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The Impact of a Group Health Cooperative HPV Vaccination Promotion Program on Initiation of the HPV Vaccine
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of a Group Health Cooperative outreach and reminder program on initiation of the HPV vaccine among 10-12 year olds receiving care at seven Group Health clinics in Western Washington. Study Design: The outreach and reminder initiative was a randomized control trial. ...
Comparing Patient-Centered Medical Home Implementation in Urban and Rural VHA Clinics: Results from the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Initiative
BACKGROUND: Rural primary care clinics in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) are smaller, have fewer staff and serve more rural patients compared to urban VHA primary care clinics. This may lead to different challenges to implementation of the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) model, VHA’s Patient-Centered Medical Home ...
Identifying and overcoming barriers to raising funds from individuals for tobacco prevention
Introduction: Nonprofit tobacco prevention programs receive a level of public support that is disproportionately low to the burden of tobacco-related disease and death in the United States (US). Individual donors’ recent emphasis on the importance of measurable results and cost-effectiveness is particularly conducive to funding ...
Examining the Relationship Between Secondary Traumatic Stress and Sickness Absenteeism within 9-1-1 Emergency Call Centers
Abstract Introduction: 9-1-1 emergency communication specialists (telecommunicators) are considered the gatekeepers for critical emergency information used by police officers, firefighters and paramedics. Emerging technology used by telecommunicators has increased operational efficiency through reduction of emergency response ...
Evaluation of an mHealth SMS dialogue strategy to meet women’s and couples’ postpartum contraceptive needs in Kenya (Mobile WACh XY): A randomized controlled trial
Objective: To evaluate the effect of a two-way SMS intervention on postpartum contraceptive use among individual women and couple dyads. Methods: Mobile WACh XY was an unblinded randomized controlled trial conducted in two public county hospitals in western Kenya. Pregnant, HIV-negative women at least 14 years of age with ...
SURVEILLANCE OF, AND THE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY POLICING ON ARREST-RELATED DEATHS (ARDS): Exploring the surveillance of ARDs and the opportunities to prevent them in the United States
Background: In 2015, 1,356 deaths resulted from arrest-related interactions with US law enforcement – a near two-fold increase in known deaths in the previous ten years, according to open-sourced records. Strong public interest and controversy surrounding recent arrest-related deaths (ARDs) in the United States highlights the ...
Evaluation of a Quality Improvement (QI) Intervention for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) in Colombia: The Mil Días Intervention of SINERGIAS in the Department of Bolívar
Initiated in 2012, the Mejoramiento de la calidad de la atención a gestantes, niñas y niños en sus primeros mil días (Mil Días) intervention is a strategy for quality improvement (QI) of maternal, child, and newborn health (MNCH) across 6 departments of Colombia. In the department of Bolívar, Mil Días is implemented in 25 ...
Safety of oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate-based pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention: prospective studies in HIV-uninfected men and women
Antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) alone or when co-formulated with emtricitabine (FTC), the same medication used for treatment of HIV infection, is a recommended and highly effective strategy to reduce the risk of sexual acquisition of HIV. The central objective of the ...
Prevalence of mixed neuropathologies in autopsied older adults and associations with clinical disease progression
Introduction: Many older adults have multiple brain pathologies (aka mixed neuropathologies) at autopsy; however, the clinical importance of mixed neuropathologies is not well established. The objectives of this dissertation were 1.) to examine the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathologic change (ADNC), Lewy body ...
Demographic, Physical, and Behavioral Characteristics Associated with TV Parenting Practices Among Latino Parents of Preschool Children
Introduction: Latino children are disproportionately affected by obesity. Television (TV) viewing is linked with childhood obesity, decreased physical activity levels, and increased sedentary time. Valkenburg’s TV Parenting Practices (TVPP) scale characterizes parental mediation of children’s TV viewing. This study assesses ...