social ecological modelNationally, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates fall short of the Healthy People 2020 goal of 80% completion. Although strategies to increase these rates exist, low rates persist. We used concept mapping with state-level stakeholders to better understand barriers and ...
Dilts’ logical levels are an adaptation of the work done by Bateson, describing a hierarchy of process levels within an individual, group, or organization. The function of each logical level is to synthesize, organize, and direct the interactions on the level below it. Importantly, changing som...
Using crop diversity to lower pesticide use: Socio-ecological approaches 2022, Science of the Total Environment Citation Excerpt : Pesticides have been used in agriculture for over a century to increase food production and they have proven their efficiency in increasing food accessibility worldwide (Pi...
Social emotions such as guilt and gratitude serve adaptive functions critical to social interactions and relationships. Therefore, an ecologically valid approach to studying the psychological and neural mechanisms of social emotions is to elicit and meas
However, ambiguity remains about the relative contribution of different lead exposure sources in China, owing to socio-economic differences. This study reviewed 300 articles reporting BLL and LPR data for Chinese children, with the aim to: (1) determine a representative BLL value for Chinese ...
Ambient levels of electromagnetic fields (EMF) have risen sharply in the last 80 years, creating a novel energetic exposure that previously did not exist. Most recent decades have seen exponential increases in nearly all environments, including rural/remote areas and lower atmospheric regions. Because...
In terms of research, we believe that ecology will be notably impor- tant. Hence the environment, and our concern here with environmental modelling, is important to medicine operating at all levels of the hierarchy of life. Key concepts from conference papers - socio-ecological and socio-...
The lead crisis in Flint, Michigan, has sparked concern about broader socioeconomic disparities in exposures to drinking water contaminants. Nitrate is commonly found in drinking water, especially in agricultural regions, and epidemiological evidence suggests elevated risk of cancer and birth defects at ...
Sociomatrices of win-loss data for all female groups as well as the emergence of individual dominance ranks over time are presented in Fig.1and Supplemental Fig.S1. Summary statistics of several aspects of the hierarchical structure of each group are provided in Table1. We found that seven ou...
The socio-demographics corresponding to the final sample, broken down by country, are shown in Table 1. The percentage of women in the sample ranged from 47.3% in Ghana to 64.7% in Russia, while the mean age ranged from 50.0 ± 16.6 years in India to 63.1 ± 14.0 in Mexico. The highe...