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Submissions from 2022
Clinch Memorial Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, and Blerta Shehaj
Monroe County Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, M. Johnson, and A. Patel
Appling Healthcare Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, and Aurela Nikaj
Crisp Regional Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, and Aurela Nikaj
Spirituality, Self-compassion, and Anxiety Among Sexual Minority Men: A Longitudinal Mediation Analysis, Jonathan M. Lassiter, Jared K. O’Garro-Mooreb, Kainaat Anwar, Stacy Smallwood, Inger Burnett-Zeigler, Lara Stepleman, K. Marie Sizemore, Christian Grov, and H. Jonathon Rendina
Spatiotemporal Correlation between Obesity Prevalence and the Percentage of Households using Air-conditioners in the United States, Evan Li, Alexander Wang, Carter Xu, Felix Twum, and Jian Zhang
OSA and Subsequent Risk of Hospitalization With Pneumonia, Respiratory Infection, and Total Infection: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Pamela L. Lutsey, Islam Zineldin, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Kelsie M. Full, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Junichi Ishigami, Logan Cowan, Kunihiro Matsushita, and Ryan T. Demmer
Changes in the association between overweight and depression across three major ethnic groups, 2005–2018, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Jian Zhang
Trust Black Women: Using Photovoice to Amplify the Voices of Black Women to Identify and Address Barriers to Breastfeeding in Southeast Georgia, Nandi A. Marshall and Christina S. Cook
Serving Without Hurting: How to Walk the Black Faculty Tightrope Without Falling, Krista D. Mincey, Nandi A. Marshall, and Stacy Smallwood
The Moderating Role of Race in Turnover Intention at State and Local Public Health Organizations, Ashley K. Mitchell, Bettye Apenteng, and Kwabena G. Boakye
Crossover Trends in Current Cigarette Smoking Between Racial and Ethnic Groups of US Adolescents Aged 12–19 Years Old, 1999–2018, Samuel Nwaobi, Holly L. Richmond, Doyinsola Babatunde, Felix Twum, Arshpreet Malhi, Yudan Wei, and Jian Zhang
Examining the Impact of Increasing Vaccine Coverage and Nonpharmaceutical Interventions against Coronavirus Disease 2019 In Ghana using Mathematical Modeling, Sylvia Ofori, Jessica S. Schwind, Kelly L. Sullivan, Gerardo Chowell, Benjamin J. Cowling, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in Ghana and the Impact of Public Health Interventions, Sylvia Ofori, Jessica S. Schwind, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Air Quality and Cancer Prevalence Trends across the Sub-Saharan African Regions during 2005–2020, Omolola Okunromade, Jingjing Yin, Clara Ray, and Atin Adhikari
Policy Implication: Improving Perinatal Mental Health Care in Georgia, Tobi Oloyede and Joanne Chopak-Foss
SNAPSHOT: Financial and Operational Performance Benchmarking Report, 2018-2021, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Angela H. Peden, and William Mase
Covid-19 and Social Determinants of Health: Medicaid Managed Care Organizations’ Experiences With Addressing Member Social Needs, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Angela H. Peden, and Charles F. Owens
Pediatric Needs and Resources Assessment, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden
Miller County Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, and Karabi Barai
Atmore Community Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Angela H. Peden, Blerta Shehaj, and Aishat Adewoye
Jeff Davis Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, and Karabi Barai
Colquitt Regional Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, T. Bratton, and M. Johnson
Jefferson Hospital Community Needs Assessment Report, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, Blerta Shehaj, and Kirsten Mengell
State Expectations and Medicaid Managed Care Organizations’ Efforts to Address the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, and Angela H. Peden
Characterization of Folic Acid, 5-methyltetrahydrofolate and Synthetic Folinic Acid in the High-affinity Folate Transporters: Impact on Pregnancy and Development, Ana M. Palacios, Rachel A. Feiner, and Robert M. Cabrera
Factors Associated With the Nutritional Status of Infants and Young Children From Rural Honduras, Ana M. Palacios, Mario Keko, Aishat Adewoye, Haresh Rochani, Asli Aslan, Dziyana Nazaruk, Ana Gisela Ramos, Weston L. Oliver, and Laura Manship
Children Receiving a Nutrition and High-Quality Early Childhood Education Intervention Are Associated with Greater Math and Fluid Intelligence Scores: The Guatemala City Municipal Nurseries, Ana M. Palacios, Lisa A. Villanueva, Matthew B. Flynn, Erik Parker, Stephanie Dickinson, Helen W. Bland, and Greg A. Reinhart
Structural inequities, HIV community-based organizations, and the end of the HIV epidemic, Alyssa G. Robillard, Carmen H. Julious, Stacy W. Smallwood, Mark Douglas, Bambi Gaddist, and Tyler Singleton
Performance of Diagnostic Tests Based on Continuous Bivariate Markers, Hani M. Samawi, Ding-Geng Chen, Jingjing Yin, and Marwan Alsharmana
Mean Functional Estimation With Non-ignorable Missing Data Using Influential Exponential Tilting Resampling Approach, Hani Samawi, Haresh Rochani, and Kavita Gohil
Simulation Extrapolation Method for Measurement Error: A Review, Varadan Sevilimedu and Lili Yu
Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Procedure for Interval-Censored Log-Logistic Accelerated Failure Time Model, Varadan Sevilimedu, Lili Yu, Ding-Geng Chen, and Y. L. Lio
Socioeconomic status and other factors associated with HIV status among OVC in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Gulzar H. Shah, Gina D. Etheredge, Lievain Maluantesa, Kristie Cason Waterfield, Osaremhen Ikhile, Elodie Engetele, Astrid Mulenga, Alice Tabala, and Bernard Bossiky
HIV viral load suppression before and after COVID-19 in Kinshasa and Haut Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gulzar H. Shah, Gina D. Etheredge, Stacy Smallwood, Lievain Maluantesa, Kristie C. Waterfield, Osaremhen Ikhile, John Ditekemena, Elodie Engetele, Elizabeth Ayangunna, Astrid Mulenga, and Bernard Bossiky
Hospital Characteristics and Other Factors Associated with the Risk of Postpartum Hemorrhage in the United States, Zahra Shahin, Gulzar H. Shah, William A. Mase, and Bettye Apenteng
Proteomic profiling identifies novel proteins for genetic risk of severe COVID-19: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Brian T. Steffen, James S. Pankow, Pamela L. Lutsey, Ryan T. Demmer, Jeffrey R. Misialek, Weihua Guan, Logan Cowan, Josef Coresh, Faye L. Norby, and Weihong Tang
Exploring Sources of Information and Religious Beliefs in Regard to HPV and Vaccination Among Hispanic/Latino College Students in the USA, Wei-Chen Tung, Itzel Corral Gonzalez, Ho-Jui Tung, Wing-Lam Tock, and Tricia L. Harrison
Stakeholder Perceptions for Supporting Main Street Revitalization In a Small South Georgia City, RoShonda J. Welch, Alexis Smith, Linda Kimsey, and Andrew R. Hansen
The Protective Effects of Influenza Vaccination in Elderly Patients with Breast Cancer in Taiwan: A Real-World Evidence-Based Study, Szu-Yuan Wu, Ho-Jui Tung, Kuang-Hua Huang, Chiachi Bonnie Lee Lee, Tung-Han Tsai, and Yu-Chia Chang
Adaptation of Diabetes Prevention Program for Chinese Americans – A Qualitative Study, Ming-Chin Yeh, Wincy Lau, Siqian Chen, Ada Wong, Grace X. Ma, and Judith Wylie-Rosett
Development of a Web-Based Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) for Chinese Americans: A Formative Evaluation Approach, Ming-Chin Yeh, Wincy Lau, Zoey Gong, Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky, Ho-Jui Tung, Lin Zhu, Grace X. Ma, and Judith Wylie-Rosett
A Bootstrap Method for a Multiple-Imputation Variance Estimator in Survey Sampling, Lili Yu and Yichuan Zhao
Submissions from 2021
Variations of radon and airborne particulate matter near three large phosphogypsum stacks in Florida, Caleb Adeoye, Jayanta Gupta, Nora Demers, and Atin Adhikari
Assessing Public Health Workforce Informatics Competencies: A Study of 3 District Health Departments in Georgia, Olatanwa Adewale, Bettye Apenteng, Gulzar H. Shah, and William Mase
Lag Effects of Ozone, PM2.5, and Meteorological Factors on COVID-19 New Cases at the Disease Epicenter in Queens, New York, Atin Adhikari and Jingjing Yin
A Moderated Moderation Analysis of Perceived Adaptivity and Organizational Support for Innovation in the Relationship Between Role Overload and Emotional Exhaustion, Bettye A. Apenteng, Kwabena Boakye, and Samuel T. Opoku
Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field, Bettye A. Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles F. Owens, Angela Peden, and William A. Mase
Strategic Implications of COVID-19: Considerations for Georgia’s Rural Health Providers, Bettye A. Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela Peden, and William Mase
Assessment of the Financial Health of Rural Hospitals After Implementation of the Georgia Rural Hospital Tax Credit Program, Bettye A. Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, Emmanuel Akowuah, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden
RHC Benchmarking Assessment, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, and Angela H. Peden
Warm Springs Medical Center Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Samuel T. Opoku, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden
Perceptions of well water stewardship in Evans County, Asli Aslan and E. Dotherow
Early Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Experience With the Use of Telehealth to Address Disparities: Scoping Review, James E. Bailey, Cathy Gurgol, Eric Pan, Shirilyn Njie, Susan Emmett, Justin Gatwood, Lynne Gauthier, Lisa G. Rosas, Shannon M. Kearney, Samantha Kleindienst Robler, Raymona H. Lawrence, Karen L. Margolis, Ifeyinwa Osunkwo, Denise Wilfley, and Vallabh O. Shah
Examining Social Activity, Need to Belong, and Depression Among College Students, Elizabeth K. Barbour, Stacy Smallwood, and Yanise Hurt
On Kernel-based Quantile Estimation Using Different Stratified Sampling Schemes With Optimal Allocation, Abbas Eftekharian and Hani Samawi
HIV clinical stage progression of patients at 241 outpatient clinics in Democratic Republic of Congo: Disparities by gender, TB status and rurality, Gina D. Etheredge, Raimi Ewetola, Gulzar H. Shah, L. Maluantesa, Kristie C. Waterfield, A. Mulenga, and A. Kilundu
Disparities in HIV Clinical Stages Progression of Patients at Outpatient Clinics in Democratic Republic of Congo, Raimi Ewetola, Gulzar H. Shah, Lievain Maluantesa, Gina D. Etheredge, Kristie C. Waterfield, Astrid Mulenga, and Apolinaire Kilundu
People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health, Isaac Fung and Benedict S.B. Chan
SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario, Canada, December 25, 2019, to December 1, 2020, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Yuen Wai Hung, Sylvia Ofori, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Po-Ying Lai, and Gerardo Chowell
Assessing Early Heterogeneity in Doubling Times of the Covid-19 Epidemic Across Prefectures in Mainland China, January-February, 2020, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung and Xiaolu Zhou
Implementation of Complex Interventions Lessons Learned From the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Transitional Care Portfolio, Sabina B. Gesell, Janet Prvu Bettger, Raymona H. Lawrence, Jing Li, Jeanne Hoffman, Barbara J. Lutz, Corita R. Grudzen, Anna M. Johnson, Jerry A. Krishnan, Lewis Hsu, Dorien Zwart, Mark V. Williams, and Jeffrey L. Schnipper
High Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Embolism: The Use of Very Low Dose Catheter-Directed Ultrasound- Accelerated Thrombolysis, Lee W. Greenspon, Ryan D. Reber, Ravi Desai, Theodore J. Plush, Matthew Hegewald, Haresh Rochani, Peter A. Villas, and Joseph Bonn
Care coordination for rural residents with chronic disease: Predictors of improved outcomes, Andrew Hansen, Susan F. McLendon, and Haresh Rochani
Statistical Analysis Based on Adaptive Progressive Hybrid Censored Data From Lomax Distribution, Amal Helu and Hani Samawi
Chapter 38 - Sleep, Anxiety, and Depression, Li-Ting Huang and Kelly L. Sullivan
COVID-19 mitigation strategies: A case study to reduce the spread and promote vaccine uptake, Jill Johns, Joanne Chopak-Foss, and Adekunle Adeyemi
Perceived Discrimination and Racism on the Treatment and Medication Adherence of Hypertension in African Americans, Ifeoluwa Kayode, Daisy Tovar, and Logan Cowan
COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Clinical Manifestation and Effect of Comorbidities on Outcomes of Hospitalized SARI Cases, Mario Keko and Karl E. Peace
COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Clinical Manifestation and Effect of Comorbidities on Outcomes of Hospitalized SARI Cases, Mario Keko and Karl E. Peace
Union General Hospital Community Health Needs Assessment & Implementation Plan, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Bettye Apenteng, Samuel T. Opoku, Angela H. Peden, and Blerta Shehaj
Assessing Hotel Employee Knowledge on Risk Factors and Risk Management Procedures for Microbial Contamination of Hotel Water Distribution Systems, Brandon Leftwich, Samuel T. Opoku, Jingjing Yin, and Atin Adhikari
Underreporting of intimate partner violence against women: An important public mental health implication, Sandhya Lohani, Sha-Hanna Saffold, Tanya Jules, Brenda Blackwell, Suzanne Shurling, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
Changes in the Association Between Overweight and Depression Across Three Major Ethnic Groups, Between 2005 – 2018, Arshpreet Malhi, Kelly L. Sullivan, and Jian Zhang
Evaluation of a filtering facepiece respirator and a pleated particulate respirator in filtering ultrafine particles and submicron particles in welding and asphalt plant work environments, Aniruddha Mitra, Atin Adhikari, Clinton Martin, Gracia Dardano, Pascal Wagemaker, and Caleb Adeoye
Aggregating Twitter Text through Generalized Linear Regression Models for Tweet Popularity Prediction and Automatic Topic Classification, Chen Mo, Jingjing Yin, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, and Zion Tse
Time-varying reproduction numbers of COVID-19 in Georgia, USA, March 2-November 20, 2020, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Gerardo Chowell, Jessica S. Schwind, Randall Ford, Sylvia Ofori, Chigozie Alexandra Ogwara, Margaret R. Davies, Terrence Jacobs, Chi-Ngai Cheung, Logan Cowan, Andrew Hansen, and Isaac Fung
Impact of Teachers’ Classroom Manners, Teaching Strategies, and Parents’ Socioeconomic Status on Students’ Performance, Maham Muzamil, Gulzar H. Shah, and Kamran James
The Use of Mobile Apps to Increase Physical Activity Level: A Systematic Review, Dziyana Nazaruk and Kelli Rouser
Community Characteristics and COVID-19 Outcomes: A Study of 159 Counties in Georgia, United States, Tran Ha Nguyen, Gulzar H. Shah, Jessica S. Schwind, and Holly L. Richmond
The mycobiomes and bacteriomes of sputum, saliva, and home dust, Christine Niemeier-Walsh, Patrick Ryan, Jarek Meller, Nicholas Ollberding, Atin Adhikari, Reshmi Indugula, and Tiina Reponen
Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and bacterial diversity in the lower respiratory tract of children, Christine Niemeier-Walsh, Patrick Ryan, Jaroslaw Meller, Nicholas Ollberding, Atin Adhikari, and Tiina Reponen
Social Media Usage and Transitioning into Online Classes During COVID-19- A Survey of Undergraduate Students in Georgia, United States, Sylvia Ofori, Janet Choongo, Mario Kekop, Gulzar H. Shah, Haresh Rochani, and Joseph Telfair
Economic Evaluations of Interventions Against Influenza at Workplaces: Systematic Review, Sylvia Ofori, Y. W. Hung, Jessica S. Schwind, Kadiatou Diallo, Doyinsola Babatunde, Samuel Nwaobi, Xinyi Hua, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Fung
Spatially Refined Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers of COVID-19 by Health District in Georgia, USA, March–December 2020, Chigozie A. Ogwara, Arshpreet Kaur Mallhi, Xinyi Hua, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Jessica S. Schwind, Xiaolu Zhou, Jeffery A. Jones, Joanne Chopak-Foss, Gerardo Chowell, and Isaac Chun-Hai Fung
Increased prevalence of indoor Aspergillus and Penicillium species is associated with indoor flooding and coastal proximity: a case study of 28 moldy buildings, Mayomi Omebeyinje, Adewale Adeluyi, Chandrani Mitra, Paramita Chakraborty, Gregory Gandee, Nalit Patel, Bindhu Verghese, Christine Farrance, Matthew Hull, Paramita Basu, Kwonmoo Lee, Atin Adhikari, Burcu Adivar, Jennifer Horney, and Anindya Chanda
Rewards and Employee Creativity Among Rural Healthcare Employees: the Mediating Role of Organizational Support for Innovation and the Moderating Impact of Supervisory Support, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, and Kwabena Boakye
SNAPSHOT: Financial and Operational Performance Benchmarking Report, 2016-2020, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Linda Kimsey, Charles Owens, Angela Peden, and William Mase
Clay County Hospital, Nursing Home and Wellness Center Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Plan, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, Angela Peden, and P. Jochi
The Pharmaceutical Industry Contributes to Public Health, Karl E. Peace and Mario Keko
Dopaminergic Therapy for Motor Symptoms in Early Parkinson Disease Practice Guideline Summary: A Report of the AAN Guideline Subcommittee, Tamara Pringsheim, Gregory S. Day, Don B. Smith, Alex Rae- Grant, Nicole Licking, Melissa J. Armstrong, Rob M. A. de Bie, Emmanuel Roze, Janis M. Miyasaki, Robert A. Hauser, Alberto J. Espay, Justin P. Martello, Julie Gurwell, Lori Billinghurst, Kelly L. Sullivan, Michael Fitts, Nicholas Cothros, Deborah A. Hall, Miriam Rafferty, Lynn Hagerbrant, Tara Hastings, Mary Dolan O’Brien, Heather Silsbee, Gary Gronseth, and Anthony E. Lang
Opening Pandora’s Box From Readmissions to Transitional Care Patient-Centered Outcome Measures, Mathew J. Reeves, Michele C. Fritz, Ifeyinwa Osunkwo, Corita R. Grudzen, Lewis L. Hsu, Jing Li, Raymona H. Lawrence, and Janet Prvu Bettger
COVID Round 2: Workplace Support and Compassion Fatigue in Emergency Workers, Carlene A. Robinson and Kelly L. Sullivan
Strategies to Handle Missing Data in Meta-Analysis, Haresh Rochani and Mario Keko
Association of Chronic Pain With Participation in Motor Skill Activities in Children With Cerebral Palsy, Haresh Rochani, Christopher M. Modlesky, Barbara Weissman, Joshua Vova, and Gavin T. Colquitt
Quantiles Naïve, Ratio and Difference Estimators for Efficient Stratified Sampling Designs, Haresh Rochani, Hani W. Samawi, and Xinyan Zhang
Publication bias using R and Stata, Hani Samawi
Ranked Simulated Resampling: A More Efficient and Accurate Resampling Approximations for Bootstrap Inference, Hani Samawi and Ding-Geng Chen
Medical Diagnostics Accuracy Measures and Cut-point Selection: An Innovative Approach Based on Relative Net Benefit, Hani Samawi, Ding-Geng Chen, Ferdous Ahmed, and Jing X. Kersey
Post-Test Diagnostic Accuracy Measures of a Continuous Test With a Disease of Ordinal Multistages, Hani Samawi, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Chen Mo, and Jing Kersey
