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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...
Examining the Associations Among Physical Activity Counseling, Self-Efficacy, and Physical Activity Behavior
Title
Examining the Associations Among Physical Activity Counseling, Self-Efficacy, and Physical Activity Behavior
Author
Snapper, Leslie
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Psychology, Social sciences
Description
Physical activity is associated with a myriad of health benefits, yet rates of physical activity among adults in the United States remain low and traditional medical interventions often don’t address activity behavior. Despite evidence supporting ...
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 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BARRIERS TO HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND SELF-REPORTED MENTAL HEALTH STATUS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Title
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BARRIERS TO HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND SELF-REPORTED MENTAL HEALTH STATUS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Author
Gigler, Margaret
Date Created
2020
Subjects--Topical
Psychology, Mental health
Description
Mental illness is a critical public health issue, as it is not only one of the most common causes of disability, but also carries a high disease burden with regards to physical health and premature mortality. Despite the high prevalence and its ac...
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...