• PRESENCE AND PREDICTORS OF HEALTH PROGRAMMING IN A SAMPLE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCHES 

  Woodard, Nathaniel (2019)

  Churches have played a central role in African American communities for decades. In addition to religious services, African American churches have increasingly offered a variety of health programs. However, there is a ...

• Examining the Food-Insecurity Obesity Paradox among Latino Immigrants 

  Amador, Maria Aileen (2019)

  Obesity is linked to chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers (breast, kidney, and liver). Food insecurity refers to lack of access to nutritious and safe food. Latinos are a ...

• THE PREVALENCE OF MATERNAL SMOKING INTENSITY STATUS IN EARLY AND LATE PREGNANCY AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH EARLY MORBIDITY IN SINGLETON TERM BIRTHS IN THE UNITED STATES, 2016 

  Kondracki, Anthony (2019)

  Relatively little is known about how maternal cigarette smoking influences the health of infants delivered at term. This study was based on the 2016 United States Natality File of live births (N= 3,956,112). The first aim ...

• “NOTHING TO BE WORRIED ABOUT YET”: PERCEPTIONS OF COLORECTAL CANCER AMONG INDIVIDUALS BELOW THE AGE OF 50. 

  Mueller, Nora M. (2019)

  National guidelines recommend regular screening for colorectal cancer (CRC) begin at age 50. Recent research however showed rates rising among adults below the age of 50 despite declining overall rates of CRC. Screening ...

• Measuring the Single Cigarette Use Phenomenon: Scale Development and Validation 

  Phan, Lilianna (2019)

  The practice of single cigarette use perpetuates normative smoking beliefs and increases smoking propensity among urban, African American smokers. Despite the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act’s ban ...

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