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Treating Alcoholism, The Strong Alcohol Withdrawal Protocol and the Oxford Houses of Rochester |
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Compliance with the Alcohol Withdrawal Guidelines for Strong Hospital were investigated via retrospective chart review |
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Women on the Margins: Racial Disparities In Health Care and The Women’s Health Education Group of Sojourner House |
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Worked in The Women’s Health Education Group of Sojourner House in Rochester, NY |
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Community Outreach and Education Services for the Under- and Uninsured |
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Student worked with the Women’s Health Partnership in Rochester, NY to help under and uninsured women deal with all issues involving breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer. |
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Rape and Sexual Assault |
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Created a poster presentation about rape and sexual assault targeted at minority teens, pre-teens and young adults. |
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Flower City Habitat For Humanity |
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Occupational injury in Migrant Farm Workers: development of instructional materials for the clinician treating migrant farm workers |
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Project aimed at adding a back injury and dermatitis module to the NYCAMH. |
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Healthy Eating Children's Cookbook |
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Cookbook of child friendly recipes and activities. It was tested with one group of children and there are many groups and schools who want the cookbook and/or someone to come in and teach the kids about healthy cooking and eating. |
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Yoga |
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Longitudinal project aimed at incorporating Yoga at halfway houses and shelters, as well as attempts to bring it to general populations in low SES areas. |
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Sojourner House Healthy Lifestyles Class |
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Health Education For Homeless Women |
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Community Stroke Education: Symptom Awareness, Emergency Response, and Risk Behavior Modificiation |
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Gives background on stroke prevalence in women and outline plan and execution of a speech given by the author aimed at imparting basic information about stroke, common warning signs, and ways to reduce risk. |
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“Breathe Free” Teaching Smoking Prevention to Sixth Grade Inner City Students |
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Sixth graders at Public School 17 in Rochester, NY were taught, in a classroom environment, about smoking prevention. |
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Watch Your BAC*k! *Blood Alcohol Content |
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Project aimed at informing young adults who drink socially in the Alexander Street and East Avenue bars of Rochester, NY about blood alcohol content |
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Preventing pregnancy through abstinence education at school 17: A look at the PREP program of the Catholic Family Center/Catholic Youth Organization |
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An assessment of the PREP program used by the Catholic Family Center/Catholic Youth Organization in Rochester, NY and information on how it was improved. |
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Prevalence of Obesity among the Homeless |
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A survey and examination of homeless people in Rochester, NY. The projects goals were to obtain data about obesity among the homeless and raise obesity awareness among the homeless. |
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Breastfeeding Practices and Attitudes Among Rochester City Mothers |
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A pediatrician and a midwife at the Anthony Jordan Health Center each said that they thought about 25% of new mothers from their facility (minority/low SES/less educated women) initiated breastfeeding, and that far fewer continued breastfeeding. In order to help improve breastfeeding rates among this population, this project sought out mothers and found out: 1-What are their attitudes/thoughts surrounding breastfeeding. 2-What factors are most important in their decision to breast or bottlefeed and 3-What do they think would promote breastfeeding in their community. It includes a questionnaire. |
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Medicine and Design |
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Outlines how to use aesthetics to improve the quality of life for pediatric patients. |
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Bike Safety – Primary Prevention |
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Project aimed at educating the Jay and Orchard Street neighborhood about bike safety |
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Cardiovascular Health on the Community Level |
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Bone Marrow Drive |
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Student set up a bone marrow drive targeting medical and graduate students at the University of Rochester |
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Attack on Pediatric obesity: Making Healthy Changes |
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Outlines project done in the Enrico Fermi School 17 in Rochester, NY focused on 5th grade students. The project was aimed at increasing awareness about healthy eating and exercise, in an attempt to reduce pediatric obesity. |
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E! Advocacy Website – Issue Focus : Health Care of Foster Care Children |
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Health-care needs and issues facing foster care children were researched and the E! Advocacy web page was created as part of the Pediatric Links to the Community (PLC) web page |
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Boy Scouts of America |
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Worked with the Boy Scouts of America at LDS church to promote a lifestyle that reduces at-risk behaviors among boy scouts |
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Lead Poisoning Education Program and Program Evaluation |
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Hypertension |
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Breast Cancer Awareness and Screening: Targeting Minority Groups |
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Volunteer Recruitment and Training |
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Hospital Preparedness: Decontamination |
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Medical Details of Parkinson’s Disease and Its Impact In the Community |
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Medicare Prescription Discount Card And Transitional Assistance Education |
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Rochester 4th Branch Health |
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Project Flu- 2004-2005 Influenza Vaccine Shortage |
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Orchard Street Community Health Center / GLO Project |
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Pediatric Therapeutic Art Program |
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Primary Prevention of Diabetes in Hispanic Migrant Farmworkers |
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Doyourproxy.org: An Online Tool to Promote the New York State Health Care Proxy |
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Skin Cancer Awareness in the Migrant Population |
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Saturday School #7 Program:
Program Evaluation &
Health Literacy Carnival Planning |
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An Online Tool to Promote the New York State Health Care Proxy |
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Folic Acid knowledge and use among undeserved/homeless women |
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Project aimed at determining the level of knowledge and use of folic acid in homeless women in two Rochester NY shelters, and afterwards implementing different possible ways of increasing education in this population. |
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Health Lift Initiative |
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Project combating Osteoporosis in women through the organization of weight training sessions and increased education about the disease. A post-project survey was conducted to determine the project’s success. |
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Classroom Reentry Kit: Helping Children with Cancer Return to School |
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Study determining the level of coping upon the return to school in chronically ill children. Particularly concerned with children with cancer, student created a classroom re-entry kit to facilitate the adjustment through self-education and social support. |
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Health Literacy Carnival |
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Student put together a carnival at School #7 in Rochester in order to provide parents and students with information about healthcare resources, healthy lifestyles, and health prevention education. |
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Rochester Lesbian Health Awareness Program |
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Project designed to increase health habits practiced by lesbians in the Rochester community through education and links to local healthy living resources. |
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Emergency Preparedness, Dirty Bombs, and Rochester |
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Project continuing research on how Rochester plans to respond and react in the case of a radiological attack on the city. |
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The Healthy Seasonal Eating Project |
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A 5-session intervention to educate Rochester residents about healthy eating, the incorporation of vegetables into their diets, and the creation of a relevant cookbook. Project done in conjunction with the Genesee Valley Organ Community Supported Agricultural Farm. |
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Ovarian Cancer: Promoting Awareness |
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Project consists of the creation of a booth for one or two health fairs as well as two presentations to increase the awareness of the risk of ovarian cancer for women over 40. |
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Population Specific Educational Materials Focused on Smoking and the Orthopaedic Patient |
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Project aimed at increasing patient awareness regarding the adverse affects of smoking on orthopaedic health and educating them on the importance of smoking cessation. |
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Targeting Stroke, Addressing Healthcare Disparities in the African American Community |
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Project providing cardiovascular education to Rochester’s minority communities through three different venues. |
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MyPyramid: Nutrition Workshop for Kids |
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A nutritional workshop for children grades 4-6 in the Saturday School Program, students with special educational needs and lower socioeconomic status. |
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Healthy Habits in School Aged Children |
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Students set up teaching sessions with 10 7 th grade classes at Wilson Foundation Junior High School. Information included dental hygiene, nutrition and a healthy diet, and the importance of exercise and staying active. |
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Colorectal Cancer Screening and Prevention Awareness |
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The main goals of this project include increasing awareness about colorectal cancer prevention and screening options for patients as well as increasing awareness in healthcare providers working with the uninsured and underinsured population. |
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Getting the Word Out |
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Continued work on previous CHIC project website Doyouproxy.org. Work includes increasing awareness and promotion of the website, creation of a network to share completed advanced directives with family, friends, etc., and a translation of the websites into foreign languages. |
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Assessing Discrepancies in Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Implementation, and Education Among Urban, Suburban, and Rural Communities in Monroe County |
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Goals of this project include increasing awareness of heart disease and other risk factors, identifying at-risk individuals through individual assessments, and comparing the disparities of cardiovascular risk between urban and rural communities in Monroe County. |
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How to Protect Your Child from Falling |
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Project helped to inform parents about fall prevention at the Injury Free Coalition for Kids free crib event. Information included handouts, home safety checklists, and memo boards with important phone numbers on them. |
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Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in the Rochester Community with Focus on Women |
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Project designed to promote cardiovascular awareness in women in the Rochester community through the patients understanding of blood pressure and BMI numbers, risk for cardiovascular disease, and a heart healthy lifestyle. |
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Improving Access to Healthcare in the Migrant Farm Worker Community |
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Project affiliated with the Finger Lakes Migrant Health Care Project at La Clinica to teach students about challenges of health for the Latino community and improve Spanish language skills. |
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Food Insecurity in Rochester: Facing the Challenges of the Holiday Season |
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Creation of a cookbook with cheap easy recipes for low socioeconomic status individuals. Student partnered with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County to maximize distribution. |
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Pandemic Flu Preparedness: A Community and Clinician Effort |
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Promoting Avoidance of Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs in the Adolescent Community |
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Diabetes Research, Education and Disease Management |
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The aim of the project is to reduce the disease and economic burden of diabetes by reducing the knowledge disparity of the patients who receive their care at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. The program educates patients about diabetes and its management |
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Saturday School; Health Literacy and Health Modules |
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The goals of this project were to improve the ability for the students to become health literate through development of basic reading, writing, and math skills, and to address common health-related issues facing the students through health modules. |
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Health Promotion Project for Gowa Village in Malawi |
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The long term goal of the project is to develop a program in antenatal care that will be sustained by the local population without outside aid. All phases of the project to date have been reviewed and approved by the University of Rochester Research Subjects Review Board. |
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Addressing the Gap: University of Rochester's Latino Health Curriculum |
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Due to the well-documented gap in health outcomes that arises from lingual and cultural barriers between physicians and their patients, this four-year curriculum encourages a three-pronged approach to language and cultural competency. |
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Be the Generation |
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The campaign purpose is using a focus group method as a means to actively obtain more study participants to assist in finding a vaccine for HIV. |
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Promoting Exercise in Type I and Type II Diabetics an Educational Workshop |
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An educational workshop focusing on exercise as a means to prevent and manage diabetes was held for patients at the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center. |
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Empowering Women through the Sojourner House Health Lifestyles Project |
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This project was based at the Sojourner House, an agency which provides transitional housing to high-risk women. An evaluation component was instituted to an existing program, to assess changes in participants’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and feelings of self-efficacy. Key partners included AIDS Rochester, AHA, ACS, and Planned Parenthood. |
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Skiing and Helmet Use: An Intervention |
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The population targeted in this study are skiers at a small community non-profit ski area in Vermont. The study design included researching the data available on helmet use, surveys to gather data, and to implement an intervention involving an informational poster and pamphlet to address the issue. |
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Youth Anti-Violence Campaign |
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Partnerships with the OME, School 7, the Rochester Police Department, the Pirate Toy Fund, and Finger Lakes Restorative Justice, an anti-violence campaign was created and implemented at School 7. Additionally, the Rochester Medical Students Against Violence group was re-started to carry on this message in the future. |
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Smoke Alarms Save Lives! |
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A partnership was created between Strong’s pediatric clinic (AC-6) and the Rochester Fire Department to have free smoke and carbon monoxide detectors supplied and installed to lower socioeconomic families. |
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Automated External Defibrillator Awareness and Distribution |
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Intervention with Automated External Defibrillators (AED) decrease mortality associated with this condition. The target community of this project is a local business. The key partners are the American Heart Association, Shock for Life, Eldre Corporation. |
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Automated External Defibrillator Awareness and Distribution |
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Intervention with Automated External Defibrillators (AED) decrease mortality associated with this condition. The target community of this project is a local church. The key partners are the American Heart Association, Team AED, church members, and a local cardiologist. |
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Over the Counter Emergency Contraception: Getting the Word Out |
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The project aim was to increase awareness of how and where to purchase Plan B in Rochester. The University Health Systems at Rochester and OBGYN department at Strong Memorial Hospital were key partners in this project. |
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HIV Prevention and Testing Awareness in Adolescents Suffering from Chronic Mental Illness |
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This intervention was aimed towards educating adolescents and providing information on where free HIV testing is offered. The location for this program was at a youth conference at Strong Ties, an outpatient facility for individuals suffering from mental illness. |
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Smoking Prevention and Cessation in an American Muslim Sub-population |
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This project attempted to prevent smoking among American Muslim youth in Rochester through a modification of the Tarwars program. Cessation efforts were directed towards adult Muslim smokers. |
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Goal 5K: Evaluation and Sustainability |
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The project involves increasing publicity for and ensuring the sustainability of a website that helps individuals increase their level of activity by encouraging them to work toward the goal of completing a 5K run/walk. |
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Assessing Barriers to Breastfeeding in Low-Income Obstetric Patients |
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The objectives of this project were to survey health care providers and low-income obstetric patients at an academic hospital-based women’s clinic to assess awareness, interest, and barriers to breastfeeding among this low income population. |
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Raising Awareness of Eating Disorders Among Female Athletes and their Coaches |
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A presentation was developed, with an informational folder, awareness poster and video, to help coaches with spreading awareness and preventing eating disorders. One presentation was given to 17 coaches, one trainer and an Athletic Director. |
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Reach Out and Read |
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The Reach Out and Read program, an early literacy program that consists of giving brand new books at each well child exam from the ages of 6 months to 5 years. |
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Strong Stories: A Healthy Rochester TV Initiative |
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The aim is to create a TV program, medical student run-faculty supervised, that will utilize a popular media outlet in order to inform and educate through real patient stories. As a public health tool, the program will cover both current and pertinent health care topics/issues. |
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Improving Adolescent Health through Involvement with the Boy Scouts of America |
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This longitudinal CHIC project targets Boy Scouts aging 11 to 17 years old in the Brighton, New York area, and is designed to educate and implement healthy behavior. |
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Nutrition and Wellness Group at Strong Ties |
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Strong Ties is a community-based program that provides a complete array of services designed to promote recovery among adults with severe mental illness. |
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Staged Based Behavioral Counseling |
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Staged Based Counseling (SBC) is a behavioral modification modality targeting clients at all levels of readiness to change. This project created SBC as an elective for medical students at the University of Rochester. The goal is to increase trained individuals in this method, and ultimately address the needs of the Rochester Community. |
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Childhood Lead Poisoning Education |
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A DVD on lead education was shown to clients at Jordan Health Center, ABC, Healthy Start, and the BEST Program and distributed to other community partners. By targeting communities with the greatest burden of childhood lead poisoning, an important difference was made to families that need the most intervention. |
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Kidz on the go: Activity Book to Promote Physical Activity Among Elementary School Children |
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The Kidz on the Go activity book was implemented to encourage physical activity and healthy eating among elementary school children at risk of becoming overweight or obese. The target community includes low-income and minority children who receive their health care in the Pediatric resident clinics in the area. |
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Household Toxic Exposure Prevention |
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A health fair on household toxic exposure prevention was conducted in partnership with Strong’s poison control center and the Orchard Street Community Health Center for their families with children under 6 years of age. The fair was aimed at improving awareness and teaching safety techniques important for prevention of toxic exposures. |
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Reducing Risky Adolescent Sexual Behavior in a Suburban Faith-Based Community |
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In conjunction with Faith Lutheran Church ( Penfield, New York) staff, this project undertook a custom education program to reduce sexual risk among teens through education and partnership building with parents and physicians. |
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Blood Pressure Patterns among Ghanaian Immigrants Residing in the Bronx |
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In partnering with a Kidney and Hypertension Center of Rochester, along with the Kittay House Jewish Home of the Bronx, this community was reached through home/work visits for blood pressure screening and education. |
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Professional Crisis: The Need for Activism Training in Medical School Education |
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A cross sectional study design will be utilized to survey second and fourth year medical students will to assess the participants’ views on physicians’ role in advocacy and health policy change, the prevalence of participants’ self reported interest and competence level in doing advocacy work, and their exposure to advocacy training in undergraduate medical education. |
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Increasing Organ and Tissue Donor Registration |
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The aim of this project was to increase the number of people participating in the organ and tissues registry. |
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Pediatric Obesity: Promoting Healthy Hearts to Children and Families in Rochester City Elementary Schools |
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Project based on a need in the inner city community was for instruction and teaching of the parents and families of children at risk of obesity. The aims is to reach out to the children and families to encourage them to make healthy nutrition choices when cooking meals and buying snacks as well as promote active lifestyles for the whole family |
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Children Helped in Illness, Loss, or Death: C.H.I.L.D., Inc. |
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Children Helped in Illness, Loss, or Death, Inc. is a community program offered since 1984 in the Greater Rochester area. The program serves families affected by illness or death of a parent or child. |
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Knowledge & Skills Training for Young Adults with Mental Illness Attending Outpatient Program: A Module on Sexual Health |
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The project aim was to design an intervention which will provide some skills and knowledge training to young adult persons with psychiatric illnesses and living in the community around the areas of sexual health and healthy lifestyles. |
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The Healthy Hospitals Campaign: Improving the nutritional quality of food offered at hospitals |
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This project studied the prevalence of fast food within hospitals and a campaign to eliminate the presence and promoting healthier food. |
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Pediatric Obesity Promoting Healthy Hearts to Children and Families Rochester City Elementary Schools |
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A Healthy Heart Booth was created for the open houses at five Rochester City elementary schools. The open houses allowed the medical students to reach both elementary school children and their parents. |
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Lifestyles Improvement For Everyone (L.I.F.E) |
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The purpose behind creating this program was to address both of the goals of Healthy People 2010, focusing primarily on but not limited to battling overweight and obesity with improvements in nutrition and physical activity. |
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Developing a Patient-Provider Health Information Library for UR Well at St Joseph's Neighborhood Center |
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In order to further involve patients in their own health care UR Well and St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center are developing a patient-oriented health information library. |
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Organization of Medical Students in a Disaster: An Untapped Resource in Emergency Preparedness |
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Medical students attending the School of Medicine represent a skilled, willing resource to aid in a disaster, but are not included in the emergency plan of the affiliated hospital, Strong Memorial. This project aimed to pull together existing resources and leaders within the emergency preparedness plan to propose a system for student participation. |
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Increasing Awareness of Environment Tobacco Smoke Within the Monroe County Department of Child and Family Services |
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By partnering with the Monroe County Department of Child and Family Services (MCDCFS) and the Greater Rochester Area Tobacco Cessation Center (GRATCC), education about health effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) was promoted. |
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Preventing Unintentional Injury |
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Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity and age. There are simple safety precautions people can take to reduce their risk of such an injury. Targeted population were visitors of Healthy Home in Rochester, NY. The project involved implementing an intervention using informational poster and safety checklists to address the issue. |
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The Anthony L. Jordan Diabetes Collaborative: Partnerships for a Sustainable Future |
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The Anthony L. Jordan Health Center (AJHC), serving the northeast central quadrant of Rochester, NY, has developed individualized strategies to supplement diabetes care for its unique patient population. By coordinating area diabetes resources and community agencies, the author sought to enhance existing AJHC efforts with sustainable partnerships to ensure lasting benefits for its patients. |
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Strong Stories: HIV/AIDS in Rochester, An African-American Woman's Perspective |
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We intended to develop a 30min segment for 'Strong Stories', titled ‘HIV/AIDS in Rochester: An African American Woman’s Perspective.’ The show will interview three African American women living with HIV in the Rochester community. The interview questions will focus on support, stigma, and HIV prevention strategies. Once completed, the video will be incorporated into HIV/AIDS outreach programs run by the Student National Medical Association. |
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Skin Cancer Prevention Through Education and Advocacy for Pediatric/Adolescent Population |
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The goal of this community health improvement project is to target the pediatric and adolescent population and provide an educational intervention concerning the risks of sun exposure, tanning and sun safety. This was conducted through pairing with the Healthy Home. |
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Hoops for Health |
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The Hoops for Health after school program was created to target those children at greatest risk. With the help of coordinators at Quad A, a partnership was created with students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and School 34 staff, ultimately leading to the development of the Hoops for Health program in 2003. |
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HIV/AIDS in Rochester: An African American and Latino Women's Perspective |
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In order to reach out to young women in Rochester, a documentary was produced titled: HIV/ AIDS in Rochester: An African American and Latino Women’s Perspective. The documentary will be about the lives of three women of color in Rochester, who have been infected with HIV. The women will share their life experiences pertaining to HIV/AIDS with regard to how it affects them, their families and their community’s. |
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Community-Based Approach to Mental Illness in the Vietnamese Community |
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A Vietnamese population of approximately 3,600 lives in Monroe County, and efforts to engage this community and their providers in culturally sensitive mental health education may increase the proportion of local Vietnamese with mental illness who seek and receive effective treatment. |
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Food, Fitness & Fun |
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The aim of this project is to educate children in fourth-sixth grade about diet and exercise and hopefully to have fun while battling pediatric obesity. With the help of a graphic designer in the community, computerized educational modules were created on pediatric obesity that can be implemented into any health class around the country, provided that there are computers available. |
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The Hair Salon Project: Bringing a Lay Health Education Model to Tonja's Personal Touch Salon |
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This project aimed to introduce a lay health education model into a salon serving African American women in the Southwedge neighborhood of Rochester. This program was tested in a focus group and was well received by community members. |
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Comprehensive Sexuality Education Program Developed with and Aimed at University of Rochester Undergraduate Students |
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Partnerships were established with the University of Rochester University Health Services and multiple undergraduate clubs to develop a comprehensive sex education talk that includes an introduction to the politics surrounding this issue. |
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HPV Vaccine Awareness and use Among Practicing Obstetrician-Gynecologists in Western New York |
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The goal of this project is to survey Western New York area obstetrician-gynecologists to examine their knowledge, attitudes and practice pattern with respect to the HPV vaccine. The future goal is to use these data to identify deficits in physician knowledge and to implement practice change that facilitates vaccine provision by obstetrician-gynecologists to women that may not have contact with other medical providers. |
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The Jordan Family Health Center and Their Reach and Read Program |
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The Reach Out and Read (ROR) program helps encourage parents to foster their child’s love for reading by providing them with the tools (books, educational resources, training) to do so in the hopes that a strong foundation in reading skills will help expand their minds and horizons and result in improved scholastic performance and with better education. |
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