkey after 2011, and in the past 13 years, a mixed population has been formed with both the transition to Turkish citizenship and high fertility rates. Along with numerous human migrations, gene trait transfer also occurs. This study aimed to investigate the effects of migration on blood group changes in Turkey by determining the blood group distribution of Turkish citizens living in Turkey, the blood group distribution of foreign nationals coming to Turkey, and the blood group distribution of 0-year-old babies born in the last four years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Rare Case of Adolescent Epiglottitis Secondary to Streptococcus dysgalactiae Septicemia.
Cureus
February 2025
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, USA.
()is a relatively uncommon pathogen in the pediatric populations, often overshadowed by ()in causing diseases such as cellulitis, severe seep tissue necrotizing infections, and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. This case report presents the case of a 15-year-old recent immigrant male patient from Egypt who developed an extensive neck infection with complications from septicemia. Initially misdiagnosed as viral pharyngitis, the patient was later admitted with high fevers, dysphagia, and progressive respiratory distress.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFactors associated with patient and health care system delay among migrant and local tuberculosis patients in Istanbul: a cross-sectional study.
BMC Health Serv Res
March 2025
Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Türkiye.
Background: Effective tuberculosis (TB) management requires timely diagnosis and immediate treatment initiation. The urgency for diagnosing and treating TB is particularly acute among immigrants, who face heightened health risks due to factors such as poverty, hazardous working conditions, and limited healthcare access. The objective of this study was to examine the characteristics of patient and health care delays among migrant and local TB patients in Istanbul and to identify factors associated with delays in the diagnosis and treatment of TB in both migrant and local patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study aimed to determine the views of Syrian immigrant women on family planning and unplanned pregnancies.
Methods: The study was conducted using a phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research methods. The study data were collected using a semi-structured questionnaire, and an "inductive content analysis technique" was used to analyze the data.
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