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Submissions from 2019
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
Standardized Data Quality Acceptance Criteria for a Rapid E. Coli Qpcr Method (Draft Method C) for Water Quality Monitoring at Recreational Beaches, Mano Sivaganesan, Tiong Gim Aw, Shannon Briggs, Erin Dreelin, Asli Aslan, Samuel Dorevitch, Abhilasha Shrestha, Natasha Isaccs, Julie Kinzelman, Greg Kleinheinz, Rachel Noble, Rick Rediske, Brian Scull, Susan Rosenberg, Barbara Weberman, Tami Sivy, Ben Southwell, Shawn Siefring, Kevin Oshima, and Richard Haugland
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Insufficient Sleep up to 50 Years Later, Kelly L. Sullivan, Haresh Rochani, Li-Ting Huang, Diane K. Donley, and Jian Zhang
Effectiveness of a Post-Acute Rehabilitative Care Program on Swallowing Ability, Nutrition Status, and Health-related Quality of Life Among Recovering Stoke Patients, Ho-Jui Tung, Ang-Wei Lu, and Ming-Chin Yeh
Association Between Influenza Vaccination and All-cause Mortality Among the Elderly With Disability in Taiwan - A Population-based Study, Ho-Jui Tung and Ming-Chin Yeh
Personal Mastery and All-cause Mortality Among Patients With Diabetes, Ho-Jui Tung and Ming-Chin Yeh
Differences in Survival Status Between the Foreign-born and Native-born Diabetes Patients Over a 13-year Period, Ho-Jui Tung, Ming-Chin Yeh, and Yu-Chia Chang
Association of Testosterone Therapy With Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Among Men With and Without Hypogonadism, Rob F. Walker, Neil A. Zakai, Richard F. MacLehose, Logan Cowan, Terrence J. Adam, Alvaro Alonso, and Pamela L. Lutsey
Impacts of a Changing Earth on Microbial Dynamics and Human Health Risks in the Continuum Between Beach Water and Sand, Chelsea Weiskerger, Joao C. S. Brandão, Warish Ahmed, Asli Aslan, Lindsay Avolio, Brian Badgley, Alexandria Boehm, Thomas A. Edge, Jay Fleisher, Christopher Heaney, Luisa Jordao, Julie Kinzelman, James S. Klaus, Greg Kleinheinz, Päivi Meriläinen, Jean-Pierre Nshimyimana, Mantha Phanikumar, Alan Piggot, Tarja Pitkänen, Clare Robinson, Michael Sadowsky, Chris Staley, Zachery Staley, Erin Symonds, Laura Vogel, Kevan Yamahara, Richard Whitman, Helena Solo-Gabriele, and Valerie J. Harwood
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
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
Quasi-likelihood Ratio Tests for Homoscedasticity of Variance in Linear Regression, Lili Yu, Varadan Sevilimedu, Robert Vogel, and Hani Samawi
Submissions from 2018
Field Evaluation of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators on Construction Jobsites for Protection against Airborne Ultrafine Particles, Atin Adhikari, Anirudda Mitra, Abbas Rashidi, Imaobong B. Ekpo, Jacob Schwartz, and Jefferson W. Doehling
World Pneumonia Day 2011–2016: Twitter Contents and Retweets, Md Mohiuddin Adnan, Jingjing Yin, Ashley M. Jackson, Zion Tsz Ho Tse, Hai Lang, King-Wa Fu, Nitin Saroha, Benjamin M. Althouse, and Isaac Fung
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
2018 Assessment of Employee Engagement at Crisp Regional Hospital, Bettye Apenteng, Emmanuel Akowuah, Samuel T. Opoku, and Kwabena G. Boakye
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
Flex Financial and Operational Improvement Grant Year Three, Bettye Apenteng, Kwabena G. Boakye, Mark D. Hanna, Linda Kimsey, Bill Mase, Samuel T. Opoku, Charles Owens, and Stuart Tedders
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
Presence of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents Utilized as Water Reuse for Irrigation, Asli Aslan, Zach A. Coles, Anunay Bhattacharya, and Oghenekpaobor Oyibo
Beach Quality Information Boards on Jekyll Island, Asli Aslan and Jeffery Jones
Molecular identification of the sources of non-point pollution and microbial risk assessment upon exposure to recreational waters at Jekyll Island Beaches, Phase II: Microbial Risk Assessment, Asli Aslan and Jeffery Jones
Correlation Between Personal Health History and Depression Self-Care Practices and Depression Screening Among African Americans With Chronic Conditions, Priscilla A. Barnes, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Doshia Harris, and David Townsend
Eastern Equine Encephalitis and YouTube Videos: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, Elizabeth B. Blankenship, Isaac 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 Fung
YouTube as a Source of Information on Skin Bleaching: A Content Analysis, Corey H. Basch, A. A. Brown, M. Dottington 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
Periodontal Disease and Incident Venous Thromboembolism: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Logan Cowan, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, Pamela L. Lutsey, Aaron R. Folsom, James Beck, Steven Offenbacher, and James S. Pankow
Inpatient and Outpatient Infection as a Trigger of Cardiovascular Disease: The ARIC Study, Logan Cowan, Pamela L. Lutsey, James S. Pankow, Kunihiro Matsushita, Junichi Ishigami, and Kamakshi Lakshminarayan
Adapting Medical Guidelines to Be Patient-centered Using a Patient-driven Process for Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease and Their Caregivers, Robert M. Cronin, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Sarah-Jo Stimpson, Sherif M. Badawy, Lori E. Crosby, Jeannie Byrd, Emmanuel J. Volanakis, Adetola A. Kassim, Jean L. Raphael, Velma McBride Murry, and Michael DeBaun
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 Laura L. Talbott-Forbes
2491: Parental concerns about child participation in s reflect a need to move beyond traditional notions of trust and race, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, and Consuelo H. Wilkins
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
Fish Consumption Is Associated With a Decreased Risk of Death Among Adults With Diabetes: 18-year Follow-up of a National Cohort, Abraham Deng, Swaha Pattanaik, Anunay Bhattacharya, Jingjing Yin, Levi Ross, Congjian Liu, 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
In memoriam: Irina V. Tarasevich, Marina Eremeeva
Other Rickettsial Species, Marina E. Eremeeva and Gregory A. Dasch
Detection and characterization of a novel spotted fever group Rickettsia genotype in Haemophysalis leporispalustris from California, USA, Marina Eremeeva, Lindsey M. Weiner, Maria L. Zambrano, Gregory A. Dasch, Renjie Hu, Inger Vilcins, Martin B. Castro, Denise L. Bonilla, and Kerry A. Padgett
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
Striving to Meet Healthy People 2020 Objectives: Trend Analysis of Maternal Smoking, Andrew Hansen, Toyin O. Akomolafe, Zachary McGalliard, Laura Belle-Isle, and Jian Zhang
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
Student Perspectives on Managing Sickle Cell Disease at School, Naeha Haridasa, Michael DeBaun, Maureen Sanger, and Tilicia Mayo-Gamble
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
Trends in Weight Loss Efforts Among Us Adolescents With Overweight and Obesity, Daneisha Hawkins, Kathryn Kazmierski, Andrew Hansen, Cathony Reid, Alicia Brown, Samuel T. Opoku, and Jian Zhang
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 Lang, King-Wa Fu, Jennifer Ahweyevu, Jimmy J. Jenkins III, Nitin Saroha, and Isaac Fung
Jekyll Island Beach Water Quality Study, Jeffery A. Jones
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
Data on the risk perceptions of beach water safety in coastal Georgia, Jeffery A. Jones, Asli Aslan, Rakhi Trivedi, Maria I. Olivas, and Mikayla Hoffmann
Using Twitter for Public Health Surveillance from Monitoring and Prediction to Public Response, Sophie E. Jordan, Sierra Hovet, Isaac 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 Fung
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 X. 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
Correlates of Cervical Cancer Screening Adherence Among Women in the U.S.: Findings from HINTS 2013–2014, John S. Luque, Yelena Tarasenko, and Chen Chen
Utilization of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Hispanic Immigrant Women in the Nuevo South, John Luque, Yelena Tarasenko, Hong Li, Caroline Davila, Rachel N. Knight, and Rosa E. Alcantar
A Resource Guide to Support Community Development Financial Institutions to Address Social Determinates of Health, Nandi Marshall, Charles F. Owens, Deborah Harvey, Michela Hizine, Oluwadamilola Onifade, and Angela Peden
Disease Intervention Specialist Education for the Future: An Analysis of Public Health Curricula, William A. Mase, Andrew Hansen, Stacy W. Smallwood, Gulzar H. Shah, Angela Peden, Ted Mulherin, and Kaye Bender
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 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 A. Barnes, and Pamela Braboy Jackson
Identifying Factors Underlying the Decision for Sickle Cell Carrier Screening Among African Americans Within Middle Reproductive Age, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Susan E. Middlestadt, Hsien-Chang Lin, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Priscilla Barnes, and Braboy Jackson
Excavating New Constructs for Family Stress Theories in the Context of Everyday Life Experiences of Black American Families, Velma McBride Murry, Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, and Misha N. Inniss-Thompson
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
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 R. Hansen
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
Warm Springs Medical Center: Community Health Needs Assessment and Implementation Strategy, Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Charles Owens, Linda Kimsey, and Angela Peden
Public Health Competency and Training Needs Assessment for the Coastal Health District, GA., Samuel T. Opoku, Bettye A. Apenteng, Angela Peden, and William A. Mase
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
A Serious Flaw in Nutrition Epidemiology: A Meta-Analysis Study, Karl E. Peace, Jingjing Yin, Haresh Rochani, Sarbesh R. Pandeya, and Stanley Young
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 Density Based Mode Estimation Using More Efficient Sampling Designs, Hani M. Samawi, Haresh Rochani, Jingjing Yin, Daniel F. Linder, and Robert L. Vogel
Reducing Sample Size Needed for Cox-Proportional hazards model Analysis Using More Efficient Sampling Method, Hani Samawi, Lili Yu, Haresh Rochani, and Robert Vogel
Are Evidence-Based, Community-Engaged Energy Balance Interventions Enough for Extremely Vulnerable Populations?, Nancy E. Schoenberg, Yelena Tarasenko, and Claire Snell-Rood
Earthquake Exposures and Mental Health Outcomes in Children and Adolescents From Phulpingdanda Village, Nepal: A Cross-sectional Study, Jessica S. Schwind, Clara B. Formby, Susan L. Santangelo, Stephanie A. Norman, Rebecca Brown, Rebecca Hoffman Frances, Elisabeth Koss, and Dibesh Karmacharya
Application of the Misclassification Simulation Extrapolation Procedure to Log-Logistic Accelerated Failure Time Models in Survival Analysis, Varadan Sevilimedu, Lili Yu, Hani Samawi, and Haresh Rochani
