Submissions from 2020
Kernel density estimation based on progressive type-II censoring, Amal Helu, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert Vogel
Feasibility of Long Acting Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in Rural Communities, William A. Mase and Ellie Purdy
Social Media Use in Emergency Response to Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review With a Public Health Perspective, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Sylvia K. Ofori, Lauren C. Bayliss, Jessica S. Schwind, Kadiatou Diallo, Manyun Liu, Jingjing Yin, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Submissions from 2019
The Ethics of Parental Refusal to Vaccinate: Costs, Community Safety, and Individual Rights, Olatanwa Adewale, Carla Cooper, Pascal Felix, Ashley K. Mitchell, Justin Savage, and William A. Mase
Effingham Health System: Community Health Needs Assessment: 2019-2021, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden
Local Health Department Engagement in Access to Mental Health Services and Mental Health Policy or Advocacy Activities, Abraham Ater, Sushma Kurella, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
The Impact of Interpersonal Support, Supervisory Support, and Employee Engagement on Employee Turnover Intentions: Differences Between Financially Distressed and Highly Financially Distressed Hospitals, Kwabena G. Boakye, Bettye A. Apenteng, Mark Hanna, Linda G. Kimsey, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, and Angela Peden
Safe Sleep Environment Focus Group Report, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Nandi Marshall, R. Ewesesan, Michela Hizine, and A. Moore
E-Waste Disposal from Major Ports: Policies & Ethical Considerations, L. Davis, Joshua Dufresne, and William A. Mase
Adopting YouTube to Promote Health: Analysis of State Health Departments, Carmen H. Duke, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Elizabeth Blankenship, Sewuese Akuse, Gulzar H. Shah, Chung-Hong Chan, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Pedagogical Demonstration of Twitter Data Analysis: A Case Study of World AIDS Day, 2014, Isaac Fung, Jingjing Yin, Keisha D. Pressley, Carmen Duke, Chen Mo, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, and Su-I Hou
Breastfeeding Practices in Georgia: Rural‐Urban Comparison and Trend Analyses Based on 2004‐2013 PRAMS Data, Whitney N. Hamilton and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Health Behaviors in Rural Appalachia, Aasha I. Hoogland, Charles Hoogland, Shoshana H. Bardach, Yelena N. Tarasenko, and Nancy Schoenberg
Increasing Steps in Sedentary College Students with Self–Monitoring and Social Feedback, Hafsa Junaid, Monique Benjamin, Talia Wind, Andrew Bulla, and Dziyana Nazaruk
A New Measure of Diagnostic Accuracy with Cut-point Selection Criterion for K-stage Diseases Using Concordance and Discordance, Jing Kersey, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Xinyan Zhang, and Chen Mo
Chapter 3 - Case study: Does PM2.5 contribute to the incidence of lung and bronchial cancers in the United States?, Jing Kersey and Jingjing Yin
Clinch Memorial Hospital: Strategic Plan: 2019-2021, Linda Kimsey, Bettye A. Apenteng, William Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Angela Peden
Clinch Memorial Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Linda G. Kimsey, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Angela Peden, Devin Hatchett, Imaobong Ekpo, Michela Hizine, and Oluwadamilola Onifade
Environmental Scan and Outmigration Analysis, Linda G. Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, William A. Mase, Charles F. Owens, and Angela Peden
Hancock County Community Based Participatory SWOT Analysis: Community-Clinical Linkages, Linda G. Kimsey, Angela Peden, John Peden, Thomas Sweeney, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, Oluwadamilola Onifade, Devin Hatchett, and Samantha Finn
Decision Making, Analytics, and Communications in Health Organizations, Gerald R. Ledlow and James H. Stephens
How did Ebola information spread on twitter: broadcasting or viral spreading?, Hai Liang, Isaac Fung, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Chung-Hong Chan, Laura E. Pechta, Belinda J. Smith, Rossmary D. Marquez-Lameda, Martin I. Meltzer, Keri M. Lubell, and King-Wa Fu
Ethical Approaches to Mandating Influenza Vaccinations for Local Health Department Workforce in Georgia, Melicent R. Miller, Maureen K. Akubu-Odero, LaShauna L. Hunt, Stephanie L. Irvin, Catherine T. Palmer, and William A. Mase
Applications of Generalized Kullback-Leibler Divergence as a Measure of Medical Diagnostic and Cut-Point Criterion for K-Stages Diseases, Chen Mo, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Xinyan Zhang, and Jing Kersey
Health Care Provider Support for Physical Activity in Women, Aged 20-44 Years, in Georgia: A Qualitative Study, Dziyana Nazaruk, Stuart H. Tedders, and Andrew Hansen
Factors Associated with Continuous Improvement by Local Boards of Health, Tran Ha Nguyen, Gulzar H. Shah, Rachel D. Schwartz, and Jeffery A. Jones
Hancock County Community Based Participatory SWOT Analysis: Nutrition Strategy, Angela Peden, Linda Kimsey, John Peden, Thomas Sweeney, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, and Imaobong Ekpo
North Central Health District Supervisor Evaluation Results, Angela Peden, Charles F. Owens, Michela Hizine, and A. Moore
Association Between Accreditation Engagement and Using the Community Guide for Preventive Services by Local Health Departments, Assegid Roba, Brianna Williams, Kristie Cason Waterfield, and Gulzar H. Shah
Diversifying Data: A Precision Medicine Approach to Improving Health Outcomes. Health Informatics Innovations and Applications Series, Kimberly Rodgers and Gulzar H. Shah
On Kernel-Based Mode Estimation Using Different Stratified Sampling Designs, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, and Robert L. Vogel
On Kullback-leibler Divergence as a Measure for Medical Diagnostics and Cut-point Selection Criterion, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Xinyan Zhang, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, and Robert L. Vogel
Evaluating Web-Based Platforms and Traditional Methods for Recruiting Tattoo Artists: Descriptive Survey Research Study, Jessica Sapp, Robert L. Vogel, Joseph Telfair, and Julie K. Reagan
Twitter Conversations and English News Media Reports on Poliomyelitis in Five Different Countries, January 2014 to April 2015, Braydon J. Schaible, Kassandra R. Snook, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, Muhling Chong, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Isaac Chun-Hai
The State of the US Governmental Public Health Workforce, 2014–2017, Katie Sellers, Jonathon P. Leider, Elizabeth Gould, Brian C. Castrucci, Angela J. Beck, Kyle Bogaert, Fátima Coronado, Gulzar H. Shah, Valerie A. Yeager, Leslie M. Beitsch, and Paul C. Erwin
Role of Data in Promoting Diversity & Inclusion in Public Health Institutions of Higher Education, Gulzar H. Shah
Local Health Departments' Engagement in Addressing Health Disparities: The Effect of Health Informatics, Gulzar H. Shah, William A. Mase, and Kristie Waterfield
Publishing on Topics in Public Health Informatics for a Quarter Century, Gulzar H. Shah and Valerie N. Rogers
Emergency Preparedness Then and Now: Lhds' Activities, Response to Events, Funding, and Volunteer-engagement: 2005, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2016, Gulzar H. Shah and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Promoting Social Determinants of Health Services: Informatics is the Answer, Gulzar H. Shah and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Data travels at the speed of trust: Population health informatics for population health. Health Informatics Innovations and Applications Series, Gulzar H. Shah, Kristie Cason Waterfield, and Anjum Khurshid
Employee Perceptions about Public Health Agencies’ Desired Involvement in Impacting Health Equity and Other Social Determinants of Health, Gulzar H. Shah, Jingjing Yin, Jessica L. Owens-Young, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Impacting Health Equity and Other Social Determinants of Health: Public Health Workforce Perspectives, Gulzar H. Shah, Jingjing Yin, Jessica L. Owens-Young, and Kristie Cason Waterfield
Leadership Characteristics of Local Health Department Top Executives and Their Impact on Service Provisions, Kristie Cason Waterfield and Gulzar H. Shah
Issue of Compliance with Use of Personal Protective Equipment among Wastewater Workers across the Southeast Region of the United States, Tamara L. Wright, Atin Adhikari, Jingjing Yin, Robert L. Vogel, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Gulzar H. Shah
Twitter Users’ Opinion and Reactions Toward Autism Awareness Campaign Message, Jingjing Yin, Sushmita Khan, and Jeffrey P. Kaleta
Social Media Usage and Influenza Beliefs, Risk Perceptions and Behavioral Intentions Among Students at a University in Southeastern US, Jingjing Yin, Pei-Ling Tseng, Kotwoallama Reine Zerbo, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Levi Ross, and Isaac Fung
Chapter 2 - Statistical analysis for air pollution data, Jingjing Yin, Hao Zhang, and Lixin Li
Submissions from 2018
Wood Dust and Nanoparticle Exposure Among Workers During a New Building Construction, Atin Adhikari, Aniruddha Mitra, Abbas Rashidi, Imaobong Ekpo, Jefferson Doehling, Alexis Pawlak, Shane Lewis, and Jacob Schwartz
World Pneumonia Day 2011–2016: Twitter Contents and Retweets, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, Nitin Saroha, Benjamin M. Althouse, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Utilization of Scrap Tires Versus Firewood and Liquefied Petroleum Gas as Fuels for Singeing Meat in Ghana: Chemical Emissions via Smoke, Evans Afriyie-Gyawu, A. Brown, M. Rao, Atin Adhikari, and Hani M. Samawi
Exploring Childhood Obesity Perceptions Among Caregivers of African American Children, Dayna Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, and Dziyana Nazaruk
Assessing Child Body Mass Index Perceptions Among African American Caregivers in a Rural Community, Dayna S. Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, Chunhua Cao, and Andrew R. Hansen
Bacon County Hospital and Health System: 2019-2022 Strategic Plan, Bettye A. Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, and Charles Owens
The Effect of Power Outages on In-Facility Mortality in Healthcare Facilities: Evidence From Ghana, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Daniel Ansong, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, and Evans Afriyie-Gyawu
Understanding Epidemiologists Who Serve as Preceptors, Jessica Arrazola, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Jingjing Yin, and Elizabeth Harper
What We Know About Students in Recovery: Meta-Synthesis of Collegiate Recovery, Robert D. Ashford, Austin M. Brown, Emily Eisenhart, Anne Thompson-Heller, and Brenda Curtis
The Impact of Tides on Microbial Water Quality at an Inland River Beach, Asli Aslan, Kendell W. Anderson, and Asheley Chapman
Legionella Occurrence in Hot Water Tanks in Rural Drinking Water Systems, Asli Aslan, S. Barron, and Zachariah A. Coles
Challenges to Remove the Antibiotic Resistant Escherichia coli for Wastewater Reuse, Asli Aslan, Zachariah A. Coles, Anunay Bhattacharya, and Kendell W. Anderson
Eastern Equine Encephalitis and YouTube Videos: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Christina C. Yarborough, Christopher R. Rustin, and Jingjing Yin
Eastern Equine Encephalitis and YouTube Videos: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, Elizabeth Blankenship, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Christina C. Yarborough, R. Christopher Rustin, and Jingjing Yin
Fluoride-Related Youtube Videos: A Cross-Sectional Study, Corey H. Basch, Elizabeth Blankenship, Mary Goff, Jingjing Yin, Charles E. Basch, Aurea J. DeLeon, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
YouTube as a Source of Information on Skin Bleaching: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, A. A. Brown, M. D. Fullwood, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Jingjing Yin
Public Online Information About Tinnitus: A Cross-Sectional Study of Youtube Videos, Corey H. Basch, Jingjing Yin, Betty Kollia, Adeyemi Adedokun, Stephanie Trusty, Felicia Yeboah, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Sentiment, Contents and Retweets: A Study of Two Vaccine-Related Twitter Data Sets, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Mary Elizabeth Goff, Jingjing Yin, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, King-Wa Fu, Hai Liang, Nitin Saroha, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Health Care Disparities Among Octogenarians and Nonagenarians With Stage III Lung Cancer, Richard J. Cassidy, Xinyan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, Pretesh R. Patel, Joseph W. Shelton, Sibo Tian, Ronica H. Nanda, Conor E. Steuer, Rathi N. Pillai, Taofeek K. Owonikoko, Suresh S. Ramalingam, Felix G. Fernandez, Seth D. Force, Theresa W. Gillespie, Walter J. Curran, and Kristin A. Higgins
Analysis of Food Service Operation Risk Classification and Associated Food Safety Violation Frequency, Patrick Chang, Haresh Rochani, William A. Mase, Jeffery A. Jones, and Asli Aslan
Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Mortality among Hispanic Women - Sub-Ethnic Disparities and Survival Trend across Time: An Analysis of SEER 1992-2013, Chen Chen, Talar Markossian, Abigail Silva, and Yelena Tarasenko
Self-efficacy and Leisure-time Physical Activity Levels Among Rural Residents, Gabriele Ciciurkaite, Yelena Tarasenko, and Nancy Schoenberg
Triggering of Coronary Heart Disease by Infection Type: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Logan T. Cowan, Pamela L. Lutsey, Jim S. Pankow, Kunihiro Matsushita, and Junichi Ishigami
Black Mother's Intention to Vaccinate Daughters Against HPV: A Mixed Methods Approach to Identify Opportunities for Targeted Communication, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Laura Forbes, Nataliya Ivankova, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Kendria Kelly-Taylor, and Jason Deakings
A Physician’s Recommendation for HPV Vaccination: What Makes African American Mothers Compliant?, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Kendria Kelly-Taylor, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Jason Deakings, and Luara L. Talbott
Fish Consumption Is Associated With a Decreased Risk of Death Among Adults With Diabetes: 18-Year Follow-Up of a National Cohort, Abraham Deng, Anunay Bhattacharya, Congjian Liu, Jingjing Yin, Levi Ross, and Jian Zhang
The Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium: Translating Evidence‐based Guidelines Into Practice for Sickle Cell Disease, Lisa D. DiMartino, Ana A. Baumann, Lewis Hsu, Julie Kanter, Victor R. Gordeuk, Jeffrey Glassberg, Marsha J. Treadwell, Cathy L. Melvin, Joseph Telfair, Lisa M. Klesges, Allison King, Ted Wun, Nirmish Shah, Robert Gibson, and Jane S. Hankins
Toward a National Conversation on Health: Disruptive Intervention and the Transformation from Health Care to Health, Kevin A. Dorrance, Dennis A. Robbins, Linda Kimsey, Jeffrey S. LaRochelle, and Steven J. Durning
Other Rickettsial Species, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Teaching Support—Training and Supporting Teaching Assistants, R. Gregory Evans
The Intersection of Pandemics and Biopreparedness, R. Gregory Evans
Contents, Followers and Retweets of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (@CDC_AMD) Twitter Profile: Cross-Sectional Study, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsey A. Mullican, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, and Mary Elizabeth Goff
Choosing the Function of Baseline Run-In Data for Use as a Covariate in the Analysis of Treatment Data from Phase III Clinical Trials in Hypertension, Yi Hao and Karl E. Peace
Enhancing Psychosocial Constructs Associated with Technology-Based Physical Activity: A Randomized Control Trial Among African-American Women, Brandonn S. Harris, Bridget Melton, Helen W. Bland, Ashleigh Carpentier, Jilian Gonzales, and Kelley Catenacci
On Estimation of Overlapping Measures for Exponential Populations Under Progressive First Failure Censoring, Amal Helu and Hani M. Samawi
Methods Improving the Estimate of Diagnostic Odds Ratio, Yisong Huang, Jingjing Yin, and Hani M. Samawi
#CDCGrandRounds and #VitalSigns: A Twitter Analysis, Ashley M. Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Jingjing Yin, Zion Tsz-Ho Tse, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, Jennifer Ahweyevu, Jimmy J. Jenkins III, Nitin Saroha, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Identification of Unplanned Closure of K-12 Schools via Twitter and Online Systematic Search: A Pilot Study of Public Schools in Michigan, September 2015 – June 2016, Ashley Jackson, Lindsay Mullican, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Jingjing Yin, Dharamendra Kumar, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Water Quality and the Perception of Risk: A Study of Georgia, USA, Beachgoers, Jeffery A. Jones, Asli Aslan, Rakhi Trivedi, Maria Olivas, and Mikayla Hoffmann
Using Twitter for Public Health Surveillance from Monitoring and Prediction to Public Response, Sophie E. Jordan, Sierra Hovet, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Hai Liang, King-Wa Fu, and Zion Tsz-Ho Tse
The Impact of Shared Sanitation Facilities On Diarrheal Diseases With and Without an Environmental Reservoir: A Modeling Study, Matthew R. Just, Stephen W. Carden, Sheng Li, Kelly K. Baker, Manoj Gambhir, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Twitter Sentiment Toward Autism During Autism Awareness Month, Jeffrey P. Kaleta, Jingjing Yin, and Sushmita Khan
The Impact of PM 2.5 on Lung and Bronchial Cancers: Regression and Time Series Analysis in the U.S. from 1999 to 2014, Jing Xiong Kersey, Jingjing Yin, Atin Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Weitian Tong, and Lixin Li
The Impact of PM 2.5 on Lung and Bronchial Cancers: Regression and Time Series Analysis in the U.S. from 1999 to 2014, Jing Kersey, Jingjing Yin, Atin Adhikari, Xiaolu Zhou, Weitian Tong, and Lixin Li
A Systems Approach to Person-Centric Health Economics, Linda Kimsey, Andrew Hoburg, Samuel T. Olaiya, Kenneth D. Jones II, and Patrick Richard
Delay in initiation of DMARD or anti-inflammatory therapy in patients newly diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis: An analysis of United States Military Health System TRICARE beneficiaries, Linda Kimsey, Joel Weissman, Avni Patel, Alison Drew, Tracey Koehlmoos, and Jeffrey A. Sparks
Impact of the Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder Subtype on Survival: PTLD Subtype and Survival, Jean L. Koff, Jing-Xia Li, Xinyan Zhang, Jeffrey M. Switchenko, Christopher R. Flowers, and Edmund K. Waller
Understanding the Executive Roles in Health Leadership, Gerald R. Ledlow and James H. Stephens
Leadership Models in Practice, Gerald R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens, and David E. Schott
Challenges of Today Requiring Health Leadership, Gerald R. Ledlow, James H. Stephens, David E. Schott, and William A. Mase
Trends in Smoking and Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy from 1985 to 2014, Racial and Ethnic Disparity Observed from Multiple National Surveys, Hongxia Lian, Andrew R. Hansen, Zachary McGalliard, Laura Gover, Fei Yan, and Jian Zhang
Increased Fisher's Information for Parameters of Association in Count Regression via Extreme Ranks, Daniel F. Linder, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Hani M. Samawi, and Sanjay Sethi