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Immersion Research Education: Students As Catalysts For International Collaboration Research, Kathryn H. Anderson, Marie-Luise Friedemann, Andreas Buescher, Julita Sansoni, Donna R. Hodnicki

School of Nursing Faculty Publications

Background:  This paper describes an international nursing and health research immersion program. Minority students from the USA work with an international faculty mentor in teams conducting collaborative research. The Minority Health International Research Training (MHIRT) program students become catalysts in the conduct of cross-cultural research.

Aim:  To narrow the healthcare gap for disadvantaged families in the USA and partner countries.

Methods:  Faculty from the USA, Germany, Italy, Colombia, England, Austria and Thailand formed an international research and education team to explore and compare family health issues, disparities in chronic illness care, social inequities and healthcare solutions. USA …

Rickettsia Felis In Cat Fleas, Ctenocephalides Felis Parasitizing Opossums, San Bernardino County, California, Kyle F. Abramowicz, J. W. Wekesa, C. N. Nwadike, Maria L. Zambrano, Sandor E. Karpathy, D. Cecil, J. Burns, R. Hu, Marina E. Eremeeva

Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Los Angeles and Orange Counties are known endemic areas for murine typhus in California; however, no recent reports of flea-borne rickettsioses are known from adjacent San Bernardino County. Sixty-five opossums (Didelphis virginiana) were trapped in the suburban residential and industrial zones of the southwestern part of San Bernardino County in 2007. Sixty out of 65 opossums were infested with fleas, primarily cat fleas, Ctenocephalides felis (Bouché, 1835). The flea minimum infection rate with Rickettsia felis was 13.3% in pooled samples and the prevalence was 23.7% in single fleas, with two gltA genotypes detected. In spite of historic records of murine …

Environmental Health News, Georgia Southern University

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• JPHCOPH Examines Food Contaminants

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

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Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University

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Health Policy & Management News, Georgia Southern University

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• Interorganizational Sharing

Health Policy & Management News, Georgia Southern University

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• JPHCOPH Examines Cancer Screenings

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

Community Health Department News (2011-2018)

• JPHCOPH Examines Mobile Clinic Outreach to Migrant Farmworkers

Environmental Health News, Georgia Southern University

Environmental Health News (2012-2018)

• JPHCOPH Examines Mobile Clinic Outreach to Migrant Farmworkers

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

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• JPHCOPH Awarded $297,185 Federal Grant

Using Photovoice In Pete Programs To Initiate Positive Change, Gavin T. Colquitt, Jody Langdon, Tony A. Pritchard, Starla Mccollum

Community Health Faculty Presentations

The purpose of this presentation will be to provide teacher educators with an overview of the Photovoice methodology and its potential utility in curricular change. The National Association for Sport and Physical Education’s ([NASPE], 2008) PETE standards state educators should allow diversity to drive instructional related decision-making. Photovoice, a participatory action research methodology, is a tool teacher educators can use to be responsive to the continuously changing contexts of public schools.

Environmental Health News, Georgia Southern University

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• Dr. Bossak Examines Changes to the Electronic Health Records

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

Community Health Department News (2011-2018)

• HPV Vaccine Acceptability

Endurance Tests Are The Most Reliable Core Stability Related Measurements, Andy Waldhelm, Li Li

Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Purpose: To determine the intra-tester reliability of clinical measurements that assess five components related to core stability: strength, endurance, flexibility, motor control, and function. Methods: Participants were 15 college-aged males who had not suffered any orthopedic injury in the past year. Core strength measurements included eight isometric tests and a sit-up test. The four core endurance tests were the trunk flexor test, trunk extensor test, and bilateral side bridge tests. Flexibility tests included the sit-and-reach test and active range of the trunk and hip joint motions. Proprioception via passive reposition tests of the hips and a single limb balance test …

Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University

Epidemiology News (2012-2018)

• Variations in Birth Weight

Health Policy & Management News, Georgia Southern University

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• Dr. Talar Markossian named Exceptional Reviewer

Health Policy & Management News, Georgia Southern University

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• Dr. Renee Hotchkiss named to the Board of Directors

Health Policy & Management News, Georgia Southern University

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• Georgia Southern Examines Childhood Disparities

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

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• Farmer’s Markets in Rural Communities

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

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• JPHCOPH Expands Impact

Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University

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• Georgia Southern Professors Receive Community Health Needs Assessment Grant

Community Health News, Georgia Southern University

Community Health Department News (2011-2018)

• Georgia Southern Professors Receive Community Health Needs Assessment Grant

Health Policy & Management News, Georgia Southern University

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• Disparities in Breast Cancer

Epidemiology News, Georgia Southern University

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• Disparities in Breast Cancer

Rickettsia Felis In Ctenocephalides Felis From Guatemala And Costa Rica, Adriana Troyo, Danilo Alvarez, Lizeth Taylor, Gabriela Abdalla, Olger Calderon-Arguedas, Maria L. Zambrano, Gregory A. Dasch, Kim A. Lindblade, Laya Hun, Marina Eremeeva, Alejandra Estevez

Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Rickettsia felis is an emerging human pathogen associated primarily with the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis. In this study, we investigated the presence of Rickettsia felis in C. felis from Guatemala and Costa Rica. Ctenocephalides felis were collected directly from dogs and cats, and analyzed by polymerase chain reaction for Rickettsia-specific fragments of 17-kDa protein, OmpA, and citrate synthase genes. Rickettsia DNA was detected in 64% (55 of 86) and 58% (47 of 81) of flea pools in Guatemala and Costa Rica, respectively. Sequencing of gltA fragments identified R. felis genotype URRWXCal2 in samples from both countries, and genotype Rf2125 in …

Health Policy & Management News, Georgia Southern University

Health Policy & Management Department News (2011-2018)

• Provider Perceptions

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• Broadening the Impact of JPHCOPH

Muscular Activity Characteristics Associated With Preparation For Gait Transition, Li Li, Lorna L. Ogden

Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate lower extremity neuromuscular activity patterns during gait transitions with continuously changing locomotion speeds.

Methods: Muscular activities related to gait transitions (walk to run and run to walk) induced by changing treadmill speed were compared to muscular activities during walk and run at constant speeds. All transition and constant speed conditions were conducted in similar speed range. Surface electromyographic activities of gluteus maximus (GM), rectus femoris (RF), vastus lateralis (VL), biceps femoris long head (BFL), tibialis anterior (TA), gastrocnemius (GA), and soleus (SL) were collected and analyzed. The influences of speed and …

People Can Live Longer By Having More Physical Activity, Li Li

Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology Faculty Publications

We all know being physically active is good for you. But do we know how good? People can live up to 3 years longer, even with as little as 15 min of physical activity a day, according to last October's report by Wen and his colleagues¹at the China Medical University in Taiwan, China.

Many researchers in the field of sport and health sciences know being physically active can bring many benefits to one's life. But this message has sometimes been disseminated using a negative tone. So much so, Bortz² of California, USA, has coined the word “inactivity” …

College Of Public Health News, Georgia Southern University

Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health News (2011-2023)

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