Impact of the First COVID-19 Shelter-in-place Order in the United States on Emergency Department Utilization, Marin County, California [PDF]
, 2020 Background The first shelter-in-place (SIP) order in the United States was issued across six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on critical care resources.
Ballard, Dustin W. +6 more
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Public opinion on health care and public health
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021 In the health policy literature, scholars and practitioners distinguish broadly between health care and public health interventions. Both types of policies are indispensable to deal with pressing health problems. Nevertheless, we know very little about how individuals support the principle logic behind these two approaches to health policy.
Trein, Ph., Fuino, M., Wagner, J.
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Should we tweet this? Generative response modeling for predicting reception of public health messaging on Twitter [PDF]
, 2022 The way people respond to messaging from public health organizations on social media can provide insight into public perceptions on critical health issues, especially during a global crisis such as COVID-19. It could be valuable for high-impact organizations such as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the World Health ...
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An Urban Population Health Observatory System to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness, Response, and Management: Design and Development Study [PDF]
JMIR Public Health Surveill 2021;7(6):e28269, 2021 Background: COVID-19 is impacting people worldwide and is currently a leading cause of death in many countries. This study sought to redefine the Healthy People 2030 SDoH taxonomy to accommodate the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, we aim to provide a blueprint and implement a prototype for the Urban Population Health Observatory (UPHO), a web-based ...
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Status Anxiety and Overall Life Satisfaction of Young Adults in The Bay Area [PDF]
, 2022 The published literature suggests social comparisons have significant negative effects on an individual’s psychological well-being. However, there is little to no research to suggest that an individual’s attainment of societal success has a relationship ...
Casco, Samuel
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The publics of public health in Africa [PDF]
Critical Public Health, 2016 How do we understand the public character of public health in contemporary Africa? What are the parameters of community engagement in health care delivery, medical research and disease control programmes? To what extent is public health in Africa a project led by African Governments?
Kelly, Ann H. +2 more
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HEALTH EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1923 The Clinic on Printed Matter held at Cleveland in October had so many applicants for examination that only a small percentage of them could be accepted. As it was, the number of dodgers, leaflets, pamphlets, booklets, and posters admitted to the clinic was greater than the examining specialists could handle satisfactorily.
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Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward [PDF]
, 2009 When estimating causal effects using observational data, it is desirable to replicate a randomized experiment as closely as possible by obtaining treated and control groups with similar covariate distributions. This goal can often be achieved by choosing
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Evaluation of the UK Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework (PHSKF): Implications for international competency frameworks [PDF]
, 2020 Background: The value of competency frameworks for developing the public health workforce is widely acknowledged internationally. However, there is a lack of formal evaluations of such frameworks.
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