Search Results - "Cushman, Linda F"

Developing Capacity for the American Indian Health Professional Workforce: An Academic-Community Partnership in Spirit Lake, North Dakota by Weintraub, Jennifer, Walker, Julia, Heuer, Loretta, Oishi, Marisa, Upadhyay, Khushbu, Huang, Vivian, Lindquist, Cynthia, Cushman, Linda F., Ripp, Jonathan

“…American Indians/Alaskan Native (AIAN) populations experience significant disparities in health when compared to the average US population who are…”
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Labour market competition for public health graduates in the United States: A comparison of workforce taxonomies with job postings before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic by Krasna, Heather, Czabanowska, Katarzyna, Beck, Angela, Cushman, Linda F., Leider, Jonathon P.

“…A strong public health workforce (PHW) is needed to respond to COVID‐19 and public health (PH) issues worldwide. However, classifying, enumerating, and…”
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Exploring Parental Grief: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Measures by Arnold, Joan, Gemma, Penelope Buschman, Cushman, Linda F.

“…This study explores parental grief on the death of a child of any age. The sampling frame for the study consisted of 74 respondents reporting that they…”
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Satisfaction with Telephonic Interpreters in Pediatric Care by Cunningham, Hetty, MD, Cushman, Linda F., PhD, Akuete-Penn, Cecilia, MD, MPH, Meyer, Dodi D., MD

“…Objectives Design, Setting, Participants and Interventions: Anonymous surveys were administered to 98 mothers limited in English proficiency and presenting for…”
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Cultural competency training for public health students: integrating self, social, and global awareness into a master of public health curriculum by Cushman, Linda F, Delva, Marlyn, Franks, Cheryl L, Jimenez-Bautista, Ana, Moon-Howard, Joyce, Glover, Jim, Begg, Melissa D

“…Cultural competency training in public health, medicine, social work, nursing, dental medicine, and other health professions has been a topic of increasing…”
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Associations between health literacy, HIV‐related knowledge, and information behavior among persons living with HIV in the Dominican Republic by Stonbraker, Samantha, Smaldone, Arlene, Luft, Heidi, Cushman, Linda F., Lerebours Nadal, Leonel, Halpern, Mina, Larson, Elaine

“…Objectives To determine the health literacy levels of persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWH) at a health clinic in the Dominican…”
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Race/Ethnicity and Women's Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States: Results of a National Survey by Kronenberg, Fredi, Cushman, Linda F, Wade, Christine M, Kalmuss, Debra, Chao, Maria T

“…We studied the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among women in 4 racial/ethnic groups: non-Hispanic Whites, African Americans, Mexican…”
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Academic Health Center-Community Justice Program Partnerships: Linking Men in the Justice System to Health Care by Armstrong, Bruce J, Kalmuss, Debra, Cushman, Linda F, Bjarnadottir, Ragnhildur I, Holstrom, Amelia, Peters, Zachary J, Valera, Pamela, Cohall, Alwyn T

“…Linkage to community health and social services after incarceration is often inadequate. This is troubling, because risk taking and poor health are common…”
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Prevention of preterm delivery by Morrison, Ellen A B, Cushman, Linda F

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Health practices and vaginal microbicide acceptability among urban black women by Reiff, Marian, Wade, Christine, Chao, Maria T, Kronenberg, Fredi, Cushman, Linda F

“…Intravaginal topical microbicides are being investigated for prevention of HIV transmission. Use of vaginal microbicides will constitute a new type of…”
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Quick Start: a novel oral contraceptive initiation method by Westhoff, Carolyn, Kerns, Jennifer, Morroni, Chelsea, Cushman, Linda F., Tiezzi, Lorraine, Murphy, Patricia Aikins

“…Conventional oral contraceptive (OC) starting instructions require waiting until menses to begin the OC. The conventional approach requires detailed patient…”
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Skin cancer screening by dermatologists, family practitioners, and internists: barriers and facilitating factors by Oliveria, Susan A, Heneghan, Maureen K, Cushman, Linda F, Ughetta, Eloise A, Halpern, Allan C

“…To determine barriers and facilitating factors to skin cancer screening practices among US primary care physicians and dermatologists. Survey. Physicians…”
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The New York City Community Outreach Study: Biomedical and Mental Health Status Among a Community Sample of Urban Hispanics by Vaughan, Roger, Cushman, Linda F., Nye, Andrea

“…This report provides a snapshot of health behavior and risk in one low-income, urban, Latino community. As part of a community health and education program,…”
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Interdisciplinary Planning for Healthier Communities: Findings from the Harlem Children's Zone Asthma Initiative by Spielman, Seth E., Golembeski, Cynthia A., Northridge, Mary E., Vaughan, Roger D., Swaner, Rachel, Jean-Louis, Betina, Shoemaker, Katherine, Klihr-Beall, Sandra, Polley, Eric, Cushman, Linda F., Ortiz, Benjamin, Hutchinson, Vincent E., Nicholas, Stephen W., Marx, Terry, Hayes, Roger, Goodman, Andrew, Sclar, Elliott D.

“…Health disparities that affect whole communities may involve factors like housing quality that lie at least partly within planners' realm of policy influence…”
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Prostate carcinoma knowledge, attitudes, and screening behavior among African‐American men in Central Harlem, New York City by Ashford, Alfred R., Albert, Steven M., Hoke, Gerald, Cushman, Linda F., Miller, Daniel S., Bassett, Mary

“…BACKGROUND Although the benefits of prostate carcinoma screening in reducing mortality rates have not been proven or shown to be cost‐effective, screening,…”
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Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Ask and Answer Questions Regarding the Environment and Health by Northridge, Mary E, Shoemaker, Katherine, Jean-Louis, Betina, Ortiz, Benjamin, Swaner, Rachel, Vaughan, Roger D, Cushman, Linda F, Hutchinson, Vincent E, Nicholas, Stephen W

“…The NIEHS has been at the forefront of US federal funding agencies in using community-based participatory research to advance environmental health sciences…”
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Women's reasons for complementary and alternative medicine use: racial/ethnic differences by Chao, Maria T, Wade, Christine, Kronenberg, Fredi, Kalmuss, Debra, Cushman, Linda F

“…Although racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) utilization have been documented, differences in the…”
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine among Dominican emergency department patients by Allen, Rebecca, Cushman, Linda F, Morris, Stephen, Feldman, Joseph, Wade, Christine, McMahon, Don, Moses, Michael, Kronenberg, Fredi

“…This small, pilot study examined presenting complaint, brief health history, use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and sociodemographic…”
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Injectable contraceptive discontinuation and subsequent unintended pregnancy among low-income women by Davidson, A R, Kalmuss, D, Cushman, L F, Romero, D, Heartwell, S, Rulin, M

“…This study investigated rates of discontinuation of the recently introduced injectable contraceptive depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) and…”
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Condom Use Among Women Choosing Long-Term Hormonal Contraception by Cushman, Linda F., Romero, Diana, Kalmuss, Debra, Davidson, Andrew R., Heartwell, Stephen, Rulin, Marvin

“…Context: Women who rely on long-term hormonal contraception may neglect to use condoms, and thus increase their risk of contracting sexually transmitted…”
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