Can text messages reduce incarceration in rural and vulnerable populations?

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

Can training reduce the rural workforce shortage?

TB in Vulnerable Populations

This article analyzes the factors associated with vulnerability of the Ashaninka, the most populous indigenous Peruvian Amazonian people, to tuberculosis (TB). By applying a human rights-based analytical framework that assesses public policy against human rights standards and principles, and by offering a step-by-step framework for a full assessment of compliance, it provides evidence of the re...

Can Intraoperative Text Messages Reduce Parental Anxiety of Children Undergoing Posterior Spinal Fusion Surgery for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis?

STUDY DESIGN A prospective, nonrandomized study. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of periodic intraoperative text messages (SMS) in reducing parental anxiety level during posterior spinal fusion (PSF) surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA No studies have reported the use of intraoperative SMS to reduce level of anxiety in parents of pa...

Orange peel products can reduce Salmonella populations in ruminants.

Salmonella can live undetected in the gut of food animals and be transmitted to humans. Animal diets can impact intestinal populations of foodborne pathogens, including Salmonella spp. Orange juice production results in a waste product, orange peel and orange pulp, which has a high nutritive value and is often included in cattle diets as a least-cost ration ingredient. Here we show that the inc...