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- Title
- A mixed-methods approach for vector-borne disease surveillance in Colombia
- Author
- Desjardins, Michael
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Geography, Public health, Epidemiology
- Description
- Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) affect more than 1 billion people a year worldwide, cause over 1 million deaths, and result in hundreds of billions of dollars in societal costs. Dengue fever (DENF), chikungunya (CHIK), and Zika are three emerging VBD...
- Title
- Arboviruses: The hidden path of an imminent threat
- Author
- de Bernardi Schneider, Adriano
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Virology, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology
- Description
- Arboviruses are a grade of viruses carried by arthropods, which have been in the headlines due to recent epidemics. Members of this grade are the families Flaviviridae which includes Zika (ZIKV), Dengue (DENV), Yellow Fever (YFV), among other viru...
- Title
- Assessment and Characterization of HIV Care Continuum in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina 2013-2019
- Author
- Owolabi, Yakubu
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Epidemiology, Health services administration
- Description
- Background: The high burden of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease and the increasing rate of new HIV infections among some populations and jurisdictions could reflect failed prevention strategies. Despite progress in controlling the epidem...
- Title
- Association Between Patient-Level Predictors and Gynecologic Cancer Among Women with Autoimmune Diseases
- Author
- Bahrani_Mostafavi, Zahra
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Epidemiology, Medical sciences
- Description
- Cancer and autoimmunity are two major chronic diseases among women. Based on previous studies that cancer and autoimmune diseases (AD) are both the accumulative effect of genetics and environmental exposures, it was imperative to recognize the pro...
- Title
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in U.S. Veterans: Comorbidity, Ocular Pathology, and Cost of Care
- Author
- Davis Jr., Charles
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Health services administration, Epidemiology
- Description
- ABSTRACTCHARLES N. DAVIS JR. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in U.S. Veterans: Comorbidity, Ocular Pathology, and Cost of Care (Under the direction of DR. WILLIAM BRANDON)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of mor...
- Title
- FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH POOR HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (HAART) MEDICATION ADHERENCE AMONG OLDER ADULTS LIVING WITH HIV IN THE U.S.
- Author
- Witt, Brian
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Epidemiology, Medical sciences
- Description
- Background: In the U.S., the number of individuals living with HIV aged 50 years and older has been consistently increasing. Using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiological data, researchers estimated that in 2015, more than half ...
- Title
- Factors associated with high-risk sexual behavior among Kenyans: Implications for public health strategies and policy in combating HIV/AIDS
- Author
- Onsomu, Elijah
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Government policy, Epidemiology
- Description
- BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa, representing only 12% of the world population is home to nearly 23 million people, approximately 70% of all HIV positives worldwide. HIV/AIDS epidemic in Kenya is characterized by high-risk sexual behavior (HRSB) su...
- Title
- Fundamentals of genomic epidemiology, lessons learned from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and new directions
- Author
- Machado, Denis Jacob, White, Richard Allen, III, Kofsky, Janice, Janies, Daniel
- Subjects--Topical
- COVID-19 (Disease), Epidemiology
- Description
- The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was one of the significant causes of death worldwide in 2020. The disease is caused by severe acute coronavirus syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), an RNA virus of the subfamily Orthocoronav...
- Title
- SOCIOECONOMIC VARIATION AND AEDES MOSQUITOES: AN EXAMINATION OF VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE RISK IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
- Author
- Whiteman, Ari
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Epidemiology
- Description
- The global proliferation of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus into novel regions represents a growing public health threat due to their capacity to transmit a variety of arboviruses including those that cause Dengue Fever (DENF), Chikungunya Feve...
- Title
- SURVIVAL, HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION, AND COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AMONG SEER-MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
- Author
- Shah, Shweta
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Epidemiology, Medical sciences
- Description
- ABSTRACTSHWETA SHAH. Survival, healthcare utilization and costs associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among SEER-Medicare beneficiaries with non-small cell lung cancer. (Under the direction of DR. CHRISTOPHER M. BLANCHETTE)Lung can...
- Title
- Spatio-temporal prediction of the COVID-19 pandemic in US counties : modeling with a deep LSTM neural network
- Author
- Thill, Jean-Claude, Nikparvar, Behnam, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Hatami, Faizeh
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Epidemiology, COVID-19 (Disease)
- Description
- Prediction of complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 is challenging on many grounds. Commonly used compartmental models struggle to handle an epidemiological process that evolves rapidly and is spatially heterogeneous. On the other hand,...
- Title
- Spatiotemporal Prediction Modeling of Dengue Fever in Colombia, South America Based on Temperature and Precipitation
- Author
- Sirbaugh, Megan
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Geodesy, Meteorology, Epidemiology
- Description
- Dengue fever is a prominent mosquito-borne viral disease in the tropics that is estimated to infect as many as 400 million people per year. Dengue is endemic to Colombia, South America and it is crucial to be able to predict when outbreaks may occ...
- Title
- THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MILK CONSUMPTION DURING CHILDHOOD AND PRECOCIOUS MENARCHE
- Author
- Choi, Younjung
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Epidemiology, Nutrition
- Description
- Menarche, the last stage of the normal pubertal development in girls, is one of the most significant events in a woman’s life as it signifies that a girl is capable of becoming pregnant from then on. Furthermore, menarche also means that a girl ha...
- 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...
- Title
- Upstream Factors: The Association Between County Intergenerational Deprivation, State Income Inequality, State Minimum Wage and Hypertension Among Young Adults
- Author
- Mbugua, Anne
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Epidemiology, Public health
- Description
- While hypertension is largely preventable, its rates have been increasing in young adults. Hypertension is associated with substantial costs to the US health care system and therefore a public health burden. In recent times, there has been a shift...
- Title
- WHEN LIFE DEALS ACES: THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (ACES) AND REPRODUCTIVE, PRENATAL, AND PERINATAL HEALTH OUTCOMES AMONG WOMEN
- Author
- Gill, Tasha
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Epidemiology
- Description
- Nearly 65% of adults report experiencing at least one adverse childhood experience (ACEs). Women are more likely to report experiencing 4 or more ACEs. While the association between ACEs and adverse physical and mental health outcomes in adulthood...