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Nutrition standards for the charitable food system: challenges and opportunities

BMC Public Health, 2022
Food insecurity is associated with increased risk of chronic disease and poor dietary intake. The United States charitable food system, a complex network of food banks, pantries and congregate meal sites, provides food for millions of low-income ...
Ronli Levi, Marlene Schwartz, Elizabeth Campbell, Katie Martin, Hilary Seligman   +4 more
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A Roadmap for conducting psychosocial research in epidemiological studies: perspectives of cohort study principal investigators

BMJ Open, 2020
Background Psychosocial adversity disproportionately affects racial/ethnic and socioeconomic minorities in the USA, and therefore understanding the mechanisms through which psychosocial stress and resilience influence human health can provide meaningful ...
Tracy Balboni, M Austin Argentieri, Bobak Seddighzadeh, Sarah Noveroske Philbrick, Alexandra Shields   +4 more
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Cardiovascular and diabetes burden attributable to physical inactivity in Mexico

Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2020
Background Physical inactivity (PI) is associated with the development of non-communicable chronic diseases. The purposes of this study were to estimate the extent to which the 31% relative increase in PI among 35–64 years old Mexicans between 2006 and ...
Catalina Medina, Pamela Coxson, Joanne Penko, Ian Janssen, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, Simón Barquera, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo   +6 more
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In Their Own Words: The Health and Sexuality of Immigrant Women with Infibulation Living in Switzerland

Social Sciences, 2016
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a significant public health problem. It is estimated that around 14,700 women affected by FGM live in Switzerland, primarily among women with a history of migration.
Michela Villani, Judith Louise Griffin, Patrick Bodenmann   +2 more
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Implementing a case management intervention for frequent users of the emergency department (I-CaM): an effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial study protocol

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background ED overcrowding represents a significant public health problem in developed countries. Frequent users of the emergency departments (FUEDs; reporting 5 or more ED visits in the past year) are often affected by medical, psychological, social ...
Véronique S. Grazioli, Joanna C. Moullin, Miriam Kasztura, Marina Canepa-Allen, Olivier Hugli, Judy Griffin, Francis Vu, Catherine Hudon, Yves Jackson, Hans Wolff, Bernard Burnand, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Patrick Bodenmann   +12 more
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Trait-based indices to assess benthic vulnerability to trawling and model potential loss of ecosystem functions [PDF]

Ecol Ind 126, July 2021, 107692, 2020
The vulnerability to trawling on a species level is determined by a species' individual combination of biological traits that is related to the ecosystem functions. Trait-based indices of physical resistance RI and reproductive potential RPI were developed and combined into an overall vulnerability index on a species level, the RRI or Resistance and ...
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Epidemiological study in a vulnerable population

Salud Pública de México, 2021
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Katheryn Viena-Falcón, Johana Silva-Salvador   +1 more
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Plasma protein expression profiles, cardiovascular disease, and religious struggles among South Asians in the MASALA study

Scientific Reports, 2021
Blood protein concentrations are clinically useful, predictive biomarkers of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Despite a higher burden of CVD among U.S. South Asians, no CVD-related proteomics study has been conducted in this sub-population.
Long H. Ngo, M. Austin Argentieri, Simon T. Dillon, Blake Victor Kent, Alka M. Kanaya, Alexandra E. Shields, Towia A. Libermann   +6 more
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An Exploratory Study into Vulnerability Chaining Blindness Terminology and Viability [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
To tie together the concepts of linkage blindness and the inability to link vulnerabilities together in a Vulnerability Management Program (VMP), the researcher postulated new terminology. The terminology of vulnerability chaining blindness is proposed to understand the underlying issues behind vulnerability management and vulnerabilities that can be ...
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Building towards common psychosocial measures in U.S. cohort studies: principal investigators’ views regarding the role of religiosity and spirituality in human health

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background The goal of this study was to understand prospective cohort study Principal Investigators’ (PIs’) attitudes regarding the importance of religion and spirituality (R/S) on disease etiology in order to identify barriers and opportunities for ...
Alexandra E. Shields, Tracy A. Balboni
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