PHS Faculty Scholarship
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Health literacy, health outcomes and equity: A trend analysis based on a population survey
(SAGE Publications, 2023-01-23)Health literacy continues to be an issue among minority groups. Population surveys are one strategy used to help better understand health disparities. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in Kansas added ... -
Creating a vision for a healthier workforce using a systems-based approach
(Wolters KLuwer, 2022-03-01)Context: The public health system faces unprecedented challenges due to the pandemic, racism, health inequity, and the politicization of public health. At all levels of the system, the workforce is experiencing distress, ... -
Noma: Experiences of survivors, opinion leaders and healthcare professionals in Burkina Faso
(MDPI, 2022-06-30)The scientific literature on noma (Cancrum Oris) has clearly increased in recent decades, but there seems to have been limited analysis of issues around the psycho-social impacts of this disease. Even when these issues ... -
Economic and social costs of Noma: Design and application of an estimation model to Niger and Burkina Faso
(MDPI, 2022-06-28)Background: While noma affects hundreds of thousands of children every year, taking their lives, disfiguring them and leaving them permanently disabled, the economic and social costs of the disease have not been previously ... -
Artificial intelligence and human rights: Are there signs of an emerging discipline? A systematic review
(Dove Medical Press, 2022-02-02)Aim: Our systematic review seeks to understand the linkages and reciprocal relationships between the artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights (HRs) and to unveil the signs of emergence of a new discipline at the ... -
Toward on-device weight monitoring from selfie face images using smartphones
(Springer, 2022-02-24)Obesity is a serious health problem that is on the rise at the global level. Recent studies suggest that BMI can be inferred from facial images using deep learning-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for obesity ... -
Mental health literacy and women: A systematic review
(Kansas State Nurses Association, 2021)The purpose of this review was to assess published literature of mental health literacy and women. The current review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses. ... -
Understanding nursing home residents’ lives through the lens of selection, optimization, and compensation theory
(Slack, 2021-10-04)The current study examined the importance of personal goals to residents; assessed whether goal-related behavior was associated with mental health factors (i.e., depression, experiential avoidance, and quality of life); ... -
Examining the association between cognitive empathy & paranoia in a community sample
(North American Journal of Psychology, 2021-09-01)Individuals demonstrating higher levels of paranoid thinking also tend to possess lower levels of cognitive empathy. However, the literature remains mixed with many authors finding no relationship or only finding a ... -
Interprofessional education for students of translation/interpreting and the health professions
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021-09-01)In response to the rising need for Spanish-English interpreters in the United States, there has been an increase in translation and interpreting and Spanish for the health professions courses in Spanish language programs ... -
Grandparent knowledge of infant safe sleep
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SARS-CoV2, the COVID-19 pandemic and community perceptions
(SAGE Publications, 2021-02-17)The purpose of this study was to describe knowledge and beliefs about SARS-CoV2 and COVID-19 and explore the gaps between current media coverage of health risks and what the general public knows about the virus and its ... -
Using adaptive leadership principles to support Public Health 3.0 in multidisciplinary undergraduate education
(Emerald, 2021-01-27)Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered public health vulnerabilities worldwide, particularly in the hard-hit USA. US public health professionals, regardless of role, may need to exercise leadership in both planned ... -
Dietary fibre on cell proliferation in large bowel mucosal crypts near or away from lymphoid nodules and on mineral bioavailability
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2008-10-09)The effect of consumption for 24 weeks of different amounts (0%, 5% or 10% w/w) of fermentable (pectin and guar gum) or nonfermentable (cellulose and lignin) dietary fibres on cell proliferation and other parameters in ... -
The perceptions of US physician assistants regarding physician assistant-to-physician bridge programs
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2012)Purpose: Since Dr. Stead first envisioned the physician assistant (PA) profession, there has been discussion of an accelerated PA-to-physician "bridge" program. Despite some conversations in the 1960s and the creation of ... -
Factors that influence physician assistant choice of practice location
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2012-03)Objective: Certain US rural areas have inadequate access to health care providers. Health care educational institutions have made nationwide efforts to recruit students from rural areas, in the hope that they will return ... -
Evaluation of a targeted curriculum on patient poverty funded by Title VII
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2014)Purpose: There is limited knowledge about the perceptions of physician assistant (PA) students on poverty issues and the importance of treating the poor. We assessed whether a curriculum focused on these issues improved ... -
Perceptions of physician assistants regarding a specialty certification examination
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2012-02)A national sample of physician assistants (PAs) responded to a survey about their perceptions of specialty certification. Fewer than one-third planned to certify. Of three factors, advantage of specialization was most ... -
Collaborative health education for Somali Bantu refugee women in Kansas City
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2019-09-23)Objective: To partner with and understand the health of Somali Bantu refugee women, small group sessions were designed and conducted using a community-based collaborative action research (CBCAR) approach. Health topics ... -
Capacity building for public health: participant-guided training
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2019-04-03)Growth in the demand for public health services, along with limited funding, makes workforce collaboration and capacity building imperative. The faculty and staff of the Midwestern Public Health Training Center, with two ...
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