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Sarah James; Caroline Tervo; Theda Skocpol – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic struck during a period of extreme polarization in American politics. Unsurprisingly, responses to it quickly became politicized despite increasingly clear findings from scientific and public health communities about the most effective approaches for limiting its spread. We ask how the politicization affected pandemic response…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Incidence, Public Health
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Holly Kosiewicz; Heidi Kane; Trey Miller; Lisa Sontag-Padilla; Denise Williams – RAND Corporation, 2024
Community colleges and the broader U.S. higher education system are struggling to respond to rising rates of mental health problems among students. Without adequate mental health supports, students risk a wide variety of serious and lasting consequences. Confronted with these issues, federal, state, and college officials lack research guidance…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Mental Health, Mental Disorders
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Holly Kosiewicz; Heidi Kane; Trey Miller; Lisa Sontag-Padilla; Denise Williams – RAND Corporation, 2024
Rising rates of individuals with mental illness in the United States have policymakers, education officials, and medical professionals worried about the need for additional support for struggling college students--and the ability of higher education institutions to provide it. Many colleges have designed and implemented a variety of interventions…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Mental Health, Mental Disorders
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Franciele Delurdes Colatusso; Júlia Feldmann Uhry; Adalberto de Paula Barreto; Maria Lucia de Andrade Reis; Max Luiz de Carvalho; Suely Ruiz Giolo; Milene Zanoni da Silva; Giovana Daniela Pecharki – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
This study described integrative community therapy (ICT) in the online modality as a health promotion resource in the context of COVID-19 in Latin America, characterizing the ICT circles, the ICT training centers, and the community therapists involved in this practice. It is a descriptive, observational, and cross-sectional study with a…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Public Health, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Benbenishty, Rami; Astor, Ron Avi – Journal of School Violence, 2021
This study assessed the prevalence of weapon-related behaviors and experiences in secondary schools in California, their intercorrelations, and predictors at the individual and school levels. This study is based on a representative sample of 889,726 secondary school students in California based on the California Healthy Kids Survey. Prevalence…
Descriptors: Weapons, Secondary School Students, Correlation, Predictor Variables
Cuschieri, Sarah – Springer, 2021
This book prepares and guides individuals who are about to embark (or already have embarked) on a health/medical PhD journey, with a specific focus on Public Health. Based on the author's experience as a recently graduated Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student, readers benefit from the knowledge imparted and lessons learned, including an analysis of…
Descriptors: Public Health, Doctoral Degrees, Proposal Writing, Research Proposals
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Bano, Sara; Xia, Qing; Dirkx, John – Commission for International Adult Education, 2021
In this paper we will share successful teaching techniques for creating effective learning experiences for adult learners in an international context. We studied the experiences of two groups of Chinese undergraduate students from public health and nursing in short-term study abroad programs in the United States. We used the experiential learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Students, Experiential Learning, Public Health
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Powell, Martin – Teaching Public Administration, 2019
There have been recent calls for a royal commission (RC) on the British National Health Service (NHS). This article focuses on the impact of RCs and similar advisory bodies, particularly on finance recommendations, of three inquiries with broad remits across the whole of the NHS from very different periods: Guillebaud (1956); Royal Commission on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expenditures, Public Health, National Programs
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Thompson, Laura Jeanne – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2019
The author recently completed a three-year program in early childhood education in BC and became interested in the evolution of gender development in the early years. Findings of this policy and programs research reveal that the work has been done by upper levels of the provincial education system, but the created programming has not translated…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Student Diversity
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Lee, Natasha – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2020
The current agenda in public health training in higher education works to produce well-trained public health professionals. Operating within a western pedagogical framework it aims to build a cohort of critical and analytical thinkers, skilful problem solvers and extraordinary communicators across key disciplines in health. Many graduates possess…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Health Personnel, Public Health
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Mooney, Stephen J.; Bader, Michael D. M.; Lovasi, Gina S.; Neckerman, Kathryn M.; Rundle, Andrew G.; Teitler, Julien O. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Ordinary kriging, a spatial interpolation technique, is commonly used in social sciences to estimate neighborhood attributes such as physical disorder. Universal kriging, developed and used in physical sciences, extends ordinary kriging by supplementing the spatial model with additional covariates. We measured physical disorder on 1,826 sampled…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Measurement Techniques, Geographic Information Systems, Comparative Analysis
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Lynch, Amy K.; Ashcraft, Rachel; Mahler, Kelly; Whiting, Colleen Cameron; Schroeder, Krista; Weber, Meredith – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
Literature is abundant with information about the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) upon adult physical health and well-being. Findings beckon attention by providers to identify and respond to trauma during childhood in order to reduce the significant life-long impact. The purpose of this article is to explore a model for…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Allied Health Personnel, Trauma, Intervention
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Djannah, Sitti Nur; Matahari, Ratu – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
Lack of consuming drink water can cause many effects on the body. The long term effects of less consuming water dangerous for health. The diseases related to the less consuming water are respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal disease, urinary infections, cancer, diabetic, kidney disease, and also others metabolic disorders. Those diseases…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Water, Health Behavior, Adolescents
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Enomoto, Ayaka; Saito, Aki; Takahashi, Osamu; Kimura, Takeshi; Tajima, Ryoko; Rahman, Mahbubur; Iida, Kaoruko – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Background: Both underweight and overweight are public health concerns in Japan. Several studies examined the association between health literacy (HL) and obesity status in the general population; however, there is limited information on young adults. In addition, the association between HL and underweight status has not been extensively…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Body Weight, Public Health, Knowledge Level
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Robinson, Lee A.; Menezes, Michelle; Mullin, Brian; Cook, Benjamin Lê – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
As value-based care continues to expand, more children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will be treated by accountable care organizations (ACOs), provider organizations seeking to improve population health while reducing costs. To inform ACO strategies for children with ASD, this study compared health care expenditures of children insured by a…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Costs
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