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Schistosomiasis and HIV Acquisition
March 17, 2016Mar 17, 2016 CHAPEL HILL, NC-A comprehensive review of secondary data sources has confirmed a long-suspected link between female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) and HIV infection for women in southern Africa. Researchers confirmed the link in Mozambique, finding that exposure to schistosomiasis, combined with HIV prevalence, increases the odds of HIV infection by three times. Researchers…
Electronic Health Records: Primer on Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality of EHRs
February 24, 2016Feb 24, 2016 The transition from paper-based to electronic health record (EHR) systems in low- and middle-income countries poses some unique challenges for privacy and confidentiality, security, and data integrity and availability. All of these challenges become more pressing with the rapid uptake of Internet services to share and access health information. Threats to the…
Ebola: What data say
January 28, 2016Jan 28, 2016 Guinea has maintained its Ebola-free status for about one month. Although that bodes well for the country's people, their protection from another outbreak rests in part on the availability of data for making informed decisions on health priorities. One researcher who traveled to the country to assess the effects of the Ebola…
CPC Data Portal Adds New Studies
January 6, 2016Jan 6, 2016 March 14, 2017The Carolina Population Center Data Portal promotes and highlights CPC's original data collection efforts and enhances data dissemination. The CPC Data Portal has added two studies to the data now available for the research and policy communities: The Measurement, Learning, & Evaluation (MLE) StudyThe Transfer Project These two studies join…
CPC study: Social networks as important as exercise and diet across the span of our lives
January 4, 2016Jan 4, 2016 Social networks as important as exercise and diet across the span of our lives UNC-Chapel Hill researchers show how social relationships reduce health risk in each stage of life (Chapel Hill, N.C. - Jan. 4, 2016) - The more social ties people have at an early age, the better their health is…
MEASURE Evaluation’s mHealth: “Public health solutions, now without boundaries”
December 11, 2015Dec 11, 2015 The most recent issue of Carolina Public Health highlights the work being done with MEASURE Evaluation's mHealth program: "UNC Gillings School researchers are harnessing Web-based applications and mobile devices to collect real-time data and deliver interventions to segments of the public - people at risk for diseases, those with high-risk behaviors and…
New CHNS study by CPC Fellow Gordon-Larsen evaluates the connection between Western diets and cardiometabolic risk
November 20, 2015Nov 20, 2015 Penny Gordon-Larsen recently received funding to study if there is a link between Western diets and cardiometabolic risk among Chinese people living in a rural area that is undergoing urbanization. She will use the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), a 25-year study of 15,000 people who are interviewed at regular intervals…
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) – Public Use Data is now available via Dataverse
November 17, 2015Nov 17, 2015 Data from the Add Health study is now available for researchers to access via Dataverse. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year. The Add Health cohort…
New series on Reapportionment & Redistricting a resource for North Carolina citizens, says Carolina Demography Director Tippett
November 3, 2015Nov 3, 2015 CPC's Carolina Demography launched a series on reapportionment and redistricting on Monday, November 2nd. "Reapportionment and redistricting shape the political landscape for the 10 years between census and have profound impacts on citizens," said Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography. "While these processes are inherently political, they are also fundamentally about demography…
2020 Reapportionment Will Shift Political Power South and West, says Carolina Demography
November 3, 2015Nov 3, 2015 A new report from CPC's Carolina Demography examines population trends to predict likely shifts in the nation's political geography. Every decade, following the decennial Census, the 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are allocated to the 50 states on the basis of their population. After the 2020 Census, multiple Southern…