Sixteen DGHI faculty members, staff, and affiliates shared new discoveries on a variety of global health topics in peer-reviewed publications in February. Click on the article links below to learn more:
- The American Journal of Medicine – Will obesity treatment reimbursement benefit those at highest risk?
Gary Bennett, Dori Steinberg, Sandy Askew
- Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – Weighing every day matters: Daily weighing improves weight loss and adoption of weight control behaviors
- Biotechnology and Bioengineering – Biocatalytic coatings for air pollution control: A proof of concept study on VOC biodegradation
Greg Gray, Benjamin Anderson
- Journal of Infectious Diseases – A systematic review and meta-analysis of the seroprevalence of Influenza A (H9N2) virus infection among humans
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – Elevated antibodies against Rift Valley Fever Virus among humans with exposure to ruminants in Saudi Arabia
- American Journal of Human Biology – Designing mental health interventions informed by child development and human biology theory: A social ecology intervention for child soldiers in Nepal
- PLoS ONE – Prevalence of undiagnosed depression among persons with hypertension and associated risk factors: A cross-sectional study in urban Nepal
- Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Recovery (book) – The role of traditional rituals for reintegration and psychosocial wellbeing of child soldiers in Nepal (chapter)
- Social Science & Medicine – Challenges to recruiting representative samples of female sex workers in China using respondent driven sampling
- JAMA Pediatrics – The know-do gap in quality of health care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in rural India
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine – Steps to health employee weight management randomized control trial: Short-term follow-up results
- Journal of Medical Internet Research – Short-term trajectories of use of a caloric-monitoring mobile phone app among patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a primary care setting
- Journal of Dermatology – Association between psoriasis and leisure-time physical activity: Findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
- Journal of Diabetes and its Complications – Is depression a risk factor for diabetic foot ulcers? 11-years follow-up of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health – Factors associated with caregiver burden among caregivers of children with cerebral palsy in Sri Lanka
- Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine – Treatment of chronic conditions with traditional Chinese medicine: findings from traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in Hubei, China
Truls Østbye, Sara Benjamin Neelon
- Contemporary Clinical Trials – The keys to healthy family child care homes intervention: Study design and rationale
- Education for Health – A framework for revising preservice curriculum for nonphysician clinicians: The Mozambique experience
Sara Wilson, Kathy Sikkema, Melissa Watt
- International Journal of Behavioral Medicine – Psychological symptoms among obstetric fistula patients compared to gynecology outpatients in Tanzania
- Evaluation and Program Planning – Development of an intervention to improve mental health for obstetric fistula patients in Tanzania
DGHI faculty, affiliates, and scholars: Want your publications listed in the monthly Research Roundup? Email the communications team when your publication has been accepted!