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"Raising a Dad": Parenting Support and Psychological Stress Among African American Paternal Grandmothers Whose Sons Are Teenage Fathers.
(2013)
African American paternal grandmothers strengthen teenage-parent centered families by providing parenting support to teenage fathers. However, providing parenting support may increase their vulnerability to psychological ...
Reproductive Health in the Context of Foreign Direct Investment and Export Production: The Case of China.
(2013)
More than half of the world’s workers in export processing zones are in China and the majority of those are women. Work environments with high occupational stress, such as production line jobs typical in export processing ...
Facility-Based Delivery in Ghana: A Three-Part Study of Drivers and Deterrents.
(2012)
Every year approximately 275,000 women die during and shortly after pregnancy, and 2.9 million infants die within the first month of birth. One way to address both maternal and neonatal mortality is to ensure skilled ...
Relationships of DNA Methylation, Methyl-Donor Rich Diet, and Physical Activity with Pubertal Timing and Tempo among Mexican Adolescents
(2019)
Variations in pubertal timing and tempo have implications for the risk of adult diseases. Influences on the timing of pubertal onset and pace of pubertal progression have been widely discussed, but the underlying biological ...
Determinants of Absenteeism According to Health Risk Appraisal Data.
(2013)
The purpose of this project was to identify main determinants of absenteeism and contributing factors using Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) data. Absenteeism was used as the primary outcome metric, due to its quantifiable ...
Extreme Heat, Vulnerable Populations and Adverse Health Outcomes: Informing Targeted Climate Change Adaptation Planning.
(2013)
Heat-related deaths in the United States, although entirely preventable, account for largest proportion of mortality attributed to weather. The expectation that, with climate change, extreme heat events will occur more ...
Socioeconomic Status, Dietary Patterns, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in an Aging Population
(2019)
As the leading cause of death in the United States (U.S.), cardiovascular disease (CVD) is responsible for 17% of national health expenditures. The health and economic burden of CVD is especially high in older adults. As ...
Influenza Susceptibility and Transmission
(2019)
Influenza causes substantial burden in terms of illness, lost productivity, hospi- talization, and death worldwide, with the highest burden in lower income countries. Vaccines are one of the best protective measures we ...
Injury, Infection, and Recovery from Opioid Use Disorders in Michigan
(2018)
The opioid crisis is an ongoing serious public health challenge in the United States. Starting in the late 1990s, increases in prescriptions for opioid pharmaceuticals led to increases in nonmedical prescription opioid use ...
The Genetics of Blood Pressure and Body Mass Index: The Tale of Two Major Risk Factors.
(2013)
High blood pressure and obesity are two major public health problems and important contributors to multiple chronic disorders including cardiovascular disease, stroke, and type II diabetes. Heritability studies have shown ...