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Developing an Urban Safety-Net Pharmacy: Implementation of Formative Program Evaluation |
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Outlines project that staffed St. Joseph’s Community center with University of Rochester Medical students. |
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Assessment of Compliance with Quality Guidelines for patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia Admitted to Strong Memorial Hospital |
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Project aimed at increasing the and years of healthy life among pneumonia patients by assessing if patients are getting antibiotic treatment within four hours. |
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Women’s Place and Sanctuary House |
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An effort to get the women in these shelters healthcare and educate them about adopting healthier lifestyles. |
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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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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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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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Increasing Public Awareness of the Women’s health Partnership’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Program |
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Project aimed at improving awareness of colorectal cancer among people over 50 in the Monroe County, NY area by targeting churches, synagogues, and other places of worship. |
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Partnership in Action: Colorectal Cancer Screening Interventions |
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Worked with the Women’s Health partnership in a program where mailings are sent to places of worship in Livingston county regarding colorectal screening recommendations, symptoms, and services provided by the Women’s Health Partnership. Worked in the St. Mary’s African American health fair, distributing information on mammography, self breast exams, WHP services, and colorectal cancer. Also partnered with Highland Hospital Breast Care Center to improve breast cancer awareness |
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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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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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Educate and Liberate: Independence for the Blind and Visually Impaired |
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Project aimed at educating future health-care providers to make them more cognizant and aware of the special needs of the blind and visually impaired with the ultimate goal of greater independence for the blind and visually impaired |
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Migrant Women and Post-Partum Depression |
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Breast Cancer Awareness and Screening: Targeting minority groups |
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Hospital Preparedness: Decontamination |
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Rochester 4th Branch Health |
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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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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention in Monroe County |
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Shatter the Silence: Raising Awareness about Domestic Violence in the Rochester Community |
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Barriers to Healthcare in the South Sudanese Refugee Population Of Rochester, NY |
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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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A Qualitative Review of Physician Care of Intimate Partner Violence |
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Project aimed toward clarifying the healthcare expectations and needs of a high risk population (specifically battered women) in relation to physician screening and care. |
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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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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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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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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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Rape Crisis Conseling in Rochester, NY: Experiences in Community Support, Awareness and Advocacy |
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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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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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Implementation of Breathalyzers in the Alexander St/East Ave. Neighborhood |
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The aim of this project was to implement a disposable Breathalyzer vending machine in the East Ave./Alexander Street entertainment district to reduce drinking and driving in Monroe County. |
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Improving the Availability of Disposable Breathalyzers |
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By targeting a group most at risk, adults in the 21-35 year old demographic, and a site with a dozen well populated bars, the project aims to increase the availability of disposable Breathalyzers for personal decision making in the Alexander Street and East Avenue neighborhood of Rochester, NY. |
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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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Promoting Healthy Eating Habits among Type I and Type II Diabetics: An Educational Workshop |
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A nutrition workshop was organized and conducted for patients of the Anthony L. Jordan Health Center as part of a monthly Diabetes Education Group meeting. |
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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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Health Education for Heavy Alcohol Users |
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Partnerships were formed with the American Heart Association and Alcoholics Anonymous, and conducted an informal focus group determining the educational needs of a local AA chapter. |
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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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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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Depression and Recovery from Opiate Addiction |
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This project consisted of designing an educational pamphlet about depression for a clinic that specializes in patients with opiate addictions. The pamphlet had general information about depression, but with a focus on issues specific to recovering users. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Diagnostic Imaging for Uninsured Patients of UR Well: A Survey of Rochester Radiology Groups |
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This project was a background assessment of Rochester radiology groups to see the role they may play in providing discounted services to the uninsured patients of UR Well and St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center. |
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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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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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Small Business Opportunities for Women in Rural Honduras |
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The primary goal of this project is to increase small business opportunities for women in rural Honduras and to collect baseline health data to measure the efficacy of the planned intervention. |
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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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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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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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