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The Epidemiological Burden Of Obesity In Childhood: A Worldwide Epidemic Requiring Urgent Action, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Maroje Sorić, Pascal Bovet, J Jaime Miranda, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Gretchen A. Stevens, Avula Laxmaiah, Andre-Pascal Kengne, James Bentham

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: In recent decades, the prevalence of obesity in children has increased dramatically. This worldwide epidemic has important consequences, including psychiatric, psychological and psychosocial disorders in childhood and increased risk of developing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) later in life. Treatment of obesity is difficult and children with excess weight are likely to become adults with obesity. These trends have led member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) to endorse a target of no increase in obesity in childhood by 2025.
Main body: Estimates of overweight in children aged under 5 years are available jointly from the United Nations Children's Fund …

Improving Medication Information Presentation Through Interactive Visualization In Mobile Apps: Human Factors Design, Don Roosan, Yan Li, Anandi Law, Huy Truong, Mazharul Karim, Jay Chok, Moom Roosan

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Background: Despite the detailed patient package inserts (PPIs) with prescription drugs that communicate crucial information about safety, there is a critical gap between patient understanding and the knowledge presented. As a result, patients may suffer from adverse events. We propose using human factors design methodologies such as hierarchical task analysis (HTA) and interactive visualization to bridge this gap. We hypothesize that an innovative mobile app employing human factors design with an interactive visualization can deliver PPI information aligned with patients’ information processing heuristics. Such an app may help patients gain an improved overall knowledge of medications.

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Building Capacity For Collaborative Research On Opioid And Other Substance Use Disorders Through The Clinical And Translational Science Award Program, Linda B. Cottler, Alan I. Green, Harold Alan Pincus, Scott Mcintosh, Jennifer L. Humensky, Kathleen Brady

Project ECHO Bibliography

The opioid crisis in the USA requires immediate action through clinical and translational research. Already built network infrastructure through funding by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) provides a major advantage to implement opioid-focused research which together could address this crisis. NIDA supports training grants and clinical trial networks; NCATS funds the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program with over 50 NCATS academic research hubs for regional clinical and translational research. Together, there is unique capacity for clinical research, bioinformatics, data science, community engagement, regulatory science, institutional partnerships, training and …

Freedom Triumphant: Embracing Joyful Freedom But Facing An Uncertain, Perilous Future, Thomas L. Tacker

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The newly freed slaves had almost nothing—no money, no education, and no strong social institutions, including marriage which had often been prohibited, rarely supported by slaveholders. Discrimination was rampant and government was often the worst discriminator. Yet, somehow, they triumphed. They built marriages that were actually slightly more stable than those of white families. The newly free went from virtually zero literacy to at least 50% literacy in a generation. They worked incredibly hard and increased their income about one third faster than white workers. The newly free, anchored in their strong faith, were amazingly forgiving and optimistic. Economics Professor …

Choral Classics Concert, I. C. Norcom High School Concert Choir, Old Dominion University Russell Stanger String Quartet, Joe L. Harmon Iii (Conductor), F. Ludwig Diehn Chorale, Nancy K. Klein (Conductor), Rebecca Barclay, Bobbie Kesler-Corleto

Ensemble Performances

Sololists:

Ivin Bellamy, bass, will perform the Benedictus. He is a junior who participates in basketball, volleyball, track and field, orchestra and chorus. He plans to at-tend the University of North Carolina majoring in music.

Kiyah Bracy, soprano, performs as soloist on the Kyrie. She is a senior who par-ticipates in theatre and chorus. She plans on attending Georgia State University with a major in human biology, aspiring to be a pediatric surgeon.

Taniyah Colter, soprano, sings as soloist on the Gloria. She is a senior and is the vice president of the choral program. She hopes …

Teamwork (Makes The Dream Work!), Jessica Rodriguez

Teamwork: An Open Access Practical Guide - Archive

Lecture/discussion on assessing and applying teamwork strategies and two activities (Sinking Ship and Shipwreck Survivor)

A New Framing Of Social Policies: Why, What And How?, Hoda Rashad

Faculty Journal Articles

This issue paper argues for the need for governance and public policy reforms that are anchored on well-being equity, and that adopt fairness in the social patterns of well-being as a measure of development and social success. Well-being equity is defined as: “The absence of systematic, unnecessary and preventable differences in well-being across groups in society classified according to a social stratum”. The definition recognizes that not all social differences in well-being are inequitable. The equity definition is confined to differences that are shaped by causes that are not distributed fairly across social groups. A clear example of inequity is …

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Educational, Psychological, And Occupational Aspects Of The Nonwhite Deaf Population, Frank G. Bowe

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Some Factors Contributing To The Deaf Adult’S Poor Image, Leo M. Jacobs

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A Note On The Prediction Ceiling, Brian Bolton

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The Idiosyncratic Work Adjustment Of The Deaf Worker, Robert R. Lauritsen

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A Critical Review Of The Geist Picture Interest Inventory: Deaf Form: Male, Brian Bolton

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Professional Manpower Recruitment And Training In The Area Of Vocational Needs And Recommendations, None None

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Needs And Solutions In The Rehabilitation Of Deaf Youth And Adults*, Russel Baxter

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Psychological Evaluation Of Deaf Rehabilitation Clients, Robert Donoghue, Brian Bolton

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Diagnostic Evaluation And Adjustment Facility (Project D.E.A.F.), Ernest E. Hairston

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Opportunities For Improved And Expanded Services For The Deaf, Henry C. Warner

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Education For Thinking, Hans G. Furth

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Concerns And Considerations In Mental Health Practices With Older Culturally Deaf Adults, David M. Feldman

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The elderly population in America is expected to more than double over the next half century. Consequently, the corresponding growth of the culturally Deaf' elderly population becomes important to examine. Because this population is a subgroup of both the hearing elderly and culturally Deaf populations, the expectation is that mental health professionals working with Deaf elderly clients will have specific concerns and will behave in ways that are specific to this population. Little is known, however, about the issues that challenge mental health professionals working with elderly Deaf clients. At present, mental health professions across all fields are unprepared to …

Perceptions Of Deafness Among African American Caretakers, Valerie Borum

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Although deafness does not eliminate membership in racial, ethnic, linguistic, or cultural groups, American, Anglo-Saxon, middle-class families, whose primary language is Standard English, have been the reference point in defining deafness. Research related to cultural differences in perceptions and responses to deafness has been scant. Children of color are largely at-risk for hearing loss due to disproportionate rates of poverty. The purpose of the present study was to examine the perceptions and responses to deafness among African American hearing families with deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Specifically, this study addressed African American hearing caretakers’ etiological conceptions of deafness, perceptions of deaf …

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Interpreting For Vocational Rehabilitation Consumers: An Emerging Specialty, Diane Currie Richardson, Christine Marble

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This article discusses the role of an interpreter working with vocational rehabilitation consumers in an occupational context with or without a job coach. It describes the necessity of being flexible to the needs of the deaf person and the demands of the work environment. In this situation, the interpreter who takes into consideration the roles of other involved professionals will provide the most effective services to the consumer.

Therapy Using Interpreters: Questions On The Use Of Interpreters In Therapeutic Settings For Monolingual Therapists, Steven Hamerdinger, Ben Karlin

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The use of sign language interpreters in mental health is a subject that has not received a great deal of attention in the literature in recent years. It is critical that interpreters be competent, but not much attention has been paid to other critical elements in the therapeutic triad, specifically what is required of clinicians in order to make therapy using interpreters work. This article explores some of those issues and makes specific recommendations regarding how it maximize effectiveness of this approach to bridging the gap between the need for mental health services and the supply of clinicians who are …

Etiological Histories Of 35 Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Residential School Students With Delinquent Behavior, Katrina R. Miller, Gabriel A. Martin, Pamela Rimmer

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This paper reviews the etiological histories of deaf and hard-of-hearing juveniles with delinquent behaviors. The etiologies of hearing loss and incidence of secondary or multiple disabilities in students with delinquent behaviors is examined through a review of existing school records for thirty- five (35) students born between the years of 1939-1986. Case studies, percentages, IQ scores, and reading grade level scores are used to provide a description of the neurological and behavioral issues of deaf and hard-of- hearing residential school youth who have experienced criminal legal problems. The purpose is to improve awareness among educators and juvenile Justice professionals of …

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