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IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 502: Trend in the Prevalence of Overweight and Obese Adults in S & atilde;o Paulo, Brazil: Analysis between the Years 2006 and 2019
IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 502: Trend in the Prevalence of Overweight and Obese Adults in São Paulo, Brazil: Analysis between the Years 2006 and 2019 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph21040502 Authors: Alisson Padilha de Lima Ana Paula de Oliveira Barbosa Nunes Carolina Ferreira Nicoletti Fabiana Braga Benatti The aim of this study was to investigate the trend in the prevalence of overweight and obese adults in São Paulo, Brazil, between 2006 and 2019 across chronic diseases and the domains of physical activity. A descriptive retrospecti...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Alisson Padilha de Lima Ana Paula de Oliveira Barbosa Nunes Carolina Ferreira Nicoletti Fabiana Braga Benatti Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 503: Intersectional Mentorship in Academic Medicine: A Conceptual Review
owleg Academic medical institutions seek to recruit and retain a diverse workforce to foster equitable, supportive environments in which early-stage investigators, especially those who are underrepresented in medicine, can thrive. Intersectionality is a critical theoretical framework rooted in Black feminist activism and scholarship that elucidates how power and privilege are differentially structured for groups at different intersectional sociodemographic positions. As a dynamic method of analyzing multiple axes of power and inequality, intersectionality has the potential to offer a critical lens through which to view...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Jae M. Sevelius Orlando O. Harris Lisa Bowleg Tags: Review Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 504: Family-Based Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, and ADHD for a Parent and Child
Melissa K. Hord Children with mental illness commonly live with caregivers who suffer from mental illness. Integrated mental-health-treatment approaches can provide more convenient and comprehensive care for families. This case report describes family-based treatment (FBT) for one parent/child dyad. The parent was a 37-year-old female with a history of anxiety and major depressive disorder and concern for symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The child was an 8-year-old female with generalized anxiety disorder and concern for ADHD and behavioral problems. The parent received individual cognitive ...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Rachel Yoder Alyssa Michaud Amanda Feagans Kendra E. Hinton-Froese Allison Meyer Victoria A. Powers Leah Stalnaker Melissa K. Hord Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 505: Sexist, Racist, and Homophobic Violence against Paramedics in a Single Canadian Site
Donnelly Violence against paramedics is widely recognized as a serious, but underreported, problem. While injurious physical attacks on paramedics are generally reported, non-physical violence is less likely to be documented. Verbal abuse can be very distressing, particularly if the harassment targets personal or cultural identities, such as race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. Leveraging a novel, point-of-event reporting process, our objective was to estimate the prevalence of harassment on identity grounds against paramedics in a single paramedic service in Ontario, Canada, and assess its potentially di...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mausz D ’Eath Jackson Johnston Batt Donnelly Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 501: Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Cross Section of Public Health
Conclusions. The literature for other countries reports the need for comprehensive, culturally and developmentally sensitive care to address sexuality-related issues in adolescents and young adults, a need that also applies to Italy. These data will be of great importance in adopting evidence-based STI control programs in Marche Region. This study could, indeed, represent a landmark for public health officials and professionals, with the aim of promoting adolescents’ access to sexual health services to receive useful information, strengthening preventive measures in younger age groups, and designing sexual ed...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 19, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Nunzia Cannovo Elena Bianchini Luciana Gironacci Elisabetta Garbati Filiberto Di Prospero Mariano Cingolani Roberto Scendoni Piergiorgio Fedeli Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 499: Impacts of Working Hours, Wages, and Regular Employment Opportunity on Suicide Mortalities of Employed and Unemployed Individuals before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan
Okada Standardized suicide mortality rates per 100,000 population (SMRs) in Japan consistently decreased from 2009–2019, but these decreasing trends were reversed to increase in 2020. To clarify the mechanisms of recent increasing suicide in Japan, temporal fluctuations of SMRs disaggregated by sex and employment status (employed and unemployed individuals) and labor indices such as working hours, wages, and regular employment opportunity index (REO) from January 2012 to June 2023 were analyzed using interrupted time-series analysis. Additionally, temporal causalities from labor indices to SMRs were analy...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Ryusuke Matsumoto Eishi Motomura Motohiro Okada Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 500: Cognitive Profile and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment
The DIALCAT Consortium The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) in the older adults population and their specific impact on their cognitive profiles still requires further research. For this purpose, a cross-sectional study was carried out to describe the presence of CVRFs and their association with cognitive performance in a sample of older adults (65–85 years old) with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Participants (n = 185) were divided into three groups concerning their cardiovascular risk level determined by the presence of different CVRFs, including Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), dyslipidemia,...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Sebasti án Ortiz-Zu ñiga Ciudin Ars Inzitari Sim ó Hern ández Ari ño-Blasco Barahona Franco Giron ès Crespo-Maraver Rovira Castellano-Tejedor The DIALCAT Consortium Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 495: Medical Advocacy among Latina Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
© Molina Medical advocacy has continued to significantly impact quality of life and survivorship outcomes among Latina breast cancer survivors in the United States. However, little is known about the unique experiences of Latina survivors, including the perceived value, process, and context in which they practice medical advocacy. To help address this gap, we conducted a qualitative, secondary analysis of semi-structured focus groups with 18 Latina breast cancer survivors from Chicago, Illinois. Eligible women had to self-identify as (1) female, (2) Latina, (3) 18 years or older, and (4) having a breast cancer diagnosi...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Paola Torres Judith Guitelman Araceli Lucio Christine Rini Yamil é Molina Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 496: The Relationship between All-Cause Dementia and Acute Diabetes Complications among American Indian and Alaska Native Peoples
Conclusions: AI/AN diabetes patients with dementia suffered from considerably higher rates of acute diabetes complications than their counterparts without dementia. The clinical management of patients with comorbid diabetes and dementia is particularly challenging and may require individualized treatment approaches. (Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Xiaoyi Niu Jenny Chang Maria M. Corrada Ann Bullock Blythe Winchester Spero M. Manson Joan O ’Connell Luohua Jiang Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 497: A New Auto-Regressive Multi-Variable Modified Auto-Encoder for Multivariate Time-Series Prediction: A Case Study with Application to COVID-19 Pandemics
ves The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic prompted governments, institutions, and researchers to investigate its impact, developing strategies based on general indicators to make the most precise predictions possible. Approaches based on epidemiological models were used but the outcomes demonstrated forecasting with uncertainty due to insufficient or missing data. Besides the lack of data, machine-learning models including random forest, support vector regression, LSTM, Auto-encoders, and traditional time-series models such as Prophet and ARIMA were employed in the task, achieving remarkable results with limited effectiveness...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Emerson Vilar de Oliveira Dunfrey Pires Arag ão Luiz Marcos Garcia Gon çalves Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 498: Exploring the Relationship of Leisure Travel with Loneliness, Depression, and Cognitive Function in Older Adults
This study examines the association between leisure travel participation and these health outcomes in older adults, aiming to provide further evidence of the benefits of leisure travel. Using nationally representative historical data from the 2006 household survey of the Health and Retirement Study, this study conducted a series of regression analyses to investigate the relationship between traveling and the three health outcomes, adjusting for age, sex, race, marital status, education, total wealth, annual income, and difficulty with daily activities. The results reveal that travel patterns in terms of distance are signif...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shu Cole Chenggang Hua Siyun Peng Weixuan Wang Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 490: Multicomponent Behavioural Intervention during Pregnancy to Reduce Home Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial in Bangladesh and India
Conclusions: The multicomponent behavioural intervention was feasible to deliver and was acceptable to the interventionists, pregnant women, and husbands. With the intervention, it was possible to recruit, randomise, and retain pregnant women in Bangladesh and India. The cotinine data will inform sample size calculations for a future definitive trial. (Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Veena A. Satyanarayana Cath Jackson Kamran Siddiqi Mukesh Dherani Steve Parrott Jinshuo Li Rumana Huque Prabha S. Chandra Atif Rahman Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 491: Optimizing the Selection of Mass Vaccination Sites: Access and Equity Consideration
all In the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine accessibility was limited, impacting large metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles County, which has over 10 million residents but only nine initial vaccination sites, which resulted in people experiencing long travel times to get vaccinated. We developed a mixed-integer linear model to optimize site selection, considering equitable access for vulnerable populations. Analyzing 277 zip codes between December 2020 and May 2021, our model incorporated factors such as car ownership, ethnic group disease vulnerability, and the Healthy Places Index, alongside travel ti...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Basim Aljohani Randolph Hall Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 492: The Development of an Oral Health Nursing Tool for Patients with a Psychotic Disorder: A Human-Centred Design with a Feasibility Test
Boonstra Patients with psychotic disorders frequently report oral health problems, while mental health nurses (MHNs) seem not to be fully aware of these problems and the risk factors. Therefore, this study aimed to develop supportive tools for MHNs regarding oral health to increase sensitisation among MHNs and provide MHNs with the knowledge to recognise (potential) oral health problems in patients with a psychotic disorder. We used a human-centred design in which the user, MHNs and experts by experience were placed at the centre of the research process. Problems and needs in MHNs working with patients with a psychoti...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Sonja Kuipers Stynke Castelein Linda Kronenberg Job van ’t Veer Nynke Boonstra Tags: Article Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 21, Pages 493: World Trends in Dental Ergonomics Research: A Bibliometric Analysis
The objective of this study was to obtain quantitative information and produce a visualization of the network of scientific publications on the topic of ergonomics and dentistry using bibliometric analysis. Data mining was conducted using the Scopus database and Boolean expressions (ergonom* AND dentist*) on 14 April 2023. Data extraction and analysis were performed using Open Refine version 3.5.2., VOSviewer version 1.6.17., VOSviewer thesaurus, Microsoft Excel, and Tableau Professional version 2020.1.2. A total of 682 documents were identified, with the United States having the largest number of documents and citations (...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Wita Anggraini Dewi Ranggaini Annisaa Putri Ariyani Indrani Sulistyowati Tags: Review Source Type: research