23 results match your criteria: "From the *Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health[Affiliation]"

Proceedings From a National Summit on Workplace Mental Health and Well-being: A Focus on the Graduate Academic Environment.

J Occup Environ Med

December 2024

From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., R.Z.G., M.F.D., E.J.M.); Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., R.Z.G., Y.Z., K.B.K.); Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center in Mental Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., R.Z.G., M.F.D., Y.Z., K.B.K.); Gallup, Washington, DC (J.H.); Johns Hopkins School of Education, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.O.M.); The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (J.M.T.); University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (L.H.); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (K.J.S.); and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, Ohio (J.V.).

Objective: The aim of the study is to spotlight the challenges, gaps, and opportunities to improve workforce mental health and well-being in higher education institutions.

Methods: We convened a full-day summit of subject matter experts from academia, business, government, and practice to share research and best practices on workplace mental health.

Results: Highlights from the summit are presented in this paper covering the importance of leadership and culture; the mental health costs associated with being a Black STEM scholar; the role of the environment; case studies of three university mental health and well-being programs; and the future of work.

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The Psychosocial, Organizational, and Environmental Stressors Experienced by Food Service Workers in a Hospital Setting During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

J Occup Environ Med

July 2024

From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (K.B.K., Y.Z., E.C.R., M.F.D., R.S., R.Z.G.); Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (K.B.K., Y.Z., E.C.R., R.Z.G.); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (M.F.D.); Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center in Mental Health, Baltimore, Maryland (K.B.K., Y.Z., E.C.R., M.F.D., R.S., R.Z.G.); Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Employee Health and Well-being, Baltimore, Maryland (R.S.); and Food and Culinary Services, Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, Maryland (A.M.).

To identify stressors faced by hospital food service workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic and effective interventions mitigating these stressors. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we conducted surveys ( n = 305) and interviews ( n = 9) in the summer and fall of 2022 with employees in hospital settings to determine the psychosocial, organizational, and environmental stressors they faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and interventions that improved health and well-being. Findings: The main stressors reported were fear of infection, increased work demands and schedule unpredictability, and financial insecurity.

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Scoping Review of Workplace Mental Health and Well-being Programs in Higher Education Institutions.

J Occup Environ Med

June 2024

From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (S.F.C., M.F.D.); Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., K.B.K., Y.Z., R.Z.G.); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (M.F.D.); and Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health® Center in Mental Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., K.B.K., Y.Z., M.F.D., R.Z.G.).

Objective: The study aimed to conduct a scoping review of stressors in higher education institutions (HEIs), exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and to identify successful interventions.

Methods: We reviewed 79 studies published between January 2020 and January 2023.

Results: Stressors were organized into psychosocial, organizational, and environmental categories.

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Addressing Psychosocial, Organizational, and Environmental Stressors Emerging From the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Effect on Essential Workers' Mental Health and Well-being: A Literature Review.

J Occup Environ Med

May 2023

From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.H.W., Y.Z., M.F.D.); Institute for Health and Productivity Studies, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.C.R., K.B.K., R.Z.G.); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (M.F.D.); Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health Center in Mental Health, Baltimore, Maryland (E.H.W., Y.Z., E.C.R., K.B.K., M.F.D., R.Z.G.).

Objective: This study aimed to identify stressors faced by essential workers amid the coronavirus disease pandemic and effective interventions mitigating these stressors.

Methods: We reviewed literature on psychosocial, organizational, and environmental stressors faced by essential workers during the pandemic, the consequences of those stressors, and interventions to improve worker health and well-being.

Findings: Stressors included elevated risk of coronavirus disease 2019 exposure, fear of spreading the virus, lack of social and organizational supports, and financial insecurity.

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Objectives: Current childhood injury prevention guidance is anchored by a child's age. For example, children are considered at high risk for falls at ages 4 years and less, and guidance for prevention focuses on these ages. However, these guidelines may not be adequate for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

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Background: Effectiveness of sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV mobile van outreach programs has been shown to assist in identifying new cases of syphilis and HIV among high-risk populations. However, specific types of mobile outreach testing and their varying abilities to assist in STD/HIV case identification have not been thoroughly explored.

Methods: We analyzed data from the Baltimore City Health Department syphilis and HIV testing intake interviews and subsequent laboratory results for clients at any of the 6 different Baltimore City Health Department mobile outreach testing setting types between 2015 and 2018.

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Prenatal Care for Undocumented Immigrants: Professional Norms, Ethical Tensions, and Practical Workarounds.

J Law Med Ethics

September 2019

Rachel E. Fabi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. She received her B.A. from Yale University in New Haven, CT, and her Ph.D. in health policy and management with a concentration in bioethics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Fabi works at the intersection of bioethics and public health policy, and her research focuses on access to health care for non-citizens. Holly A. Taylor, Ph.D., M.P.H., was Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM), Bloomberg School of Public Health and Core Faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD when this work was completed. Dr. Taylor received her B.A. from Stanford University, her M.P.H. from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and her Ph.D. in health policy with a concentration in bioethics from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Taylor is trained as a social scientist and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore topics in the ethics of human subject research and ethical considerations in public health approaches to infectious disease.

This paper examines the practice implications of various state policies that provide publicly funded prenatal care to undocumented immigrants for health care workers who see undocumented patients. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with purposively sampled health care workers at safety net clinics in California, Maryland, Nebraska, and New York. Health care workers were asked about the process through which undocumented patients receive prenatal care in their health center and the ethical tensions and frustrations they encounter when providing or facilitating this care under policy restrictions.

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Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Restoring and Improving Public Health Practice, Accountability, and Trust.

J Law Med Ethics

June 2019

Colleen Healy Boufides, J.D., is a senior attorney with the Network for Public Health Law-Mid-States Region Office, located at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She assists public health attorneys, practitioners, and advocates to use law to protect the public's health by providing technical assistance, training, and practical tools. Colleen received her law degree from the Duke University School of Law and her Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University - the Barrett Honors College. Lance Gable, J.D., M.P.H., is an associate professor of law at Wayne State University Law School. His research addresses the overlap among law, policy, ethics, health and science. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the Johns Hopkins University and a master of public health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Peter D. Jacobson, J.D., M.P.H., is Professor Emeritus of Health Law and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Director, Center for Law, Ethics, and Health. Jacobson received an A.B. from Dickinson College, his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and M.P.H. from UCLA School of Public Health. He serves as Principal Investigator for the Mid-States Region of the Network for Public Health Law.

The Flint water crisis demonstrates the importance of adequate legal preparedness in dealing with complicated legal arrangements and multiple statutory responsibilities. It also demonstrates the need for alternative accountability measures when public officials fail to protect the public's health and explores mechanisms for restoring community trust in governmental public health.

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Objectives: This study aimed to identify factors associated with urban youth and parent's perception of the preventability of medically attended youth assault injuries to guide future violence prevention strategies.

Methods: Assault-injured youth (n = 188; ages, 10-15 years; 60% male; 96% black) and their parents were recruited from 2 pediatric emergency departments in 2 cities. Mental health, injury severity, circumstances of injury, and family composition were some of the factors explored as cross-sectional predictors of the perception of the preventability of youth assault injury.

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Instrumental variables (IV) are used to draw causal conclusions about the effect of exposure E on outcome Y in the presence of unmeasured confounders. IV assumptions have been well described: (1) IV affects E; (2) IV affects Y only through E; (3) IV shares no common cause with Y. Even when these assumptions are met, biased effect estimates can result if selection bias allows a noncausal path from E to Y.

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Objectives: The safety culture in the workplace may affect event reporting. We evaluated the relationship of safety culture and voluntary event reporting within a large network of ambulatory practices, most of which provided primary care.

Methods: This study was an observational, retrospective cohort study.

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Implementation of the ANISA Protocol in Sylhet, Bangladesh: Challenges and Solutions.

Pediatr Infect Dis J

May 2016

From the *Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; †Child Health Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh; and ‡Centre for Reproductive Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Article Synopsis
  • * Implementing the study in Sylhet, Bangladesh, faced challenges such as the need for timely postnatal visits and low compliance with health facilities, mainly due to cultural and geographic factors.
  • * The research team developed strategies like community mobilization, mobile birth notifications, and improved healthcare services to effectively address these challenges and ensure high quality in data collection and processing.
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Toward a centralized database for child safety centers: Results of a feasibility pilot study.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

September 2015

From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (E.M.M.), Baltimore, Maryland; Cincinnati Children's Hospital (M.A.G.), Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Louis Children's Hospital (C.M.R.), St. Louis, Missouri; Doernbecher Children's Hospital (B.D.H.), Portland, Oregon; and Division of Emergency Medicine (M.R.Z.), Hasbro Children's Hospital Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.

Background: Safety centers (SCs) are hospital-affiliated outlets that provide families with safety products and personalized education about preventing injuries. Roughly 40 SCs are in operation across the United States, but no single model for staffing, supplying, or sustaining them has emerged. The project aimed to determine the feasibility of a centralized database for SC evaluation as the first step toward growing this proven intervention.

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Stakeholders' Views of Alternatives to Prospective Informed Consent for Minimal-Risk Pragmatic Comparative Effectiveness Trials.

J Law Med Ethics

December 2016

Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director and Philip Franklin Wagley Professor at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She received her Ph.D. and M.P.H. from the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA, her M. A. from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Il and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.

As interest in comparative effectiveness research grows, questions have emerged regarding whether it is ever acceptable to alter informed consent requirements for research when patients are randomly assigned to widely-used therapies. This paper reports on interviews with Institutional Review Board members and researchers and on focus groups with patients from Geisinger and Johns Hopkins health systems. The objective was to elicit participants' views of the acceptability of four different disclosure and authorization models for low-risk pragmatic comparative effectiveness trials of widely-used therapies.

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Evaluation of a new website design for iwantthekit for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomonas screening.

Sex Transm Dis

May 2015

From the *Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; †The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH; and ‡Department of Infectious Disease, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

The www.iwantthekit.org provides Internet-based, at-home sexually transmitted infection screening.

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State experiences implementing youth sports concussion laws: challenges, successes, and lessons for evaluating impact.

J Law Med Ethics

November 2016

Deputy Director, Eastern Region, Network for Public Health Law. She received her J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in Baltimore, MD, M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, and A.B. from Brown University in Providence, RI.

While provisions of youth sports concussion laws are very similar, little is known as to how they are being implemented, factors that promote or impede implementation, or the level of compliance in each jurisdiction. We aimed to describe state experiences with implementation in order to inform ongoing efforts to reduce the harm of sports-related traumatic brain injury and to guide future evaluations of the laws' impacts and the development of future public health laws. We conducted key-informant interviews in 35 states with recently enacted concussion legislation.

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The Baltimore City Fire Department (BCFD) has been installing smoke alarms city wide for more than three decades. Though data on each visit are entered into a database, no system existed for using these data for planning or evaluation. The objective of this study is to use Geographic Information System (GIS) technology and existing databases to 1) determine the number of residences in need of a home visit; 2) determine total visits, visits per household, and number of homes entered for eligible households; and 3) demonstrate integration of various data via GIS for use in prevention planning.

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Ethical Issues in Patient Safety Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature.

J Patient Saf

September 2015

From the *Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland; †World Health Organization Patient Safety Programme, Geneva, Switzerland; and ‡Global Health Ethics Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

As many as 1 in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care in wealthy countries. The risk of health care-associated infection in some developing countries is as much as 20 times higher. In response, in many global regions, increased attention has turned to the implementation of a broad program of safety research, encompassing a variety of methods.

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Media can deliver health and safety messages promoting child health and injury prevention. This study examined the effects of message framing and parental mediation on children's perceptions of fire-safety messages. Using a 2 × 3 randomized experimental design, this study considered both message framing (gain or loss) and parental mediation (no mediation/control, unscripted, or scripted) with 320 children who were 4 and 5 years of age.

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Active compared with expectant delivery management in women with gestational diabetes: a systematic review.

Obstet Gynecol

January 2009

From the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Departments of General Preventive Medicine and Population, Family and Reproductive Health; the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medicine; and the Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center, Baltimore, Maryland.

Objective: We conducted a systematic review to estimate benefits and harms of the choice of timing of induction or elective cesarean delivery based on estimated fetal weight or gestational age in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).

Data Sources: An electronic literature search was performed using MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from inception to January 2007.

Methods Of Study Selection: Two investigators independently reviewed titles and abstracts, assessed article quality, and abstracted data.

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