Exploring the Short-Term Impacts of a Community-Based Book Distribution Program

We report on our work with the street community of Pittsburgh, specifically, a community-based action initiative we call the Mobile Thriving Respite (Institutional Review Board approval was obtained from our university). For 5 years, student advocate ethnographers from Point Park University have gathered data (e.g., long- and short-term interviews, participant-observations generating fieldnotes). The data revealed and supported the need for thriving beyond surviving homelessness. The data endorsed the creation of the mobile thriving respite. In the first part of this work, we will discuss some critical concepts regarding homelessness as a phenomenon and then argue that while surviving as enduring is necessary, there are some for whom survival is a perpetual, lethal state of being. We will discuss the theoretical foundations to the respite and offer researchers’ ethnographic accounts of the respite’s process and progress (We had to temporarily end the respite during the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, the respite has returned with “pop up” events outside at various locations). We will outline how the mobile thriving respite is a praxis as site of resistance as well as an emergent strategy, and an instantiation of communitas. We will then revisit surviving as collectively bearing witness and testifying to the lived experiences of those living outside.

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Empowering Malian women living with HIV regarding serostatus disclosure management: Short-term effects of a community-based intervention

Patient Education and Counseling ◽

10.1016/j.pec.2017.07.030 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 101 (2) ◽

pp. 248-255 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Adeline Bernier ◽

Adam Yattassaye ◽

Dominic Beaulieu-Prévost ◽

Joanne Otis ◽

Emilie Henry ◽

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Keyword(s):

Short Term ◽

Community Based ◽

Serostatus Disclosure ◽

Women Living With Hiv ◽

Disclosure Management ◽

Living With Hiv ◽

Short Term Effects

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Short-term community-based exercise programs in low-income older women: Does exercise intensity and modality matters?

Experimental Gerontology ◽

10.1016/j.exger.2021.111591 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 111591

Author(s):

Vanessa Teixeira do Amaral ◽

Bianca Fernandes ◽

Awassi Yuphiwa Ngomane ◽

Isabela Roque Marçal ◽

Gabriel de Souza Zanini ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Older Women ◽

Low Income ◽

Exercise Intensity ◽

Short Term ◽

Exercise Programs ◽

Community Based

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Community based cholesterol testing has a favorable effect short term follow up cholesterol levels

Journal of the American College of Cardiology ◽

10.1016/0735-1097(90)92453-9 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. A184

Author(s):

Thomas C. Hilton ◽

Carolyn Burt ◽

Stephen C. Smith ◽

Harold L. Kennedy

Keyword(s):

Favorable Effect ◽

Short Term ◽

Community Based ◽

Cholesterol Levels ◽

Cholesterol Testing

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Long- and short-term inpatients with schizophrenia in China: Implications for community-based service development

Asia-Pacific Psychiatry ◽

10.1111/j.1758-5872.2012.00229.x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. E39-E46 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Guowei Wu ◽

Xuan Ouyang ◽

Bo Yang ◽

Li Li ◽

Zheng Wang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Service Development ◽

Short Term ◽

Community Based

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Short-term Power Load Forecasting of Residential Community Based on GRU Neural Network

2018 International Conference on Power System Technology (POWERCON) ◽

10.1109/powercon.2018.8601718 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jiaxiang Zheng ◽

Xingying Chen ◽

Kun Yu ◽

Lei Gan ◽

Yifan Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Load Forecasting ◽

Short Term ◽

Community Based ◽

Residential Community ◽

Power Load ◽

Power Load Forecasting

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Short-term nutrition and growth indicators in 6-month- to 6-year-old children are improved following implementation of a multidisciplinary community-based programme in a chronic conflict setting

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980019002969 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 134-145

Author(s):

Hambardzum Simonyan ◽

Aelita Sargsyan ◽

Arin A Balalian ◽

Karapet Davtyan ◽

Himanshu A Gupte

Keyword(s):

Breast Feeding ◽

Dietary Diversity ◽

Controlled Study ◽

Short Term ◽

Community Based ◽

Multidisciplinary Intervention ◽

Feeding Duration ◽

Minimum Dietary Diversity ◽

Growth Indicators

AbstractObjective:We investigated short- and long-term indicators of malnutrition and diet before and after the community-based ‘Breaking the Cycle of Poverty’ multidisciplinary intervention.Design:A historically and geographically controlled study using data collected in 2013 and 2016. We compared the prevalence of short-term indicators (anaemia, breast-feeding duration and minimum dietary diversity) and long-term indicators (stunting and wasting) in exposed communities at two time points. We then compared these factors in geographic areas exposed or not exposed to intervention. We conducted logistic regression analyses on the 2016 sample to measure associations between living in intervention communities and child growth indicators.Setting:Berd region, a chronic conflict zone near the north-eastern border of Armenia and Azerbaijan.Participants:Children aged 6 months to 6 years.Results:Analyses included data from 2013 comprising 382 children, and data from 2016 comprising 348 children living in communities where the programme was implemented, and 635 children from unexposed communities. Anaemia prevalence in exposed communities was significantly lower in 2016 v. 2013 (10·9 v. 19·1 %, P < 0·01). Minimum dietary diversity (79·0 v. 68·1 %, P < 0·001) and breast-feeding duration (13·0 v. 11·5 months, P < 0·002) were significantly improved in exposed communities. Prevalences of stunting (11·5 v. 10·2 %, P = 0·57) and wasting (4·8 v. 2·0 %, P = 0·07) were not significantly different. Odds of anaemia were significantly lower (OR = 0·24, 95 % CI 0·16, 0·36) in intervention communities.Conclusions:Exposure to a community-based multidisciplinary intervention reduced the rate of anaemia and improved dietary indicators.

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South African mining could ride out lockdown period

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db252595 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Power Supply ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

Policy Uncertainty ◽

Short Term ◽

Community Based ◽

Content Type ◽

Financial Position ◽

Cast Doubt ◽

The Government

Subject South African post-lockdown mining. Significance Three weeks into its COVID-19-related lockdown, the government allowed certain mines to ramp up to 100% capacity (coal and opencast operations) and others to 50% (underground operations), making it the first non-essential industry allowed to resume full or partial operations. This particularly benefits smaller, more marginal mines, as larger ones were already in a relatively resilient financial position. However, more fundamental issues continue to weigh on the industry, such as costly and erratic power supply and ongoing policy uncertainty. Impacts An extended lockdown and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis could see a rise in community-based protests interrupting operations. A surge in COVID-19 infections at mines and subsequent closures will cast doubt over the feasibility of the industry's short-term strategy. The growing financial stress on workers may prompt more militant demands during scheduled coal wage negotiations later this year.

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Social Support Systems: Contributors to the Incidence of Schizophrenia?

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1987.61.3.875 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 61 (3) ◽

pp. 875-878

Author(s):

Steven Taylor ◽

Elizabeth Hinton

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Present Article ◽

Support Systems ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Short Term ◽

Community Based ◽

Long Term Consequences ◽

Reproductive Rates ◽

Social Support Systems

The present article considers the recent increase in community-based support systems for psychiatric patients. Although these systems appear to offer some short-term benefits, the long-term consequences have received little attention. Here, the case is examined for such systems actually facilitating the reproductive rates and hence general incidence of genetically transmitted disorders such as schizophrenia.

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