Publications of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Public Health faculty.
Submissions from 2013
Effectiveness of EarthTec® for Killing Invasive Quagga Mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) and Preventing their Colonization in the Western United States, Ashlie Watters, Shawn Gerstenberger, and Wai Hing Wong
Invasive Quagga Mussels Can Be Attenuated by Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophhus) in the Southwestern United States, Wai Hing Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger, M. D. Hatcher, D. R. Thompson, and D. Schrimsher
Tricyclic Antidepressant Use and Risk of Fractures: a Meta-Analysis of Cohort and Case-Control Studies, Qing Wu, W Qu, M. D. Crowell, J. G. Hentz, and K. A. Frey
Submissions from 2012
Reliability of Standardized Patients Used in a Communication Study for International Nurses in the United States, Anne L. Bolstad, Yu Xu, Jay J. Shen, and Miriam Torpey
Linkage to HIV Care for Jail Detainees: Findings From Detention to the First 30 Days After Release, Cristina A. Booker, Christopher T. Flygare, Liza Solomon, Sarah W. Ball, Meredith R. Pustell, Lauri B. Bazerman, Dominique Simon-Levine, Paul A. Teixeira, Jacqueline Cruzado-Quinones, Ryan N. Kling, Paula M. Frew, and Anne C. Spaulding
Perceived environmental physical activity correlates among Asian Pacific Islander Americans, Timothy J. Bungum, Merrill Russen Landers, Maria Azzarelli, and Sheniz Moonie
Efforts to Identify At-risk Children for Blood Lead Screening in Pediatric Clinics – Clark County, Nevada, Mackenzie Suzanne Burns, Lopa H. Shah, Erika R. Marquez, Scott L. Denton, Beverly A. Neyland, Diana Vereschzagin, David A. Gremse, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Efforts to Identify At-Risk Children for Blood Lead Screening in Pediatric Clinics – Clark County, Nevada, Mackenzie Suzanne Burns, Lopa H. Shah, Erika R. Marquez, Scott L. Denton, Beverly A. Neyland, Diana Vereschzagin, David A. Gremse, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Asthma severity in children and the quality of life of their parents, Noelle S. Cerdan, Patricia T. Alpert, Sheniz Moonie, Dianne J. Cyrkiel, and Shona Rue
Tribal Capacity Building As a Complex Adaptive System, Michelle Chino
Tribal Capacity Building as a Complex Adaptive System: New Insights, New Lessons Learned, Michelle Chino
Examining Access to Trails in High and Low Income Regions of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area, Courtney Coughenour MPH
Evaluating the Impact of Environmental and Social Determinants of Physical Activity in Low Income Neighborhood Parks in Las Vegas, NV, Courtney Coughenour MPH, Lisa Coker MPH, and Tim Bungum DrPH
Type 2 Diabetes Science and American Indian / Alaska Native Culture: Creating a National K-12 Curriculum Prevention Strategy for Native Youth, Carolee Dodge Francis and Michelle Chino
Factors Mediating Seasonal and Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine Accepting among Ethnically Diverse Populations in the Urban South, Paula M. Frew, Julia E. Painter, Brooke Hixson, Carolyn Kulb, Kathryn Moore, Carlos del Rio, Alejandra Esteves-Jaramillo, and Saad B. Omer
Assessment of a Microbicide Candidate among a Diverse Cohort of Urban Southern US Women and their Male Sexual Partners, Paula M. Frew, Kimberly Parker, Takeia Horton, Brooke Hixson, Lisa Flowers, Frances Priddy, Lisa Grohskopf, Christine Mauck, and Kimberly Workowski
Measuring Population Transmission Potential for HIV: An Alternative Metric of Transmission Risk in Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the US, Colleen F. Kelley, Eli S. Rosenberg, Brandon M. O'Hara, Paula M. Frew, Travis Sanchez, John L. Peterson, Carlos del Rio, and Patrick S. Sullivan
Biological and Immunomodulatory Properties of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Derived from Human Pancreatic Islets, J. Kim, Melissa Breunig, Patricia Escalante, N. Bhatia, R. A. Denu, B. A. Dollar, A. Stein, Stacey E. Hanson, N. Naderi, J. Radek, D. Haughy, D. D. Bloom, F. M. Assadi-Porter, and P. Hematti
Cancer in the Azores: Initial Results from a Recently Established Population-based Cancer Registry, G. F. Lacerda, Paulo S. Pinheiro, J. M. Cabral, J. G. Câmara, and V. L. Rodriguez
International Medical Graduates and Health Information Technology Use in the United States, Olena Mazurenko, Gouri Gupte, and Valerie A. Yeager
Environmental Market Factors Associated with Physician Career Satisfaction, Olena Mazurenko and Nir Menachemi
The Impact of Physician Job Satisfaction on the Sustained Competitive Advantage of Health Care Organizations, Olena Mazurenko and Stephen J. O’Connor
Determinants of Physicians’ Career Choices in Ukraine, Olena Mazurenko, Haiyan Qu, Olesya Hulchiy, S. Robert Hernandez, and Richard Shewchuk
Market Factors and Electronic Medical Record Adoption in Medical Practices, Nir Menachemi, Olena Mazurenko, Abby Swanson Kazley, Mark L. Diana, and Eric W. Ford
Health Effects Associated with Foreclosure: A Secondary Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data, Nancy N. Menzel, Sheniz Moonie, and Melva Thompson-Robinson
Health Effects Associated with Foreclosure: A Secondary Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data, Nancy N. Menzel, Sheniz Moonie, and Melva V. Thompson-Robinson
Application of field portable-XRF to the analysis of desert varnish samples in areas impacted by coal-fired power plants, Piotr Nowinski, Vernon F. Hodge, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Health Disparities Experienced by People with Disabilities in the United States: A Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Study, Jennifer Renee Pharr and Timothy J. Bungum
Health Disparities Experienced by People with Disabilities in the US: A Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Study, Jennifer Renee Pharr and Timothy J. Bungum
Differentiation of Social and Cause-Related Marketing in Professional Sport, Jennifer Renee Pharr and Nancy L. Lough
Differentiation of Social Marketing and Cause-Related Marketing in US Professional Sport, Jennifer Renee Pharr and Nancy L. Lough
The Impact of Unemployment on Mental and Physical Health, Access to Health Care and Health Risk Behaviors, Jennifer Renee Pharr, Sheniz Moonie, and Timothy J. Bungum
Lead Poisoning due to Geophagia: The Consumption of Miniature Pottery, Ashley Marie Phipps, Heather Fels, Mackenzie Suzanne Burns, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Two-stage k-sample designs for the ordered alternative problem, Guogen Shan, Alan D. Hutson, and Gregory E. Wilding
An efficient and exact approach for detecting trends with binary endpoints, Guogen Shan, Changxing Ma, Alan D. Hutson, and Gregory E. Wilding
Financial Position and Adoption of Electronic Health Records: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study, Jay J. Shen and Gregory O. Ginn
Organizational Factors Associated with Adoption of Comprehensive and Basic Electronic-Record Systems in U.S. Hospitals, Jay J. Shen and Charles B. Moseley
Jails, HIV Testing, and Linkage to Care Services: An Overview of the EnhanceLink Initiative, Anne C. Spaulding, Cristina A. Booker, Shalonda H. Freeman, Sarah W. Ball, Matthew S. Stein, Alison O. Jordan, Divya Ahuja, Liza Solomon, and Paula M. Frew
Body Weight and Leukocyte Infiltration After an Acute Exercise-Related Injury in Ovariectomized Mice Treated with Estrogen and Progesterone, Barbara St Pierre Schneider, Sara A. Vigil, and Sheniz Moonie
Why Health Care Became So Expensive in China? The Transformation of Healthcare Financing During Chinese Economic Development, Ying Wang, Jay J. Shen, Sun Mei, and Charles B. Moseley
Exact two-stage designs for phase II activity trials with rank-based endpoints, Gregory E. Wilding, Guogen Shan, and Alan D. Hutson
Quagga Mussel Veligers at Different Depths of Lake Mead: Abundance, Developmental Stages, and Morphology, D. Wong, Sean Robin Comeau, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Treatment and Risk of Fractures: a Meta-Analysis of Cohort and Case-Control Studies, Qing Wu, A. F. Bencaz, J. G. Hentz, and M. D. Crowell
Non-Verbal Communication Behaviors of Internationally Educated Nurses and Patient Care Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, Yu Xu, Shelley Staples, and Jay J. Shen
Financial Impact of Improved Pressure Ulcer Staging in the Acute Hospital with Use of a New Tool, the NE1 Wound Assessment Tool, Daniel Young, Jay J. Shen, Nancy Estocado, and Merrill Russen Landers
Submissions from 2011
Mercury in Tadpoles Collected from Remote Alpine Sites in the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA, David F. Bradford, Joanna L. Kramer, Shawn Gerstenberger, Nita G. Tallent-Halsell, and Maliha S. Nash
Correlates of Physical Activity Among Hispanic Adults, Timothy J. Bungum, Melva Thompson-Robinson, Sheniz Moonie, and M. A.F. Lounsberry
Environmental factors affecting settlement of quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) veligers in Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona, USA, Dong Chen, Shawn Gerstenberger, Sara Ann Mueting, and Wai Hing Wong
Susceptibility of quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) to hot-water sprays as a means of watercraft decontamination, Sean Robin Comeau, Scott Rainville, Wen Baldwin, Emily Austin, Shawn Gerstenberger, Chad L. Cross, and Wai Hing Wong
An Evaluation of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Survival on Five Environmental Surfaces, Courtney Coughenour, Vanessa Stevens, and Linda D. Stetzenbach
Socioecological Influences on Community Involvement in HIV Vaccine Research, Paula M. Frew, Matthew Archibald, Brooke Hixson, and Carlos del Rio
Acceptance of Pandemic 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Vaccine in a Minority Population: Determinants and Potential Points of Intervention, Paula M. Frew, Brooke Hixson, Carlos del Rio, Alejandra Esteves-Jaramillo, and Saad B. Omer
Abundance and size of quagga mussels (Dreissena bugensis) veligers in Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona, Shawn Gerstenberger, Sara Ann Mueting, and Wai Hing Wong
Hospital Financial Position and the Adoption of Electronic Health Records, Gregory O. Ginn, Jay J. Shen, and Charles B. Moseley
Spatial Clustering of HIV Prevalence in Atlanta, Georgia and Population Characteristics Associated with Case Concentrations, Brooke A. Hixson, Saad B. Omer, Carlos del Rio, and Paula M. Frew
Abundance and stomach content analysis of threadfin shad in Lake Mead, Nevada: Do invasive quagga mussels affect this prey species?, Eric Michael Loomis, Jon C. Sjoberg, Wai Hing Wong, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Regional Disparities in Prenatal Care Services in Rural China, J. Lu, Jay J. Shen, G. Chen, Charles B. Moseley, M. Sun, F. Gao, Ying Wang, Y. M. Mao, and H. Mo
Characteristics of Acute Care Hospitals with Diversity Plans and Translation Services, Charles B. Moseley, Jay J. Shen, and Gregory O. Ginn
The 100th Meridian Initiative at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, NV, USA: Differences between boater behaviors before and after a quagga mussel, Driessena rostiformis bugensis, invasion, Sara Ann Mueting and Shawn Gerstenberger
Cancer survival among Latinos and the Hispanic Paradox., Paulo S. Pinheiro, Melanie Williams, Eric A. Miller, Stephanie Easterday, Sheniz Moonie, and Edward J. Trapido
Cancer Survival among Latinos and the Hispanic Paradox, Paulo S. Pinheiro, M. Williams, E. A. Miller, S. Easterday, Sheniz Moonie, and E. J. Trapido
Changes in Patterns of Racial Disparities in Attending Low-Mortality Hospitals and Outcomes among Patient with Stroke, Jay J. Shen and M. Lu
Trends of Increase in Western Medical Services in Traditional Medicine Hospitals in China, Jay J. Shen, Ying Wang, Fang Lin, Jun Lu, Charles B. Moseley, Mei Sun, and Mo Hao
Physical activity participation among adult Nevadans with self-reported asthma., Masaru Teramoto and Sheniz Moonie
High-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) screening and detection in normal, healthy patient saliva samples: a pilot cluster randomized study, Deirdre O. Turner, Shelley J. Williams-Cocks, Ryan Bullen, Jeremy Catmull, Jesse Falk, Daniel Martin, Jerom Mauer, Annabel E. Barber, Robert C. Wang, Shawn Gerstenberger, and Karl Kingsley
Interagency monitoring action plan (I-MAP) for quagga mussels in Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona, USA, Kent Turner, Wai Hing Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger, and Jennell M. Miller
Density-based empirical likelihood ratio test for inverse Gaussian, Albert Vexler, Guogen Shan, Seong E. Kim, Wan-Min Tsai, Lili Tian, and Alan D. Hutson
Quagga mussels in the western United States: Monitoring and Management, Wai Hing Wong and Shawn Gerstenberger
Settlement and Growth of quagga mussels (Dreissenia rostriformis bugensis Andrusov, 1897) in Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona, USA, Wai Hing Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger, Wen Baldwin, and Bryan Moore
A standardized design for quagga mussel monitoring in Lake Mead, Nevada-Arizona, Wai Hing Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger, Jennell M. Miller, Craig Palmer, and Bryan Moore
Age, Race, Weight and Gender Impact Normative Values of Bone Mineral Density, Qing Wu, J. J. Lefante, and J. H. Magnus
Submissions from 2010
Analysis of Primary Risk Factors for Oral Cancer from US States with Increasing Rates, Anthony Bunnell, Nathan Pettit, Nicole Reddout, Kanika Sharma, Susan O'Malley, Michelle Chino, and Karl Kingsley
Injury in Nevada, Michelle Chino, Jonathon LaValley, Darlene R. Haff, Deborah A. Harris, and Andrea R. Rivers
Acceptance of a Vaccine Against Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus among Health Care Workers in Two Major Cities in Mexico, Alejandra Esteves-Jaramillo, Saad B. Omer, Esteban Gonzalez-Diaz, Daniel A. Salmon, Brooke Hixson, Francisco Navarro, Simon Kawa-Karasik, Paula M. Frew, Rayo Morfin-Otero, Eduardo Rodriguez-Noriega, Ylean Ramirez, Araceli Rosas, Edgar Acosta, Vianey Varela-Badillo, and Carlos del Rio
The Likelihood of Participation in Clinical Trials Can Be Measured: The Clinical Research Involvement Scales, Paula M. Frew, Su-I Hou, Marsha Davis, Kayshin Chan, Takeia Horton, Justin Shuster, Brooke Hixson, and Carlos del Rio
Time Will Tell: Community Acceptability of HIV Vaccine Research Before and After the "Step Study" Vaccine Discontinuation, Paula M. Frew, Mark J. Mulligan, Su-I Hou, Kayshin Chan, and Carlos del Rio
An Evaluation of Mercury Concentrations in Three Brands of Canned Tuna, Shawn Gerstenberger, Adam Martinson, and Joanna L. Kramer
Letter to the Editor Regarding Responses to “An Evaluation of Mercury Concentrations in Three Brands of Canned Tuna”, Shawn Gerstenberger, Adam Martinson, and Joanna L. Kramer
Mercury Concentrations in Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) Collected from Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nye County, Nevada, Shawn Goodchild and Shawn Gerstenberger
An Evaluation of Lead Concentrations in Plastic Toys located in Day Care centers in Las Vegas, Nevada, Joseph A. Greenway and Shawn Gerstenberger
An Evaluation of Lead Contamination in Plastic Toys Collected from Day Care Centers in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, USA., Joseph A. Greenway and Shawn Gerstenberger
Characterization of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Human Vocal Fold Fibroblasts, Stacey R. Hanson, Jaehyup Kim, B. H. Johnson, Brad Bradley, Melissa Breunig, P. Hematti, and S. L. Thibeault
Mercury concentrations in muscle tissue from sportfish in Lake Mead, Nevada, Joanna L. Kramer and Shawn Gerstenberger
Use of a Multi-tiered Framework to Analyze Commercial, Cause and Social Marketing Strategies in Sport, Nancy L. Lough and Jennifer R. Pharr
Adverse Maternal Outcomes in Asthmatic versus Non-Asthmatic Women, Nancy J. MacMullen, Jay J. Shen, and Catherine Tymkow
Grade retention risk among children with asthma and other chronic health conditions in a large urban school district., Sheniz Moonie, Chad L. Cross, Chrisalbeth J. Guillermo, and Tina Gupta
Mercury Concentrations in Quagga Mussels, Dreissena bugensis, from Lakes Mead, Mohave and Havasu, Sara Ann Mueting and Shawn Gerstenberger
An evaluation of artificial substrates for monitoring the quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) in Lake Mead, NV, Sara Ann Mueting, Wai Hing Wong, and Shawn Gerstenberger
Indigenous Health – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States - Laying Claim to a Future that Embraces Health for Us All., Lisa Jackson Pulver, Melissa R. Haswell, Ian Ring, John Waldon, Wayne Clark, Valorie Whetung, Dianne Kinnon, Catherine Graham, Michelle Chino, Jonathon LaValley, Christina Compher, and Ritu Sadana
Increasing Rates of Melanoma among Non-Whites in Florida Compared to the United States, P. Rouhani, Paulo S. Pinheiro, R. Sherman, K. Arheart, L. E. Fleming, J. Mackinnon, and R. Kirsner
Simple and exact empirical likelihood ratio tests for normality based on moment relations, Guogen Shan, Albert Vexler, Gregory E. Wilding, and Alan D. Hutson
Risk of Pre-Natal Depression: Differences by Race, Jay J. Shen, L. Fang, and T. Jackson
The relation between immunohistochemical product discreteness and leukocyte manual quantification reliability., Barbara St Pierre Schneider, Sheniz Moonie, and Sara A. Vigil
Mortality and longevity of elite athletes, Masaru Teramoto and Timothy J. Bungum
Evaluating and Regulating Lead in Artificial Turf, Gregory Van Ulirsch, Kevin Gleason, Shawn Gerstenberger, Deaphne B. Moffett, Glenn Pulliam, Tariq Ahmed, and Jerald Fagliano
Potential ecological consequences of invasion of the quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) into Lake Mead, Nevada–Arizona, Wai Hing Wong, Todd Tietjen, Shawn Gerstenberger, G. Chris Holdren, Sara Ann Mueting, Eric Michael Loomis, Peggy Roefer, Bryan Moore, Kent Turner, and Imad Hannoun
Depression, Fracture Risk, and Bone Loss: A Metaanalysis of Cohort Studies, Qing Wu, J Gallegos-Orozco, and J. G. Hentz
Urinary Cadmium, Osteopenia, and Osteoporosis in the US Population, Qing Wu, J. H. Magnus, and J. G. Hentz
Does Using Lower Limit of Normal Values Enhance the Ability of a Single Bone Mineral Density Measure to Predict Fractures?, Qing Wu, J. H. Magnus, J. C. Rice, and J. J. Lefante