1 Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontology, College of Dentistry University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN. 2 Associate Professor, Dental Research Center, College of Dentistry University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN. 3 Professor, Department of Bioscience Research, College of Dentistry University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN. 4 Prof...

OBJECTIVE Assessing and understanding the health needs and capacities of college students is paramount to creating healthy campus communities. The American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA) is a survey developed by the ACHA in 1998 to assist institutions of higher education in achieving this goal. The ACHA-NCHA contains approximately 300 questions assessi...

M. SHARMA, V.K. NAHAR 1 Behavioral & Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Jackson State University, MS, USA; 2 College of Health Sciences, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 3 Center for Animal and Human Health in Appalachia, College of Veterinary Medicine, DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, and School of Mathematics and Sciences, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN,...

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India Department of Peadiatrics, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India Department of Pathology, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India Department of Public Health Sciences, Global Health (IHCAR), Stockholm, Sweden Department of Women and Children’s Health, International ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate selected mental health characteristics of lesbians and bisexual undergraduate college women as compared with heterosexual college women. PARTICIPANTS Self-identified lesbians and bisexual and heterosexual female college students who took part in the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA-II) in Fall 2008, Spring 2009, and ...

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Individuals with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives. However, not everyone benefits equally from higher education. In particular, the black-white gap in life expectancy is greater at higher levels of educational attainment. Furthermore, recent research suggests that disadvantaged African Americans in the rural Southeast who attend college have worse physical health th...