Accomplishments: School of Public Health
Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) and Jay Shen (Health Care Administration and Policy) recently published an article, "Neighborhood Effects on the Nursing Home Admissions among Older Patients in the State of Nevada, USA: Multilevel Analysis of Administrative and Census Data," in the Nevada Journal of Public Health.
Jay Shen (Community Health Sciences) and professor Qing Wang at the School of Business, Dalian University of Technology in China, recently published a paper, "Childhood Health Status and Adulthood Cardiovascular Disease Morbidity in Rural China: Are They Related?" in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Paulo Pinheiro, Karen Callahan, Nevena Cvijetic, and Rachel E. Kelly (all Environmental and Occupational Health) collaborated with the Nevada Central Cancer Registry and the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University Miami Miller School of Medicine to produce a telling publication about breast cancer rate disparities…
Jay Shen and Chris Cochran (both Health Care Administration and Policy) with their collaborators at Fudan University of China, recently published an article, “Effects of China’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on Reducing Medical Impoverishment in Rural Yanbian: An Alternative Approach” on BMC Health Services Research.
Jay Shen and Chris Cochran (both Health Care Administration and Policy) recently published an article, “Unemployment Rate, Smoking in China: Are They Related?” in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health with professor Qing Wang from School of Business in Dalian University of Technology in …
Dr. Qing Wu (Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine and Department of Environmental & Occupational Health) was awarded a Mountain West IDeA Clinical and Translational Research–Infrastructure Network (CTR-IN) Pilot award. Wu's project is titled "Develop Personalized Reference Values of Bone Mineral Density".
With human longevity…
Jay Shen, Chris Cochran, and Charles Moseley (all Health Care Administration and Policy) and Guogen Shan (Environmental and Occupational Health), published a paper, “Racial and Insurance Status Disparities in Patient Safety Indicators among Hospitalized Patients," in the summer issue of Ethnicity & Disease. Other co-authors are Olena Mazurenko…
Jay Shen (Healthcare Administration and Policy), Abbie Kirkendall (Social Work), and Catherine Dingley (Nursing) recently received the Tier 2 funding from the Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute (PCORI) to continue their project “Engaging Patients with Life-Limiting Illnesses on Receiving Palliative Care“. They completed the project’s Tier…
Mark Buttner and Patricia Cruz (both Environmental and Occupational Health) received a one-year, $1.2 million award from the Nevada department of health and human services to conduct molecular biological environmental monitoring.
Szu-Ping Lee (Physical Therapy) received a $13,505 grant from the Mountain West CTR-IN and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health for his “Prosthetic Assessments of Gait and Mobility in Individuals with Lower Limb Loss” research study, which will explore functional mobility and limb loading…
Melva Thompson-Robinson (Center for Health Disparities Research and School of Community Health Sciences) has been elected co-chair of the Pacific and Southwest Regional Health Equity Council. This council covers Region IX of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which includes Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, California, and the Pacific…
Guogen Shan (Environmental and Occupational Health) is the author of a book, Exact Statistical Inference for Categorical Data, that has been published by Academic Press. The book is a comprehensive review of conditional and unconditional exact approaches to statistical inference and presents the advantages of using exact inference in data…