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Association Between Social Integration And Health Among Internal Migrants In Zhongshan, China, Yanwei Lin, Qi Zhang, Wen Chen, Jingrong Shi, Siqi Han, Xiaolei Song, Yong Xu, Li Ling
Association Between Social Integration And Health Among Internal Migrants In Zhongshan, China, Yanwei Lin, Qi Zhang, Wen Chen, Jingrong Shi, Siqi Han, Xiaolei Song, Yong Xu, Li Ling
Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications
Internal migrants are the individuals who migrate between regions in one country. The number of internal migrants were estimated at 245 million in China in 2013. Results were inconsistent in the literature about the relationship between their health statuses and social integration. The main difference exists on how to measure the social integration and whether health statuses of internal migrants improve with years of residence. To complement the existing literature, this study measured social integration more comprehensively and estimated the internal migrants' health statuses with varying years of residence, and explored the associations between the migrants' social integration and health. …
Epidemiology Of Pediatric Prehospital Basic Life Support Care In The United States, Leigh Ann Diggs, Manasi Sheth-Chandra, Gianluca De Leo
Epidemiology Of Pediatric Prehospital Basic Life Support Care In The United States, Leigh Ann Diggs, Manasi Sheth-Chandra, Gianluca De Leo
Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications
Children have unique medical needs compared to adults. Emergency medical services personnel need proper equipment and training to care for children. The purpose of this study is to characterize emergency medical services pediatric basic life support to help better understand the needs of children transported by ambulance. Pediatric basic life support patients were identified in this retrospective descriptive study. Descriptive statistics were used to examine incident location, possible injury, cardiac arrest, resuscitation attempted, chief complaint, primary symptom, provider's primary impression, cause of injury, and procedures performed during pediatric basic life support calls using the largest aggregate of emergency medical services …