2024
Examining County-Level Associations between Federally Qualified Health Centers and Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Political Ecology of Health Framework
Williams C, Skrip L, Adams A, Vermund S. Examining County-Level Associations between Federally Qualified Health Centers and Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Political Ecology of Health Framework. Healthcare 2024, 12: 295. PMID: 38338180, PMCID: PMC10855137, DOI: 10.3390/healthcare12030295.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFederally Qualified Health CentersSexually transmitted infectionsQualified Health CentersCounty-level associationsAffordable Care ActHealth centersGonorrhea ratesSexually transmitted infection prevalenceSexually transmitted infection epidemicsPolitical ecology of health frameworkTreatment of sexually transmitted infectionsProviders of healthcareRates of chlamydiaMultivariate linear regression modelChlamydia ratesPlace-based characteristicsUnited StatesHealth frameworkSTI riskLinear regression modelsUS countiesCare ActKruskal-Wallis testInterquartile rangeRegression models
2022
Non-COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among migrant populations worldwide: a scoping review of the literature, 2000-2020
Tankwanchi AS, Jaca A, Ndlambe AM, Zantsi ZP, Bowman B, Garrison MM, Larson HJ, Vermund SH, Wiysonge CS. Non-COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among migrant populations worldwide: a scoping review of the literature, 2000-2020. Expert Review Of Vaccines 2022, 21: 1269-1287. PMID: 35635288, DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2022.2084075.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Confronting Structural Racism in the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in the United States
Asabor EN, Vermund SH. Confronting Structural Racism in the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2020, 73: e3531-e3535. PMID: 33242078, PMCID: PMC8563219, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1763.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersConceptsStructural racismPeople of colorLow-income workersUnited StatesRacist policiesDisproportionate incarcerationState governmentsVulnerable communitiesMarginalized populationsCrowded prisonsRecent immigrantsHealth servicesEssential health servicesRacismImmigrantsIncarcerationPoor accessAffordable careKey populationsNational averagePreventive health servicesControl of tuberculosisPeopleGovernmentBIPOCPrevention of Firearm Injury through Policy and Law: The Social Ecological Model
Durkin A, Schenck C, Narayan Y, Nyhan K, Khoshnood K, Vermund SH. Prevention of Firearm Injury through Policy and Law: The Social Ecological Model. The Journal Of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2020, 48: 191-197. PMID: 33404312, DOI: 10.1177/1073110520979422.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSocial ecological modelFuture policy interventionsDifferent social contextsPublic health frameworkPolicy interventionsEcological modelSocial contextHigh-income nationsFirearm legislationLegal approachState levelHealth frameworkComplex causal pathwaysUnited StatesContextFirearm injuriesPolicyNationsCausal pathwaysLegislation
2017
Chapter 39 Governmental Support of Research
Vermund S, Karim S. Chapter 39 Governmental Support of Research. 2017, 679-705. DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-802101-9.00039-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNational funding agenciesMultilateral partnershipsResearch agenciesMultinational partnershipsGovernment research agenciesFunding termsFiscal dynamicsTypes of grantsFiscal supportGovernmental supportEuropean CommunityGovernment sourcesFunding optionsOpen competitionGovernmental sourcesDisproportionate shareSouth AfricaAgenciesFunding agenciesFunding sourcesRegional Research InstituteUnited StatesResearch fundingPartnershipNations
2013
Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States: Analysis of the 2011 AMA Physician Masterfile
Tankwanchi AB, Özden Ç, Vermund SH. Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States: Analysis of the 2011 AMA Physician Masterfile. PLOS Medicine 2013, 10: e1001513. PMID: 24068894, PMCID: PMC3775724, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001513.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhysician MasterfileAmerican Medical Association Physician MasterfileAMA Physician MasterfileYears of practicePhysician emigrationPhysician dataPhysiciansActive physiciansLength of timeEditors' SummarySSA countriesMasterfilePhysician workforceSaharan AfricaWorkforce statisticsUnited StatesImplementation yearResidency dataYearsHigh-income nationsSub-Saharan AfricaUS entryGreat need
2012
The HIV Epidemic: High-Income Countries
Vermund SH, Leigh-Brown AJ. The HIV Epidemic: High-Income Countries. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives In Medicine 2012, 2: a007195. PMID: 22553497, PMCID: PMC3331688, DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a007195.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInjection drug useHIV epidemicDrug useNeedle/syringe sharingReceptive anal intercourseDifferent risk groupsRecent explosive epidemicsAntiretroviral therapyChild transmissionSyringe sharingAffected subgroupRisk groupsAnal intercourseVaginal intercourseHIV vulnerabilityExplosive epidemicsDiagnostic screeningEpidemicIncome countriesIntercourseUnited StatesSpecific strainsHigh-income nationsHIVTherapy
2004
A COMPARISON OF THREE SOURCES OF DATA ON CHILD HOMICIDE
LYMAN JM, McGWIN G, DAVIS G, KOVANDZIC TV, KING W, VERMUND SH. A COMPARISON OF THREE SOURCES OF DATA ON CHILD HOMICIDE. Death Studies 2004, 28: 659-669. PMID: 15346608, DOI: 10.1080/07481180490476515.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2002
Douching Beliefs and Practices among Black and White Women
Funkhouser E, Pulley L, Lueschen G, Costello C, Hook E, Vermund SH. Douching Beliefs and Practices among Black and White Women. Journal Of Women's Health 2002, 11: 29-37. PMID: 11860722, DOI: 10.1089/152460902753473435.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAdolescentAdultAge DistributionAgedAged, 80 and overBlack or African AmericanFemaleHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth SurveysHumansHygieneInterpersonal RelationsMiddle AgedPatient Education as TopicSocioeconomic FactorsSoutheastern United StatesTherapeutic IrrigationVaginaWhite PeopleConceptsAdult womenWhite womenHealthcare provider adviceSubstantial proportionGood hygieneProvider adviceDouching practicesOlder womenHigh school educationDouchingHealthcare providersSalutary effectsWomenTelephone surveyGood hygienic practicesHygienic practicesRandom sampleHygieneUnited StatesAdvicePregnancyInfectionDoucheProportionPhysicians