Now more than ever, the world needs committed scholars and teachers of sustainability to pursue change.
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Individuals who support refugee and other newcomer populations through providing resettlement services, social services, and medical care can benefit from collaboration with each other.
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Among the nearly one million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cancer survivors in the United States, LGB women cancer survivors report the worst quality of life. LGB women cancer survivorship needs often go unmet and oncology providers express a desire for a deeper understanding of their specific survivorship issues, including how to incorporate important aspects of survivors’ social support networks into care. As part of efforts to increase access to affirmative cancer care, we need to amplify the voices of lesbian/queer women cancer survivors and their partners.
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Intensive care unit nurses (and other frontline healthcare workers) have experienced unprecedented psychological stress caring for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic. Constant psychological stress can lead to mental exhaustion, burnout, and with traumatic events, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Sexual assault is a serious public health problem on college campuses, and 1 in 4 U.S. college women are sexually assaulted during their time in college. The bystander model, which encourages individuals to step in and intervene to prevent sexual assault, is used extensively and effectively in campus sexual assault prevention.
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Recent data estimate that nearly 88 million immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for approximately 27% of the total U.S. population. Identifying the key factors that impact the health and wellbeing of newly arrived children is a complex challenge, even for the most seasoned school professional.
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Alcohol use has increased among older adults, and this increase has been particularly pronounced for older women. Social relationships influence drinking decisions, and married spouses affect one another’s patterns of alcohol use over time. We set out to add to this existing knowledge by exploring how both positive and negative aspects of marital relationships affect alcohol use during mid- and later life.
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As children diagnosed on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) continuum age and move from childhood to adolescence and then to adulthood, their caregiving needs change but typically remain the responsibility of their primary caregivers, their parents. Depending on the severity of the ASD, their needs may range from minimal input, such as social coaching, to complete care for all of their daily physical, social, and emotional needs.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to the health, safety, and well-being of many individuals and families. Involuntary job loss during the pandemic adds more challenges, especially for custodial grandparents who are taking care of grandchildren. Custodial grandparents are often older and suffering from physical and mental health problems. They usually experience different stress and challenges, such as economic insecurity, inadequate housing, lack of social support, declining physical health, and the increased parenting stress. In the context of COVID-19, grandparents may be particularly vulnerable to losing their jobs. Based on the family stress theory, given that job loss during the pandemic is a significant stressor for grandparents, how they cope with the stressor depends on their personal characteristics and their social, emotional and financial support.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have recognized that older transgender adults have some of the most adverse health outcomes of any marginalized populations in America. These poor health outcomes are not the result of any inherent characteristics of being transgender, but arise from the chronic discrimination, victimization, and social marginalization they experience throughout their lives.
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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is not just intriguing, but speaks to the many conditions and experiences that can influence how we live our lives. It likewise reflects the findings of research that focuses on factors that affect vulnerability or resilience to the effects of stressful experiences and the consequences on physical and mental health.
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Even low levels of prenatal alcohol exposure can harm embryofetal development. There is no known safe amount of alcohol use during pregnancy or while trying to conceive, and there is no safe time for alcohol use during pregnancy.
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Healthcare practitioners and researchers working with older adults with Parkinson disease should develop an understanding of their lived experiences beyond their medical diagnosis. Their lived experiences ties into their overall health and well-being. From a nutrition perspective, a person’s ability to independently perform food-related activities (i.e., planning, preparing, and shopping for meals) may influence their diet quality that, in turn, may influence their symptom severity and disease progression. It’s commonly said that “not one Parkinson’s patient is like another,” which further emphasizes the importance of understanding the internal and external complexities that influences their day-to-day activities, such as with food-related activities.
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Black women experience significant health disadvantages compared to other U.S. populations. For instance, older Black women report their physical health as worse, on average, when compared to White women, White men, and Black men. Furthermore, among Black women over the age of 50 years, approximately 2 out of 3 have multiple chronic conditions (MCC; i.e., two or more chronic physical diseases).
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Living at the United States-Mexico border presents unique health barriers and opportunities for the Hispanic community. Health disparities, lack of preventative health care, accessibility to health care, distrust in the health system, high rates of those underinsured and uninsured, as well as cultural beliefs pose barriers to access to health services.
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In our analysis, giving a drug (desmopressin) that is used to reverse bleeding in patients taking antiplatelet medications was not associated with harm, but also did not reduce bleeding expansion in patients with alcohol use and intracranial hemorrhage.
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Every year, over 1 million Medicare beneficiaries receive nursing and rehabilitation services in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) to help with recovery after a hospital stay. The goal of physical and occupational therapy in SNFs is to help patients regain their functional mobility, discharge back to the community, and avoid being readmitted to the hospital. In SNFs, patients can receive therapy provided by occupational and physical therapists who perform evaluations, treatments, and discharge assessments, or occupational and physical therapy assistants, who are only licensed to provide treatments under therapist supervision.
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With limited resources in public health, program evaluation is an important tool to ensure that a program is not only effective and efficient— but that it is equitable. It is imperative that public health professionals are trained properly on the foundations of evaluation practice as inadequate training could lead to ineffective practice.
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Racial disparities in maternal and infant mortality have worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic. These disparities persist regardless of social and economic factors, and are ultimately caused by systemic racism that permeates healthcare as well as countless upstream social determinants of health. While the statistics and causes for disparities in Black maternal and infant health are clear, there is less information on how to effectively address these disparities in the short-term. Digital media campaigns are one potential way to distribute information in a time and cost-efficient manner, directly in the online spaces where women spend their time.
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