BACKGROUND: Refugee resettlement in the United States will reach record numbers in 2016. Approximately 200 refugees arrive in Rhode Island annually and require culturally and linguistically appropriate health care. METHODS: Eight community health care workers (CHWs) were hired for the Refugee Community Healthcare Worker Initiative (RCHWI) program. CHWs completed 30 hours of paid training. Healt...

Optimizing quality of care for malaria and other febrile illnesses is a complex challenge of major public health importance. To evaluate the impact of an intervention aiming to improve malaria case management on the health of community children, a cluster-randomized trial was conducted from 2010-2013 in Tororo, Uganda, where malaria transmission is high. Twenty public health centers were includ...

The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS) utilized the High Production Volume Chemical Information System (HPVIS) to address specific community health concerns from the state and local government perspective. The HPVIS system was utilized to help prioritize chemicals for additional follow-up and evaluation. Facilities using chemicals selected for additional follow-up, bas...

INTRODUCTION The objective of our study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Medical Outcomes Study's 12-Item Short Form Survey Instrument (SF-12) for use in a low-income African American community. The SF-12, a commonly used functional health status assessment, was developed based on responses of an ethnically homogeneous sample of whites. Our assessment addressed the appropriatene...

BACKGROUND A seafarer is a person who navigates waterborne vessels or assists as a crewmember in their operation and maintenance in all tough weather, but little research has been done to identify conditions that may lead to assess seafarer general health as well as oral health. AIM To assess oral diseases including dental caries and periodontal conditions among seafarer's population arrived ...

It may be said that measurement of the levels of health of a given community is highly important for promoting community health activities, regardless of the size of population of the community in question. The author investigated whether or not the physical statistics of schoolchildren in the field of school health were suitable as a health indicator in measuring the levels of health of a comm...

objective: to explore the context, experiences and pathways of seeking abortion care among married women in a minority dominated urban slum community in mumbai city of india. materials and methods: a mixed-method study was conducted using a systematic random sampling method to select 282 respondents from the slum community. one fifth of these womenreported undergoing at least one induced aborti...

BACKGROUND An estimated four million deaths occur each year among children in the neonatal period. Current evidence-based interventions could prevent a large proportion of these deaths. However, health care workers involved in neonatal care need to have knowledge regarding such practices before being able to put them into action.The aim of this survey was to assess the knowledge of primary heal...

BACKGROUND Community health service in China is designed to provide a convenient and affordable primary health service for the city residents, and to promote health equity. Based on data from a large national study of 35 cities across China, we examined the characteristics of the patients and the utilization of community health institutions (CHIs), and assessed the role of community health serv...