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"Health Literacy Universal Precautions: A Quality Improvement …

WebEvidence indicates that 36% of adults in the United States have basic or below basic health literacy levels and only 12% of adults are considered health literate. …

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Food Safety and Risk of Foodborne Illness at a Food Center …

WebBackground: Foodborne illness is a serious public health issue. One in six Americans has an episode of foodborne illness each year and over 50,000 are …

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A Quality Improvement Project to Reduce Stigma and Increase …

WebBackground: Mental health disorders affect 20% of adults in the United States and nurses experience mental illness and substance abuse at rates that are similar or …

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School of Public Health and Health Sciences University of

WebThe School of Public Health and Health Sciences addresses complex health issues by integrating traditional core areas of public health with related health science disciplines.

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Web1 Staff will participate in an PHQ-9 training session. 95% of staff will attend the PHQ-9 orientation and training Percent of staff who attend session. 2 Increased staff knowledge …

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"Improving Cultural Competency among Healthcare Providers …

WebBackground: Increased diversity of the United States population has resulted in the presence of greater disparities in healthcare. One way to address factors …

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Hypertension: Enhancing Lifestyle Management Through Patient …

WebBackground: Uncontrolled hypertension is a significant problem in the United States with 46% of hypertensive adults not achieving adequate blood pressure control. …

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"Increasing Health Literacy through NoteAid Translational Tool in …

WebBackground: Many adults in the United States lack health literacy necessary to understand patient education materials given to them, such as discharge summary. …

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Labor Force Participation, Disability, and Implications for …

WebThe study period (i.e., 1999-2014) is characterized by declining labor force participation rates, rising disability enrollment, varying healthcare utilization, and increasing and …

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Biostatistics and Epidemiology

WebThe overall mission of the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology is to provide students with strong analytic and quantitative skills needed to conduct professional level public …

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"The Effect of Public Health Expenditure on Infant Mortality: …

WebUsing a panel data set of Indian states between 1983-84 and 2011-12, this paper studies the impact of public health expenditure on the infant mortality rate (IMR), …

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WebHYPERTENSION: ENHANCING LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT 6 a significant factor contributing to uncontrolled hypertension. It also noted an important component of …

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Nanotechnology: An Educational Program for Nurses

WebBackground: Nurses are constantly exposed to occupational and environmental issues with the potential to impact their health and safety. A relatively new …

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University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass …

WebUsing the HEADS-ED Tool. The literature identified increased pediatric mental health treatment needs in the. ED as a gap in system care, with five of the reviewed articles …

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"Distributing Condoms and "Hope": Race, Sex, and Science in …

WebThis project uses discursive, visual, and ethnographic approaches situated in a critical feminist methodology to understand how ways of knowing about youth sexuality …

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Hospital Assessment and Response to Environmental Pollution as …

WebHospitals have a growing role in improving population health. Environmental pollution is an important determinant of health with disproportionate effects on …

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WebAssessing the Stress-relief Benefit of Outdoor Travel Using Physiological and Psychological Measures Introduction . Tourism, which can be defined as leisure travels outside an …

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"The Impact Of Public Employment On Health" by Wei Zhang

WebZhang, Wei, "The Impact Of Public Employment On Health" (2010). Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014. 214. The conversion of publicly owned industries …

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Gender Perspectives in Literacy

WebThis manual, Gender Perspectives in Literacy, as developed to provide background information on gender issues that affi ct literacy programs and the education of women …

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"Berry's Creek" by Victoria A. Wright and Robert P. Blauvelt

WebBerry’s Creek is a tidal tributary in Bergen County, New Jersey between the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers, which extends almost seven miles from its discharge …

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