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A Program Evaluation Case Study, Madelyne G. Culbertson

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This case study presents a program evaluation of a physical activity intervention implemented in Bourbon County, Kentucky, guided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health.

A Case Study In Program Evaluation, Alexis Strottman

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation plan for the Bourbon County Physical Activity Improvement Program, as prompted in the University of Kentucky's 2025 MPH-Health Management and Policy Capstone Case Study. The case study outlines a program developed in response to high obesity and inactivity rates in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Utilizing the CDC's 6-step program evaluation framework, the plan outlines engagement of a diverse group of stakeholders to assess the program's effectiveness in increasing physical activity among residents. The evaluation focuses on both process and outcome measures, examining the implementation of exercise facilities, community events, and an app designed to track …

A Case Study In Program Evaluation: Evaluation Of A Program Designed To Increase Activity Levels In Bourbon County Residents, Brooke M. Woodburn

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This paper provides recommendations to eliminate possible barriers in a program developed to reduce inactive levels across Bourbon County.

Increasing Hpv Vaccination Adherence In Floyd County, Ky: Give Teens Vaccines, Taylor M. Stumbo

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

Cervical cancer remains a pressing public health issue, particularly in underserved and rural areas where access to preventive care is limited. This capstone addresses the urgent need to increase human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination adherence in Floyd County, Kentucky—part of the central Appalachian region that experiences disproportionately high cervical cancer incidence and mortality. Despite the proven effectiveness of HPV vaccines in preventing the virus strains most responsible for cervical cancer, uptake in this region remains below national targets due to socioeconomic barriers, limited healthcare access, and lack of awareness. Give Teens Vaccines is a two component intervention leveraging existing healthcare systems …

A Case Study In Program Evaluation Evaluation Of A Physical Inactivity Program In Bourbon County, Kentucky, Carine N. Malekera

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This paper evaluates a physical activity program by the Bourbon County Health Department aimed at increasing physical activity among local residents. Using the CDC’s Framework for Program Evaluation, the study includes both process and outcome evaluations to assess program implementation and impact on health outcomes. Key findings indicate success in urban areas but challenges in rural regions due to limited access to resources. Recommendations include improving access to exercise opportunities in rural areas and offering virtual classes. This evaluation emphasizes the importance of continuous assessment for effective public health interventions.

A Case Study In Program Evaluation, Kaitlyn E. Lee

Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)

This capstone project evaluates a fictious online MRSA education program developed by the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department and Fayette County Public Schools after a suspected outbreak among student athletes. Using the CDC’s 6-Step Framework for Program Evaluation, the project focuses on how stakeholders were engaged, how the program was described and mapped, how the evaluation questions were developed, what evidence was collected, and how conclusions were formed. The goal of the evaluation is to understand whether the program’s structure, delivery, and implementation support clear infection-control education for the different school personnel who use it. This project emphasizes the overall evaluation …

Hr Newsletter, Minnesota State University Moorhead

HR Newsletter

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Mapping Horizon Limits Using Topographical Reference Points For Determining Pre-Columbian Circum-Caribbean Indigenous Interisland Contact Routes, Al M. Rocca

SSGS Faculty Publications and Presentations

Existing archaeological studies have suggested an extensive network of ongoing human travel operated between the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles before and at the time of European contact in 1492. Additional evidence prompts some scholars to propose expanded contact of these areas with Mesoamerica, the rest of Central America, the northern coast of South America, and the Florida peninsula, resulting in an interconnected circum-Caribbean region. A variety of economic, political, and social influences stimulated this desire for sea and ocean movement, including migration, trading, tribute, raiding, and social connectedness. Geographic and oceanographic factors such as distance between …

Identifying Adverse Childhood Experiences And Mental Health Needs Among A Small Sample Of Pregnant Women Who Use Cannabis, Aubrey Jones, Lisa M. Blair, Julie A. Kurzer, Kathy Rademacher, Letitia Ducas, Cynthia Cockerham, Kristin Ashford

Social Work Faculty Publications

Introduction: As the legalization of cannabis becomes more widespread use has steadily increased. Approximately 5 percent of pregnant individuals self-report use during pregnancy.

Methods: This study uses a mixed methods approach to examine adverse childhood experiences, mental health needs, and cannabis use among a small sample (N =59) of women. Cumulative ACE scores of four or more were considerably high within this sample compared to the US average.

Results: Results of a binary logistic regression indicate an association between ACEs and Cannabis use (OR 1.27, 95% CI (1.002- 1.616) when controlling for maternal age and anxiety. Qualitative results identified two …

2024 Fact Sheet, Clemson University

Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

Academic Libraries Addressing Health Literacy And Misinformation, Brynne Campbell Rice, Emily Petersen, Ian Roberts, Emily Vardell, Deborah Charbonneau

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Master Plan Of Evangelism( Armenian Version), Robert E. Coleman

GO InterNational Books

No abstract provided.

Master Plan Of Evangelism-Czech Version, Robert E. Coleman

GO InterNational Books

Reprint. Previously published: Prague : N vrat dom , ©2004.

Vol. 28, No. 1: Editor's Note, Zachary Alberts

Water Law Review

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Vol. 28, No. 1: Table Of Contents, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Fiscal Citizenship And Taxpayer Privacy, Alex Zhang

Faculty Articles

Should individual tax data be public or confidential? Within the United States, secrecy has been the rule since the Tax Reform Act of 1976. But at three critical junctures—the Civil War, the 1920s, and the 1930s—Congress made individual tax records open for public inspection, and newspapers published the incomes of the billionaires of the time. Today, Finland, Norway, and Sweden all mandate significant transparency for individual tax information.

This Essay intervenes in the tax-confidentiality debate by building a new analytical framework of fiscal citizenship. Until now, scholars have focused on compliance—whether disclosure incentivizes honest reporting of income, and if it …

Recusal Reform: Treating A Justice's Disqualification As A Legal Issue, Michael J. Broyde, Hayden H. Hall

Faculty Articles

This article addresses the pressing issue of recusal in the U.S. Supreme Court. It critiques the current practice of Supreme Court Justices deciding individually whether to recuse themselves from cases, highlighting the flaws and potential biases inherent in this practice. The authors advocate for a reform where initial recusal decisions are made by individual Justices but then are subject to review by the Supreme Court as a whole.

The article offers several arguments to support this proposal. First, the authors explore the evolution of recusal laws, focusing on the significant amendments to 28 U.S.C. § 455 in 1948 and 1974. …

Judging Judiciaries: How Sticky Defaults, Status Quo Bias, And The Sovereign Prerogative Influence The Perceived Legitimacy Of The New International Commercial Courts, S. I. Strong

Faculty Articles

Forum shopping is routinely criticized as contrary to procedural justice. However, recent years have seen an increasing number of jurisdictions engaged in the process of forum selling, in which countries actively seek to bring lucrative litigation business to their national judicial systems. One of the most common types of forum selling involves the creation of new international commercial courts designed to increase a nation’s competitiveness in the global litigation market.

Most studies of the new international commercial courts have focused on how procedural innovations adopted by different courts are likely to affect party choice. While useful, these analyses assume that …

Genetic Property Rhetoric And The Public Domain, David Fagundes

Faculty Articles

Among the many themes that illuminate Jorge Contreras’s The Genome Defense, this Essay focuses on property. It considers the rhetorical role played by property in convincing both courts and the public that patenting genetic data was legally and ethically objectionable. This Essay begins by locating property—and public property—as a major theme in the dialogue surrounding the Myriad litigation. It then situates this rhetorical move in the context of property-talk generally, highlighting the distinctiveness of leveraging public rather than private ownership as a means of accessing moral intuitions. Finally, this Essay reflects on what the use of public property rhetoric …

The Interplay Of Morality, Emotional Labor, And Customer Injustice: How Salesperson Experiences Shape Job Satisfaction, Omar S. Itani, Colin B. Gabler, Ashish Kalra, Khashayar Afshar Bakeshloo (Kash), Raj Agnihotri

Marketing Faculty Publications

Despite the significant role emotions play in business-to-business (B2B) sales transactions, the impact of salesperson emotional labor on well-being, specifically job satisfaction, has garnered limited attention. To address this gap, the present study examines the relationships among salesperson moral identity, emotional labor strategies, customer injustice, and job satisfaction. An analysis of responses from B2B salespeople reveals that moral identity internalization is positively related to deep acting and negatively to surface acting, whereas moral identity symbolization is positively related to both deep and surface acting. Furthermore, surface acting has a stronger unfavorable effect on customer injustice compared to deep acting, which …

Legislatures And Localized Resentencing, Ronald F. Wright, Kay L. Levine

Faculty Articles

Recent legislation, exemplified in statutes from California and Washington, creates new methods for resentencing defendants in old cases. These laws place controlling authority for resentencing in the hands of local officials, especially local prosecutors, and invite variation at the county level.

While some new procedural channels for reducing the sentences of people convicted of past crimes are mandatory, in that they entitle certain defendants to resentencing if they were convicted of certain crimes or were subject to certain penalty enhancements that are no longer valid, other statutes create discretionary resentencing channels. In the discretionary channels, the chief local prosecutor has …

Federalism, State Action, And Workers’ Medical Privacy, Ani B. Satz

Faculty Articles

Injured workers entering state workers’ compensation systems effectively forego their medical privacy. This is due to widespread judicial misinterpretation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule (HPR) as excluding injured workers from federal medical privacy protections. As a result, medical privacy for workers’ compensation claims is effectively governed by state law. This Article argues that states have failed to protect the medical privacy of injured workers adequately and that there is a pressing need for legislative reform. The Article presents the first comprehensive survey in the legal literature of state action protecting the medical privacy of injured workers. Part I describes the …

Customary Corruption, Ani B. Satz, Liza Vertinsky

Faculty Articles

For over a hundred years, it has been well-accepted among tort scholars that physicians—as one of the legally recognized professions— determine their own customary practices. Within tort law, and medical malpractice more specifically, customary practice establishes whether physicians breach or uphold the required standard of care toward their patients. The results of our hand-coded examination of decided cases and statutes show a more complex picture. While some states have endeavored to shift the standard away from professional custom, it continues to play a critical, and in many cases a determinative, role in establishing physician liability in most states.

Using illustrative …

Super-Groups: Legal Empowerment And “Public Law”, Matthew B. Lawrence

Faculty Articles

Not all interest groups are created equal. Some groups are created by or with the help of law. Law can confer political power on groups through wealth, rents, concentrated interest, and durability, creating synthetic factions that use their state-given influence to dominate lawmaking. Deregulatory and progressive traditions in public law have long thought differently about laws that empower. A deregulatory tradition sees legal empowerment as a democratic pathology that counsels against lawmaking, citing empowerment concerns as a perennial rhetorical point against consumer protection, environmental protection, and social welfare programs, among others, for fear they will lead to “capture.” At the …

Expertise, Ideology, And Dissent, Paul R. Gugliuzza, Jonathan R. Nash, Jason Rantanen

Faculty Articles

Part I sketches a theory of dissent, explaining how voting and opinion-writing behavior on a multi-member court, such as a federal court of appeals, is a function of both a judge's preferences, as well as costs, including the relational disruption that comes from disagreeing with colleagues.

Part II provides background on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as a survey of prior studies of decision-making on the court and explanations of those studies' limitations.

Part III describes our methodology, including the novel dataset we built for the purpose of this study.

Part IV conducts a …

Federal Officer Criminal Case Removal, Jonathan R. Nash

Faculty Articles

Recent events have brought the federal officer removal statute to the fore. The statute allows a defendant to remove a criminal prosecution to federal court, provided that the allegedly criminal behavior was performed by the defendant as a federal officer under color of office and provided that the defendant has a federal defense. Current litigation has exposed several open, important questions under the statute, which this Article confronts. On the question of who qualifies as an “officer” who can remove under the statute, it argues that removal is available both to former officers and to presidents. On the question of …

Destroy, Rebuild, Repeat: How To Break The Climate Disaster Cycle, Mark P. Nevitt

Faculty Articles

Climate change is fundamentally reshaping how we live, where we live, and whether we invest in or retreat from climate-exposed communities—but climate and disaster law is not changing with the climate. This legal latency is driven by antiquated statutes, doctrines, and policies that have not kept pace with the climate moment. Ex ante adaptation decisions governing where to live are life and death choices that shape ex post disaster response. Laws and policies should facilitate sound climate decisionmaking, but too often they frustrate individual and governmental decisions on whether to stay or retreat. In this Article, I argue that laws …

Katz'S Imperfect Circle: An Empirical Study Of Reasonable Expectations Of Privacy, Tonja Jacobi, Christopher Brett Jaeger

Faculty Articles

Under Katz v. United States, the Fourth Amendment restricts government actions that infringe upon expectations of privacy that society recognizes as reasonable. This foundational test has long been criticized as circular, both because courts can shape the very expectations they seek to identify through their decisions and because governments can manipulate those expectations to expand the reach of their own power. But how do members of society decide what expectations are reasonable, and how do judges ascertain those expectations? And are expectations of privacy malleable even without deliberate manipulation?

This Article shows that the circularity critique is both understated …

Vice Capital, Andrew K. Jennings, Kimberly D. Krawiec

Faculty Articles

Academic and market interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has grown markedly in recent years. Although less prominent, a substantial literature also explores whether “sin pays” in the public capital markets. This literature’s underlying theory is that social norms discourage the funding of businesses that promote vice. According to this theory, some investors—particularly institutions sensitive to social norms, such as pension funds and foundations—will shun vice investments. A consequence of this aversion is a “vice premium” for those investors who will invest in such companies. Largely unexplored, however, is what industries or business models qualify as “vice,” how …

Tort Liability For Failure To Age Gate: A Promising Regulatory Response To Digital Public Health Hazards, Matthew B. Lawrence, Brett Frischmann, Avi Sholkoff

Faculty Articles

Tort liability for failure to “age gate” is a promising legal response to the public health hazards of AI, social media, sports gambling, and other digital spaces. Tort liability for failure to “age gate” hinges liability for harms to minors on an app’s failure to take reasonable steps to prevent minors from gaining access or otherwise to apply appropriate governance rules, such as privacy-protective default settings or ensuring genuine parental consent. While no one legal response is a panacea, tort liability for failure to age gate carries several distinctive advantages that make it a particularly promising option at this stage …