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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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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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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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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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Burnout Among Private Security Staff in Serbia: A Multicentic Cross-Sectional Study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: Burnout is a special a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity.Objectives: To evaluate the predictors of burnout among work staff in the seven private ...
Dejan R. Veljković, Natasa K. Rancic, Momčilo R. Mirković, Ljiljana M. Kulić, Veroslava V. Stanković, Ljubomir S. Stefanović, Marko M. Stojanović, Miloš V. Mirković, Slađana M. Ðurić, Danijela Z. Ilić   +9 more
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Alcohol consumption patterns, suppliers and online alcohol marketing: Before and during COVID-19 alcohol bans

South African Journal of Science, 2023
COVID-19-related alcohol sales bans and stay-at-home orders prompted the alcohol industry in South Africa to increase their online alcohol sales promotions.
Marieke Theron, Rina Swart, Mukhethwa Londani, Charles Parry, Petal Petersen Williams, Nadine Harker   +5 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 cross-sectional investigation of softening indicators among South African smokers: Results from the South African Social Attitudes Survey between 2007 and 2018

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022
Recent studies have shown softening among smokers in different countries and in different population groups i.e., as smoking prevalence declined remaining smokers made more quit attempts and smoked fewer cigarettes per day (CPD), as opposed to hardening.
Catherine O. Egbe, Margarete C. Kulik, Mukhethwa Londani, Senamile P. Ngobese, Olalekan A. Ayo-Yusuf   +4 more
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Public health and the economy could be served by reallocating medical expenditures to social programs. [PDF]

, 2017
As much as 30% of US health care spending in the United States does not improve individual or population health. To a large extent this excess spending results from prices that are too high and from administrative waste.
Fielding, Jonathan E, Tran, Linda Diem, Zimmerman, Frederick J   +2 more
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Heavy drinking and contextual risk factors among adults in South Africa: findings from the International Alcohol Control study

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 2018
Background There is limited information about the potential individual-level and contextual drivers of heavy drinking in South Africa. This study aimed to identify risk factors for heavy drinking in Tshwane, South Africa. Methods A household survey using
Pamela J. Trangenstein, Neo K. Morojele, Carl Lombard, David H. Jernigan, Charles D. H. Parry   +4 more
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