Research needs for community-based risk assessment: findings from a multi-disciplinary workshop

Outcome Evaluation of a Multi-disciplinary Community-based Continence Service for Australian Women Outcome Evaluation of a Multi-disciplinary Community-based Continence Service for Australian Women Outcome Evaluation of a Multi-disciplinary Community-based Continence Service for Australian Women

Outcome evaluation of a multidisciplinary community-based continence service for Australian women, Women and Health. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitiv...

Workshop overview: arsenic research and risk assessment.

The chronic exposure of humans through consumption of high levels of inorganic arsenic (iAs)-contaminated drinking water is associated with skin lesions, peripheral vascular disease, hypertension, and cancers. Additionally, humans are exposed to organic arsenicals when used as pesticides and herbicides (e.g., monomethylarsonic acid, dimethylarsinic acid (DMA(V)) also known as cacodylic acid). E...

Advanced Research Workshop Findings

Workshop - Developing cross-disciplinary collaborations for engineering education research

More and more engineering faculty are moving beyond developing effective classrooms practices to conducting educational research, but this move is not without significant challenges. One set of challenges has to do with forming cross-disciplinary research collaborations. This involves attending to differences in disciplinary cultures and language, building trust, learning how to translate acros...

Assessing the Health Needs of Chinese Older Adults: Findings from a Community-Based Participatory Research Study in Chicago's Chinatown

The objective of this study is to examine the cultural views of healthy aging, knowledge and barriers to services, and perception of health sciences research among community-dwelling Chinese older adults in Chicago's Chinatown. This qualitative study is guided by the Precede-Proceed conceptual model with community-based participatory research design. Data analysis is based on eight focus group ...