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Evaluating The Implementation Of A Twitter-Based Foodborne Illness Reporting Tool In The City Of St. Louis Department Of Health, Jenine Harris, Leslie Hinyard, Kate E. Beatty, Jared B. Hawkins, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Raed Mansour, John S. Brownstein
Evaluating The Implementation Of A Twitter-Based Foodborne Illness Reporting Tool In The City Of St. Louis Department Of Health, Jenine Harris, Leslie Hinyard, Kate E. Beatty, Jared B. Hawkins, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Raed Mansour, John S. Brownstein
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Foodborne illness is a serious and preventable public health problem affecting 1 in 6 Americans with cost estimates over $50 billion annually. Local health departments license and inspect restaurants to ensure food safety and respond to reports of suspected foodborne illness. The City of St. Louis Department of Health adopted the HealthMap Foodborne Dashboard (Dashboard), a tool that monitors Twitter for tweets about food poisoning in a geographic area and allows the health department to respond. We evaluated the implementation by interviewing employees of the City of St. Louis Department of Health involved in food safety. We interviewed epidemiologists, environmental …
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence: Development Of A Trauma Informed Workforce, Andrea D. Clements, Becky Haas, Randi G. Bastian, Natalie Cyphers
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence: Development Of A Trauma Informed Workforce, Andrea D. Clements, Becky Haas, Randi G. Bastian, Natalie Cyphers
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Abstract available through the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
Combining Community-Engaged Research With Group Model Building To Address Racial Disparities In Breast Cancer Mortality And Treatment, Faustine Williams, Graham Colditz, Peter Hovamd, Sarah Gehlert
Combining Community-Engaged Research With Group Model Building To Address Racial Disparities In Breast Cancer Mortality And Treatment, Faustine Williams, Graham Colditz, Peter Hovamd, Sarah Gehlert
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Although patterns of African American and white women breast cancer incidence and mortality in St. Louis, Missouri is consistent with those seen elsewhere in the United States, rates vary greatly across zip codes within the city of St. Louis. North St. Louis, whose neighborhoods are primarily African American, exhibits rates of breast cancer mortality that are among the highest in the city and higher than the state as a whole. Based on information that up to 50% of women in North St. Louis with a suspicious diagnosis of breast cancer never enter treatment, we conducted three 2-hour group model building …