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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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2019 Nevada Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS): Washoe County Special Report
(State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the University of Nevada, Reno., 2019)The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health contracted with the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Community Health Sciences to conduct the YRBS in all middle schools throughout the state. The 2019 Nevada Middle ... -
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2019 Nevada Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS): Clark County Special Report
(2019)The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health contracted with the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Community Health Sciences to conduct the YRBS in all middle schools throughout the state. The 2019 Nevada Middle ... -
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2019 Nevada High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS): Washoe County Special Report
(State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the University of Nevada, Reno., 2019)In 2019, 36 high schools were randomly chosen by the CDC to represent Nevada. To ensure greater representation from schools in all districts, the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health contracted with the ... -
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2019 Nevada High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS): Clark County Special Report
(State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the University of Nevada, Reno., 2019)In 2019, 36 high schools were randomly chosen by the CDC to represent Nevada. To ensure greater representation from schools in all districts, the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health contracted with the University ... -
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Nevada High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Comparison Report, 2017-2019
(State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the University of Nevada, Reno., 2019)Priority health risk behaviors (i.e. preventable behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality) are often established during childhood and adolescence and extend into adulthood. Ongoing ... -
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2019 Nevada High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Report
(State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the University of Nevada, Reno., 2019)Priority health risk behaviors (i.e. preventable behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality) are often established during childhood and adolescence and extend into adulthood. Ongoing ... -
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Nevada Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Comparison Report, 2017-2019
(State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the University of Nevada, Reno., 2019)Priority health risk behaviors (i.e. preventable behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality) are often established during childhood and adolescence and extend into adulthood. Ongoing ... -
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2019 Nevada Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey Questionnaire
(Nevada Center for Surveys, Evaluation, and Statistics, 2019)Nevada Center for Surveys, Evaluation, and Statstics (CSES) 2019 survey about health behavior. It has been developed so Nevada middle school students can tell us what they do that may affect your health. The information ... -
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2019 Nevada Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Report
(State of Nevada, Division of Public and Behavioral Health and the University of Nevada, Reno., 2019)Priority health risk behaviors (i.e. preventable behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality) are often established during childhood and adolescence and extend into adulthood. Ongoing ... -
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2019 Nevada High School Youth Risk Behavior Survey
(Nevada Center for Surveys, Evaluation, and Statistics, 2019)Nevada Center for Surveys, Evaluation, and Statistics (CSES) survey about health behavior. It has been developed for Nevada high school students to tell us what they do that may affect their health. The information they ... -
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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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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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