scholarly journals Proportional cancer incidence according to selected sites: comparison between residents in the City of S. Paulo, Brazil: Japanese and Brazilian/Portuguese descent

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Maria Pacheco de Souza ◽  
Sabina Léa Davidson Gotlieb ◽  
Moacyr Lobo da Costa Júnior ◽  
Ruy Laurenti ◽  
Antonio Pedro Mirra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Confidence Intervals ◽  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Reference Period ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Japanese Descent

The percentual distributions of selected sites of cancer cases according to origin, sex and age are compared. Data were obtained from the Registry of Cancer of S. Paulo (School of Public Health of the University of S. Paulo, Brazil). The reference period for inhabitants of Japanese descent was 1969/78 and for those of Brazilian descent, the period was 1969/75. Standardized Proportionate Incidence Ratios (SPIR) with approximate 95% Confidence Intervals (CI) were evaluated using age specific Incidence Ratios of S. Paulo, 1973, as standards. The results agree with findings of previous works on mortality, but show different patterns according to origin. The well known fact that some sub-groups of a population may be different from the overall group is once again brought to the fore. Attention should be drawn to the differences detected for stomach, skin and prostate, in males, and for stomach, skin, cervix and uterus in females.

scholarly journals Promoting a Culture of Engaged Scholarship and Mentoring Junior Faculty in the Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Process at a ‘Teaching First’ University

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Lisa Krissoff Boehm ◽  
Linda S. Larrivee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Junior Faculty ◽  
Collective Bargaining Agreement ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
State University ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Academic Leaders ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This paper analyzes the processes and outcomes involved with mentoring junior faculty in the reappointment, promotion, and tenure (RPT) process at a comprehensive state university and creating a culture supportive of engaged research. Although the university in this case study is governed by a collective bargaining agreement that prohibits the development of new written policies on RPT, the deans and other academic leaders can promote significant change through cultural means. The article will examine: the place of engaged scholarship within the reappointment, tenure, and promotion processes of the university; the university’s commitment to a cross-institutional research approach; the mentoring of faculty conducting innovative community projects; the university’s recent strategic plan initiative funding of collaborative cross-college and community projects; partnership with the city of Worcester’s Department of Public Health on applied scholarship related to five domains of public health currently establishedas the focus of efforts by the city and the region; and the innovative CitySpeak devised theater project. At this state university, strong leadership helped support a deepening culture of engaged teaching and scholarship and helped faculty negotiate the road of RPT.

scholarly journals An Academic–Practice Partnership at the University of Washington School of Public Health: The Student Epidemic Action Leaders (SEAL) Team

2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maayan Simckes ◽  
Beth Melius ◽  
Vivian Hawkins ◽  
Scott Lindquist ◽  
Janet Baseman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The University

In 2015, the University of Washington School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology established the Student Epidemic Action Leaders (SEAL) team to provide public health students with experience in field epidemiology in state and local public health communicable disease divisions. The University of Washington Department of Epidemiology developed the SEAL team in collaboration with the Washington State Department of Health to offer public health graduate students opportunities to contribute to the real-time needs of public health agencies during a communicable disease event and/or preparedness event. The SEAL team combines classroom and field-based training in public health practice and applied epidemiology. During the first 2 years of the SEAL team (2016-2018), 34 SEALs were placed at 4 agencies contributing more than 1300 hours of assistance on 24 public health projects.

scholarly journals “Being a Person of Color in This Institution Is Exhausting”: Defining and Optimizing the Learning Climate to Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Washington School of Public Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore ◽  
Erika Lorenzana Del Villar ◽  
Lucia Chavez Fraire ◽  
Chloe Waters ◽  
Michele P. Andrasik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
White Male ◽  
Learning Climate ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
Structural Hierarchy ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The University ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

Learning climate greatly affects student achievement. This qualitative study aimed to understand community definitions of climate; share lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff; and define priority areas of improvement in the University of Washington School of Public Health (UWSPH). Between March-May 2019, 17 focus group discussions were conducted–stratified by role and self-identified race/ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation–among 28 faculty/staff and 36 students. Topics included: assessing the current climate, recounting experiences related to roles and identities, and recommending improvements. Transcripts were coded using deductive and inductive approaches. Race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation appeared to affect perceptions of the climate, with nearly all respondents from underrepresented or minoritized groups recounting negative experiences related to their identity. Persons of color, women, and other respondents who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) frequently perceived the climate as “uncomfortable.” Most felt that UWSPH operates within a structural hierarchy that perpetuates white, male, and/or class privilege and “protects those in power” while leaving underrepresented or minoritized groups feeling like “the way to move up… is to conform” in order to not be seen as “someone pushing against the system.” Improvement priorities included: increasing community responsiveness to diversity, equity, and inclusion; intentionally diversifying faculty/staff and student populations; designing inclusive curricula; and supporting underrepresented or minoritized groups academically, professionally, and psychologically.

Medicine In A Changing Society, by Lawrence Corey, M.D., Steven E. Saltman, M.D., and Michael F. Epstein, M.D. Saint Louis: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1972, 228 pp., $6.50

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 764-764
Author(s):  
Donald C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Of Public Health ◽  
Health Course ◽  
The University

Nineteen hundred and sixty-eight was a vintage year for student activists. Conflicts between students and faculty were the rule rather than the exception. When they occurred in medical schools they frequently focused on the teaching of the social and preventive aspects of medicine. Such was the case at the University of Michigan, where "frustration with the public health course" led students into an open confrontation with the School of Public Health. In the discussions which followed, a number of changes were agreed upon.

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