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Motivators and Barriers to HPV Vaccination: A Qualitative Study of Underserved Women Attending Planned Parenthood
(2022-07-15)Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Disease-associated strains of HPV can cause genital warts and six cancer types. HPV-associated cervical cancer disproportionately ... -
Switching to a Standard Chow Diet at Weaning Improves the Effects of Maternal and Postnatal High-Fat and High-Sucrose Diet on Cardiometabolic Health in Adult Male Mouse Offspring
(2022-06-18)Cardiac mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to obesity-associated heart disease. Maternal and postnatal diet plays an important role in cardiac function, yet the impacts of a mismatch between prenatal and postweaning ... -
Predictors of Variations in Residential Water Consumption in Central Texas
(2022-06-03)Background: The 100th Meridian in Texas aligns with a corridor of large and rapidly growing urban areas with a growing water demand and limited supply. Understanding the variations in residential water consumption may ... -
Minding Mental Health: Clinicians’ Engagement with Youth Suicide Prevention
(2022-05-11)Suicidal ideation and deaths among children and adolescents have seen an unprecedented rise over the last ten years, recently further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research explores mental health professionals’ ... -
Religion and Help-Seeking: Theological Conservatism and Preferences for Mental Health Assistance
(2022-05-05)Religious affiliation and attendance have been shown to affect various facets of mental health, including the willingness to seek mental health assistance; however, little is known about how theological beliefs influence ... -
Machine learning algorithms for predicting undernutrition among under-five children in Ethiopia
(Public Health Nutrition;Volume 25, Issue 2, 2021-10-08)Objective: Child undernutrition is a global public health problem with serious implications. In this study, we estimate predictive algorithms for the determinants of childhood stunting by using various machine learning ... -
Changes in the Retail Food Environment in Mexican Cities and Their Association with Blood Pressure Outcomes
(2022-01-26)Shifting food environments in Latin America have potentially contributed to an increase in the consumption of ultra-processed foods and sugar-sweetened beverages, along with decreases in healthy foods, such as fruits and ... -
What is co-authorship?
(Scientometrics;109(3), 2016-12-01)Science and technology policy academics and evaluators use co-authorship as a proxy for research collaboration despite knowing better. Anecdotally we understand that an individual might be listed as an author on a particular ... -
Walking Engagement in Mexican Americans Who Participated in a Community-Wide Step Challenge in El Paso, TX
(2021-12-02)In the United States, the Latinx population has the highest prevalence of physical inactivity compared with other ethnicities. Research shows that work-based physical activity interventions have been widely implemented in ... -
Earning Patterns of Mexican Workers in the Southern Region: A Focus on Nonmetro/Metro Distinctions
(Southern Rural Sociology Special Issue: Southern Rural Labor Markets;Volume 16, 2000)The last few years have witnessed a tremendous change in the geographic location patterns of the Mexican population in the United States. The rural South represents one of the areas that have seen a noticeable growth ... -
Latinos in the South: A Glimpse of Ongoing Trends and Research
(Southern Rural Sociology;Vol. 19 No. 1, 2003)Since the late 1980s, there has been a tremendous amount of reshifting in the Latino population of the United States. This movement has resulted in the increasing settlement of Latinos in areas of the country that have ... -
The Criminalization of Immigrants & the Immigration-Industrial Complex
(Daedalus;Vol. 142, No. 3, 2013)Over the last few decades, and particularly after 9/11, we have witnessed the increasing criminalization of immigrants in the United States. Changing policies have subjected immigrants to intensified apprehension and ... -
The Contribution of Sociocultural Factors in Shaping Self-Reported Sickness Behavior
(Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience;, 2020-01-24)Sickness behavior is an evolutionarily conserved phenomenon found across a diverse range of animals involving a change in motivational priorities to theoretically maximize energetic investment in immune function and recovery. ... -
A latent profile analysis of the link between sociocultural factors and health-related risktaking among U.S. adults
(BMC Public Health;, 2021-03-19)Background: Research suggests that health/safety behaviors (e.g., drinking heavily) and medical behaviors (e.g., donating blood) may be perceived as inherently risky, and further suggests there is substantial variation in ... -
Signaling sickness: the role of recalled sickness behavior and psychosocial factors in shaping communication style
(Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health;, 2021)Background and objectives: Active infection results in several outward signs in humans, including visible symptoms, changes in behavior and possible alterations in skin color and gait. A potential adaptive function of these ... -
Networks, cultures, and institutions: Toward a social immunology
(Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health;, 2021-12)This paper calls for increased attention to the ways in which immune function – including its behavioral aspects – are responsive to social contexts at multiple levels. Psychoneuroimmunology has demonstrated that the ... -
An Assessment of Prisoner Reentry, Legal Financial Obligations and Family Financial Support: A Focus on Fathers
(2021-09-13)Scholars have found that family support is an important facilitator of successful reentry from prison to the community. At the same time, they have argued that owing court-ordered fines or fees, also called legal financial ... -
Development and psychometric validation of the Dispositional Recovery and Dysfunction Inventory: a tool to assess for positive and negative cognitions following trauma exposure
(Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy;, 2021-05-31)Background: Recovery from trauma can be naturally occurring or facilitated through psychotherapy. Few brief measures exist to provide clinicians with dispositional, empirical assessments of patient’s sentiments during ... -
Ursolic Acid and Related Analogues: Triterpenoids with Broad Health Benefits
(2021-07-21)Ursolic acid (UA) is a well-studied natural pentacyclic triterpenoid found in herbs, fruit and a number of traditional Chinese medicinal plants. UA has a broad range of biological activities and numerous potential health ... -
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Early Language Difficulties among U.S. Children
(6/16/2021)<b>Objective</b>: Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) is a serious public health concern with the potential to interfere with various components of healthy child development. Even so, there has been limited nationally ...
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