Adaptation of an evidence-based cardiovascular health intervention for rural African Americans in the Southeast [PDF]
Background: African Americans (AA) living in the southeast United States have the highest prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and rural minorities bear a significant burden of co-occurring CVD risk factors.
Bess, Kiana D. +9 more
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The place identity needs to be resurfaced visual-architecturally through place-making and community engagement. From participatory identification of tangible and intangible cultural assets, cultural mapping can increase awareness of cultural assets and a
Ema Yunita Titisari +2 more
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Towards a People's Social Epidemiology: Envisioning a More Inclusive and Equitable Future for Social Epi Research and Practice in the 21st Century. [PDF]
Social epidemiology has made critical contributions to understanding population health. However, translation of social epidemiology science into action remains a challenge, raising concerns about the impacts of the field beyond academia.
Allen, Amani +3 more
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How was it for you? Experiences of participatory design in the UK health service [PDF]
Improving co-design methods implies that we need to understand those methods, paying attention to not only the effect of method choices on design outcomes, but also how methods affect the people involved in co-design.
Andy Dearden +21 more
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The case for inclusive area profiling applied in geographic information systems [PDF]
This paper introduces the history and role of consultation processes of contemporary planning and, after presenting the popularity and criticisms of different practices including communities in urban decision making, it explores how rational planning ...
Al-Kodmany K +38 more
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ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar +8 more
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Cultural and Participatory Mapping
Anthropology , as a discipline, has been closely allied with geography for over a century, and mapping is an important practice in each of anthropology's four subdisciplines: archaeology and biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology . This chapter focuses on cultural mapping , or representations of how humans understand social and physical ...
Kingsolver, A. +4 more
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Participatory GIS in Mapping Ecosystem Services: Two Case Studies from High-Biodiversity Regions in Italy and Peru [PDF]
Assessing ecosystem services (ES) and mapping their values are of paramount importance. Here we present two case studies where the participatory mapping of social values of landscape ecosystem services is used in territories with high levels of cultural ...
Codato, Daniele +2 more
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Participatory Mapping of Demand for Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes
Agricultural land use systems have been optimized for producing provisioning ecosystem services (ES) in the past few decades, often at the expense of regulating and cultural services. Research has focused mainly on the supply side of ES and related trade-
C. Schwartz +3 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis +9 more
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