253 results match your criteria: "1 School of Public Health.[Affiliation]"
Int J Soc Psychiatry
March 2017
2 Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand.
Aim: Three southern provinces of Thailand, Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, have been involved in a long period of unrest due to differences between the population in the provinces and the Thai government with regard to language, culture and governance. The objectives of this article are to examine the effects of everyday stressors due to the conflict, including economic stress and migration, as well as the effect of religiosity on the reporting of psychiatric symptoms among adults in the three provinces.
Methods: Data were drawn from a survey conducted in 2014.
Telemed J E Health
June 2017
5 VHA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington.
Background: Store-and-forward teledermatology (SFT) readers can only diagnose what is imaged. This limitation has caused concern regarding the ability of primary care to direct imaging of lesions suspicious for melanoma. Melanomas not imaged by primary care providers (PCPs) are termed unimaged melanomas.
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June 2017
1 School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China .
Background: Online social groups have been increasingly used for smoking cessation intervention.
Introduction: This study aimed to explore the social support components of the online discussion through WhatsApp and Facebook, how these components addressed the need of relapse prevention, and how the participants evaluated this intervention.
Materials And Methods: We coded and analyzed the posts (N = 467) by the 82 recent quitters in WhatsApp and Facebook social groups, who were recruited from the eight smoking cessation clinics in Hong Kong to participate in a pragmatic randomized trial of relapse prevention.
J Hum Lact
May 2017
4 Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
J Int Med Res
December 2017
1 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Objective To determine if there was herd protection conferred to unprotected healthcare workers (HCWs) by N95 respirators worn by colleagues. Methods Data were analysed from a prospective cluster randomized clinical trial conducted in Beijing, China between 1 December 2008 and 15 January 2009. A minimum compliance level (MCL) of N95 respirators for prevention of clinical respiratory illness (CRI) was set based on various compliance cut-offs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Health Promot
September 2017
2 School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Purpose: Studies on how the interaction of psychological and environmental characteristics influences walking are limited, and the results are inconsistent. Our aim is to examine how the attitude toward walking and neighborhood environments interacts to influence walking.
Design: Cross-sectional phone and mail survey.
J Womens Health (Larchmt)
January 2017
3 VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) may interfere with women's use of preferred forms of contraception, resulting in unwanted pregnancies forcing women to seek permanent sterilization. A history of child sexual abuse (CSA) presages the risk for IPV in adulthood setting the stage for adverse reproductive outcomes.
Objective: To determine whether CSA and IPV are associated with women's voluntary sterilization when adjusting for demographics and reproductive health history.
Ann Am Thorac Soc
September 2016
13 Division of Infectious Diseases, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) cause an increasingly important chronic and debilitating lung disease in older adults. Diagnosis is often delayed, although awareness among clinicians and patients is increasing. When necessary, treatment often lasts 18-24 months and consists of three or four antibiotics that can have serious side effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Prev Cardiol
January 2017
1 School of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Objective The study assessed the association of adiponectin concentration with carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in middle-aged participants of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) without diabetes or cardiovascular disease. Design Cross-sectional analyses. Methods A sample of 687 individuals (35-54 years old) without diabetes or cardiovascular disease was stratified into two categories according to CIMT (< or ≥ 75th percentile).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Food
August 2016
1 School of Public Health, Southeast University, Nanjing, China .
The ancient Chinese wild rice (Zizania latifolia (Griseb) Turcz) (CWR) has valuable biological and medicinal functions. To assess the advantages lost in modern cultivated rice after domestication, we compared the composition of bioactive compounds and the results of proteomic analysis with those of Indica rice (N22). We used routine methods to determine the protein, total dietary fiber, amino acid, mineral substance, plant secondary metabolites, and amino acid composition of CWR and N22.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQual Health Res
February 2017
4 Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Research indicates that there are worryingly low levels of physical activity among South Asians compared with Anglo-Australians with type 2 diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease (CVD). We compared perceptions, barriers, and enablers of physical activity in these groups. We used a qualitative design, conducting in-depth, semistructured iterative interviews in Victoria with 57 South Asian and Anglo-Australian participants with either type 2 diabetes or CVD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlob Health Promot
June 2018
3. Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi, India.
Over the past three decades there has been a surge in the prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide in both adults and children. To date few studies have examined obesity in India and most have only looked at prevalence estimates. While studies in Western countries have identified parent weight status as a predictor of child weight status, there have been no studies examining this association in India.
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May 2016
1 School of Public Health, Shandong Universitiy, Shandong, China.
Hum Exp Toxicol
April 2017
1 School of Public Health, Xinxiang Medical College, Xinxiang, Henan, People's Republic of China.
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are the new class of transcripts and pervasively transcribed in the genome, which have been found to play important functional roles in many tissues and organs. LncRNAs can interact with target gene to exert their functions. However, the function and mechanism of lncRNA in cleft palate (CP) development remain elusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Med Sci
April 2017
1. School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China; 2. Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China.
Background: Longitudinal associations between triglycerides (TG) and other metabolic syndrome (MetS) components have rarely been reported. The purpose was to investigate the longitudinal association between TG and other MetS components with time.
Methods: The longitudinal study was established in 2007 on individuals who attended health check-ups at Beijing Tongren Hospital and Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital.
Glob Health Promot
December 2017
2 School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Aims: This study was conducted to investigate the electronic waste workers' knowledge about the potential health hazards associated with their work as well as the livelihood alternatives that they would prefer if they were given the opportunity.
Methods: A qualitative cross-sectional study was conducted to gather empirical information on e-waste workers' knowledge about the potential hazards associated with their work and the livelihood alternatives to e-waste recycling with a sample consisting of twenty all-male electronic waste workers at the Agbogbloshie scrap metal yard in Accra, Ghana.
Results: Electronic waste workers at Agbogbloshie were found to be exposed to a variety of injuries and illnesses.
Reprod Sci
January 2017
1 School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Male infertility is a complicated disease with causes generally split into 2 broad categories: genetic factors and environmental factors. The present study was designed to investigate the association between the methylation patterns of H19 and SNRPN imprinting control region (ICR) and male infertility and to assess the gene-environment interactions between environmental factors and methylation patterns. A total of 205 DNA samples from 48 oligozoospermia (OZ), 52 asthenozoospermia (AZ), 55 teratozoospermia (TZ) patients, and 50 normozoospermia (NZ) men were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVector Borne Zoonotic Dis
June 2016
1 School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China .
We collected 2460 Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks from vegetation in Jiaonan County, Shandong Province, in June of 2013 and Daishan County, Zhejiang Province, China, in May of 2015. The tick DNA was subsequently amplified with nested polymerase chain reaction using Ehrlichia common 16S rRNA gene primers and Ehrlichia ewingii species-specific groEL and gltA primers. We found 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Public Health
June 2016
1 School of Public Health, Research Center Health Policy and Systems - International Health, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussel, Belgium 2 School of Public Health, Research Center Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Clinical Research, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium 3 Centre d'Epidémiologie Périnatale (CEpiP), Brussels, Belgium.
Background: Implementation of newborn hearing screening programmes is widely recommended and programme organisational designs may differ in practice. The objective of this article was to establish an overview of the newborn hearing screening programmes in the 28 countries of the European Union on four topics (policy-decision, financing, general designs, organisational features).
Methods: National or regional programme coordinators completed an online self-administered questionnaire focusing on protocol description and programme organisation.
Vasa
January 2016
1 School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China.
Background: To develop models for prevalence estimation of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and to validate them in an external cohort.
Methods: Model training cohort was a population based cross-sectional survey. Age, sex, smoking status, body mass index, total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein (HDL), TC/HDL ratio, low density lipoprotein, fasting glucose, diabetes, hypertension, pulse pressure, and stroke history were considered candidate predicting variables.
Ann Occup Hyg
June 2016
1.School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;
Background: Masks are often worn in healthcare settings to prevent the spread of infection from healthcare workers (HCWs) to patients. Masks are also used to protect the employee from patient-generated infectious organisms but poor compliance can reduce efficacy. The aim of this study was to examine the factors influencing compliance with the use of medical and cloth masks amongst hospital HCWs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFToxicol Ind Health
April 2017
4 Department of Defence, Technical Support Working Group, Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, US Government, Virginia, USA.
Accidental or intentional releases of toxic gases can have significant public health consequences and emergency resource demands. Management of exposed individuals during hazardous material incidents should be risk and evidence based, but there are knowledge gaps in relation to dermal absorption of gases and management advice for potentially exposed individuals. Using a modified Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in vitro toxicology protocol with human donor skin, this article reports on two common and odorous chemicals, hydrogen sulphide and phosphine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCan J Nurs Res
March 2016
4 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia.
Background In Canada, incidents of new hepatitis C virus infections are rising among women aged 15-29 years and now comprise 60% of new infections among this age group. A negative diagnosis experience continues to be a problem affecting women living with hepatitis C virus. With new effective treatments, nurses will have more involvement in hepatitis C virus care and diagnosis, which is a critical time to facilitate appropriate education and management.
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June 2016
1.School of Public Health, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia;
Background: Respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is a biologically active dust that can accumulate in the lung and induce silicosis and lung cancer. Despite occupational exposure being the predominant source, no study has described current occupational RCS exposure on a national scale in Australia. The aim of this study is to estimate the characteristics of those exposed and the circumstances of RCS exposure in Australian workplaces.
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