Submissions from 2019
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
Decision Making, Analytics, and Communications in Health Organizations, Gerald R. Ledlow and James H. Stephens
Submissions from 2018
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
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
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
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
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
Other Rickettsial Species, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
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
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
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
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
The Leader-Member Exchange Theory, William A. Mase and James W. Holsinger
Global Distribution of Human-Associated Fecal Genetic Markers in Reference Samples from Six Continents, Rene E. Mayer, Georg H. Reischer, Simone K. Ixenmaier, Julia Derx, Alfred Paul Blaschke, James E. Ebdon, Rita Linke, Lukas Egle, Warish Ahmed, Thomas A. Edge, Margit A. Schade, Asli Aslan, Yolanda M. Brooks, Regina Sommer, Yoshifumi Masago, Maria I. Sato, Huw D. Taylor, Joan B. Rose, Stefan Wuertz, Orin C. Shanks, Harald Piringer, Robert L. Mach, Domenico Savio, Matthias Zessner, and Andreas H. Farnleitner
Identifying Factors Underlying the Decision for Sickle Cell Carrier Screening Among African Americans Within Middle Reproductive Age, Tilicia L. Mayo-Gamble, Susan E. Middlestadt, Hsien-Chang Lin, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Priscilla Barnes, and Pamela Braboy Jackson
Risk Factors for In‐Hospital Mortality in Heart Failure Patients: Does Rurality, Payer or Admission Source Matter?, Preethy Nayar, Fang Yu, Aastha Chandak, Ge Lin Kan, Brian Lowes, and Bettye A. Apenteng
Disparities in Emergency Department Wait Time Among Patients with Mental Health and Substance-Related Disorders, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Emmanuel A. Akowuah, and Soumitra Bhuyan
Different Reference Points, Different Conclusions: Time for a Common Reference Point for Severe Childhood Obesity Studies, Samuel T. Opoku, Andrew R. Hansen, and Jian Zhang
Interesting Applications from Three Decades of Biostatistical Consulting, Karl E. Peace, Uche Eseoghene Okoro, and Kao-Tai Tsai
On Inference of Multivariate Means Using Efficient Sampling Designs, Haresh Rochani, Daniel F. Linder, Hani M. Samawi, and Viral Panchal
A Simpler Approach for Mediation Analysis for Dichotomous Mediators in Logistic Regression, Hani Samawi, Jingxian Cai, Daniel F. Linder, Haresh Rochani, and Jingjing Yin
On Quantiles Estimation Based on Different Stratified Sampling With Optimal Allocation, Hani Samawi, Arpita Chatterjee, Jingjing Yin, and Haresh Rochani
Comparative Health Systems: Jordan, Hani M. Samawi
Reducing Sample Size Needed for Accelerated Failure Time Model Using More Efficient Sampling Methods, Hani M. Samawi, Amal Helu, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Lili Yu, and Robert L. Vogel
Notes on Kernel Based Mode Estimation Using More Efficient Sampling Designs, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Daniel F. Linder, and Robert L. Vogel
Local Health Departments’ Role in Non-Profit Hospitals’ Community Health Needs Assessment, Gulzar H. Shah
Impact of Local Boards of Health on Local Health Department Accreditation, Community Health Assessment, Community Health Improvement Planning, and Strategic Planning, Gulzar H. Shah, Liza Corso, Sergey Sotnikov, and Carolyn Leep
Local Health Departments' Engagement in Addressing Health Disparities: The Effect of Health Informatics, Gulzar H. Shah, William A. Mase, and Kristie Waterfield
Tobacco Policies and Alcohol Sponsorship at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Festivals: Time for Intervention, Jasmine Spivey, Joseph Lee, and Stacy Smallwood
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Insufficient Sleep: Persistent Association Through Life, Kelly L. Sullivan and Diane Donaly
Acknowledging Our Challenges, Priorities While Giving Thanks, Joseph Telfair
Addressing Inequities – Poverty as a Health and Human Rights Issue, Joseph Telfair
Advocating for an End to the Unjust Treatment of Immigrants, Joseph Telfair
Building Your Public Health Career While Strengthening the Workforce, Joseph Telfair
Finding a Way to Work Together, Move Needle Toward Progress: Continuing to Advocate for Health, Joseph Telfair
Focusing Our Priorities, Work and Resources to Address Health Inequities: Diverse Solutions for a Diverse Problem, Joseph Telfair
More than Just a Job: Public Health Is a Calling, Chance to Make an Impact, Joseph Telfair
Child Public Health, Joseph Telfair, Rakhi Trivedi, Helen W. Bland, Valamar Reagon, and Jazzmin Williams
Descriptive Best Practices, Blending Pedagogical Approaches in Public Health Education: The ADOPT Model, McKinley Thomas, Lesley Clack, and Sara S. Plaspohl
The Epidemiology of Pedestrian Deaths in Georgia, USA: Opportunities for Public Health, McKinley Thomas and Jeffery A. Jones
Does Vigilance in Decision-Making Matter for Dementia Family Caregivers?, Sarah B. Wackerbarth and Yelena N. Tarasenko
Attributes of Videos on YouTube Related to Cupping Therapy, Jingjing Yin, Corey H. Basch, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, M. D. Fullwood, Anthony Menafro, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Confidence Intervals for Differences Between Volumes Under Receiver Operating Characteristic Surfaces (VUS) and Generalized Youden Indices (GYIs), Jingjing Yin, Christos T. Nakas, Lili Tian, and Benjamin Reiser
Response to Comments by Pablo Martínez-Camblor on “Notes on Overlap Measure as an Alternative to Youden Index: How Are They Related?”, Jingjing Yin, Hani M. Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
Comprehensive Systematic Review Summary: Treatment of Cerebellar Motor Dysfunction and Ataxia, Theresa A. Zesiewicz, George Wilmot, Sheng-Han Kuo, Susan Perlman, Partricia E. Greenstein, Sarah H. Ying, Tetsuo Ashizawa, S. H. Subramony, Jeremy D. Schmahmann, K. P. Figueroa, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Ludger Schoels, Jessica D. Shaw, Richard M. Dubinsky, Melissa J. Armstrong, Gary S. Gronseth, and Kelly Sullivan
Actual Body Weight or Perceived Body Weight? Comment on ‘Childhood Obesity and School Absenteeism: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis’, Jian Zhang, Andrew R. Hansen, Dustin T. Duncan, and Stuart H. Tedders
Submissions from 2017
Geographic Variation in Medicare and the Military Healthcare System, Taiwo Adesoya, Linda G. Kimsey, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Louis L. Nguyen, Philip Goodney, Samuel Olaiya, and Joel S. Weissman
Aerosolized Bacteria and Microbial Activity in Dental Clinics During Cleaning Procedures, Atin Adhikari, Sushma Kurella, Pratik Banerjee, and Aniruddha Mitra
Effect of Different Air Flow Rates on the Collection of Atmospheric Mold Spores of Different Sizes by a Slit Impactor, Atin Adhikari, Bushra Shah, Teddye Gandy, Oreoluwa Adeyinka, and Galela Shebani
Application of Mixed-methods Design in Community-engaged Research: Lessons Learned From an Evidence-based Intervention for Latinos With Chronic Illness and Minor Depression, Claudia X. Aguado Loi, Moya L. Alfonso, Isabella Chan, Kelsey Anderson, Dinorah Martinez-Tyson, Junius Gonzales, and Jaime Corvin
Do Maternal Caregiver Perceptions of Childhood Obesity Risk Factors and Obesity Complications Predict Support for Prevention Initiatives Among African Americans?, Dayna S. Alexander, Moya L. Alfonso, Chunhua Cao, and Alesha Wright
Zika Virus on YouTube: An Analysis of English-language Video Content by Source, Corey H. Basch, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Rodney N. Hammond, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, King-Wa Fu, Patrick Ip, and Charles E. Basch
English Language YouTube Videos as a Source of Lead Poisoning and Other Lead Related Information: A Cross-Sectional Study, Corey H. Basch, Ashley M. Jackson, Jingjing Yin, Rodney N. Hammond, Atin Adhikari, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
An Exploratory Assessment of Weight Loss Videos on YouTube, Corey H. Basch, Chen Mo, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Jingjing Yin
Lyme Disease and YouTube™: A Cross-Sectional Study of Video Contents, Corey H. Basch, Lindsay A. Mullican, Kwanza D. Boone, Jingjing Yin, Alyssa Berdnik, Marina E. Eremeeva, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
TMJ Online: Investigating Temporomandibular Disorders as “TMJ” on YouTube, Corey H. Basch, Jingjing Yin, Nathan Walker, Aurea J. De Leon, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Prevalence and Correlates of Anxiety in Rural Populations of Southeast Georgia, R. Bohler, Jennifer O. Ahweyevu, B. Philpot, and Kelly Sullivan
On Regression Estimators for Different Stratified Sampling Schemes, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani M. Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel
On Stratified Ranked Set Sampling for Regression Estimators, Arpita Chatterjee, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, Daniel F. Linder, Jingxian Cai, and Robert L. Vogel
Increasing Breastfeeding Duration and Exclusivity in a Sample of Rural Women: A Pilot Study, Joanne Chopak-Foss and Felicia Yeboah
Differentiating Instruction in Physical Education: Personalization of Learning, Gavin T. Colquitt, Tony A. Pritchard, Christine Johnson, and Starla McCollum
Hospitalization with Infection and Incident Venous Thromboembolism: The ARIC Study, Logan T. Cowan, Pamela L. Lutsey, James S. Pankow, Mary Cushman, and Aaron R. Folsom
A Review of Strategies to Increase Access to Oral Health Services, Breyana Davis and Sara S. Plaspohl
Association Between Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Sleep Quantity in Pregnant Women, Carmen H. Duke, Jazmin A. Williamson, Kassandra R. Snook, Kathryn C. Finch, and Kelly Sullivan
Perceived Not Actual Overweight Is Associated With Excessive School Absenteeism Among U.S. Adolescents, Dustin T. Duncan, Andrew R. Hansen, Jennifer Woo Baidal, Rodney Lyn, Ashley Hill, and Jian Zhang
Molecular Markers of Pesticide Resistance and Pathogens in Human Head Lice (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae) From Rural Georgia, USA, Marina E. Eremeeva, Danielle Capps, Emmanuel B. Winful, Shamta Warang, Sarah E. Braswell, Nikolay K. Tokarevich, Denise L. Bonilla, and Lance A. Durden
Zika-Virus-Related Photo Sharing on Pinterest and Instagram, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, M. Elizabeth Goff, Lindsay A. Mullican, Kwun Cheung Chan, Nitin Saroha, Carmen H. Duke, Marina E. Eremeeva, King-Wa Fu, and Zion Tsz Ho Tse
#GlobalHealth Twitter Conversations on #Malaria, #HIV, #TB, #NCDS, and #NTDS: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Ashley M. Jackson, Jennifer Ahweyevu, Jordan H. Grizzle, Jingjing Yin, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Liang, Juliet N. Sekandi, and King-Wa Fu
Twitter and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, South Korea, 2015: A Multi-lingual Study, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Jing Zeng, Chung-Hong Chan, Hai Lung, Jingjing Yin, Zhaochong Liu, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, and King-Wa Fu
Coliphage as an Indicator of the Quality of Beach Water to Protect the Health of Swimmers in Coastal Georgia, Javier Gallard-Gongora, Kathryn McGowan Munck, Jeffery A. Jones, and Asli Aslan
Physician Attitudes Toward the Ethics of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Cost, Safety, and Resource Allocation, Jessica Grippo, Stacy W. Smallwood, Katherine Pincura, Tamara Wright, and William A. Mase
On Marginal Distributions Under Progressive Type II Censoring: Similarity/Dissimilarity Properties, Amal Helu and Hani Samawi
Using Ranked Auxiliary Covariate as a More Efficient Sampling Design for ANCOVA Model: Analysis of a Psychological Intervention to Buttress Resilience, Rajai Jabrah, Hani Samawi, Robert Vogel, Haresh Rochani, and Daniel Linder
It Is a Painful Somatic Symptom, Not the History of Cancer/Malignancy That Is Associated With Depression: Findings From Multiple National Surveys, Krystina Johnson, Maria D. Politics, Andrew R. Hansen, Lindsey E. McKenzie, Dustin T. Duncan, and Jian Zhang
Commentaries on Health Services Research, Jeffery A. Jones
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Healthcare Supply Chains: A Case Study in Outfitting a New Hospital Facility, Jeffery A. Jones, Michelle Ellington, and Andrew Blues
Operational and Financial Performance of Georgia’s Critical Access Hospitals, Linda G. Kimsey, Bettye A. Apenteng, William A. Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Mark D. Hanna, Kwabena Boakye, Lisa Carhuff, Charles Owens, Angela Peden, Stuart H. Tedders, and Patricia Whaley
Dose-Dependent Immunomodulating Effects of Endotoxin in Allergic Airway Inflammation, Sudhir Kumar and Atin Adhikari