Published in Bibliotheksdienst
Zum Selbstverständnis der Public Libraries in den USA gehört es seit ihrer Entstehung, dass sie frei für alle nutzbar sind. Dennoch war der Zugang zu ihnen für bestimmte Bevölkerungsgruppen im Lauf der Geschichte durch soziopolitische Strömungen und Ereignisse nur eingeschränkt oder gar nicht möglich. Der Beitrag betrachtet die Zugangsmöglichkeiten...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction Although prior research has demonstrated an association between smoking and worse physical function, most of those studies are based on older people and do not evaluate whether the age-related increase in physical limitations differs by smoking history. We quantify how the magnitude of the smoking differential varies across age. Method...
This study delves into the academic discourse surrounding Chinese history as portrayed in dissertations from American universities. The research initiates with an exploration of the ProQuest Dissertations database, meticulously curating a dataset of 1,132 dissertations with a historical focus on China. Faced with incomplete metadata, particularly c...
Published in Anxiety, stress, and coping
Given the sensitive nature of COVID-19 beliefs, evaluating them explicitly and implicitly may provide a fuller picture of how these beliefs vary based on identities and how they relate to mental health. Three novel brief implicit association tests (BIATs) were created and evaluated: two that measured COVID-19-as-dangerous (vs. safe) and one that me...
Published in Culture, health & sexuality
Contraceptive responsibility has historically fallen on women in the context of heterosexual relationships, often resulting in a perceived burden on their emotional and reproductive health. We conducted in-depth, individual interviews with women and men in college to investigate factors influencing the choices they make regarding contraceptive use ...
Published in Heliyon
High status occupations support positive health outcomes through providing access to both material and psychosocial resources. However, common measures of occupational status such as occupational prestige scores fail to capture cultural esteem that certain occupations can provide because they are primarily associated with the material dimensions of...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
Many of the studies on the sex ratio at birth (SRB) are based on a small number of cases over a short period of time. Taking a multivariate approach to a dataset consisting of nearly 199 million birth records in the United States from 1968 to 2019, we present a detailed analysis of several possible factors that might affect the sex ratio at birth (...
Published in Emerging infectious diseases
Since May 2022, mpox has been identified in 108 countries without endemic disease; most cases have been in gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men. To determine number of missed cases, we conducted 2 studies during June-September 2022: a prospective serologic survey detecting orthopoxvirus antibodies among men who have sex with men in San...
Published in Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association
There are well-documented disparities in rates of continued breastfeeding. Existing research regarding breastfeeding during COVID-19 has raised concerns that the pandemic may have exacerbated these disparities. The aim of this research was first to quantify disparities in any breastfeeding associated with the maternal factors of race/ethnicity, age...
Published in [Nihon koshu eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health
Objectives The Committee on Public Health Nursing (2017-2018) of the Japanese Society of Public Health aimed to elucidate the competencies of public health and public health nursing to provide basic materials for public health, public health nursing education, practice, and research.Methods We studied the core competencies of public health professi...
