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Using Emerging Informatics Techniques To Evaluate The Delivery Of National Minority Aids Education And Training Center Training Programs In Addressing Hiv/Aids Disparities, Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Many AIDS education and training programs have developed techniques to better target and recruit providers most in need of training. Given the infusion of federal and state resources invested in training of the providers in recent years, whether the delivery of training activities are closely aligned with high minority AIDS prevalence geographic areas remains unknown. This present study discusses an informatics system to identify the relationships between AIDS intervention programs and geographic areas of minority populations adversely affected by HIV/AIDS to help determine whether resources are being expended appropriately (as evidenced by the alignment of training activities) in areas where …
Popular People Help Experts Predict Flu Outbreak?, Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Popular People Help Experts Predict Flu Outbreak?, Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Popular people are the trendsetters of society, especially when it comes to the next flu outbreak, according to preliminary research from Harvard University. The hypochondriac effect may have also exaggerated how predictive the friend group was, says Ed Hsu, associate professor of Public Health Informatics at the University of Texas. Those in the friend group are more likely to know someone who has the flu and hence may be more likely to think (and report) that they are coming down with it themselves.
Towards Shared Situational Awareness And Actionable Knowledge – An Enhanced Public Health Informatics Paradigm For Keeping The Human In The Loop, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, William Chambers
Towards Shared Situational Awareness And Actionable Knowledge – An Enhanced Public Health Informatics Paradigm For Keeping The Human In The Loop, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, William Chambers
Chiehwen Ed Hsu
ABSTRACT: We propose a shift from a network-centric to a human-centric framework to assimilate emerging technologies into more effective and persistent situational awareness, integrated with actionable knowledge. Diverse communities of interest are better positioned to unify their efforts and support commanders when they are able to share situational awareness. A recent demonstration of military utility of a medical situational awareness capability for influenza surveillance validated shared situational awareness requirements in general. The current and future information environment will increase military and government requirements for situational awareness and actionable knowledge to support many “observe, assess, plan, and execute” processes by decision-makers. …
What Made A Successful Hepatitis B Prevention Program: Educational Intervention, Infection Status, And Missing Responses Of At-Risk Asian Americans, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Guangyu Zhang, Alice F Yan
What Made A Successful Hepatitis B Prevention Program: Educational Intervention, Infection Status, And Missing Responses Of At-Risk Asian Americans, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Guangyu Zhang, Alice F Yan
Chiehwen Ed Hsu
Asian Americans, compared with other racial/ethnic groups, are disproportionately affected by Hepatitis B disease. The literature suggests that knowledge and awareness of prevention strategies such as receiving hepatitis B screening and vaccination are potential factors associated with occurrence of hepatitis B and liver cancer, while it is unclear how baseline characteristics relate to these effective hepatitis B prevention strategies. In the study, five Asian-American groups in the state of Maryland completed self-administered pre- and post-test after receiving lectures on hepatitis B prevention, and participated in blood screening for Hepatitis B. T-test and one-way ANOVA were used to explore the differences …