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The School of Community Health Sciences (SCHS) is for anyone who is passionate about pursuing a career in the health industry. Recognizing health requires a multi-faceted approach, SCHS emphasizes multiple perspectives in its curriculum, including the emotional, spiritual, environmental and physical. The School offers a minor, an undergraduate degree, a master's degree, a Ph.D., as well as dual degree programs with the Orvis School of Nursing and the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. Graduates from the School of Community Health Sciences are prepared to promote and protect the health of communities nearby and around the world.
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The association of wildfire smoke with respiratory and cardiovascular emergency department visits in Colorado in 2012: a case crossover study
(2016)In 2012, Colorado experienced one of its worst wildfire seasons of the past decade. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship of local PM2.5 levels, modeled using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model ... -
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Linkage to Care, Early Infant Diagnosis, and Perinatal Transmission Among Infants Born to HIV-Infected Nigerian Mothers: Evidence From the Healthy Beginning Initiative
(2016)In 2014, Nigeria accounted for 33% of all new childhood HIV infections that occurred among the 22 Global Plan priority countries where 80% of HIV-infected women reside. Even with a vertical HIV transmission rate of 27%, ... -
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Elderly hospitalization and the New-type Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in China: multi-stage cross-sectional surveys of Jiangxi province
(2016)Studies assessing the impacts of China's New-type Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) reform of 2003 among rural elderly have been limited. Method: Multistage stratified cluster sampling household surveys of 1838, 1924, ... -
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Medical encounters for opioid-related intoxications in Southern Nevada: sociodemographic and clinical correlates
(2016)Despite today's heightened concern over opioid overdose, the lack of population-based data examining clinical and contextual factors associated with opioid use represents a knowledge gap with relevance to prevention and ... -
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Modeled Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Exposure and Liver Function in a Mid-Ohio Valley Community
(2016)Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA or C8) has hepatotoxic effects in animals. Cross-sectional epidemiologic studies suggest PFOA is associated with liver injury biomarkers. OBJECTIVES: We estimated associations between modeled ... -
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Body mass index and physical fitness among Chinese adolescents from Shandong Province: a cross-sectional study
(2019)This study aimed to describe the most recent prevalence estimates of adolescent body mass index (BMI) and physical fitness from thirteen regions in Shandong Province, China and to examine differences by social-economic ... -
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Five-Year Experience with Screening Electrocardiograms in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Athletes
(2016)(1) Compare rates of abnormal screening electrocardiograms (ECGs) using updated criteria compared with older criteria. (2) Compare rates of abnormal ECGs by ethnicity. (3) Evaluate ability of ECG criteria to detect the ... -
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Reanalysis of the anthrax epidemic in Rhodesia, 1978-1984
(2016)In the mid-1980s, the largest epidemic of anthrax of the last 200 years was documented in a little known series of studies by Davies in The Central African Journal of Medicine. This epidemic involved thousands of cattle ... -
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Quantifying the relationship between human Lyme disease and Borrelia burgdorferi exposure in domestic dogs
(2019)Lyme disease (LD) is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. Early confirmatory diagnosis remains a challenge, while the disease can be debilitating if left untreated. Further, the decision to test is ... -
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Cancer mortality in an international cohort of reinforced plastics workers exposed to styrene: a reanalysis
(2019)To investigate the carcinogenicity of styrene by reanalysing data from a previous international cohort study of workers in the reinforced plastics industry. Methods Mortality from cancers of prior interest was analysed ... -
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USMCA (NAFTA 2.0): tightening the constraints on the right to regulate for public health
(2019)In late 2018 the United States, Canada, and Mexico signed a new trade agreement (most commonly referred to by its US-centric acronym, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA) to replace the 1994 North American ... -
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Impact of air pollution control policies on cardiorespiratory emergency department visits, Atlanta, GA, 1999-2013
(2019)Air pollution control policies resulting from the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments were aimed at reducing pollutant emissions, ambient concentrations, and ultimately adverse health outcomes. Objectives: As part of a comprehensive ... -
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MetaMSD: meta analysis for mass spectrometry data
(2019)Mass spectrometry-based proteomics facilitate disease understanding by providing protein abundance information about disease progression. For the same type of disease studies, multiple mass spectrometry datasets may be ... -
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Measurement agreement in percent body fat estimates among laboratory and field assessments in college students: Use of equivalence testing
(2019)The purpose of this study was to examine the agreement in percent body fat estimates among 7 laboratory and field assessments against dual-emission x-ray absorptiometry using equivalence testing. Participants were 437 ... -
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Health risks of chemicals in consumer products: A review
(2019)Increasingly diverse chemicals are used in consumer products, while our understanding of their exposure pathways and associated human health risks still lags behind. This paper aims to identify the dominant patterns of ... -
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Pediatric emergency department visits and ambient Air pollution in the
(2016)Estimating the health effects of ambient air pollutant mixtures is necessary to understand the risk of real-life air pollution exposures. Methods: Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) visit records for asthma or wheeze (n ... -
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Design of a parallel cluster-randomized trial assessing the impact of a demand-side sanitation and hygiene intervention on sustained behavior change and mental well-being in rural and peri-urban Amhara, Ethiopia: Andilaye study protocol
(2019)Unimproved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) behaviors are key drivers of infectious disease transmission and influencers of mental well-being. While WASH is seen as a critical enabler of health, important knowledge ... -
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Quantitative relationships of exposure to chrysotile asbestos and mesothelioma mortality
(2019)While asbestos has long been known to cause mesothelioma, quantitative exposure-response data on the relation of mesothelioma risk and exposure to chrysotile asbestos are sparse. Methods Quantitative relationships of ... -
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Zika Virus: Medical Countermeasure Development Challenges
(2016)Introduction Reports of high rates of primary microcephaly and Guillain-Barre syndrome associated with Zika virus infection in French Polynesia and Brazil have raised concerns that the virus circulating in these regions ... -
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Establishing Waist-to-Height Ratio Standards from Criterion-Referenced BMI Using ROC Curves in Low-Income Children
(2016)The purpose of this study was to establish health-related waist-to-height ratio(WHtR) cut-points associating with FITNESSGRAM's body mass index (BMI) criterion-referenced standards in low-income children. A secondary aim ...
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