65 results match your criteria: "UMDNJ-School of Public Health[Affiliation]"
Part Fibre Toxicol
March 2015
Department of Occupational & Environmental Health Sciences, and Institute of Environmental Medicine, Peking University School of Public Health, and Key Laboratory of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 100191, China.
Background: Particles in smaller size fractions, such as ultrafine particles (UFPs) (with diameter less than 100 nm), has become of significant cardiovascular health concerns. However, the biological plausibility underlying potential relationship between UFPs and cardiovascular outcomes is less studied.
Methods: Fifty-three subjects living in Shanghai with type-2 diabetes (T2D) or impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) were followed for autonomic dysfunctions with three repeated measurements in 2010.
Eur Urol
April 2014
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Data regarding the difference in the clinical course from metastasis to prostate cancer-specific mortality (PCSM) following radical prostatectomy (RP) compared with radiation therapy (RT) are lacking.
Objective: To examine the association between primary treatment modality and prostate cancer-specific survival (PCSS) after metastasis.
Design, Setting, And Participants: We used the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare linked database from 1994 to 2007 for patients diagnosed with localized prostate cancer (PCa).
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
November 2014
Alion Science and Technology Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
A critical aspect of air pollution exposure assessments is estimation of the air exchange rate (AER) for various buildings where people spend their time. The AER, which is the rate of exchange of indoor air with outdoor air, is an important determinant for entry of outdoor air pollutants and for removal of indoor-emitted air pollutants. This paper presents an overview and critical analysis of the scientific literature on empirical and physically based AER models for residential and commercial buildings; the models highlighted here are feasible for exposure assessments as extensive inputs are not required.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMatern Child Health J
January 2014
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Our objective was to examine differences in risk of cesarean delivery among diverse ethnic groups in New York City. Using cross-sectional New York City birth and hospitalization data from 1995 to 2003 (n = 961,381) we estimated risk ratios for ethnic groups relative to non-Hispanic whites and immigrant women relative to US-born women. Adjusting for insurance, pre-pregnancy weight, maternal age, education, parity, birthweight, gestational age, year, medical complications, and pregnancy complications, all ethnic groups except East Asian women were at an increased risk of cesarean delivery, with the highest risk among Hispanic Caribbean women [adjusted risk ratio (aRR) = 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Equity Health
November 2012
Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ School of Public Health, 683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Introduction: Little is known regarding the association between socioeconomic factors and contraceptive use in the Newly Independent States (NIS), countries that have experienced profound changes in reproductive health services during the transition from socialism to a market economy.
Methods: Using 2005-2006 data from Demographic Health Surveys (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan), we examined associations between individual and community socioeconomic status with current modern contraceptive use (MCU) among N = 55,204 women aged 15-49 married or in a union. Individual socioeconomic status was measured using quintiles of wealth index and education level (higher than secondary school, secondary school or less).
Atmos Environ (1994)
September 2012
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), USA ; UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA.
To address disparities in health risks associated with ambient air pollution for racial/ethnic minority groups, this study characterized personal and ambient concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a suspected hot spot of air pollution - the Village of Waterfront South (WFS), and an urban reference community - the Copewood/Davis Streets (CDS) neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey. Both are minority-dominant, impoverished communities. We collected 24-h integrated personal air samples from 54 WFS residents and 53 CDS residents, with one sample on a weekday and one on a weekend day during the summer and winter seasons of 2004-2006.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Health Behav
September 2012
Center for Tobacco Surveillance and Evaluation Research, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Objectives: To assess hookah use among youth for prevalence, associations, and changes over time.
Methods: Data from the 2008 and 2010 New Jersey Youth Tobacco Survey were analyzed to examine hookah smoking by gender, race/ethnicity, and grade level.
Results: Prevalence of hookah use increased significantly among black and Hispanic students.
Matern Child Health J
January 2013
Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
The aim of this paper was to investigate the association between birthweight and prevalence of food allergies using a national sample of US children. Adult report of birthweight and child food allergies were obtained for years 2005-2009 from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a cross-sectional household survey of the US population. A total of 51,748 children aged 0-17 years were included in the analyses representing over 73 million children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cancer Educ
June 2012
Department of Health Education and Behavioral Science, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Although cancer clinical trials are important for discovering lifesaving therapies, participation remains low among racial/ethnic minorities, and little research explores the role of health literacy in racial/ethnic minority perceptions of cancer clinical trials (CCTs). Five focus groups (n = 50) with African American and Hispanic participants explored CCT perceptions using a multidimensional health literacy framework. We found poor scientific literacy including misconceptions of scientific information, perceptions of clinical trials as uncertain and fear; limited civic literacy around topics of trust, perceptions of participants as guinea pigs, and concerns about of IRB protections; and cultural literacy challenges regarding the importance of home remedies for health, use of native language, and the importance of race/ethnicity matching to health care professionals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Equity Health
November 2011
Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ School of Public Health, 683 Hoes Lane West, PO Box 9, Room 209, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Introduction: Roma, the largest minority group in Europe, face widespread racism and health disadvantage. Using qualitative data from Serbia and Macedonia, our objective was to develop a conceptual framework showing how three levels of racism--personal, internalized, and institutional--affect access to maternal health care among Romani women.
Methods: Eight focus groups of Romani women aged 14-44 (n = 71), as well as in-depth semi-structured interviews with gynecologists (n = 8) and key informants from NGOs and state institutions (n = 11) were conducted on maternal health care seeking, experiences during care, and perceived health care discrimination.
J Clin Virol
December 2011
UMDNJ School of Public Health, 683 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Background: Before 2009, New Jersey (NJ) publicly funded counseling and testing sites (CTS) tested for HIV using a single rapid test followed, when positive, by a Western Blot (WB) for confirmation. With this strategy, 74.8% of confirmed positive clients returned to receive test results.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Health
September 2011
New Jersey Safe Schools Program, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, UMDNJ-School of Public Health (and EOHSI, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Inappropriate solid waste management practices in schools in less-developed countries, particularly in major urban communities, constitute one of the major factors leading to declining environmental health conditions. The objective of the authors' descriptive, cross-sectional study was to assess solid waste management problems in selected urban schools in Ibadan, Nigeria. Eight secondary schools with average pupil populations not less than 500 per school were selected randomly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Am Acad Dermatol
September 2011
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, and the Department of Health Education and Behavioral Science, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey. Electronic address:
J Oncol
November 2011
UMDNJ-School of Public Health and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, 335 George Street, Suite 2100, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA.
As the most preventable cause of death in the world today, understanding tobacco use among one of the fastest growing ethnic/racial groups is warranted. We explore cigarette and smokeless tobacco (SLT) use among South Asians in NJ and the Northeast using the Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey. Overall, tobacco use rates among South Asians were similar or lower than the population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Ind Med
July 2011
UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice, Piscataway, New Jersy, USA.
Background: The New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center (ERC) provides a range of graduate continuing education for occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals in training. A key element of the education is to provide interdisciplinary training to industrial hygienists, ergonomists, occupational medicine physicians and other health and safety trainees to prepare them for the collaboration required to solve the complex occupational health and safety problems they will face in their careers.
Methods: This center has developed an innovative interdisciplinary training approach that provides an historical aspect, while allowing the graduate students to identify solutions to occupational issues from a multi-disciplinary approach.
J Asthma
April 2011
Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
Background: The purpose of this analysis was to examine potential associations between absence, extended (repeated) absence, tardiness, and repeated tardiness from school and doctor-diagnosed asthma.
Methods: A cross-sectional analysis was conducted using data collected in fall 2007 on 914 4th and 5th grade school children from seven randomly selected participating schools in DeKalb County, GA. ANOVA was used to compare attendance metrics for race, gender, and asthma status groups.
Sci Total Environ
January 2011
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
Perchlorate is most widely known as a solid oxidant for missile and rocket propulsion systems although it is also present as a trace contaminant in some fertilizers. It has been detected in drinking water, fruits, and vegetables throughout New Jersey and most of the United States. At sufficiently high doses, perchlorate interferes with the uptake of iodine into the thyroid and may interfere with the development of the skeletal system and the central nervous system of infants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Respir Crit Care Med
March 2011
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, 683 Hoes Lane West, Room 305, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
The study of human pulmonary immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) provides a unique window into the biological interactions between the human host and M.tb within the broncho-alveolar microenvironment, the site of natural infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAAOHN J
September 2010
NJ Safe Schools Program, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Through school-sponsored career and technical education programs in New Jersey, students work part-time during or after school in paid and unpaid structured learning experiences regulated by the New Jersey Department of Education. Schools submit information on "reportable incidents," injury or illness resulting in physician treatment. Incidents including reported use of personal protective equipment (PPE) were assessed; 1,600 incident reports (1999 to 2008) were received.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Health Behav
June 2010
UMDNJ-School of Public Health 335 George Street, Suite 2100, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA.
Objective: To explore, post hoc, whether a large decline in smoking estimates between the 2005 and 2006 New Jersey Adult Tobacco Surveys is real or spurious given various methodological and environmental changes between the 2 time periods of data collection.
Methods: Using multiple data sources, we explored survey timing, poststratification approach, midinterview terminations, wireless substitution, and question order.
Results: Changes in question order were likely responsible for the majority of the unexpected decline in smoking prevalence; to a lesser degree, wireless substitution and midinterview terminations also likely contributed to an artificially exaggerated decline.
Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol
April 2010
Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Background: Evidence links exposure to ambient air pollution during pregnancy, particularly gaseous pollutants and particulate matter, to an increased risk of adverse reproductive outcomes though the results for birth defects have been inconsistent.
Methods: We compared estimated exposure to ambient air pollutants during early pregnancy among mothers of children with oral cleft defects (cases) to that among mothers of controls, adjusting for available risk factors from birth certificates. We obtained ambient air pollutant data from air monitoring sites in New Jersey for carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO(2)), particulate matter <10 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10) and particulate matter <2.
Obstet Gynecol
April 2009
From the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Division of Surgical Oncology, New Brunswick, NJ; The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Population Science Program, New Brunswick, NJ; UMDNJ-School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Piscataway, NJ; The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, New Brunswick, NJ.
Objective: To estimate the occurrence of synchronous epithelial ovarian and endometrial cancers among ovarian cancer patients and to assess survival of women with synchronous cancers.
Methods: Synchronous ovarian and endometrial cases were identified using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program from 1973 to 2005. Multivariable Cox-proportional hazards regression was used to estimate risk of death from ovarian cancer, comparing synchronous ovarian and endometrial cancers with single ovarian cancers and adjusting for demographic, prognostic, and treatment characteristics.
J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc
February 2009
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and UMDNJ-School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ,
The lack of availability of continuing medical education programs on tobacco dependence for psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses is profound. We developed a 2-day curriculum delivered in November 2006 and March 2007 to 71 participants. Ninety-three percent ( n = 66) completed a pretest/posttest, and 91% (n = 65) completed the attitudes and beliefs survey.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddiction
August 2008
Professor, UMDNJ-School of Public Health, and Director, Tobacco Dependence Program, 317 George Street, Suite 210, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-2008, USA.