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Indirect effects models revealed different patterns across the 3 studies evaluated. Such heterogeneity of the exact same treatment across different samples and populations highlights the need to qualify broad claims of generalizability of seemingly well-established narrative mechanisms.
Implementation of Non-Armed First Responder Programs; Optimization by Centering Program Perspectives
Factors such as structural racism and disinvestment in community mental health and social services have resulted in harmful interactions between law enforcement and individuals experiencing mental health crises.
Storytelling can be a powerful tool to increase support for policies; but, depending on the audience, it can also have the opposite effect.
The event, organized by the Boston College School of Social Work Racism-based Violence Injury and Prevention Lab, features a lecture on measuring exposure and consequences to racism-based police violence for Black and Latinx emerging adults, followed by a panel discussion on best practices for wo
New Jersey’s 2017 cash bail reform law — which eliminated financial barriers to avoiding pretrial detention — successfully reduced the state’s jail population without increasing gun violence, according to a study published this month in JAMA Network Open from researchers at Drexel University’s Do
With significant risks of colorectal cancer affecting the African American community, researchers in the UNMC College of Public Health are undertaking a study that will get screening kits out into the community.
Keyonna King is a co-investigator in UNMC’s BEAT Cancer study. BEAT Cancer, which stands for Black Equity, Access and Testing for Cancer, seeks to increase colorectal cancer screening and decrease mortality rates related to the disease in Omaha’s Black community.
The Black Equity, Access, and Testing for Cancer (BEAT Cancer) program demonstrated initial promise in CRC screening completion among African American adults with limited access to care, highlighting the potential of cross-sector collaborations with nontraditional public service settings to incre
Colorectal cancer (CRC) awareness and screening rates are still low in African Americans (AAs), especially for those who do not have regular access to health care.
Using a narrative strategy in the argument presented in this study actually led some in the audience to move even further away from the desired position than they already were.
EA$E is a unique evidence-based approach to addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and gender equity in settings and populations affected by war and forced displacement by integrating gender equity using a household-centered financial lens.
