Significance Statement. HIV and AIDS continue to be a burden to health globally. Scenarios from Africa is a popular communication program on the continent with the highest HIV burden. Understanding audience response to a Scenarios from Africa film will help to optimize the effectiveness of future films. Assessing audience response to health communication materials is challenging. Although participatory sketching is less well known than other types of participatory visual research, such as PhotoVoice, and commonly limited to use with children or in populations of low literacy, the exercise has the potential to be an engaging and effective addition to current qualitative research in all populations, and particularly well‐suited to assessing audience response to health communication. This thesis assesses audience response to a film about sexual violence. Over and above its significance as a human rights issue, sexual violence plays a major role in HIV transmission. Assessing sense‐making around sexual violence among young people in Burkina Faso is important to help guide future work in sexual violence prevention and response in the region.
Significance Statement. This thesis confronts the primarily reactive efforts of existing public health surveillance systems and the paucity of training related to child sexual abuse prevention. The Physician’s Power to Protect educational program is designed to educate medical professionals on the prevention and early detection of child sexual abuse. However, this recently created and adopted educational program at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University needs to be evaluated for effectiveness. In public health, program evaluation “is a standardized method that’s routinely used to assess the effects of educational programs (Xxxxxx, 1997).” This thesis develops a public health grant proposal to evaluate the effectiveness of the curriculum, methods and teaching resources of the Physician’s Power to Protect program. The implementation of a sound evaluation approach will position the study and Physician’s Power to Protect for replication in other environments
Significance Statement. Introducing measles containing vaccine in routine immunization programs, starting measles case based surveillance and providing supplementary immunization activities play a critical role to eliminate measles in each SEARO countries. WHO/XXXXX has already set the targets for the elimination of measles by 2020. This thesis review highlights the strengths and weaknesses of existing routine immunization programs, defines the various types of existing surveillance activities in SEARO countries and describes the benefits of measles surveillance for other diseases like rubella. Furthermore, this review provides recommendations for improving routine immunization and enhancing quality of supplementary measles campaign. This review of measles elimination activities will provide additional insights for service providers, program managers, policy makers of each country in SEARO and global partners of measles elimination in designing effective programs for measles elimination.
Significance Statement. Firstly, this paper critically evaluates potentially useful sources of information that can be readily incorporated into hospital staffing models, improving forecast accuracy and reducing costs. Secondly, as hospital systems grow, there is an increasing need to make use of the large amounts of data available, and the analytic procedures presented here could suggest innovative ways to integrate separate sources of healthcare data.
Significance Statement. The results of this research will be useful in improving the impact and sustainability of the stunting prevention program in Malawi and provide useful lessons for other related programs.
Significance Statement. The significance of this project is in the Sunapsis system’s ability to facilitate the work of the international office at Emory University. This work is critical to allowing international students and scholars to remain in the United States, and to allow Emory as an institution to continue enrolling international students, hosting international scholars, and hiring international employees. Remaining in compliance with immigration regulations is challenging even with a small population; Emory’s international population is significant. Tools provided by the system would assist the international office in automating required reporting and drawing attention to potential problems before the scholar and/or the institution falls out of compliance. What does this mean for the Xxxxxxx School of Public Health? As of the 2012/2013 reporting period, Xxxxxxx employs or hosts 63 international scholars from 25 different countries. They are engaged in teaching, research and service in nearly every department at Xxxxxxx.2 Many more scholars are not hosted by Xxxxxxx but are at Emory making contributions to the field of Public Health through the Task Force for Global Health, the Global Health Institute, The Xxxxxx Center, and other organizations. Xxxxxxx also offers several fellowships that invite international students and scholars. These include the Muskie Graduate Fellowship; the Xxxxxxxx Fellowship; the HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (EITRP) training program, funded by the Xxxxxxx Foundation; and the Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Fellowship. Emory continues to exercise commitment to bringing international Public Health scholars to the United States; that commitment requires support from an international office. The successful implementation of an international student and scholar case management 2 Due to privacy considerations, information that may allow an international scholar to be personally identified cannot be provided. system will allow the office of International Student and Scholar Services to continue providing that support at an optimal level. DHS: Department of Homeland Security. Includes the following relevant entities: o ICE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement SEVP: Student and Exchange Visitor Program SEVIS: Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, houses records of F-1 students, J-1 exchange visitors, and their dependents SEVIS RTI: real-time web-based SEVIS interface Batch: SEVIS reporting via XML files containing multiple records o USCIS: United States ...
Significance Statement. Youth violence has a history of study by different disciplines in the U.S., including education, law, and psychology, but the focus on public health approaches to prevention emerged over the past three decades (Xxxxxx et al., 2015). This was largely because of the prevalence of youth violence in the U.S. Important trends in the U.S. contributed to the recognition and agreement that violence could be addressed from a public health perspective (Xxxxxxxx LL, Mercy JA, 2009). As a result, the attention devoted to youth violence prevention continues to increase (Xxxx, Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, & Xxx, 2002). Figure 2 illustrates this increase. 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 Year Articles Published Number of Articles Published Source: (Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxxxx. Medline trend: automated yearly statistics of PubMed results for any query, 2015. Web resource at URL:xxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/medline-trend.html. Accessed: 2015-11-14. (Archived by WebCite at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx/65RkD48SV The field of public health aims to improve the health and wellbeing of communities to address challenges through services, evaluation, and development of programs that aims to bring about identifiable outcomes (The National Academies Press, Improving Health in the Community: A role for Performance). Youth violence public health interventions and services are applied to members in a community, and therefore it is critical to implement different types of intervention that are specific to the objectives of prevention specific types of violence by youth. Having and understanding of current literature is a key component of developing and communicating the evidence and effectiveness of interventions to prevent youth violence. Therefore, it is significant to have a context of current youth violence literature because it can guide evaluation of intervention outcomes and help target research for public health evidence and or services.
Significance Statement. Understanding how the knowledge and attitudes of PHC physicians towards measles and immunization affect perceptions of measles eradication efforts will provide the necessary foundation for eliminating barriers to measles eradication. PHC physicians play a critical role in forming the political willpower and motivation needed to pursue measles eradication.
Significance Statement. Since the establishment of the NBCCEDP in 1991, the United States federal government has devoted considerable financial and human resources to improve cervical cancer screening rates among underserved women. Although the program has made inroads in providing screening and diagnostic services to its priority population of low income, uninsured/underinsured, and minority women, recent research reveals that screening disparities still exist among program-eligible women.
Significance Statement. This research will provide a nuanced understanding of the range of pushes and pulls on male involvement and participation in sexual and reproductive health for PLWHIV in Lilongwe, Malawi. Garnering both male and female perspectives will be particularly useful for identifying discrepancies and variation in their knowledge and attitudes. The findings will be used to inform strategies for uptake and adherence to PMTCT at two anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinics in Lilongwe.
