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Zaman, Rafida – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The vision of Smart Connected Community (SCC) is to integrate technology to improve economy, safety, education, health and provide equity in the society. Human factor plays a vital role in the SCC in human societal, psychological, physical factors in the technology uses from various aspects. In this research, first, we have studied the impact of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Municipalities, City Government
Royster, Leigh-Anne A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Gender based violence is experienced at higher rates on college campuses than in other communities. One in five women experience acquaintance rape during their academic career and less than 5% of college women who have experienced sexual assault report their victimization (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Recent federal guidance is meant to…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Violence, Prevention, Females
Fillipucci-Arnold, Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This basic qualitative research study was designed to explore the perceptions of nursing professional development specialists (NPD) and their skills and competencies in discerning the differences among evidence-based practice (EBP), quality improvement (QI), and research. Without NPD specialists' skilled expertise in understanding and utilizing…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Evidence Based Practice, Qualitative Research, Professional Development
Okombo, Florence A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Racial/ethnic minority groups experience a higher mortality rate, a lower life expectancy, and worse mental health outcomes than non-Hispanic in the United States. There is a scarcity of qualitative studies on racial/ethnic health disparities. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the personal experiences,…
Descriptors: Diabetes, African Americans, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics
Marcos Gayol – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study investigated public health nurses' perceptions regarding an information management training program at a for-profit nursing agency in South Florida. Despite mandates from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, HIPAA, and the Institute of Medicine to incorporate informatics in healthcare, research on its impact on…
Descriptors: Public Health, Nurses, Attitudes, Information Management
Baillie, Colleen P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Undergraduate students represent a new but growing population at a school of public (SPH) health at a large, private, urban research university on the East Coast. This SPH has offered a minor in public health since 2010, and a major was initiated in 2014. The school also plans to offer an accelerated bachelor's-to-master's in public health…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Public Health, Student Experience
Ford, Cheryl – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Over the past 30 years, public health Practitioners worldwide have increasingly relied on Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) as a tool for informing decision makers of the potential health impacts of proposed policies, programs, and planning decisions. Adoption of the HIA is significantly less common in the United States than in international…
Descriptors: Public Health, Outcome Measures, Qualitative Research, Grounded Theory
Savaglio, Lauren – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a mentoring program on self-efficacy beliefs. High-risk undergraduate students at Arizona State University majoring in Public Health and other closely-related fields represent this study's sample. Bandura's Self-Efficacy Theory guides this study's theoretical framework. This study used a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Public Health, At Risk Students, Pretests Posttests
King, Laura Rasar – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This qualitative descriptive study examined the factors that faculty leaders believe influence the decision to offer the DrPH degree in their schools of public health and how those factors influence the design of the DrPH. The central research question in this study was: How do faculty leaders describe their experience with the decision to offer,…
Descriptors: Public Health, Doctoral Degrees, Administrator Attitudes, Accreditation (Institutions)
Best, Neil A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
One of 5 women are sexually assaulted during college, resulting not only in immediate suffering, but also negative consequences that affect their career trajectory and success over a lifetime (Krebs et al., 2016; Loya, 2015). Although previous research has focused on the individual predictors of violence, more recent research has hypothesized the…
Descriptors: Incidence, Sexuality, Rape, Student Attitudes
Haynsworth, Nancy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Research shows that compared to other groups, African Americans have historically had less access to swimming skills and thereby have a higher rate of drowning while swimming. Knowing how to swim is an important drowning prevention strategy, yet many African Americans residing in a county in South Carolina do not know how to swim, despite living…
Descriptors: Action Research, Fear, Water, Safety
Zombil, Henri – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Domestic violence is a continuing public health problem. Immigrant women facing domestic violence have additional challenges in dealing with domestic violence and accessing services. Hopeful thinking has been identified as a strategy for intervening and surviving beyond domestic violence. The purpose of this multiple descriptive case study was to…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Immigrants, Haitians, Females
Hepworth, Allison D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The ultimate aim of translational research in the prevention sciences is to establish evidence-based programs and services that facilitate the adoption or maintenance of positive health behaviors. Success is indicated by reductions in the incidence of mental and behavioral health disorders at the individual and population levels, and universal…
Descriptors: Infants, Prevention, Health Behavior, Obesity
Jaime M. Garza – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Heavy drinking among college students has been identified as a major public health concern in the United States. While research on college drinking is extensive, it is almost exclusively focused on white non-Hispanic populations, with minimal attention to ethnic minority groups--particularly the Hispanic college student. The aim of this study was…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Undergraduate Students
DeFrancesco, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Healthcare organizations strive to adapt to the continuous change in what has become a fast-paced, high technology environment. Many organizations are charged to find efficiencies to better manage medical device assets. Increasingly, healthcare leaders opt to adopt a standardized medical device nomenclature under the purview of a set of national…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Health Services, Vocabulary, Equipment
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