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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510017

Rethinking HIV Risks among Women on the US/Mexico Border: Alcohol and Latina Sex Behavior

Michael Parsa, Robert Woolard, Dustin Corgan, Susana Villalobos, Paul Chisolm, Lisa Montgomery, Jiayang Liu, Israel Alba and Patrick Tarwater

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 31, 2015

Most young Latina ED patients were unconcerned about risk of HIV infection in spite of their reports of HIV sex risk behavior. Latinas who were RAPS4 positive were more likely to report HIV sex risk behavior, but they had no greater concern about their HIV risk and no greater use of condoms. Preventive interventions should be developed to decrease alcohol use and to increase concern about HIV risk among Latinas....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510016

Patient Health Literacy and Perception of Provider Communication: Is there a Link?

Erin Vaughn, Kristie Hadden and Benjamin Doolittle

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 21, 2015

Inadequate health literacy is a common problem that contributes to poor patient-provider communication. Health literacy screening and specific provider communication practices may be important in clinics where patients are at high risk for inadequate health literacy. This study assessed patients' health literacy and their perception of provider communication practices in a primary care residency program clinic serving an urban multi-ethnic population. A convenience sample of 324 patients in an u...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510015

Safeguarding Public Health from Higher Education

Doug Dix

Article Type: Perspective | First Published: October 19, 2015

It is common to assume that colleges and universities provide service to the public. In the U.S., these institutions are granted tax-exemption on this assumption. In times long past, education, in itself, may have been a public service. But it isn't that anymore as the unintended consequences of progress degrade human habitat and social fabric. Education for progress could easily do more harm than good....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510014

Getting them off the Path toward Chronic Disease: Understanding One NJ Community College Students' Food Choices and Eating Habits

Gustave Ado

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: October 15, 2015

Researchers has shown that dietary patterns of many college students predispose them to future health problems and the epidemic of overweight and obesity is prevalent among many students in the United States. Getting community college students off the path to diet related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, some cancers and changing their lifestyle choices so they become generally more healthy requires that we understand how they eat, their levels of physical activity, as we...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510013

Provider's Perspectives on Cultural Competence in Ethnically Diverse Primary Care Practices

Mary A Matteliano and Debra Street

Article Type: Research article | First Published: October 14, 2015

This study explores how frontline healthcare providers describe and understand the delivery of culturally competent care to underserved groups in three neighborhood primary health care practices. Data from fifty intensive interviews and observations at three field sites in a multi-year study are analyzed using grounded theory techniques. Findings show that providers used a range of deliberate strategies-from establishing provider/patient concordance, to finessing language issues, practicing cult...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510012

The Availability of Ultrasound for Infants with Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip in Pennsylvania

Shane Lavin and William Hennrikus

Article Type: Original Research | First Published: October 13, 2015

Currently, The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that serial clinical examinations using the Ortolani and Barlow Technique be performed of the hips of all infants at birth and at well baby examinations until the child is of walking age-about 1 year of life. In addition, the AAP recommends hip imaging with ultrasound (U.S.) at six weeks of life for female infants born in the breech position despite a normal physical examination for hip instability. Lastly, the AAP recommends optiona...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510011

Methamphetamine use Increases Chances of Preeclampsia

Kristina A. Roloff, Gohar Stepanyan, Guillermo Valenzuela

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: September 19, 2015

A single center, retrospective study was performed over an eighteen month period (January 2012 - June 2013) at a county hospital in San Bernardino, California. Methamphetamine use was defined as self-reported use or a positive urine drug screen (UDS) at admission for delivery. Preeclampsia was defined using the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Task Force definition. 1 The incidence of preeclampsia among methamphetamine users was compared to non-users using inferential s...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510010

Neonatal Outcomes of 26,331 Infants Delivered by Obstetrics Fellowship Trained Family Physicians and OB/Gyns

Daniel M. Avery, Karen Burgess, John T. McDonald, Susanna T. Raley, Catherine A. Skinner, Kristine R. Graettinger, Kelly Shoemake, Melanie T. Tucker and Jason M. Parton

Article Type: Original Research Article | First Published: September 06, 2015

Neonatal outcomes of infants delivered by family physicians practicing obstetrics and obstetricians/gynecologists have been studied for years. Most of the studies comparing deliveries of family physicians and OB/GYNs have been limited to low risk pregnancies. Family physicians practicing obstetrics are often the only obstetrics providers in rural, underserved areas. They need to be able to practice independently and manage more than just low risk pregnancies....

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