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Hybrid Delivery of a Heritage-Based Nutrition Education Program for Black Older Adults Open

Tia Jeffery, Amy Schweitzer, Lillie Monroe-Lord, Carolyn R. Miller · 2025

Background: The mortality rate for African Americans living in Washington DC is 2.5 times higher than that for Caucasians suffering from the same morbidity. To promote healthy and sustainable eating patterns associated with disease prevent…

Prospective Evaluation of Blood Borne Virus Testing in Custody Suites in North‐East England Open

Danielle Rayner, Francesca McCullough, Kate McQue, Kerry S. Jones, Caroline Allsop , et al. · 2025

Drug‐related crime is a common reason for arrest. Therefore, some arrested individuals are at risk of hepatitis C virus infection (HCV). We present the outcomes of a blood borne virus (BBV) testing programme in custody suites in North‐East…

Prospective evaluation of the impact of repeated whole prison testing for hepatitis C Open

Naw April Phaw, Aung Min Thant, Craig J. Thompson, Ryan Jelley, Kate McQue , et al. · 2025

Introduction Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is prevalent in prisons. Universal reception HCV testing is recommended, but acceptance can be suboptimal. To detect and treat missed HCV infections, a high-intensity test and treat (H…

2023 National Survey of Health Attitudes: Description and Top-Line Summary Data Open

Anita Chandra, Delia Bugliari, Linnea Warren May, Sarah Weilant, Christopher Nelson , et al. · 2024

RAND is supporting the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in advancing understanding of U.S. public mindsets and attitudes toward health and well-being. This study describes the design and fielding of the 2023 National Survey of Health Attitud…

Impact of 5 years of hepatitis C testing and treatment in the North East of England prisons Open

Amy Johnson, Jessica Shearer, Craig J. Thompson, Ryan Jelley, Jodi Aldridge , et al. · 2023

Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is prevalent in prisons. Therefore, effective prison HCV services are critical for HCV elimination programmes. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a regional HCV prison testing and treatment programme. Be…

Genre Formation and Differentiation in New Media Open

Carolyn R. Miller · 2023

The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense.Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take dive…

Americans' View of the Impact of COVID-19: Perspectives on Racial Impacts and Equity Open

Katherine Grace Carman, Anita Chandra, Carolyn R. Miller, Christopher Nelson, Jhacova Williams · 2021

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disparate effect on African Americans and Latinos. But it is unknown how aware the public is of these differences and how the pandemic has changed perceptions of equity and access to health care. Me…

Drivers of differential views of health equity in the U.S.: is the U.S. ready to make progress? Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes Open

Vivian L. Towe, Linnea Warren May, Wenjing Huang, Laurie T. Martin, Katherine Grace Carman , et al. · 2021

Objectives The public health sector has long recognized the role of the social determinants of health in health disparities and the importance of achieving health equity. We now appear to be at an inflection point, as we hear increasing de…

Drivers of differential views of health equity in the U.S.: Is the U.S. ready to make progress? Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes Open

Vivian L. Towe, Linnea Warren May, Wenjing Huang, Laurie T. Martin, Katherine Grace Carman , et al. · 2021

Objectives: The public health sector has long recognized the role of the social determinants of health in health disparities and the importance of achieving health equity. We now appear to be at an inflection point, as we hear increasing d…

The Looming COVID-19 Housing and Health Crisis in the US: Results from a National and Four-City Survey Open

Mary T. Gorski Findling, Robert J. Blendon, John R. Benson, Carolyn R. Miller · 2021

Affordable housing is a key determinant of health, and it has become a major issue for millions of vulnerable households during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little is known about Americans' financial burdens in paying for housing costs during th…

O65 Impact of a ‘high intensity test and treat’ initiative for HCV in Low Newton Prison Open

Caroline Allsop, Francesca McCullough, Carolyn R. Miller, Gary McTeer, Jodi Aldridge , et al. · 2021

Background Hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is common in prisons in the UK with estimates suggesting a prevalence of approximately 7%. One of the goals of NHS England is to eliminate HCV from the country by 2025. In order to facilitate el…

The Unseen Picture: Issues with Health Care, Discrimination, Police and Safety, and Housing Experienced by Native American Populations in Rural America Open

Mary T. Gorski Findling, Robert J. Blendon, John M. Benson, Carolyn R. Miller · 2020

Purpose Despite increased national attention to improving rural health, rural Native American populations face unique problems that are often unseen in aggregate research on the rural United States. The objective of this study was to exami…

Computing Across Curricula: The View Of Industry Leaders Open

Eric Wiebe, Chia-Lin Ho, Lisa Bullard, Dianne Raubenheimer, Jeffrey A. Joines , et al. · 2020

NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Computing Across Curricula: The View of Industry Leaders Abstract With the aim of preparing students for pervasive, advanced computing …

Drivers of differential views of health equity in the U.S.: Is the U.S. ready to make progress? Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes Open

Vivian L. Towe, Linnea Warren May, Wenjing Huang, Laurie T. Martin, Katherine Grace Carman , et al. · 2020

Objectives: The public health sector has long recognized the role of the social determinants of health in health disparities and the importance of achieving health equity. We now appear to be at an inflection point, as we hear increasing d…

Exercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman Open

Carolyn R. Miller · 2020

Anne Freadman’s engagement with Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) is informed, generous, illuminating, and provocative. She does us the service of placing into a broad intellectual context the recent conversations about genre within the devel…

Aligning Health and Social Systems to Promote Population Health, Well-Being, and Equity Open

Oktawia Wójcik, Carolyn R. Miller, Alonzo L. Plough · 2020

"Tree Thinking": The Rhetoric of Tree Diagrams in Biological Thought Open

Carolyn R. Miller, Molly Hartzog · 2020

Tree-like visualizations have played a central role in taxonomic and evolutionary biology for centuries, and the idea of a “tree of life” has been a pervasive notion not only in biology but also in religion, philosophy, and literature for …

Factors related to health civic engagement: results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to understand progress towards a Culture of Health Open

Tamara Dubowitz, Christopher Nelson, Sarah Weilant, Jennifer Sloan, Andy Bogart , et al. · 2020