UWM Digital Commons

Fighting Health Misinformation: Building an Interpretable, Criteria-Driven System to Assist the Public in Assessing the Quality of Health News, Xiaoyu Liu
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Three Essays on Online Customer Reviews in Business and Healthcare, Cong Zhang
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Pipeline for Calculating Calories for Print Recipes with Minimal User Intervention, Karl W. Holten
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A Community-engaged Narrative Inquiry Photovoice Project Examining the Health-Impacting Experiences of Older Adult Russian and Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in Southeastern Wisconsin, United States., Maren Hawkins
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Examining Dyslipidemia as a Contributing Factor to Dementia Risk, Michelle Dunk
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Resident Doctor Duty Shift Scheduling in Tarragona, Spain, Anna Daniel Fuentes
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Examining the Mental Health Needs and Help-Seeking Behaviors of Online College Students, Lori Ann Bokowy Feldhausen
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A Qualitative Assessment of Screening Behavior for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among African American Women in Milwaukee Using the Integrated Behavioral Model, Bernadette Okwu
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Exploring the Spatial Distribution of Air Pollutants and COVID-19 Death Rate: A Case Study for Los Angeles County, California, Akhil Mandalapu, Junfeng Jiao, Amin Azimian
International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research

Effects of Provider Support and Psychosocial Stressors on Maternal Health-promoting Behaviors, Mary Catherine Jessen
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The Impact of Structural Determinants on Pregnancy Intention and Reproductive Decision Making Among African American Women, Jill Strickland Denson
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Factors That Influence the Health Seeking Behavior and Degree of Health Service Utilization of Ethiopian Immigrants Living in One of the Midwest Cities of the United States: A Mixed Methods, Sisay Bekele Mersha
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Two Essays on Leveraging Analytics to Improve Healthcare, Deepika Gopukumar
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Geospatial Clustering and Hot Spot Detection of COVID-19 Incidence in 2020: A Global Analysis, Munazza Fatima, Sana Arshad, Ibtisam Butt, Saba Arshad
International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research

Parent-Child Sexual Communication and Sexual Risk: A Meta-Analytic Review, Brittnie Star Peck
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Estimating Covid-19 Survival Rate and Inferring Case Severity with Respect to Milwaukee County Policy Change Using Logistic Regression, Geoff M. Chappelle
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Machine-Learning-based Prediction of Sepsis Events from Vertical Clinical Trial Data: a Naïve Approach, Tyler Michael Gaddis
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Communicating About Routine Childhood Vaccines: Meta-Analysis of Parental Attitudes, Behaviors, & Vaccine Hesitancy, Angela Victor
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A Mixed Methods Evaluation of an Intersectional Bystander Program Against Sexual Violence Using the Integrated Model of Behavioral Prediction Within a Cluster Randomized Control Trial, Rose Hennessy
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Toxicological Effects of Antimicrobials (Triclosan and Triclocarban) and Cyanopeptides (Anabaenopeptins and Cyanopeptolins) in the Nematode C. Elegans, Kade A. Lenz
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Life Course Health Effects of Early Life Trauma, Jennifer Mei Ping Woo
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Practical Problems and Moral Discourses: an Ethnography of Breastfeeding, Tara Ann Gallagher
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Contribution of Individual, Community, and Health System Factors to Health Outcomes in Inner-city African Americans with Type 2 Diabetes, Jennifer Annette Campbell
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Infant Mortality in the United States: Socioeconomic Factors Predicting Infant Survival in Late Neo-natal and Post Neo-natal Infants from Birth Certificate Data, Mark Brunk-Grady
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Medication Self-Management Behaviors of Community-dwelling Adults with Chronic Disease, Michelle Yvonne Williams
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Stability Analysis for the Equilibria of a Monkeypox Model, Rachel Elizabeth TeWinkel
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The Impact of Maternal Diabetes on Fetal and Infant Outcomes: A Secondary Analysis of Peridata.net® from 2013 to 2017, Christina Lynn Dzioba
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Critical Illness Survivors’ Perceptions of Their Recovery: An Interpretive Phenomenological Inquiry, Kelly Calkins
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Network Analysis of Scientific Collaboration and Co-authorship of the Trifecta of Malaria, Tuberculosis and Hiv/aids in Benin., Gbedegnon Roseric Azondekon
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Physical activity and annual medical outlay in U.S. colorectal, breast and prostate cancer survivors, Alice F. Yan, Yang Wang, Alexander V. Ng
Public Health Faculty Articles

Understanding Public Health Professional Socialization and Professional Identity Formation Experiences, Jennifer M. Freiheit
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Unveiling Recovery: A Discourse Analysis of Mental Illness Recovery Narratives, Elizabeth Albert
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Association of Childhood Blood Lead Levels with Firearm Violence Perpetration and Victimization, Lindsay Rae Emer
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Social Engagement and Health: a Structural Equation Modelling Analysis of Downstream Links to Health Outcomes Among White-collar Professionals, Ahmad Iqmer Nashriq Bin Mohd Nazan
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The Emerging Role of Two-Pore Domain Potassium Channels in Breast Cancer, Keith A. Dookeran, Auer Paul
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The Impact of Stand-biased Desks on After-school Physical Activity Behaviors in Children, Nathan Tokarek
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Cultural Correlates of PTSD in Latinos Residing in the U.s., Gabriela A. Nagy
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Which Activities Count? Gender and Socioeconomic Differences in the Conceptualization of Physical Activity: the Role of Leisure, Housework and Dependent Care, and Paid Work, Rachel N. Cusatis
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Layperson Perceptions and Attitudes Towards a National Electronic Health Record Introduction in Saudi Arabia, Jwaher Abdullah Almulhem
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Complementary and Integrative Health Services in a Low-resource Community: a Retrospective Examination, Barbara M. Wesson
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Exploring Factors Influencing Health Promoting Behaviors Among Latino Immigrants, Martin Joseph Mikell
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Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youths’ Public Facilities Use and Psychological Well-Being: A Mixed-Method Study, Lance S. Weinhardt, Patricia Stevens, Hui Xie, Steven Alan John, Immaculate Apchemengich, David Kioko, Shannon Chavez-Korll, Katherine M. Cochran, Jennifer M. Watjen, Nickolas H. Lambrou
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Associations of two‑pore domain potassium channels and triple negative breast cancer subtype in The Cancer Genome Atlas: systematic evaluation of gene expression and methylation, Keith A. Dookeran, Wei Zhang, Leslie Stayner, Maria Argos
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Patient-Delivered Partner Therapy: Elicitation Research Using a Mixed-Method Study Design to Support the Development of a Behavioral Intervention for Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic Patients, Steven Alan John
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The Influences of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors on the Relationships Among Work-Family Conflict, Stress, and Turnover Intention in Saudi Arabian Registered Nurses, Sitah S. Alshutwi
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Point of Use Biosand Filters of the Rural Dominican Republic, Kurtis Quamme
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Exploring Proximal and Distal Psychosocial Stressors Influencing the Health Outcomes of Urban American Indians in the Midwest, Alina Aloma
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Essays on Two Implications of the Affordable Care Act (aca), Esmaeil Salem
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RN Perceptions of Coworker Incivility and Collective Efficacy as Influential to Hospital Structures and Outcomes, Jessica Grace Smith
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Three Essays on Public Policy and Health, Darin F. Ullman
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The Lived Experiences of an Injured Athlete and Members of a Performance Management Team During Injury Rehabilitation: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Courtney Wynne Hess
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From Data to Decision: An Implementation Model for the Use of Evidence-based Medicine, Data Analytics, and Education in Transfusion Medicine Practice, Nazanin Tabesh
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Three Essays on Enhancing Clinical Trial Subject Recruitment Using Natural Language Processing and Text Mining, Euisung Jung
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Health of the Nation: the Impact of Racial and Income Segregation on Food Insecurity in the United States, Mark Anthony Caldwell
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Improving Mental Health Literacy: a Single-Subject Design Experiment Examining the Effects of Text Messaging on Adolescent Mental Health Literacy, Emma Coffman
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Ancestral Dvelopmental Exposure to Methylmercury Induces Transgenerational Inheritance of Visual and Neurobehavioral Deficits, Thomas Achankunju Kalluvila
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"I Know I Can't Be the Only Lesbian Out There:" an Inductive Thematic Analysis of a Virtual Community of Lesbian Breast Cancer Survivors, Rachael Lynn Wandrey
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Examining the Association of Crime Laboratory Practices, Internal and External Determinants, and DNA Case Completion Time and Backlog, Eva Marie Lewis King
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Modulation of Cholinergic Signaling in Embryonic and Larval Zebrafish: Impacts on Circadian Rhythms, Learning, and Memory, Matthew Eric Wolter
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Using Omaha System Documentation to Understand Physical Activity Among Rural Women, Jeanette Melissa Olsen
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College Student Lay Health Information Mediary Behavior: an Examination of eHealth Literacy and Unrequested Health Advice, Andrew William Cole
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The Role of Interactive and Critical Health Literacy in Appointment Cancellations: A Quality Assurance Survey, Amanda Nielsen
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Does Stigma Against Smokers Really Motivate Cessation? A Moderated Mediation Model on the Effect of Anti-smoking Campaigns Promoting Smoker-Related Stigma on Cessation Intentions, Jinyoung Kim
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Assessing the Impact of an Incentivized Employee Wellness Program on Participation and Weight, Jennifer T. Fink
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Health Information Behavior and Paternal Involvement of Low-Income Expectant and Recent Fathers, Emily M. Cramer
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Factors Associated with College Students' Excessive Alcohol Consumption Within the Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: an Epidemiological Analysis, Beom-young Cho
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CiteFinder: a System to Find and Rank Medical Citations, Seyed Soheil Moosavinasab
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Effects of Traffic and Air Pollution on Risk of Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight Outcomes in Milwaukee County, 2005-2010, Deborah Lynn Pasha James
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Strategic Flexibility in Not-For-Profit Acute Care Hospitals, Donna Fe Jamieson
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The Subjective Well-Being of Youth Heads of Households in Rural Southern Malawi, Pamela Fruechting
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Effects on Volunteer Peer Leaders Participating in a Health Promotion Program for U.s. Veterans, Leslie A. Patterson
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Feasibility and Preliminary Outcomes from a Pilot Study of the SMILE Curriculum for Mother-Infant Co-Occupational Engagement and Maternal Self-Efficacy, Emily Whitlock
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Trends in Work-related Injury Rates and the Associated Incurred Costs in Long-term Care Centers, Darcie Lange Olson
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The Influence of Position Type and Generational Grouping on Job Satisfaction of Milwaukee County's Public Health Workforce, Jeanette L. Kowalik
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Transcending Microbial Source Tracking Techniques Across Geographic Borders: An Examination of Human and Animal Microbiomes and the Integration of Molecular Approaches in Pathogen Surveillance in Brazil and the United States, Amber Mae Koskey
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Examining Mediators to Physical Activity as a Link to Interventional Efforts Aimed at Increasing Activity Levels and Improving Physical Functioning in Older Adults, Christopher Dondzila
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Parents' Treatment of Their Children's Pain at Home: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Approaches, Ayala Y. Gorodzinsky
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Essays in Health Economics and Public Health Policy, Rahi Abouk
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Impact of the Arthritis Foundation's Walk with Ease Program on Self-Efficacy, Quality of Life and Pain Reduction in a Group Format, Kelly Nicole Reese
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Utilization of Focus Groups to Design Curricula to Teach 3D/4D Technology, Dustin Reinholtz
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Relationship Between HPV Vaccination and Sexual Activity, Sexual Health Care Utilization, and Perceived Risk, Danielle Lee Jirovec
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Factors Associated with Bed-Sharing Within Racial Groups in a Sample of Mothers and Young Infants in Wisconsin, Trina C. Salm Ward
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Complexity and Uncertainty in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, Matthew Jordan Dellinger
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Predictors of Healthcare Cost in a Wisconsin Acute Leukemia Population: Utilization of a State-Level All Payer Claims Database, Patricia Ann Steinert
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A Systematic Framework for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Hazard Mitigation in the Blood Transfusion Supply Chain from Donation to Distribution, Natalie Simone Rahming
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An Efficient Methodology for Learning Bayesian Networks, Emmanuel Owusu Asante-Asamani
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