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A Data-Analytic Approach Towards Increasing Donor Heart Utilization in the United States
Title
A Data-Analytic Approach Towards Increasing Donor Heart Utilization in the United States
Author
Satyanarayana, Sagar
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Biometry
Description
Heart transplantation is the best option available to treat end-stage Heart Failure (HF). There is a shortage of donor hearts in the United States even with the steady increase in the number of donors. One likely reason is the decreasing transplan...
Building Healthy Communities: An Exploration of a Place-based Initiative, Participant Characteristics, and Preliminary Outcomes
Title
Building Healthy Communities: An Exploration of a Place-based Initiative, Participant Characteristics, and Preliminary Outcomes
Author
Tynan, Jacqueline
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Geography, Public health, Psychology
Description
Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiaupuni, 1993; Stoloff, 2004). Areas of concentrated poverty are typically marked by...
Heterogeneous Feature Integration for Regression in Multimodal Healthcare Applications
Title
Heterogeneous Feature Integration for Regression in Multimodal Healthcare Applications
Author
Tavakoli Hosseinabadi, Maryam
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Computer science, Information science, Diagnostic imaging
Description
The increasing performance of feature extraction and regression modeling in various domains raises the hope for machine and deep learning to assist clinicians in numerous healthcare applications. However, the complex and multimodal nature of the p...
The Influence of Urban Restructuring on the Social Determinants of Health in a Hispanic Immigrant Population in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Title
The Influence of Urban Restructuring on the Social Determinants of Health in a Hispanic Immigrant Population in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Author
Urquieta de Hernandez, Brisa
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Geography, Public health
Description
The environment where a person lives impacts their health more than clinical care provided. (RWJF, 2013) This research posits that the determinants of health (DOH) are best understood as a combination of social, structural, spatial and temporal as...
Towards Ending the HIV Epidemic One County at a Time an Evaluation Framework for Subcounty-level Usage of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for Exposing Disparities and Guiding Targeted Interventions
Title
Towards Ending the HIV Epidemic One County at a Time an Evaluation Framework for Subcounty-level Usage of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for Exposing Disparities and Guiding Targeted Interventions
Author
Satyanarayana, Sagar
Date Created
2021
Subjects--Topical
Biometry, Epidemiology, Statistics
Description
About 1.1 million Americans were living with HIV in 2019 with the total lifetime cost to treat a single person with an HIV infection estimated to be around $501,000. Huge disparities in new HIV incidences exist between different geographic and dem...