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Communicating with pictures: perceptions of cardiovascular health among Asian immigrants.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19903905 [PubMed - in process] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Fitzpatrick AL, Steinman LE, Tu SP, Ly KA, Ton TG, Yip MP, Sin MK Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Impact of Environmental Justice Investments.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19890142 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Olden K Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Community-Engaged Environmental Justice Research at University of Massachusetts Lowell.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19890143 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Siqueira CE Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Environmental Justice: A Continuing Commitment to an Evolving Concept.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19890144 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Birnbaum LS, Zenick H, Branche CM Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The Union RAP: Industry-Wide Research-Action Projects to Win Health and Safety Improvements.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Unions are ripe to engage in community-based participatory research (CBPR). We briefly profile 3 United Steelworker CBPR projects aimed at uncovering often-undocumented, industry-wide health and safety conditions in which US industrial workers toil. The results are to be used to advocate improvements at workplace, industry, and national policy levels. We offer details of our CBPR approach (Research-Action Project [RAP]) that engages workers and others in all research stages. Elements of RAPs include strategically constructed teams with knowledge of the industry and health and safety and with skills in research, partici...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bradley-Bull K, McQuiston TH, Lippin TM, Anderson LG, Beach MJ, Frederick J, Seymour TA Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The Vida Verde Women's Co-Op: Brazilian Immigrants Organizing to Promote Environmental and Social Justice.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We reviewed the key steps in the launch of the Vida Verde Women's Co-Op among Brazilian immigrant housecleaners in Somerville, MA. The co-op provides green housecleaning products, encourages healthy work practices, and promotes a sense of community among its members. We conducted in-depth interviews with 8 of the first co-op members, who reported a reduction in symptoms associated with the use of traditional cleaning agents and a new sense of mutual support. Critical to the co-op's success have been the supportive roles of its academic partners (Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell), effective m...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gute DM, Siqueira E, Goldberg JS, Galvão H, Chianelli M, Pirie A Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Health, Traffic, and Environmental Justice: Collaborative Research and Community Action in San Francisco, California.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Health impacts on neighborhood residents from transportation systems can be an environmental justice issue. To assess the effects of transportation planning decisions, including the construction of an intraurban freeway, on residents of the Excelsior neighborhood in southeast San Francisco, PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights), a local grassroots environmental justice organization; the San Francisco Department of Public Health; and the University of California, Berkeley, collaborated on participatory research. We used our findings regarding traffic-related exposures and health hazards i...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Wier M, Sciammas C, Seto E, Bhatia R, Rivard T Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Shelley Davis: Public Health Advocate at the Service of the Farmworker.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19890148 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baron S, Liebman AK, Ruiz V, Steege AL Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Rallying Point Charles Lee's Long-Standing Career in Environmental Justice.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19890149 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Morrison DS Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Development of the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit Network in North America.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Training in environmental health in general, and pediatric environmental health in particular, is inadequate. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry began to develop pediatric environmental health specialty units (PEHSUs) after noting the dearth of practitioners who could evaluate and manage children with exposures to environmental health hazards. The Environmental Protection Agency subsequently joined in providing support for what has developed into a network of 13 PEHSUs in North America. PEHSUs provide services to families, act as consultants to clinicians and public agencies, develop educational mater...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Paulson JA, Karr CJ, Seltzer JM, Cherry DC, Sheffield PE, Cifuentes E, Buka I, Amler RW Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Partnerships for Environmental and Occupational Justice: Contributions to Research, Capacity and Public Health.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In 1994, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) initiated a program to address communication gaps between community residents, researchers and health care providers in the context of disproportionate environmental exposures. Over 13 years, together with the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, NIEHS funded 54 environmental justice projects. Here we examine the methods used and outcomes produced based on data gathered from summaries submitted for annual grantees' meetings. Data highlight how projects fulfilled program objectives of improving ...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baron S, Sinclair R, Payne-Sturges D, Phelps J, Zenick H, Collman GW, O'Fallon LR Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Transferring Knowledge About Human Subjects Protections and the Role of Institutional Review Boards in a Community-Based Participatory Research Project.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We present findings from the process evaluation of this project and suggest ways to (1) assess community partners' understanding about working with research volunteers, (2) train collaborators, and (3) involve IRBs. PMID: 19890152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hyatt RR, Gute DM, Pirie A, Page H, Vasquez I, Dalembert F Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The Role for Community-Based Participatory Research in Formulating Policy Initiatives: Promoting Safety and Health for In-Home Care Workers and Their Consumers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We describe a case study to illustrate how alliances among various community partners could be united to formulate policy directions. In collaboration with partners, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health initiated a project aimed at improving health and safety for low-income elderly and disabled persons and their in-home care workers. Community partners and stakeholders participated in focus groups, stakeholder interviews, and meetings; they played multiple roles including identifying organizational policy changes the partners could initiate immediately, as well as broader public policy goals. Results i...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gong F, Baron S, Ayala L, Stock L, McDevitt S, Heaney C Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Community Campaigns, Supply Chains, and Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Workers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The growth of contingent work (also known as precarious employment), the informal sector, and business practices that diffuse employer responsibility for worker health and safety (such as outsourcing and the development of extended national and international contracting networks [supply chains]) pose a serious threat to occupational health and safety that disproportionately affects low-wage, ethnic minority, and immigrant workers. Drawing on cases from the United States and Australia, we examine the role that community-based campaigns can play in meeting these challenges, including several successful campaigns that inc...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Quinlan M, Sokas RK Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Lead Poisoning in the United States.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19890155 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baron SL, Brown TM Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Alice Hamilton (1869-1970): Mother of US Occupational Medicine.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19890156 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Baron SL, Brown TM Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Occupational Health, Mercury Exposure, and Environmental Justice: Learning From Experiences in Tanzania.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article examines efforts of the United Nations to address occupational health and environmental justice amid these challenges, focusing on a 3-year campaign in one of the fastest-growing mining communities in Tanzania. By providing an integrative analysis of environmental health risks, labor practices, public health policies, and drivers of social inequity and marginalization, this study highlights the need for interdisciplinary public health approaches that support community development by strengthening local capacities. It illustrates why, to ensure that the needs of vulnerable populations are met, environmental jus...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Spiegel SJ Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The Politics of Plastics: The Making and Unmaking of Bisphenol A "Safety"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic chemical used in the production of plastics since the 1950s and a known endocrine disruptor, is a ubiquitous component of the material environment and human body. New research on very-low-dose exposure to BPA suggests an association with adverse health effects, including breast and prostate cancer, obesity, neurobehavioral problems, and reproductive abnormalities. These findings challenge the long-standing scientific and legal presumption of BPA's safety. The history of how BPA's safety was defined and defended provides critical insight into the questions now facing lawmakers and regulato...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vogel SA Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Completing the Circle: A Model for Effective Community Review of Environmental Health Research.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While it is well understood that multiple and cumulative environmental stressors negatively impact health at the community level, existing ethical research review procedures are designed to protect individual research participants but not communities. Increasing concerns regarding the ethical conduct of research in general and environmental and genetic research in particular underscore the need to expand the scope of current human participant research regulations and ethical guidelines to include protections for communities. In an effort to address this issue, West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), a nonprofit, com...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Watkins BX, Shepard PM, Corbin-Mark CD Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

A Community-Based Participatory Worksite Intervention to Reduce Pesticide Exposures to Farmworkers and Their Families.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We evaluated a community-based participatory research worksite intervention intended to improve farmworkers' behaviors at work and after work to reduce occupational and take-home pesticide exposures. The workers received warm water and soap for hand washing, gloves, coveralls, and education. Self-reported assessments before and after the intervention revealed that glove use, wearing clean work clothes, and hand washing at the midday break and before going home improved significantly. Some behaviors, such as hand washing before eating and many targeted after-work behaviors, did not improve, indicating a need for additio...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Salvatore AL, Chevrier J, Bradman A, Camacho J, López J, Kavanagh-Baird G, Minkler M, Eskenazi B Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Pesticide Exposure and Occupational Safety Training of Indigenous Farmworkers in Oregon.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This follow-up study assessed indigenous and Latino farmworkers' occupational health and safety needs and measured variables related to pesticide exposure and pesticide safety training among this population. Results yielded differences between indigenous workers and Latino workers related to language barriers, experiences of workplace discrimination, preferred modes of information dissemination, pesticide exposures, and sufficiency of pesticide training. Employing more people who speak indigenous languages as interpreters, community and organizational leaders, and health workers may remove some of the linguistic and cu...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Samples J, Bergstad EA, Ventura S, Sanchez V, Farquhar SA, Shadbeh N Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Community Collaborations for Farmworker Health in New York and Maine: Process Analysis of Two Successful Interventions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We conducted a process evaluation of 2 successful farmworker community-based participatory research intervention development projects (in Maine and New York State). Participant surveys measured satisfaction with the program process. We used qualitative methods to analyze free-text responses. Respondents indicated high satisfaction levels overall. The main concern was long-distance project coordination. Community-based participatory research programs in which (1) the work team defines the target health issue, (2) agricultural employers are meaningfully included, and (3) interventions are carried through to completion, w...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Earle-Richardson G, Sorensen J, Brower M, Hawkes L, May JJ Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

High Point Walking for Health: Creating Built and Social Environments That Support Walking in a Public Housing Community.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: A multicomponent intervention developed through participatory research methods that emphasized walking groups and included additional strategies to change the built and social environments increased walking activity at a public housing site in Seattle. PMID: 19890163 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Krieger J, Rabkin J, Sharify D, Song L Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Linking Exposure Assessment Science With Policy Objectives for Environmental Justice and Breast Cancer Advocacy: The Northern California Household Exposure Study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Indoor air quality is an important indicator of the cumulative impact of outdoor emissions in fence-line communities. Policies based on outdoor monitoring alone add to environmental injustice concerns in communities that host polluters. Community-based participatory exposure research can contribute to science and stimulate and inform action on the part of community residents and policymakers. PMID: 19890164 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Brody JG, Morello-Frosch R, Zota A, Brown P, Pérez C, Rudel RA Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Malodor as a Trigger of Stress and Negative Mood in Neighbors of Industrial Hog Operations.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Hog odor, hydrogen sulfide, and semivolatile PM(10) are related to stress and negative mood in disproportionately low-income communities near industrial hog operations in eastern North Carolina. Malodor should be considered in studies of health impacts of environmental injustice. PMID: 19890165 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Horton RA, Wing S, Marshall SW, Brownley KA Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

"Pesticides Protect the Fruit, but Not the People": Using Community-Based Ethnography to Understand Farmworker Pesticide-Exposure Risks.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: We elucidated farmworkers' pesticide-relevant beliefs regarding perceived danger and susceptibility to pesticides, the need to put safety second to financial considerations, and reasons for delaying decontamination. Researchers and policymakers should incorporate these data in study designs and legislation concerned with farmworker exposure to pesticides. PMID: 19890166 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Snipes SA, Thompson B, O'Connor K, Shell-Duncan B, King D, Herrera AP, Navarro B Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Global Goods Movement and the Local Burden of Childhood Asthma in Southern California.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Both Long Beach and Riverside have heavy automobile traffic corridors as well as truck traffic and regional pollution originating in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, the largest in the United States. Community-based quantitative risk analyses can improve our understanding of health problems and help promote public health in transportation planning. PMID: 19890167 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Perez L, Künzli N, Avol E, Hricko AM, Lurmann F, Nicholas E, Gilliland F, Peters J, McConnell R Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The Influence of Traffic on Air Quality in an Urban Neighborhood: A Community-University Partnership.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Unlike fine particulate matter, ultrafine particles demonstrate significant spatial and temporal variability within an urban neighborhood, contributing to environmental justice concerns, and patterns can be well characterized with a community-based participatory research design. PMID: 19890168 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Buonocore JJ, Lee HJ, Levy JI Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Association of Sleep Adequacy With More Healthful Food Choices and Positive Workplace Experiences Among Motor Freight Workers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Adequate sleep is associated with more healthful food choices and may mediate the effects of workplace experiences. Thus, workplace health programs should be responsive to workers' sleep patterns. PMID: 19890169 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Buxton OM, Quintiliani LM, Yang MH, Ebbeling CB, Stoddard AM, Pereira LK, Sorensen G Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Alcohol Advertising on Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Transit System: An Assessment of Youths' and Adults' Exposure.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Advertisers reached the equivalent of half of all Boston Public School transit passengers aged 11 to 18 years and the equivalent of nearly half of all transit passengers in the Boston area with an alcohol advertisement each day. Because of the high exposure of underage youths to alcohol advertisements, we recommend that the MBTA prohibit alcohol advertising on the Boston transit system. PMID: 19890170 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nyborn JA, Wukitsch K, Nhean S, Siegel M Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Residential Proximity to Polluting Industrial Facilities: Evidence From the Americans' Changing Lives Study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results add to the historical record demonstrating significant disparities in exposures to environmental hazards in the US population and provide a paradigm for studying changes over time in links to health. PMID: 19890171 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mohai P, Lantz PM, Morenoff J, House JS, Mero RP Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Impact of a Household Environmental Intervention Delivered by Lay Health Workers on Asthma Symptom Control in Urban, Disadvantaged Children With Asthma.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Lay health educators effectively reduced asthma triggers and increased caregiver asthma knowledge, which resulted in reduced emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and asthma symptoms. The relationships formed between the caregivers and the lay health educators appeared to positively impact asthma outcomes in this disadvantaged population. PMID: 19890172 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Bryant-Stephens T, Kurian C, Guo R, Zhao H Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The Economic Cost of Environmental Factors Among North Carolina Children Living in Substandard Housing.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Direct and indirect costs associated with environmental factors appear to be increasing at about twice the rate of medical inflation. More aggressive policies and funding are needed to reduce the substantial financial impact of childhood illnesses associated with substandard housing in North Carolina. PMID: 19890173 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Chenoweth D, Estes C, Lee C Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The Health Impacts of Housing Improvement: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies From 1887 to 2007.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Housing improvements, especially warmth improvements, can generate health improvements; there is little evidence of detrimental health impacts. The potential for health benefits may depend on baseline housing conditions and careful targeting of the intervention. Investigation of socioeconomic impacts associated with housing improvement is needed to investigate the potential for longer-term health impacts. PMID: 19890174 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Thomson H, Thomas S, Sellstrom E, Petticrew M Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Material Resources and Population Health: Disadvantages in Health Care, Housing, and Food Among Adults Over 50 Years of Age.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Material disadvantages, which are highly policy relevant, appear related to health in ways not captured by education and poverty. Policies to improve health should address a range of basic human needs, rather than health care alone. PMID: 19890175 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Alley DE, Soldo BJ, Pagán JA, McCabe J, Deblois M, Field SH, Asch DA, Cannuscio C Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

A Computerized, Self-Administered Questionnaire to Evaluate Posttraumatic Stress Among Firefighters After the World Trade Center Collapse.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: This screening tool effectively identified elevated PTSD risk, higher CSU use, and functional impairment among firefighters and therefore may be useful in allocating scarce postdisaster mental health resources. PMID: 19890176 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Corrigan M, McWilliams R, Kelly KJ, Niles J, Cammarata C, Jones K, Wartenberg D, Hallman WK, Kipen HM, Glass L, Schorr JK, Feirstein I, Prezant DJ Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Sharps Injuries and Other Blood and Body Fluid Exposures Among Home Health Care Nurses and Aides.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Sharps injuries and other blood and body fluid exposures are serious hazards for home health care nurses and aides. Improvements in hazard intervention are needed. PMID: 19890177 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Quinn MM, Markkanen PK, Galligan CJ, Kriebel D, Chalupka SM, Kim H, Gore RJ, Sama SR, Laramie AK, Davis L Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

One Year Later: Mental Illness Prevalence and Disparities Among New Orleans Residents Displaced by Hurricane Katrina.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of mental illness remained high in the year following Hurricane Katrina, in contrast to the pattern found after other disasters. Economic losses and displacement may account for this finding as well as the disparity in mental illness between Blacks and Whites. PMID: 19890178 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - November 1, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sastry N, Vanlandingham M Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Year 2009 AJPH Reviewer of the Year.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19820209 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Northridge ME, Rochel de Camargo K, Brown TM Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Year 2009 AJPH Author of the Year.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19820210 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Holtzman D, Horowitz AM, Friedman JW Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Governor James J. Florio A Fighter for Environmental Issues.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19820211 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Heines V Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

"CHOLERA FORCING" The Myth of the Good Epidemic and the Coming of Good Water.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It has been frequently claimed that cholera epidemics, both in the 19th century and today, were and can be the key stimulus for procurement of safe water and sanitation, an idea that I call "cholera forcing." "Technology forcing" refers to imposition of exogenous factors that suddenly make possible achievements that had not seemed so; cholera has been seen in this light. I argue that this view oversimplifies and underrepresents the importance of industrialization in securing water supplies. Careful study of the financial, political, and administrative foundations of such changes will be more fruitful. PMID: 1982021...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hamlin C Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Mental Health Disparities.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Mental health disparities have received increased attention in the literature in recent years. After considering 165 different health disparity conditions, the Federal Collaborative for Health Disparities Research chose mental health disparity as one of four topics warranting its immediate national research attention. In this essay, we describe the challenges and opportunities encountered in developing a research agenda to address mental health disparities in the United States. Varying definitions of mental health disparity, the heterogeneity of populations facing such disparity, and the power, complexity, and intertwi...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Safran MA, Mays RA, Huang LN, McCuan R, Pham PK, Fisher SK, McDuffie KY, Trachtenberg A Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Density of Tobacco Retailers Near Schools: Effects on Tobacco Use Among Students.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results support the plausibility of reducing rates of students' experimental smoking, but not established smoking, by restricting their access to commercial sources of tobacco in urban areas. PMID: 19820214 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: McCarthy WJ, Mistry R, Lu Y, Patel M, Zheng H, Dietsch B Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Patterns of Cigarette Smoking Initiation in Two Culturally Distinct American Indian Tribes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Our findings underscore the need to implement tobacco prevention and control measures within American Indian communities. PMID: 19820215 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - October 13, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Nez Henderson P, Kanekar S, Wen Y, Buchwald D, Goldberg J, Choi W, Okuyemi KS, Ahluwalia J, Henderson JA Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

H1N1 flu and the Tartar Steppe.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19797733 [PubMed - in process] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - September 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Tarantola D Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

The strongest prescription of all: a week in the woods.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As the sun sets behind the first campfire, children's faces are silhouetted in the darkness. In this moment and the days to follow at Camp Sunrise, it is impossible to tell who is living with HIV/AIDS and who is not. According to Jina Gonzalez, that is precisely the point of camps-like Ohio-based Camp Sunrise-that are devoted to serving children affected by HIV/AIDS. PMID: 19797734 [PubMed - in process] (Source: American Journal of Public Health)
Source: American Journal of Public Health - September 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Swartz A Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

A primer on strategies for prevention and control of seasonal and pandemic influenza.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The United States has made considerable progress in pandemic preparedness. Limited attention, however, has been given to the challenges faced by populations that will be at increased risk of the consequences of the pandemic, including challenges caused by societal, economic, and health-related factors. This supplement to the American Journal of Public Health focuses on the challenges faced by at-risk and vulnerable populations in preparing for and responding to an influenza pandemic. Here, we provide background information for subsequent articles throughout the supplement. We summarize (1) seasonal influenza epidemiolo...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - September 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Santibañez S, Fiore AE, Merlin TL, Redd S Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Estimating influenza-associated deaths in the United States.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Most estimates of US deaths associated with influenza circulation have been similar despite the use of different approaches. However, a recently published estimate suggested that previous estimates substantially overestimated deaths associated with influenza, and concluded that substantial numbers of deaths during a future pandemic could be prevented because of improvements in medical care. We reviewed the data sources and methods used to estimate influenza-associated deaths. We suggest that discrepancies between the recent estimate and previous estimates of the number of influenza-associated deaths are attributable pr...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - September 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Thompson WW, Moore MR, Weintraub E, Cheng PY, Jin X, Bridges CB, Bresee JS, Shay DK Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals

Protecting vulnerable populations from pandemic influenza in the United States: a strategic imperative.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Protecting vulnerable populations from pandemic influenza is a strategic imperative. The US national strategy for pandemic influenza preparedness and response assigns roles to governments, businesses, civic and community-based organizations, individuals, and families. Because influenza is highly contagious, inadequate preparedness or untimely response in vulnerable populations increases the risk of infection for the general population. Recent public health emergencies have reinforced the importance of preparedness and the challenges of effective response among vulnerable populations. We explore definitions and determin...
Source: American Journal of Public Health - September 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hutchins SS, Truman BI, Merlin TL, Redd SC Tags: Am J Public Health Source Type: journals