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Dr Clare Rathbone, Senior Researcher at Oxford Brookes Centre for Psychological Research, said: 'It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with Daybreak Dementia Day Clubs. (ox.ac.uk)

Join the CABHI Community of Innovation podcast team for a special taping from CABHI's 2019 What's Next Canada Conference in Toronto, Canada. (cabhi.com)
In 2019, Jay County was listed in the top 10% among Indiana communities most at risk for substance abuse, according to data from the Indiana State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup. (purdue.edu)
The 2014-2019 award is CPWR's sixth five-year cooperative agreement with NIOSH, dating back to the start of the NIOSH construction safety and health research initiative in 1990. (cdc.gov)

During her twenty four years in office, Delegate Pitkin made cancer prevention measures a prime concern and became a nationally recognized health care advocate for introducing landmark health care proposals which have become models for and set standards for the country. (wikipedia.org)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
Age-related macular degeneration results from damage to the central area of the retina called the macula, which is responsible for reading and driving vision for driving Nearly 20 million Americans age 40 and older are living with some form of AMD, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (mountsinai.org)
A recent study from researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai provides new insights into a link between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and Parkinson's disease, and may have significant implications for the treatment and prevention of Parkinson's disease. (mountsinai.org)
Over the last two decades, opioid-related overdose deaths increased by more than 50 percent, with nearly 50,000 in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (newswise.com)
The Lyda Hill Cancer Prevention Center provides cancer risk assessment, screening and diagnostic services. (mdanderson.org)
A second program, International Implementation, Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research Training Award for AIDS and Tuberculosis ( IICOHRTA-AIDS/TB ) was developed to strengthen the capacity to conduct clinical research and implementation science, including operations and health services research focused on HIV infection, TB, and HIV/TB co-infection prevention, care and treatment. (nih.gov)
1. On of 4 researchers, who completed an 8-week Fall prevention program at 2 local senior centers. (who.int)
The Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition Inc., Blackford County Community Corrections , Hester Hollis Concern Center and A Better Life-Brianna's Hope Inc. also are partnering. (purdue.edu)
The important work of this consortium is a strong response to Gov. Holcomb's 2017 call for health care to implement a data-driven system focused on SUD prevention, early intervention, treatment, recovery and enforcement. (purdue.edu)
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new analysis indicating that the number of adults with type 2 diabetes in the United States is expected to double or triple by 2050. (healthit.gov)
Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008. (healthit.gov)
He is currently the Director of the Suicide Research and Prevention Center of the Shanghai Mental Health Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, the Executive Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital, and Professor of Psychiatry at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. (researchgate.net)
Challenges to reducing cancer health disparities through public health practice and applied prevention research are vast and include multilevel intersecting factors. (cdc.gov)
Widening socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health disparities documented in the past 20 years (3) - the chasm in the quality of health care availability, delivery, and accessibility (2), and the extended time it takes for research findings to translate into practice (4) - have created a national urgency to design effective interventions and applied prevention research, including an increased emphasis by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on public health importance and impact. (cdc.gov)
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been identified as an approach in creating interventions and prevention strategies to reduce health disparities (5,6) and was highlighted as a core strategy in the first national NIH Summit to Eliminate Disparities (7). (cdc.gov)
Within cancer and chronic disease prevention, CBPR provides strategies for contextualizing interventions to promote external validity across diverse communities and incorporates culturally centered indigenous knowledge with evidence-based sociobehavioral theory for comprehensive interventions (8). (cdc.gov)
The acknowledgment that traditional research methods have had limited effectiveness in alleviating health inequities has led the National Cancer Institute (NCI), other NIH institutes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Cancer Society, and large health foundations to cultivate comprehensive and participatory research approaches (5,10). (cdc.gov)
For example, the PRC at the University of New Mexico conducted an RCT on obesity prevention with 16 rural Head Start centers across the state. (cdc.gov)
Saving Lives, Protecting People Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
Wide-ranging ONline Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) -- is an easy-to-use internet system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large. (cdc.gov)
CDC WONDER furthers CDC's mission of health promotion and disease prevention by speeding and simplifying access to public health information for state and local health departments, the Public Health Service, and the academic public health community. (cdc.gov)
CDC WONDER, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is an integrated information and communication system for public health. (cdc.gov)
Countries are encouraged to create the conditions required for prevention, early detection diagnosis, treatment, guarantee of equitable access to care, and availability of drugs at health facilities. (who.int)

Kranzler is also associate director for research in the Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center (CMCVAMC). (newswise.com)
As part of our mission to eliminate cancer, MD Anderson researchers conduct hundreds of clinical trials to test new treatments for both common and rare cancers. (mdanderson.org)
In partnership, Indiana University Health - specifically IU Health Blackford Hospital and IU Health Jay Hospital - will serve as clinical lead for the consortium. (purdue.edu)
The new Hardesty Center for Clinical Research and Neuroscience in Tulsa has started inviting research participants in for trials and data collection. (okstate.edu)
The new building has the capacity to hold an assortment of new and previously separated departments, including the clinical trials unit of the National Center for Wellness and Recovery and the Oklahoma State University Biomedical Imaging Center. (okstate.edu)
Croff's main projects in OSU's Tier I Opioid Initiative are the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and increasing the number of studies conducted as part of the National Institutes of Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network. (okstate.edu)
The researchers reported that the clinical cure rate by the intent-to-treat approach was 90.2 percent for the ba zheng group and 82 percent for the antibiotics group. (naturalnews.com)
Dr. Ivanova is a Clinical Psychologist and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Eating Disorders Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. (uottawa.ca)
A. How do you engage a community in a randomized clinical trial or a drug trial? (cdc.gov)
Currently, there is no evidence-based method to evaluate the capacity of health units for antivenom treatment, nor what the absolute minimum supplies and staff are necessary for safe and effective antivenom administration and clinical management. (bvsalud.org)
Dr Ammar has produced numerous publications in the areas of health system management, paediatric endocrinology and metabolism, and clinical paediatrics. (who.int)
None of the information obtained through use of the search portal should in any way be used in clinical care without consulting a physician or licensed health professional. (who.int)
Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the National Institute of Public Health of Slovenia (NIJZ), Community Healthcare Center Dr Adolf Drolc Maribor (Slovenia), the Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine of the University of Latvia, and the University Hospital Centre of Nantes (France) launched a new project to accelerate gastric cancer reduction in Europe, at a kick-off meeting on 18 November in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (who.int)

2020 NAMCS Community Health Center (CHC) data are only available in the RDC. (cdc.gov)
Here, the Denver-based pro-also the author of the 2020 book Small-Scale Urban Greening: Creating Places of Health, Creativity, and Ecological Sustainability -talks about rewilding and the restorative powers of nature. (architectmagazine.com)

2022 NAMCS Health Center Component data is available in the RDC. (cdc.gov)
From Term 3, 2022 all fees will be waived for students enrolling in a number of VET courses in early childhood education, certificate courses in individual support, community services, fitness, mental health, allied health, health services assistant and Alcohol and Other Drugs. (edu.au)

The name, gifted to the University, means 'rising to meet the challenge', signalling a new approach to research by funding transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches with deep community engagement to develop innovative responses to multi-layered problems. (auckland.ac.nz)
The Consortium for Opioids Response Engagement-East Central Indiana (CORE-ECI) will focus on the communities of Blackford and Jay Counties, two medically underserved populations that have seen significant mortality and opioid-use rates. (purdue.edu)
but deliberative, intelligent and participatory engagement with communities can generate significant advantages for all involved. (thersa.org)
Context is key, and bespoke local engagement is required to successfully facilitate the growth of community capital. (thersa.org)
Thus, when research is involved, the challenges of community engagement may be particularly profound. (cdc.gov)

Few studies of complementary therapies have targeted minority populations with low back pain" explained lead author Robert B. Saper, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of family medicine at BUSM and director of integrative medicine at Boston Medical Center. (sciencedaily.com)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Jim Metson said: "The goal is for these flagship centres to work with communities to develop research questions and bring to bear the broad breadth of the University's knowledge, expertise and talent to drive sustainable responses. (auckland.ac.nz)
The Vice-Chancellor Professor Dawn Freshwater said the new centres respond directly to the evolving role of the University. (auckland.ac.nz)
The pandemic has put a huge amount of pressure on health, mental health and aged care industries and Charles Darwin University would like to help assist in the recovery," Professor Upton said. (edu.au)
Isolation is a real stressor for people," said Croff, a professor in the Department of Rural Health. (okstate.edu)
She is now an Associate Professor, at National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, in the Research School of Population Health. (edu.au)
Professor Phyllis Erdogan, appointee of Professor A. Doramaci (the President of Bilkent University) and Professor Tomris Turmen, representing the International Children's Center (Ankara). (who.int)
Michael Marmot is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London and Director of that university's Institute of Health Equity. (who.int)

What we understand is that, if folks are finding the kinds of clinicians or health-care providers that understand their needs, that they're more likely to follow up and follow through on those interventions that are being provided,' he said. (cbc.ca)
Using a population health model, the scoping review will allow us to compare interventions and how they are applied in diverse settings and contexts, and to describe the positive and negative outcomes and absence of outcomes of the interventions, alongside the barriers and facilitators to intervention use. (ualberta.ca)
It will also help us to identify where sufficient evidence exists so that action plans and future policy recommendations can be made about interventions to engage children and youth with nature for health purposes. (ualberta.ca)
Best practices include adapting interventions within local contexts, alleviating mistrust, supporting integration of local cultural knowledge, and training investigators from communities that experience cancer disparities. (cdc.gov)
CBPR addresses mistrust between academia, public health agencies, and communities through reciprocal learning and the challenges of translating and sustaining interventions within specific community contexts to improve health (9). (cdc.gov)
The Connected Communities programme demonstrates that community-led action and targeted interventions can indeed strengthen local communities, and that substantial benefits can be derived as a result. (thersa.org)
There is evidence that investing in interventions which build social relationships can improve employability, improve health (which has positive economic impacts) and create savings in health and welfare expenditure. (thersa.org)
Dépression chez les personnes âgées, en particulier interventions psychothérapeutiques. (uottawa.ca)
This approach demonstrates how CBPR methodologies can support the development of pragmatic and culturally acceptable, sustainable interventions that advance health equity as well as the production of research that dismantles harmful, deficit-focused narratives about low-income communities. (cdc.gov)

BUSM researchers recruited adults with CLBP from two community health centers that serve racially diverse, low-income neighborhoods of Boston. (sciencedaily.com)
The randomized controlled trial included 320 adults with cLBP from BMC and seven surrounding community health centers. (news-medical.net)

The call for community-based participatory research approaches to address cancer health disparities is increasing as concern grows for the limited effectiveness of existing public health practice and research in communities that experience a disparate burden of disease. (cdc.gov)
A national study of participatory research projects, Research for Improved Health, funded by the National Institutes of Health (2009-2013), identified 64 of 333 projects focused on cancer and demonstrated the potential impact participatory approaches can have in reducing cancer disparities. (cdc.gov)
The national study has implications for expanding our understanding of the impact of participatory approaches on alleviating health disparities and aims to enhance our understanding of the barriers and facilitators to effective community-based participatory research. (cdc.gov)

David Meltzer and Harold Pollack, faculty directors of the Health Lab. (uchicago.edu)
We encourage students, staff, faculty and community members to attend these educational conversations lead by Métis speakers. (uregina.ca)
It is the medical school for the Mount Sinai Health System, which includes seven hospital campuses, and has more than 5,000 faculty and nearly 2,000 students, residents and fellows. (mountsinai.org)
Centre for Pacific and Global Health , hosted at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. (auckland.ac.nz)
Māpihi: Māori and Pacific Housing Research Centre , hosted at the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries. (auckland.ac.nz)
Ngā ara whetū/ Centre for Climate, Biodiversity, and Society , hosted by the Faculty of Science, co-hosted by the Business School Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Engineering. (auckland.ac.nz)
Centre for Co-Created Ageing Research CCREATE-AGE , hosted by the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. (auckland.ac.nz)
Additionally, this grant showcases the talent of senior research leaders such as Anna Rose Childress in Psychiatry and junior faculty clinician-investigators such as Jacob Dubroff in Radiology, both of whom play key roles in the center at Penn. (newswise.com)
RCHE serves as a national nucleus for driving high-impact improvement in health care delivery by mobilizing the intellectual strengths of Purdue faculty and partners. (purdue.edu)

In addition to providing a safe place to rest for the evening, wash clothes and make phone calls, the center connects individuals to a case manager and an advanced practice nurse who can provide general health assessments, order needed prescriptions, and make appointments with and referrals to service providers for mental health counseling, housing placement assistance or other supports. (uchicago.edu)
All health services in Sisimiut, except for a dental clinic, are located at the community health center, which serves as general practice facility, birth clinic, and regular hospital. (cdc.gov)
To investigate the question, the researchers reviewed medical records of 4113 patients, with a mean age of 59 years, at two Boston-based primary care sites: an urban hospital-based primary care practice and an affiliated community health center. (medscape.com)
Simonds VW, Wallerstein N, Duran B, Villegas M. Community-Based Participatory Research: Its Role in Future Cancer Research and Public Health Practice. (cdc.gov)
We strive to translate our research into effective health policy and practice. (edu.au)
Research: Its Role in Future Cancer Research and Public Health Practice. (cdc.gov)
Dr Walid Ammar is being honoured for his significant contribution to public health in Lebanon, in particular in the areas of primary health care and health policy, and for his efforts in translating research and evidence into policy, programmes and practice. (who.int)

What happens when eight Oxfordshire community groups are given access to the world-class skills, knowledge and resources of the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University researchers? (ox.ac.uk)
Each session is led by one of the local organisations that have been collaborating with university researchers this year, with opportunities to get hands-on, learn more and provide feedback to help take the work-in-progress projects to the next level. (ox.ac.uk)
study-centre or university researchers. (uab.cat)
Key members of the community (e.g., governing officials, school administration, and parent groups) and the university researchers signed the agreement. (cdc.gov)

The grant supports the center as well as a two-year study led by Profs. (uchicago.edu)
The study will measure and compare the health and criminal justice outcomes of participants and non-participants using a randomized, controlled trial method to assess instances of re-arrest, homelessness and hospitalizations. (uchicago.edu)
However, in a recent previous study, Dr. Smith and a team of Mount Sinai researchers found that patients with SDDs are likely to have heart damage from heart failure and heart attacks, or advanced heart valve disease, or strokes associated with carotid artery disease. (mountsinai.org)
This study appears in the November issue of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine . (sciencedaily.com)
Our pilot study showed that yoga is well-received in these communities and may be effective for reducing pain and pain medication use," said Saper. (sciencedaily.com)
This study was funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. (sciencedaily.com)
Doctors who led the study told CBC News in 2021 that they hoped their methods could be used as a blueprint to increase screenings in diverse communities, who tend to be underscreened for cancer. (cbc.ca)
They also study the health effects of eating seafood containing toxins produced by harmful algal blooms. (nih.gov)
Eighty percent of children lived in nuclear families with two parents, and 70% attended child-care centers during the study period. (cdc.gov)
More than 10 qualifications in health and community services will be free to study for students to better support more community service workers applying to study, thanks to Charles Darwin University (CDU). (edu.au)
We know that fees may deter some students from opting to study and start a career path in health and community services, which in turn may slow down workforce recovery efforts, which is why we are removing the barriers and making it easier on students and on industry," Ms Zelley said. (edu.au)
There is a huge shortage of early childhood educators, aged care workers and mental health professionals in the Territory, so the more students we can get in to study, the more we can get out to industry and fill the gaps. (edu.au)
The researchers will study how health and social policies and norms affect acceptance of vaccines, in general, and a future HIV vaccine, in particular. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
During the same period, the team will conduct a quantitative study of state and county-level policies that concern the immunizations in the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) vaccination schedule (e.g., the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, influenza vaccines, etc. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
Aims This study investigated the effects of simple but comprehensive cognitive health management practices on the cognitive function of older adults in the community. (researchgate.net)
Vasan Ramachandran , MD, a distinguished public health researcher at Boston University and principal investigator of the Framingham Heart Study, has been named founding dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health San Antonio. (prweb.com)
Yoga and physical therapy (PT) are effective approaches to treating co-occurring sleep disturbance and back pain while reducing the need for medication, according to a new study from Boston Medical Center (BMC). (news-medical.net)
Although the study was conducted in 16 communities and there was little time to establish relationships, researchers were able to engage the communities by inviting key partners to participate. (cdc.gov)
This inclusive approach ensured participation from a broad array of community members from the beginning of the study. (cdc.gov)
An MOA can serve as a valuable guidance document and useful tool throughout a study as an agreed-upon point of reference for researchers and community members (Davis et al. (cdc.gov)
1998. In January 2002, the Ministry of dence of pneumococcal sepsis provided a Health decided to launch a pilot study for powerful incentive for the widespread im- neonatal screening of sickle cell disease be- plementation of neonatal screening for fore expanding it at the national level. (who.int)
The NIOSH-funded UIC Center for Healthy Work's Greater Lawndale Healthy Work (GLHW) project is a sequential mixed methods community based participatory research (CBPR) study that examines work as a structural determinant of health. (cdc.gov)
METHODS: This study utilized a modified-Delphi approach to develop and validate a checklist to evaluate the minimum requirements for health units to adequately treat snakebite envenoming in the Amazon region of Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
In this study, the intervention group will receive telephone call-based social support from researchers, while the control group will receive conventional model intervention from the Community Health Center. (who.int)
The control group in this study will receive conventional intervention from the Community Health Center. (who.int)

People are expanding their views of what influences health and there have been some targeted improvements in health care and public health access. (rand.org)
One clear barrier to reaching this target is the sheer number of small water utilities that pose service sustainability and public health risks to their customers. (rand.org)
Pollack added that the project with the center is especially promising because of its interface with poverty, public health and criminal justice. (uchicago.edu)
The AIDS International Training and Research Program ( AITRP ) was the first of its kind and has built public health capacity in 100 low- and middle-income countries. (nih.gov)
Yet, investment in the leading causes of death and disability, other than cancer, has not kept pace with the public health need. (nationalacademies.org)
and a Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, was recognized for her lifetime body of historical research that demonstrates nurses' strong influence on public health, health care and the development of health care norms. (aahn.org)
NIEHS is committed to conducting the most rigorous research in environmental health sciences, and to communicating the results of this research to the public. (nih.gov)
Public health outcomes in Indiana as compared to other regions of the country are in the bottom quartile," said Melanie Cline, RN, MSN, LPC, assistant director for RCHE and interim director for CORE-ECI. (purdue.edu)
Working at the busy intersection of education, primary healthcare, emergency medical services and public health, Amy McCaffrey is an inspirational figure. (edu.au)
Although a common theory attributes the reluctance to vaccinate to misinformation, vaccines are created and rolled out within a complex social context that includes intertwined norms, public communications, and public health policies," Albarracín noted. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
In addition, the researchers will conduct an experiment to identify factors that predict public acceptance of future vaccines in general and, specifically, the willingness of MSM to take potential HIV vaccines with different side effect profiles and required doses. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
Leonard Francis Vibbi, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and research assistant at MIT GOV/LAB, has been selected as a Governance Innovation Research Fellow for a new cross-Institute initiative between MIT Governance Lab, MISTI, and the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center. (mit.edu)
Exposure to disasters and public health emergencies negatively affects mental health. (researchgate.net)
From the Big Society to the NHS Five Year Forward View , the UK Government has expressed the desire to see resilient communities that are better able to support themselves and reduce pressures on public services. (thersa.org)
Instead we call for a strategic approach on the part of public service providers and others who have an interest in developing resilient communities. (thersa.org)
Drs. Emlet and Brennan have enlisted the assistance of Sarah Brennenstuhl, a doctoral student in Public Health and the University of Toronto to assist with analysis. (washington.edu)
The new school is a strategic collaboration of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and is one of three schools of public health in The University of Texas System. (prweb.com)
Vasan is the ideal person to lead and build our city's new School of Public Health," Henrich said. (prweb.com)
His leadership of multiple studies gathering data on biological and lifestyle risk factors, his impressive track record of National Institutes of Health funding, his mentorship of diverse students, and his experience directing the first public health school in India all attest to this. (prweb.com)
Establishment of the School of Public Health and recruitment of its dean introduces a new era for UTSA's and UT Health San Antonio's shared mission to serve the public good, Eighmy said. (prweb.com)
We seek to improve public health in close partnership with the city of San Antonio , Bexar County , our research and development partners, and the health care community. (prweb.com)
This new school allows us to meet critical public health workforce needs and is a major boost to both institutions' positive momentum and commitment to being a center of excellence in public health education, service and research," he said. (prweb.com)
The new joint school of public health by UT Health Science Center San Antonio and UTSA will be a tremendous resource for San Antonio and South Texas , and the appointment of an outstanding inaugural dean demonstrates the power of this collaboration," UT System Chancellor James B. Milliken said. (prweb.com)
Launching the new School of Public Health in San Antonio is a transformative opportunity of a lifetime," Ramachandran said in a phone interview this week. (prweb.com)
We are starting the School of Public Health at a very critical time in the history of the country, the state, the city and the region. (prweb.com)
We are still in the throes of a pandemic, two and a half years plus, and this crisis has exposed how challenging it is to deal with major public health challenges on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. (prweb.com)
Much of the frontline battle of the pandemic is fought by public health workers, and yet there is a gap in infrastructure related to the training of the public health workforce, Ramachandran said. (prweb.com)
Her most significant contribution to public health research has been to bring social science theories and research methods to the development of explanations for new patterns of epidemiological risks and outcomes, including the rise of obesity in Australia and Thailand. (edu.au)
Adolescent self-harm is a major and growing public health concern. (kcl.ac.uk)
A-T-S-D-R is a federal public health agency which is responsible for preventing or reducing the harmful effects of exposure to hazardous substances on human health and quality of life. (cdc.gov)
It provides access to a wide array of public health information. (cdc.gov)
It constitutes a serious public health problem. (who.int)
Institutes of Health (NIH) on public health importance and impact. (cdc.gov)
From the mobilization actions in the community, a research was developed with the publications of the European Office of the World Health Organization that highlighted leisure noise as a public health problem and one of the forms of pollution that most affects people. (bvsalud.org)
Dr Ammar graduated from the medical college of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, in 1982, and received a master's degree in public health and a diplôme d'études approfondies from the Lebanese University in 1996. (who.int)
Since 1993, Dr Ammar has been Director-General of the Ministry of Public Health of Lebanon, bringing together a range of stakeholders to chart a vision for the welfare, rights and health care of the population in Lebanon. (who.int)
From 1996 to 1998, he directed the World Bank-financed Health Sector Rehabilitation Project, initiated by the Ministry of Public Health. (who.int)
Dr Ammar is a model for public health professionals, having served not only in government and in the academic community but also in numerous national, regional and international organizations, boards and councils. (who.int)
Throughout his distinguished career of over 35 years, he has played a leading role in global public health, in particular in addressing health inequalities. (who.int)
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is considered one of the main public health problems. (bvsalud.org)

Purpose To examine the effect of the Australian educational intervention Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) in a Danish context. (researchgate.net)
Through this process, we identified community resources to leverage and the potential challenges in implementing a multi-level intervention. (cdc.gov)

Greater Lawndale is a racially and ethnically diverse, high hardship community in Chicago in which residents are often engaged in "precarious work" - that which is unpredictable, unsafe, and exploitative in nature. (cdc.gov)

IU Health Blackford Hospital in Hartford City serves as a 15-bed critical access hospital and offers a specialty clinic, outpatient surgical services, a paramedic-level ambulance service and retail pharmacy. (purdue.edu)
IU Health Jay Hospital in Portland serves as a 25-bed critical access hospital and offers inpatient care, outpatient surgical services and several medical specialties. (purdue.edu)
They recruited a total of 122 eligible females from a hospital and two community health centers. (naturalnews.com)
In addition to conducting research, she works as part of a multidisciplinary team providing psychological services at the Regional Centre for the Treatment of Eating Disorders, the Ottawa Hospital. (uottawa.ca)

To launch the effort, Purdue received a three-year, nearly $1M grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Service Administration's Rural Communities Opioid Response Program. (purdue.edu)
We need to do better job of thinking creatively to utilize existing resources and build new ways of working together, particularly in our rural communities, so we can thrive. (purdue.edu)
We are also connected to our outreach programs in rural communities, ensuring that we are bringing recent knowledge to Oklahoma communities. (okstate.edu)
There are not a lot of places that can do what we do that are in the middle of the country, or that are positioned well to recruit from both urban and rural communities, that can do research with underserved communities like minority and Native American communities that are often overlooked. (okstate.edu)

Articles from over 1,000 nursing and allied health journals plus indexing from over 3,000 more. (mccneb.edu)
Includes several medical, nursing, and allied health encyclopedias. (mccneb.edu)
A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Communication has received a $4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify ways to increase vaccination rates. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)

The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $425 million awarded in the 2018 fiscal year. (newswise.com)
Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Justice, or the U.S. Department of Justice. (cdc.gov)

A pilot project at the TAIBU Centre aimed to increase cancer screenings through culturally sensitive materials featuring diverse staff, pamphlets in multiple languages and providers who were Black. (cbc.ca)

NIEHS offers a broad range of job opportunities, career enhancement programs, and research training grants and programs in environmental health sciences and administration. (nih.gov)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Community_Health_Metrics:_Un… We are team of 3 researchers from Eurecat, a research center in Barcelona. (wikimedia.org)

The awards support researchers pursuing projects with the potential to improve kidney cancer treatment and care. (yalecancercenter.org)
We've long sought to fill the vacuum of care left by the city closing many of its mental health institutions, which has directly affected the high population of those suffering from mental illness in our custody-who often get released after low-level crimes," Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart said. (uchicago.edu)
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion that confronts the illusion of universality in Canada's health care system. (uregina.ca)
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. (newswise.com)
Attendees from government, academia and the health care industry. (hschange.org)
The Medical Education Partnership Initiative ( MEPI ), administered by Fogarty and HRSA, is designed to increase the quantity and quality of health care workers and researchers throughout the region. (nih.gov)
These and other chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability in the United States and are a leading driver of health care costs. (nationalacademies.org)
A new directory of Black health-care professionals across Canada launched Thursday, and creators of the database say its goal is to help improve access to practitioners for Black Canadians, who often struggle to find providers that understand their culture. (cbc.ca)
The directory was created by the Black Healthcare Professionals Network, an organization founded in 2021 to advance the careers of Black professionals working in health care and engage in advocacy. (cbc.ca)
It helps to create an ecosystem within the Black health-care space where other providers can find each other and start to collaborate,' said Whyte, who works as a family doctor. (cbc.ca)
Health-care providers voluntarily sign up for the directory and are vetted to ensure their licences are in good standing, the network says. (cbc.ca)
Whyte says the directory is especially important in light of research showing that for Black people, health-care outcomes can be dependent on the race of both the provider and the patient. (cbc.ca)
In response, a team of university, health care, faith-based and local government entities have banded together to bring help to a part of rural, east-central Indiana hit hard by an exacerbated substance misuse problem. (purdue.edu)
The effort is led by Purdue Healthcare Advisors , a nonprofit health care outreach initiative that is part of Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE) at Purdue. (purdue.edu)
We are using the power of Purdue's land-grant mission for outreach in health care at the community level. (purdue.edu)
Both counties have been hit hard by economic factors and have limited health care resources. (purdue.edu)
In the past few years, IU Health has made a significant investment in east-central Indiana to increase access to health care services, including behavioral health," said David Hyatt, president of IU Health Blackford. (purdue.edu)
CDU College of Health and Human Sciences Dean Dominic Upton said the new initiative would better support workforce shortages in aged care, mental health, early childhood education and other health disciplines. (edu.au)
At the same time, the researchers will assess health-related concerns of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) community, such as the ability to receive LGBTQ+ friendly care and policies that might affect healthcare-seeking and vaccination. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)
Improving diabetes care using every tool available, including health IT, is as important as ever. (healthit.gov)
Health IT will be extremely beneficial for modernizing health care communications between doctors, nurses, and patients, and will disproportionately benefit patients with diabetes. (healthit.gov)
Taken together, this means that it is as important as ever to ensure that the numerous health care professionals caring for patients living with diabetes have the means to communicate with each other and have the information necessary to ensure appropriate, high quality, and well-coordinated care. (healthit.gov)
In the Beacons for Better Health posting that my colleague Craig Brammer and I wrote for the Health Affairs blog, we included specific examples of how two other Beacons are leveraging health IT in their communities to improve diabetes care. (healthit.gov)
In the meantime, we are interested in hearing about how health IT has helped improve diabetes care in your community. (healthit.gov)
The take-home message for practicing clinicians is that they should be especially aware of follow-up for tests or referrals ordered during telehealth visits," said corresponding author Maëlys Amat, MD, MBA, a primary care physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts. (medscape.com)
Engaging and seeking input from multiple key stakeholders (e.g., grocery store owners, health care providers, and families) is an important strategy. (cdc.gov)
Researchers have therefore proposed decentralizing to community health centers to decrease time-to-care and improve morbidity and mortality. (bvsalud.org)
Future research priorities should apply this checklist to health units in the Amazon region of Brazil to determine which community health centers are or could be capable of receiving antivenom and translate this expert-driven checklist and approach to snakebite care in other settings or other diseases in low-resource settings. (bvsalud.org)
Objective: to produce a care-educational guide for and with health professionals in an Intensive Care Unit, based on an understanding of their practices in neonatal death management. (bvsalud.org)
first 2 years of life by trained personnel who provide some combination of the following: information, support, or training regard- ing child health, development, and care. (cdc.gov)
He set up Lebanon's primary health care network in 1994. (who.int)
Mediterranean Region, and was instrumental in strengthening and developing the Lebanese health care system. (who.int)
His work as a researcher has led to the development of major studies which have been pivotal in reforming the health care system of Lebanon. (who.int)

You'll also learn about a new r2p initiative that formalizes the connection between our researchers and our construction safety and health training community. (cdc.gov)

Coalitions, including partnerships between researchers and other stakeholders, are one method used to address this challenge. (nasdonline.org)
Additionally, this review will generate publications and presentations alongside other creative knowledge translation strategies for knowledge users and stakeholders in local communities as well as the scientific community. (ualberta.ca)

At each of the three Peer Support, Wellness, and Respite Centers, we have three private rooms where peers can stay for up to a week at a time and receive peer support and respite in lieu of psychiatric hospitalization. (madinamerica.com)

NIEHS research uses state-of-the-art science and technology to investigate the interplay between environmental exposures, human biology, genetics, and common diseases to help prevent disease and improve human health. (nih.gov)
In the month of November, many Beacon Communities across the country are marking American Diabetes Month by continuing to develop new health IT strategies that can help patients and doctors better prevent and manage the disease. (healthit.gov)
Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death for Americans and it increases the risk for heart disease, stroke, and a number of other serious health complications. (healthit.gov)
The Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry today announced that there will be a meeting of the Subcommittee on January 25 -26 in Kennewick, Washington. (cdc.gov)

The discovery of morphological differences in the brainstem of infants who have died from SIDS indicates that such cases may represent immature development of centers responsible for arousal, cardiovascular, and respiratory functions. (medscape.com)

The majority of NAMCS/NHAMCS variables are publicly available and researchers are highly encouraged to conduct preliminary analyses using these data. (cdc.gov)
The center will conduct studies in select patients seeking treatment at Penn's CSA, the Kirkbride Center, the CMCVAMC in Philadelphia, and at the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven. (newswise.com)

Community-based research does not always allow for full participation of the community from start to finish, as is envisioned in the classic CBPR model. (cdc.gov)
In CBPR, the community often comes up with the research question or issue of interest based on personal experience, but in a randomized controlled trial (RCT), the funding agency or investigator generally develops the question based on pressing health issues identified from surveillance or other data sources. (cdc.gov)

Join Jamie Lerat for this one hour community lecture to hear about her experience and work bringing Indigenous knowledge into her workplaces. (uregina.ca)
SCIENCE TOGETHER is a brand new, grass-roots programme that harnesses the power of community-led collaborative research projects to overcome challenges and seize opportunities for people who live and work in Oxfordshire. (ox.ac.uk)
New research centres to work with communities on research questions to ensure sustainable responses. (auckland.ac.nz)
The centre will work with Pacific communities to tackle issues specific to Pacific peoples: non-communicable diseases, the health impact of the climate crisis, pandemic preparation and the health of children and young people. (auckland.ac.nz)
NIEHS has a goal to ensure job opportunities and career enhancements programs for both our work force and our community. (nih.gov)
The 1988 Agriculture at Risk, Report to the Nation Agricultural Occupational and Environmental Health: Policy Strategies for the Future was a result of the work of coalitions and grass roots input (Donham,1989). (nasdonline.org)
I commend and congratulate our staff and consortium partners, both new and returning, on the tremendous work collectively done over the years to advance construction worker safety and health. (cdc.gov)
His work will focus on refining Ethical Computing Protocol as a tool and resource for researchers and practitioners. (mit.edu)
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network is a collaborative network of researchers, health service providers, policy makers, community members and people with HIV who work together to promote excellence and innovation in HIV treatment, research, education in Ontario. (washington.edu)
Community work: Social workers, social educators, health staff, mediator or workers in other fields who have to face community, family or workplace conflict. (uab.cat)
As part of a community health assessment we conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 20 key informants, identified by academic researchers and community partners based on their knowledge about how work is experienced in Greater Lawndale. (cdc.gov)
This analysis allowed us to understand how the community conceptualizes precarious work and the solutions to overcoming it. (cdc.gov)

The University of Chicago Health Lab , in partnership with the Cook County Sheriff's Office, Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities and Heartland Health Outreach , has opened the Supportive Release Center to provide short-term, critical services to individuals with mental health issues who are exiting jail. (uchicago.edu)
The center is a place for individuals to pause and connect to social services and other resources that can help prevent re-incarceration and protect against the addiction or mental health problems that make them vulnerable after jail discharge. (uchicago.edu)
In collaboration with the Mayor of West Chester, the Borough Council, West Chester University, the West Chester Senior Center, we are conducting assessments of Borough services and programs. (who.int)
All health services in Greenland, including prescribed medication, are free of charge. (cdc.gov)
CDU Associate Dean VET Chrissy Zelley said CDU was keen to support the industry by providing a pipeline of workers ready to fill vital positions in health and community services. (edu.au)
The community services fee waiver is only available to domestic Australian students. (edu.au)

Both are major contributors to the health and well-being of children. (who.int)

Penn PACE is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional effort, drawing expertise from Penn's departments of Radiology and Psychiatry-including its Center for Studies of Addiction (CSA)-and Yale University's PET Center. (newswise.com)

The program engages, challenges and inspires older adults to live full, healthy, vibrant lives and enables communities to demonstrate significant improvement in successful aging. (who.int)
The high prevalence of sleep problems in adults with chronic low back pain can have detrimental effects on a person's overall health and well-being. (news-medical.net)

We are seeing small but positive changes in the appreciation of the social determinants of health and the need for broader community health investments. (rand.org)
It is, therefore, timely to produce a scoping review that will generate results that will be highly pertinent to knowledge users, the broader community and organizations around the world. (ualberta.ca)

My main areas of research are housing, homelessness, and community mental health. (uottawa.ca)
We are researcher, our main expertise lies in the metrics and analyses. (wikimedia.org)

Newswise - PHILADELPHIA- Psychiatry and radiology researchers from Penn Medicine are teaming up to create a new Center of Excellence that focuses on the use of neuroimaging to improve our understanding of opioid use disorders and find better treatments for them. (newswise.com)
Funded by a five-year, $8.9 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Penn PET Addiction Center of Excellence (PACE) will be the first of its kind dedicated to the use of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to investigate the neurobiology of people suffering from opioid use disorders. (newswise.com)

The University has committed $8.75m funding over five years to establish the centres. (auckland.ac.nz)

Combining survey data, information about state and county-level policies, and social media analyses will make it possible for the team to isolate societal trends about vaccines, health, and LGBTQ+ issues in different regions across the United States in a detailed way. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)

The health impacts of the plan would be harmful for people and the environment. (chej.org)
The objective of this manuscript was to report the community actions of a group of residents, researchers and health professionals against the impacts of leisure noise (car sound walls) in the historic center of Porto Nacional-TO, Brazil. (bvsalud.org)

The Kidney Cancer Association is a global community dedicated to serving and empowering patients and caregivers, and leading change through advocacy, research, and education in order to be the universal leader in finding the cure for kidney cancer. (yalecancercenter.org)
and understanding of the communities, organizations, neighborhoods, networks, and individuals that are the target and context of health education programs' (1993). (nasdonline.org)
His calls for action to reduce health inequalities have focused on the dual themes of "equity from the start" and empowerment of women through education and social action. (who.int)
Conclusion: Women having etonogestrel subcutaneous contraceptive implants removed early at a Pretoria community health centre tended to be young, single, unemployed, Christian, with a secondary level education and with parity one or more. (bvsalud.org)

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is expanding and accelerating its contributions to scientific knowledge of human health and the environment, and to the health and well-being of people everywhere. (nih.gov)
Health Sciences Descriptors. (bvsalud.org)
Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature. (bvsalud.org)
Serials in Health Sciences. (bvsalud.org)

Thursday's meeting will also feature a panel of scientists and medical researchers. (cdc.gov)

Through membership on the Maryland Women's Health Promotion Council, the state Cancer Council and as a member of the Women's Caucus, Legislative Committee, Pitkin assisted both professional and citizen groups in the development of their legislative programs and priorities. (wikipedia.org)
China's rapid socioeconomic development since 1990 makes it a fitting location to summarise research about how biological changes associated with socioenvironmental changes affect population mental health and, thus, lay the groundwork for subsequent, more focused studies. (researchgate.net)
This process will build a strong multidisciplinary partnership between knowledge users and researchers, useful for future knowledge translation strategies, action plans, policy development and research. (ualberta.ca)
It is concluded that the information in this report is promising for an area still under development in Brazil and that it implies interdisciplinary articulation around the effects of leisure noise on health. (bvsalud.org)

The center project partners, Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities , Heartland Health Outreach and the Cook County Sheriff's Office , originally submitted three separate applications. (uchicago.edu)
I am delighted to be working with the West Chester University and the World Health organization on this project addressing the age friendly's project. (who.int)
In our new project, we are developing a leadership safety and health training module, targeting primarily new front-line supervisors. (cdc.gov)
Data for this project was provided to the researchers through the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN). (washington.edu)
1+3: the student will complete a LISS DTP MSc in Mental Health Studies, including training in advanced quantitative, longitudinal social network analyses, and qualitative analyses to fully equip him/her to complete this project. (kcl.ac.uk)
This project will examine the relationship and underlying causal mechanisms between welfare reform, food insecurity and mental health, with a particular focus on the rise in the use of food banks since 2010 in the UK. (kcl.ac.uk)
A quick update: I talked to Patrick Earley and he informed me that the Community Health Metrics Kit project was put on ice last year due to lack of resources. (wikimedia.org)
We understand that the project is quite ambitious and we would like to involve the community and people that have already worked on the topic (for example, we have asked Aaron Halfaker to be an advisor for the project). (wikimedia.org)
We want to make a prototype dashboard as an output of the project so that the community can see the results of our metrics. (wikimedia.org)

For the first time, ecological goals are blending with human health, equity, and socialization goals. (architectmagazine.com)

The centre will research ways to progress just and ethical action on climate change and the environment. (auckland.ac.nz)
Community science, or community members collecting data and observations, helps researchers and natural resource managers learn more about wildlife, invasive species, water quality, the effects of climate change and much more. (michigan.gov)
Climate change can add to and intensify some of these health risks. (nih.gov)

Orders for tests or referrals in both centers were placed electronically through the medical record. (medscape.com)

Sharing the results of Assessments and Programs with the University, the local community, and the region. (who.int)

Everything from measuring genetics and epigenetics up to the level of brain systems, behavior, and population health. (okstate.edu)
Donate to population health research. (edu.au)

Community-Based Participatory Research: Its Role in Futur. (cdc.gov)
CDC), the American Cancer Society, and large health foundations to cultivate comprehensive and participatory research approaches (5,10). (cdc.gov)

The challenge has been to develop strategies to engage the community in the research process within a short period of time and with clear communication and agreement. (cdc.gov)

The centre said it was able to boost its screenings from 2013 to 2018 due to the program, doctors said in a 2021 paper on their findings. (cbc.ca)
Outreach and dissemination of research findings, and other safety and health information to target audiences, are a strength of these diverse coalitions. (nasdonline.org)

These smaller files allow researchers to replicate data from the NAMCS COVID-19 Dashboard. (cdc.gov)
Collecting information across five years will allow researchers to separate the effects of specific policies on MSM from factors that may correlate with those policies. (annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org)

As a partner in the effort, the Health Lab will not only evaluate the effectiveness of the center's approach, but will also help inform future efforts that will continue to build urban knowledge and improve lives for individuals and communities. (uchicago.edu)

The center began serving released individuals on June 5 and so far has served about 70 people. (uchicago.edu)
We believe this type of partnership-between a university, the government and nonprofit service providers-can really be essential, especially in cities like Chicago where people are concerned about community violence, but are also concerned about the mass incarceration problem," said Pollack. (uchicago.edu)
Barton coLAB - Young people aged 13-16 have co-created a disaster-themed immersive experience, to bring local people in their community together around an imaginary disaster scenario. (ox.ac.uk)
Researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering are investigating how wearable technology can help people with dementia live independent lives for longer. (ox.ac.uk)
in which social isolation is reduced and people experience greater wellbeing and other benefits from the better understanding, mobilisation and growth of 'community capital' in their neighbourhoods. (thersa.org)
The Connected Communities programme explored this vision by surveying residents in ward-sized localities, analysing this data for insight into local social networks and wellbeing, and then working with local people to build projects that support social connections. (thersa.org)
The activities and research presented in this report demonstrate that through working with communities this value can be grown by connecting people to one another in their local areas. (thersa.org)
There is latent power within local communities that lies in the potential of relationships between people, and it can be activated through the methods that we advocate in this paper. (thersa.org)
Demographic characteristics of people who have been worst hit are frontline workers, people of color, people who lack health insurance, mothers of young children and other vulnerable populations. (prweb.com)

As part of the trial, the researchers asked participants to report their average pain intensity for the previous week, how their function is limited due to back pain, and how much pain medication they are taking. (sciencedaily.com)

Delegate Pitkin often worked with the Maryland Commission for Women and groups such as The Maryland Women's Health Coalition to help them develop their annual legislative agendas. (wikipedia.org)

In the evening, guests will have the chance to find out more about each collaboration from the researchers, community groups and service users involved, in 'Science on the Sofa' from 7-9pm - a candid conversation hosted by Science Together lead, Oli Moore. (ox.ac.uk)
With this new center, researchers from radiology, psychiatry, and addiction science will come together to employ innovative PET approaches that can yield new insights into key neural mechanisms underlying these disorders. (newswise.com)
A resource for kids, parents, and teachers to find fun and educational materials related to health, science, and the environment we live in today. (nih.gov)
Since 2004, NIEHS and the National Science Foundation jointly fund research on marine-related health issues through the Centers for Oceans and Human Health and through individual research projects focusing on oceans and the Great Lakes in relation to human health. (nih.gov)

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