Community and Public Health Nutrition
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER:
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6265819 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Similar Datasets
Project description:A community health assessment (CHA) is a collaborative process of collecting and analyzing data to learn about the health status of a community. Community health assessments are also a requirement of public health accreditation for state and local health departments and of the Affordable Care Act for nonprofit hospitals. One element of a CHA is primary data collection. This article describes the use of the Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER) method for primary data collection to meet public health accreditation requirements in 2 case study communities--Nashua, New Hampshire, and Davidson County, North Carolina; CASPER is a flexible and efficient method for the collection of population-based primary data in an urban or rural setting.
| S-EPMC11234519 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Biobanks raise challenges for developing ethically sound and practicable consent policies. Biobanks comprised of dried bloodspots (DBS) left over from newborn screening, maintained for long-term storage, and potential secondary research applications are no exception. Michigan has been a leader in transforming its DBS collection, marketing its biobank of de-identified samples for health research use. The Michigan BioTrust for Health includes approximately 4 million unconsented retrospective samples collected as early as 1984 and prospective samples added since the fall of 2010 with blanket parental consent. We engaged Michigan citizens to ascertain public attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs about the BioTrust and informed consent. A convenience sampling of 393 participants from communities around the state of Michigan (oversampling for minority populations) participated in meetings addressing newborn screening, the BioTrust and informed consent, yielding quantitative and qualitative survey and discussion data. Participants affirmed the principle of voluntary informed participation in research and advocated for greater public awareness of the existence of the BioTrust. Most expressed support for the use of DBS for research and a desire for greater involvement in granting permission for research use. Opinions varied as to which specific research uses were acceptable. Participants indicated a desire for greater engagement, public awareness, and more active decision making on the part of biobank participants and parents. Diversity of opinion over which research areas were deemed acceptable problematizes the blanket consent model that currently applies to the BioTrust's prospective DBS collection and that could become the new norm for research using de-identified data under proposed changes to the Common Rule.
| S-EPMC3955459 | biostudies-other
Project description:BackgroundAvailability and accessibility of nutritious foods can vary according to the food outlets present within a neighbourhood or community. There is increasing evidence that community food environments influence food choice, diet and the risk of diet-related chronic disease, however contemporary community food environments assessments (e.g. unhealthy fast food outlets versus healthy supermarkets or fruit and vegetable shops) may be too simplistic to accurately summarise the complexities of their impacts on food choice. This study protocol describes the development of the Food Outlets Dietary Risk (FODR) assessment tool for use by local government in Perth, Western Australia.MethodsSimilar to food safety risk assessment, the FODR assessment tool rates the potential harmful public health nutrition impact of food outlets by identifying and characterising the issues, and assessing the risk of exposure. Scores are attributed to six public health nutrition attributes: 1) availability of nutrient-poor foods; 2) availability of nutritious foods; 3) acceptability and appeal; 4) accessibility; 5) type of business operation; and 6) complex food outlet considerations. Food retail outlets are then classified as having a low, medium, high or very high dietary risk based on their total score.DiscussionA local government administered tool to rate the public health nutrition risk of food outlets requires data which can be collected during routine assessments or sourced from the internet. The ongoing categorical classification of foods available within food outlets as either unhealthy or nutritious will require nutrition scientists' input. An objective risk assessment of the dietary impact of food retail outlets can guide local government planning, policies and interventions to create supportive community food environments. It is intended that locally relevant data can be sourced throughout Australia and in other countries to apply the local context to the FODR assessment tool. Utility and acceptability of the tool will be tested, and consultation with environmental health officers and public health practitioners will inform future iterations.
| S-EPMC7663896 | biostudies-literature
Project description: Not available
| S-EPMC3042434 | biostudies-literature
Project description:SARS CoV-2 WGS (Georgia Department of Public Health)
| PRJNA713775 | ENA
Project description:BackgroundAdvancing health equity is a global priority within public health, requiring a focus on structural determinants of health and power imbalances. Community organizing is one strategy to cultivate community power and advance health equity by challenging oppressive systems. While examples of public health partnering with community-organizing groups and utilizing organizing methods can be found in the literature, these strategies remain an underdeveloped area for practice. This rapid review aims to uncover the benefits, challenges, and outcomes of governmental, non-profit, and academic public health partnering with community organizers and/or applying community-organizing methods.MethodsA rapid review was conducted using PubMed and Cochrane databases. Articles were included if they focused on public health applying community-organizing methods and/or partnering with community-organizing groups, and if they reported benefits, limitations, and/or outcomes for community and/or public health. Eligible articles were primary research, practice reports, or systematic reviews, and were published between 2000 and August 10, 2023. Articles were excluded if they were published outside of Canada, United States, Europe, Australia, or New Zealand; not in English or available online; and unrelated to public health and community organizing.ResultsTwenty-four articles met inclusion criteria, including 17 primary research studies and seven practice reports. Topics varied, with environmental health and justice being the most common. Three quantitative articles investigated social capital. Qualitative outcomes revealed 10 themes describing seven benefits and three challenges for public health. Benefits include increased public health effectiveness, set or changed priorities, built community power, enhanced data collection and research, policy changes, built community capacity, and increased social capital. Challenges include administrative barriers, approach differences, and challenges associated with community organizing. Overall, the evidence base reveals a scarcity of research on public health partnering with community organizers or utilizing community-organizing methods.ConclusionThe review underscores the capacity of community organizing to advance health equity, enhance public health effectiveness, and contribute diverse benefits to communities. It emphasizes the value of community-organizing partnerships and methods as promising approaches for public health practice, revealing alignment in addressing social and structural determinants of health. The full French translation of this article is available via https://nccdh.ca/fr/resources/entry/community-organizing-and-public-health-a-rapid-review .
| S-EPMC11837658 | biostudies-literature
Project description:ObjectivesWe explored the interrelationships among diabetes, hypertension, and missing teeth among underserved racial/ethnic minority elders.MethodsSelf-reported sociodemographic characteristics and information about health and health care were provided by community-dwelling ElderSmile participants, aged 50 years and older, who took part in community-based oral health education and completed a screening questionnaire at senior centers in Manhattan, New York, from 2010 to 2012.ResultsMultivariable models (both binary and ordinal logistic regression) were consistent, in that both older age and Medicaid coverage were important covariates when self-reported diabetes and self-reported hypertension were included, along with an interaction term between self-reported diabetes and self-reported hypertension.ConclusionsAn oral public health approach conceptualized as the intersection of 3 domains-dentistry, medicine, and public health-might prove useful in place-based assessment and delivery of services to underserved older adults. Further, an ordinal logit model that considers levels of missing teeth might allow for more informative and interpretable results than a binary logit model.
| S-EPMC4455510 | biostudies-literature
Project description:ContextPublic Health 3.0 described the need for public health agencies and the public health workforce to transform and obtain new skills and approaches to address the social determinants of health (SDOH) through cross-sectoral partnerships and collective action.ObjectiveTo assess the current state of local health departments' Public Health 3.0 alignment through interventions and initiatives documented in community health improvement plans (CHIPs).MethodWe conducted a content analysis of Illinois CHIPs from July to November 2020. A coding framework aligned with Public Health 3.0 concepts was developed on the basis of constructs from the literature, faculty expertise, and preliminary reviews of the CHIPs. Two researchers deductively coded for health priorities and interventions in Microsoft Excel 2016 and calculated the number of CHIPs in which each code appeared.ResultsNinety CHIPs representing 98 counties across the state were analyzed; 2 CHIPs were excluded because of a lack of strategies. Our content analysis found that 13% (n = 12) of CHIPs had explicit priorities related to SDOH and 12% (n = 11) included interventions that addressed socioeconomic factors. Ten percent (n = 9) of CHIPs proposed multilevel multicomponent interventions. Eighty-nine percent (n = 80) of CHIPs included community-level interventions, and 53% (n = 48) of CHIPs included policy, systems, and environmental strategies focused on specific health content. The majority of CHIPs (96%; n = 86) had at least 1 partnership strategy. Thirty-two percent (n = 29) of CHIPs mentioned the use of an evidence-based strategy.ConclusionsOur content analysis found opportunities to improve Illinois public health agencies' Public Health 3.0 capacities and capability. Findings are limited to this data source and definitions of the Public Health 3.0 attributes, leaving room for practice and research opportunities to develop operational definitions of Public Health 3.0; capacity building to improve the public health workforce readiness; and research and evaluation to measure improvements.
| S-EPMC8957484 | biostudies-literature
Project description:ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to identify the journals most cited in public health and community nursing and to determine which databases provide the most thorough indexing access to these journals. This study is part of the Medical Library Association Nursing and Allied Health Resource Section's project to map the nursing literature.MethodsTwo source journals of public health nursing, Public Health Nursing and Journal of Community Health Nursing, were subjected to citation analysis based on Bradford's Law of Scattering.ResultsA group of 18 titles comprised 34% (1,387) of the 4,100 citations, another third were dispersed among 104 journal titles, with the remaining third scattered across 703 journal titles. The core 18 journals included both of the source journals, 3 major public health journals, and several general medical and nursing journals.ConclusionsPubMed provided the best overall indexing coverage for the journals, followed by Social Science Citation Index and CINAHL. In terms of source journal coverage, several databases provided complete coverage for the journal Public Health Nursing, while only EMBASE provided complete coverage for the Journal of Community Health Nursing.
| S-EPMC1773026 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Guangzhou Nutrition and Health Study was a community-based cohort study in Guangzhou, China.
2023-01-03 | PXD039231 |