Volume 7, Number 2 (2019)
As you may know, our previous Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Selina Smith, passed away on August 25, 2018. The official death announcement written by Dr. Colin K. Smith, GPHA President, can be found here https://www.gapha.org/death-announcement/. As you can imagine, this news was heartbreaking for the members of GPHA and subsequently caused unforeseen delays in the publication of Volume 7, Issue 2.
Original Research
Participatory Process for Implementing a Colorectal Cancer Screening Intervention: an Action Plan for Local Sustainability
Selina A. Smith, Joyce Q. Sheats, Sandra J. Hamilton, Mary S. Whitehead, Ernestine Delmoor, Thomas Britt, Cassandra Harris, Janette Robinson-Flint, Cheryl Johnson, Corliss McKeever, Connie L. Sorrell, Vincent R. Green, John W. Harmon, Dorothy L. Reddic, Jane Giddens-Cabarrus, Shirley Gordon-Seay, Benjamin E. Ansa, and Daniel S. Blumenthal
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Among People With Cardiovascular Diseases in Southeast Georgia
Chimuanya Okoli, Stacy Carswell, Sewuese Akuse, and Kelly Sullivan
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 Chun-Hai Fung
Implementing Mindfulness Practices With Parents of Young Children in a Low-Socioeconomic Status Neighborhood
Andrew T. Roach, Josephine Mhende, Brian A. Barger, and Douglas A. Roberts
Experiences of Violence Among Female West African Asylum Seekers in Atlanta: a Qualitative Analysis
Kathleen E. Curtis and Dabney P. Evans
Health Inspectors on Local Boards of Health: the Impact on Communities’ Environmental Health Governance
Jeff Jones, Asli Aslan, and Ginger Fenton
The Impact of Maternal Literacy Skills on Child Weight in Mozambique
Ashley Watson, Shannon Self-Brown, Iris Feinberg, and Whitney Rostad
Relationship Between Self-Report and Observed Parenting Among Parents in Treatment Versus Not in Treatment Populations
Rabab Zahidi, Jessica S. Rogers, Wendy P. Guastaferro, and Daniel J. Whitaker
Sociodemographic and Biometric Factors Associated With Eating Behaviors Among African American Women Aged 18-74
Takiyah J. Thomas, Jammie M. Hopkins, Riba Kelsey-Harris, Folashade Omole, and Ernest Alema-Mensah
Mental Health Outcomes, Parenting Skills and Family Functioning of Adult and Family Treatment Court Participants
Carolyn A. Malone, Jessica S. Rogers, Wendy P. Guastaferro, and Daniel J. Whitaker
Living Arrangement: a Contributor to Vascular Disease in Asymptomatic African American Women
Meldra Hall, Elizabeth Ofili, Rigobert Lapu-Bula, Ernest Alema-Mensah, and Stephanie Miles-Richardson
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
Literature Review
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
BRIEF Reports
The Relationship Between Per Capita Income, Uninsured Rates, and Cardiovascular Mortality in Georgia Between 1994 – 2016
Monique Bethel, Mark A. Thompson, and Adam E. Berman
Examining the Characteristics of Physicians That Leave Georgia After Medical School Training
Emmanuel Akowuah, Imaobong Ekpo, Samuel Opoku, and Bettye Apenteng
Characteristics of the Health Information Technology Workforce in Georgia
Imaobong Ekpo, Emmanuel Akowuah, Bettye Apenteng, and Samuel Opoku
Practice Notes
Insights in Health Administration Education: Understanding the Role of Personality in Teamwork
Lesley A. Clack and Erica Droste
Conference Report
88th Annual Georgia Public Health Association Meeting & Conference Report
Colin K. Smith, Regina Abbott, Eleanora Zhilyak, and Christy Sims
Qualitative Research
How Breastfeeding Behavior is Affected by the Breastfeeding Perspectives of Fathers in Georgia (USA)
Les'Shon Irby, Emily Graybill, and Cassandra White
Secondary Data Analyses
Improving Housing Quality to Reduce Asthma Rates and Healthcare Costs in Athens-Clarke County, GA
Samantha J. Harris, John M. Johnston, Maria Bowie, and Grace Bagwell Adams
Health Care Access by Weight Status in the State of Georgia
Elizabeth Pullekines and Janani Rajbhandari-Thapa
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Raymona H. Lawrence, DrPH, MPH, Georgia Southern University
- Founding Editor
- McKinley Thomas, EdD, Georgia Southern University