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Title: A model for integrating strategic planning and competence-based curriculum design in establishing a public health programme : the UNC Charlotte experience
Author: Harver, Andrew, Thompson, Michael E., Eure, Marquis
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Public health--Study and teaching, Strategic planning, Curriculum planning
Description: Introduction: The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a doctoral/research-intensive university, is the largest institution of higher education in the Charlotte region. The university currently offers 18 doctoral, 62 master's and 90 baccalau...

Title: A novel machine learning framework for comparison of viral COVID-19–related Sina Weibo and Twitter posts : workflow development and content analysis
Author: Chen, Shi, Zhou, Lina, Song, Yunya, Xu, Qian, Wang, Ping, Wang, Kanlun, Ge, Yaorong, Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Twitter (Firm), Social media, Machine learning
Description: Background: Social media plays a critical role in health communications, especially during global health emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a lack of a universal analytical framework to extract, quantify, and comp...

Title: A novel sampling method to measure socioeconomic drivers of Aedes albopictus distribution in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Whiteman, Ari, Delmelle, Eric, Rapp, Tyler, Chen, Shi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Public health
Description: Climate change, urbanization, and globalization have facilitated the spread of Aedes mosquitoes into regions that were previously unsuitable, causing an increased threat of arbovirus transmission on a global scale. While numerous studies have addr...

Title: A psychometric assessment of a network social capital scale among sexual minority men and gender minority individuals
Author: Zarwell, Meagan, Walsh, Jennifer L., Quinn, Katherine G., Kaniuka, Andrea, Patton, Alexandra, Robinson, William T., Cramer, Robert J. (Robert Joseph)
Subjects--Topical: Social capital (Sociology)--Research--Methodology, Social networks, Queer studies
Description: Background Social capital, the potential for individuals to access resources through group memberships, is linked to a constellation of health outcomes. We modified a previously evaluated Constructed Family Social Capital Scale for gay, bisexual a...

Title: A statewide assessment of North Carolina nurse practitioner’s knowledge of and attitudes toward suicide awareness and prevention : protocol for a statewide mixed methods study
Author: Whitaker-Brown, Charlene, Cornelius, Judith, Smoot, Jaleesa, Khadka, Anjala
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Suicide--Prevention, Nurse practitioners
Description: Suicide is a major public health problem, which affects people of all ages and ethnicities. Despite being preventable, the rates of suicide have steadily climbed (more than a third) over the past 2 decades.

Title: An epidemiologic analysis of associations between county-level per capita income, unemployment rate, and COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States
Author: Gao, Jingjing, Guo, Yuqi, Kaniuka, Andrea, Sims, Omar T.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 (Disease)--Vaccination
Description: The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine associations between per capita income, unemployment rates, and COVID-19 vaccination rates at the county-level across the United States (U.S.), as well as to identify the interaction effects be...

Title: An exploratory study of digital inequities and work in the redevelopment of a southeastern American city
Author: Crocker, Tianca, Whitlow, Clysha, Cooper, Haley, Patrick, Claire, Padilla, Avangelyne, Jammal, Mia, Ince, Rebecca
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Labor market, Labor market--Social aspects, Marginality, Social, Marginality, Social--Economic aspects
Description: Nearly 6 million workers support the multi-billion-dollar digital economy as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the U.S. labor market. Middle-skill jobs in the digital economy sector that pay higher wages and do not require a bachelor’s degree ...

Title: Associations between hospital quality outcomes and Medicare spending per beneficiary in the USA
Author: Gunn, Laura, Cook, Karyn, Perry, I’sis, Hoke, Christy, Smith, Dana, Peterson, Leanne, Martin, John, Korvink, Michael, Foster, Brent
Subjects--Topical: Medicare, Hospital care
Description: The cost of healthcare in the United States has increased over time. However, patient health outcomes have not trended with spending. There is a need to better comprehend the association between healthcare costs in the United States and hospital q...

Title: Associations between perceived value of exclusive breastfeeding among pregnant women in the United States and exclusive breastfeeding to three and six months postpartum : a prospective study
Author: Racine, Elizabeth, Nnebe-Agumadu, Uche Henrietta, Laditka, Sarah B., Coffman, Maren
Subjects--Topical: Infants--Nutrition, Breastfeeding
Description: Background: Successful breastfeeding often starts with prenatally established intention. Yet, few mothers with the intention to exclusively breastfeed achieve their intended breastfeeding duration goal. This study examined the degree to which havi...

Title: Breaking the data value-privacy paradox in mobile mental health systems through user-centered privacy protection : a web-based survey study
Author: Zhang, Dongsong, Lim, Jaewan, Zhou, Lina, Dahl, Alicia A.
Subjects--Topical: Mobile apps, Mental health, Privacy
Description: Background: Mobile mental health systems (MMHS) have been increasingly developed and deployed in support of monitoring, management, and intervention with regard to patients with mental disorders. However, many of these systems rely on patient data...

Title: Content and sentiment surveillance (CSI) : A critical component for modeling modern epidemics
Author: Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Zhang, Dongsong
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Comprehensive surveillance systems are the key to provide accurate data for effective modeling. Traditional symptom-based case surveillance has been joined with recent genomic, serologic, and environment surveillance to provide more integrated dis...

Title: Contextualizing the experiences of Black pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic : ‘It’s been a lonely ride’
Author: Dahl, Alicia A., Yada, Farida N., Butts, Shanika Jerger, Tolley, Annalise, Hirsch, Sophie, Lalgondar, Priyanka, Wilson, Kala S.
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Maternal health services, COVID-19 (Disease), Women, Black
Description: The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly changed the prenatal care experience, specifically regarding medical appointments and social opportunities. It is critical to capture this change through the narratives of pregnant people, parti...

Title: County-level socioeconomic status adjustment of acute myocardial infarction mortality hospital performance measure in the U.S.
Author: Gunn, Laura, Daley, Sean, Kajendrakumar, Bakthameera, Nandhakumar, Samyuktha, Personett, Christine, Sholes, Michael, Thapa, Swornim, Xue, Chen, Korvink, Michael
Subjects--Topical: Myocardial infarction, Hospital care
Description: The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) Hospital Compare (HC) data provides a collection of risk-adjusted hospital performance metrics intended to allow comparison of hospital-provided care. However, CMS does not adjust for so...

Title: Do socioeconomic factors drive Aedes mosquito vectors and their arboviral diseases? A systematic review of dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika virus
Author: Delmelle, Eric, Whiteman, Ari, Loaiza, Jose R., Yee, Donald A., Poh, Karen C., Watkins, Alexandria S., Lucas, Keira J., Rapp, Tyler J., Kline, Lillie, Ahmed, Ayman, Chen, Shi, Oguzie, Judith Uche
Subjects--Topical: Arbovirus infections, Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: As the threat of arboviral diseases continues to escalate worldwide, the question of, “What types of human communities are at the greatest risk of infection?” persists as a key gap in the existing knowledge of arboviral diseases transmission dynam...

Title: Editorial : integrative learning in US undergraduate public health education : effective high-impact practices
Author: Harver, Andrew, Hein, Katie Darby, Petersen, Donna J., Rhodes, Terrel L., 1949-
Subjects--Topical: Public health--Study and teaching (Higher), Interdisciplinary approach in education
Description: Editorial

Title: Effects of symptom perception interventions on trigger identification and quality of life in children with asthma
Author: Harver, Andrew, Janssens, Thomas
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Asthma, Asthma in children
Description: Background. Management of individual triggers is suboptimal in practice. In this project, we investigated the impact of symptom perception interventions on asthma trigger identification and self-reported asthma quality of life. Methods. Children w...

Title: End of an era for community managed care of NC medicaid adults report of a 2018 CAHPS survey of adult enrollees in CCNC networks
Author: Carnes, Keith J., Mbugua, Anne, Barbato, David
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Medicaid, Managed Care, North Carolina, Survey
Description: The NC Department of Health and Human Services contracted with UNC Charlotte to conduct statewide surveys of the NC adult managed Medicaid population in 2018. This report presents the findings.

Title: End of an era for community managed care of NC medicaid adults report of a 2018 CAHPS survey of adult enrollees in CCNC networks
Author: Carnes, Keith J., Mbugua, Anne, Barbato, David
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Medicaid, Managed Care, North Carolina, Survey
Description: The NC Department of Health and Human Services contracted with UNC Charlotte to conduct statewide surveys of the NC adult managed Medicaid population in 2018. This report presents the findings.

Title: End of an era for community managed care of NC medicaid children report of a 2018 CAHPS survey of child enrollees in CCNC network
Author: Carnes, Keith J., Barbato, David, Mbugua, Anne
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Medicaid, Survey, Managed Care, North Carolina
Description: The NC Department of Health and Human Services contracted with UNC Charlotte to conduct statewide surveys of the NC child managed Medicaid population in 2018. This report presents the findings.

Title: Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
Description: Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...