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Acute Respiratory Illness in Households with Children: Factors associated with Influenza Vaccine Receipt and Viral Interference.
(2015)
Household studies, sometimes referred to as community or family studies, have contributed immensely to our understanding of acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) from identifying causal agents to estimating vaccine effectiveness. ...
Robust Distributed Lag Models with Multiple Pollutants using Data Adaptive Shrinkage
(2017)
There is growing interest in investigating the short-term delayed lag effects of environmental pollutants (e.g. air particulate matter and ozone) on a health outcome of interest measured at a certain time (e.g. daily ...
"Becoming American": Exploring Exposure to the US and Health Among Latina/os
(2018)
Increasingly the field of public health and scholarship on racial/ethnic health inequities has shifted upstream by developing frameworks and research that elaborate how race and racialized societies impact health. However ...
Physician Practice Variation in Electronic Health Record Documentation.
(2016)
Adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) was motivated by the expectation that they would improve quality and decrease costs of care. EHRs’ value, however, depends on how they are used, which likely explains the ...
Causal Inference Methods for Comparing Multiple Treatments using Data from Large Insurance Claims Databases
(2022)
Large healthcare databases used primarily for billing and payments, such as electronic health records and insurance claims data, have been increasingly used to conduct comparative effectiveness research that characterize ...
An Investigation of Sources and Processes Impacting Mercury Dry Deposition
(2018)
Atmospheric deposition of mercury (Hg) is a major process that contributes mercury loadings to ecosystems resulting in the bioaccumulation of mercury in fish and other wildlife. Methods for measuring Hg that is wet deposited ...
Some Statistical Methods for Causal Mediation Pathway Analysis
(2021)
Mediation analysis has been undertaken pervasively in practice. The primary goal of this analysis is to study whether the effect of an exposure on an outcome of interest is mediated by some intermediate factors such as ...
The Science of Human Connection: A Study of the Effect of Social Networks on Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Rural Ecuadorian Communities
(2018)
Background
Diarrheal disease is an important cause of childhood mortality and is spread by two main mechanisms: human contact and contamination of the environment. Though individual- and household-level Water, Sanitation, ...
Do Statins Improve Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Patients? An Investigation of Cancer Outcomes and Biologic Mechanisms.
(2021)
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is an especially debilitating cancer with unacceptably low survival among patients, which differs depending on the site and stage of disease. Statins possess anti-cancer ...
Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Early-Life Cardiometabolic Disease Risk
(2018)
Background: Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) intake is low throughout Latin America, but sociodemographic patterning and dietary sources of PUFA status in the region are poorly characterized. PUFA may be related to the ...