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Interdisciplinary Dissertation Research Among Public Health Doctoral Trainees, 2003-2015 [PDF]

, 2018
Given the call for more interdisciplinary research in public health, the objectives of this study were to (1) examine the correlates of interdisciplinary dissertation completion and (2) identify secondary fields most common among interdisciplinary public
Brown-Podgorski, Brittany L., Golembiewski, Elizabeth H., Holmes, Ann M., Jackson, Joanna R., Menachemi, Nir   +4 more
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The Social and Political Dimensions of the Ebola Response: Global Inequality, Climate Change, and Infectious Disease [PDF]

, 2016
The 2014 Ebola crisis has highlighted public-health vulnerabilities in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea – countries ravaged by extreme poverty, deforestation and mining-related disruption of livelihoods and ecosystems, and bloody civil wars in the ...
A Kay, A Mabin, A Petherick, AM Saéz, AR Poteete, AT Price-Smith, BA Israel, C Bayntun, D Healy, DA Oladele, E Goffman, E Roe, G Bankoff, G Mitman, GB Cockerham, H Frumkin, I Rashid, J Chippaux, J Moran-Ellis, JC Cohen, JC Dumont, JD Mayer, JE Pinzon, K Lee, KC Seto, M Karamouzian, M Nichter, N Brenner, NL Klenk, P Wald, R Bloch, R Bloch, R Keil, R Keil, R Shields, RE Kasperson, S Baize, S Harman, S Lewis, SH Ali, SM Teutsch, T Olaniyan   +41 more
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Beyond resistance: social factors in the general public response to pandemic influenza [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Influencing the general public response to pandemics is a public health priority. There is a prevailing view, however, that the general public is resistant to communications on pandemic influenza and that behavioural responses to the 2009/10 ...
Davis, Mark, Flowers, Paul, Lohm, Davina, Stephenson, Niamh, Waller, Emily   +4 more
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Potential revenue from taxing e-cigarettes and comparison of annual costs of daily e-cigarette use versus daily cigarette smoking among South African adults

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2021
Introduction To inform policy making under the proposed The Control of Tobacco and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill, we compared annual costs of using e-cigarettes versus cigarettes, and estimated revenue from e-cigarette taxation.
Israel T. Agaku, Catherine O. Egbe, Olalekan A. Ayo-Yusuf   +2 more
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Estimating the costs and benefits of providing free public transit passes to students in Los Angeles County: lessons learned in applying a health lens to decision-making. [PDF]

, 2014
In spite of increased focus by public health to engage and work with non-health sector partners to improve the health of the general as well as special populations, only a paucity of studies have described and disseminated emerging lessons and promising ...
Fielding, Jonathan E, Gase, Lauren N, Kuo, Tony, Teutsch, Steven   +3 more
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A comparative analysis of pharmacists’ perspectives on codeine use and misuse – a three country survey

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2018
Background The misuse of codeine is of increasing concern in a number of countries, particularly as this relates to over -the-counter pain and cough relief medication, and is also supplied as a prescription medicine. The study aimed to obtain and analyse
Tara Carney, John Wells, Charles D. H. Parry, Padraig McGuinness, Richard Harris, Marie Claire Van Hout   +5 more
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The antitumor effect of oncolytic respiratory syncytial virus via the tumor necrosis factor-alpha induction and ROS-bax-mediated mechanisms

BMC Cancer, 2023
Background Cervical cancer represents one of the most prevalent cancers among women worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income nations. Oncolytic viruses (OVs) can infect cancer cells selectively and lethally without harming normal cells ...
Mehdi Samadi, Talat Mokhtari-Azad, Ahmad Nejati, Zahra Norooz-Babaei, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Mohammad Reza Haghshenas, Fatemeh Adjaminejad, Hedieh Zargaran, Vahid Salimi, Amir Ghaemi   +9 more
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Injury prevention and other international public health initiatives

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 2005
Injuries, whether caused by unintentional or intentional events, area significant public health problem. The burden of injury is greatest in low-and middle-income countries and among individuals of low socioeconomic status living in high-income countries. Most of these injuries are prevent-able.
Razzak, Junaid Abdul, Sasser, Scott M., Kellermann, Arthur L.   +2 more
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The role of Inclusionary Othering in Public Health

European Journal of Public Health, 2021
Abstract Inclusionary Othering has been established in public health literature, in addition to Exclusionary Othering. The concept of Inclusionary Othering was introduced by Mary Canales (2000, 2001, 2010). She developed this term in her doctoral thesis (1998), in which she dealt with the topic of Othering in the context of nursing care.
Akbulut, Nurcan, Razum, Oliver
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Challenges in estimating population impacts of alcohol’s harm to others

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2016
BACKGROUND - There is a renewed interest in alcohol’s harm to others (AHTO), and survey studies in the general population are often used to estimate the extent of harm, to address the severity and variety of harms, and to identify the victims of such ...
Rossow Ingeborg, Ramstedt Mats
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