Thirteen DGHI faculty members, affiliates and doctoral students shared new discoveries on a variety of global health topics in peer-reviewed publications in January. Findings from the 12 studies include:
- The need for coping-based interventions to prevent and treat antenatal mental disorders among women with childhood trauma
- A discussion outlining the importance of increased duty hours worked each week in the neurosurgery department
- Weight conversations between adolescents and providers are more likely to occur while a parent in present for that part of the medical visit
Continue reading for a complete list of this month’s DGHI publications.
- Nutritional Diabetes – Impact of vitamin D supplementation on adiposity in African-Americans
Karmel Choi
- Archives of Women's Mental Health – Maladpative coping mediates the influence of childhood trauma on depression and PTSD among pregnant women in South Africa
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease – Ceftaroline: Clinical and microbiology experience with focus on methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus after regulatory approval in the USA
Sarah Diringer
- Environmental Science Process Impacts – River transports of mercury from artisanal and small-scale gold mining and risks for dietary mercury exposure in Madre de Dios, Peru
- British Journal of Ophthalmology – Cost-effectiveness of alternative strategies for Interferon-gamma release assays and tuberculin skin test in tuberculous uveitis
- American Medical Association Journal of Ethics – Duty-hour exceptions for neurosurgery residency programs
- American Journal of Public Health – Adapting the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model of police- Mental health collaboration in a low-income, post-conflict country: Curriculum development in Liberia, West Africa
- Clinical Pediatrics – The effect of parental presence on weight-related discussions between physicians and their overweight adolescent patients
- AIDS Patient Care and STDs – Substance abuse, violence, and HIV/AIDS (SAVA) syndemic effects on viral suppression among HIV positive women of color
- AIDS Patient Care and STDs – Experiences of women of color with a nurse patient navigation program for linkage and engagement in HIV care
Dhanasekaran Vijaykrishna, Gavin Smith
- Archives of Sexual Behavior – “Nothing is Free”: A Qualitative Study of Sex Trade Among Methamphetamine Users in Cape Town, South Africa
