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Jewett, Amy; Bell, Teal; Cohen, Nicole J.; Buckley, Kirsten; Leino, E. Victor; Even, Susan; Beavers, Suzanne; Brown, Clive; Marano, Nina – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objective: Colleges are at risk for communicable disease outbreaks because of the high degree of person-to-person interactions and relatively crowded dormitory settings. This report describes the US college student health screening requirements among US resident and international students for tuberculosis (TB) and vaccine-preventable diseases…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Screening Tests, Diseases
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Rodon, Carole; Chin, Jessie; Chevalier, Aline – Health Education Research, 2022
Health literacy (HL) is critical to find, understand and use health information for adopting appropriate health behavior, especially during a pandemic crisis in which people can be exposed to an overwhelming amount of information from different media. To this end, we conducted an online study to first validate the measure of COronaVIrus Disease…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Knowledge Level, Health, Foreign Countries
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Simon, Uwe K. – American Biology Teacher, 2021
The current COVID-19 pandemic shows how little many people know about viruses. Yet apart from COVID-19, the world has observed epidemic spread of another SARS virus, of the Ebola virus, and of the Zika virus during the last two decades. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is still one of the most dangerous viruses worldwide. Some types of the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Microbiology, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
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Salajan, Andreea; Tsolova, Svetla; Ciotti, Massimo; Suk, Jonathan E. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2020
Background: Infectious disease outbreaks require decision makers to make rapid decisions under time pressure and situations of scientific uncertainty, and yet the role of evidence usage in these contexts is poorly understood. Aims and objectives: To define and contextualise the role of scientific evidence in the governance of infectious disease…
Descriptors: Evidence, Decision Making, Communicable Diseases, Scientific Research
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Sydney M. Silverstein; Whitney Jenkins; Marietta Orlowski; Sara Paton – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We describe and analyze case investigation and contact tracing (CICT) efforts across Ohio's public universities in response to COVID-19 to distill challenges and lessons learned and suggest future opportunities for universities to mobilize in the face of emergent public health crises. Participants: Faculty, staff, and graduate students…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Colleges, Emergency Programs
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Kellie Johnson; Tiffany Drape; Joseph Oakes; Joseph Simpson; Anne M. Brown; Donna Westfall-Rudd – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2024
Cyberbiosecurity and workforce development in agriculture and the life sciences (ALS) is a growing area of need in the curriculum in higher education. Students that pursue majors related to ALS often do not include training in cyber-related concepts or expose the 'hidden curriculum' of seeking internships and jobs. Exposing students through…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Curriculum, Biological Influences
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Emenike, Nkechi W.; Onukwugha, Franklin I.; Sarki, Ahmed M.; Smith, Lesley – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2023
Lack of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education contributes to poor SRH outcomes for adolescents and young people in Sub-Saharan Africa. School-based comprehensive SRH education programmes in low- and middle-income countries aim to advance gender equality and human rights and reduce risky sexual behaviours in adolescents. However, the…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Public Schools
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Rubio, Bianca; Briseño, Lisa; Kukucka, Claudia; Liggett, Langdon; Medina, Mauricio; Rodriguez, Betsy; Dicent Taillepierre, Julio; Rodriguez Lainz, Alfonso – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: Health education materials translated for limited English proficiency audiences should be clear and easy to understand. They should be reviewed by fluent and culturally competent reviewers using a standardised and validated assessment tool. Design/Setting: A total of 139 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19-translated…
Descriptors: Health Education, Disease Control, Prevention, Public Health
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Simenec, Tori S.; Gillespie, Sarah; Hodges, H. R.; Ibrahim, Salma A.; Eckerstorfer, Sarah; Ferguson, Gail M. – Prevention Science, 2023
There is a pressing need for prevention programs that address increasing rates of epidemics and pandemics, including noncommunicable diseases. However, many populations face substantial systemic barriers to accessing traditional prevention programs. To minimize persistent service utilization gaps for underserved populations, the field requires…
Descriptors: Prevention, Disproportionate Representation, Access to Information, Program Implementation
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Rajesh Ram – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2023
The world is changing: both a conventional and a vaccine passport are now needed to travel internationally. Mask mandates, and social distancing are the new norm in a rapidly changing society. These measures were put in place to control the spread of the highly infectious and often fatal COVID-19, caused by a viral agent, a microorganism, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biological Influences, Public Health, Communicable Diseases
Sumera Ackbarali – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Young adults are very socially active. During infectious disease outbreaks, their interpersonal interactions serve as a mode of viral transmission, especially to vulnerable populations such as the elderly and immunocompromised. A lack of compliance with recommended health behaviors among college students during the early months of the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior
Universities UK, 2020
The UK's world-leading universities transform lives, enrich local communities, drive regional and national economic growth, and improve society and social justice. As the UK begins to recover from the disruption of the global coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, it is imperative that its universities can emerge from lockdown safely and in line with…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Disease Incidence, Prevention, Educational Facilities
Margolius, Max; Doyle Lynch, Alicia; Pufall Jones, Elizabeth; Hynes, Michelle – America's Promise Alliance, 2020
The novel virus caused by COVID-19 has disrupted life across the country and led to nationwide school closures. In the midst of this disruption and uncertainty, young people, teachers, parents, and other youth-serving professionals are working in new and creative ways to support young people's education. In the interest of understanding how young…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Public Health, Disease Incidence, Crisis Management
Barrus, Zachary; Campbell, Brett; Stanger, Kenadie – Utah System of Higher Education, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread to Utah in March 2020, the state's public colleges and universities took steps to mitigate the risk of infection to students and faculty/staff. Utah's degree-granting institutions shifted in-person coursework online in March 2020 for the remainder of the spring 2020 term, with the goal to protect students' health…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Technical Education
Nathan T. T. Lau; Eric D. Wilkey; Mojtaba Soltanlou; Rebekka Lagacé Cusiac; Lien Peters; Paul Tremblay; Celia Goffin; Isabella Starling Alves; Andrew David Ribner; Clarissa Thompson; Jo Van Hoof; Julia Bahnmueller; Aymee Alvarez; Elien Bellon; Ilse Coolen; Fanny Ollivier; Daniel Ansari – Grantee Submission, 2022
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe have been exposed to large amounts of statistical data. Previous studies have shown that individuals' mathematical understanding of health-related information affects their attitudes and behaviours. Here, we investigate the relation between: (1) basic numeracy; (2) COVID-19 health numeracy; and…
Descriptors: Numeracy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior
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