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1. The Study of Environmental Exposure of Mothers and Infants Impacted by Large-Scale Agriculture (SEMILLA): Description of the Aims and Methods of a Community-Based Birth Cohort Study

Author: Alexis J. Handal, Fadya Orozco, Stephanie Montenegro, Nataly Cadena, Fabián Muñoz, Eileen Ramírez del Rio, and Niko Kaciroti
Subjects: community-engaged research, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, occupational epidemiology, pregnancy outcomes, Latin America, neurobehavioral development, Pediatrics, RJ1-570
Abstract: Background/Objectives: Women of childbearing age not only reside in agricultural communities but also form an integral part of the agricultural labor force. Limited research investigates the impact of prenatal fungicide exposure on infant health, specifically ethylenebisdithiocarbamates and their toxic by-product, ethylenethiourea (ETU), particularly in occupational settings. This paper describes the background, aims, protocol, and baseline sample characteristics for the SEMILLA study, which investigates prenatal ETU exposure, neonatal thyroid function, infant growth, and neurobehavioral development in an agricultural region of Ecuador. Methods: This cohort study follows pregnant women and their infants up to 18 months of age, incorporating urinary biomarkers and survey data on ETU exposure and infant growth and neurodevelopmental measures. Data collection includes detailed questionnaires, scales, and physical examinations on maternal and infant health and development, as well as environmental factors. Descriptive statistics on key characteristics of the study population at baseline are presented. Results: SEMILLA enrolled 409 participants (72% enrollment rate): 111 agricultural workers (mostly floricultural), 149 non-agricultural workers, and 149 non-workers. Baseline characteristics show comparability between work sector groups, with some economic differences. Conclusions: SEMILLA will provide key evidence on prenatal fungicide exposure and infant development and encompass comprehensive multistage data collection procedures in pregnancy and infancy, focusing on structural and social determinants of health as well as individual-level chemical exposures. The community-based approach has proven essential, even amid challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic. The medium-term objective is to inform sustainable interventions promoting maternal and child health, with a long-term goal to reduce community exposures and improve worker health policies, particularly for women and pregnant workers.
Published: 2024
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2. The Michigan Farmworker Project: Development and Implementation of a Collaborative Community-Based Research Project Assessing Precarious Employment and Labor Exploitation

Author: Lisbeth Iglesias-Ríos, Diana Marin, Kara Moberg, and Alexis J. Handal
Subjects: community-based participatory research, CBPR, farmworkers, precarious employment, labor exploitation, labor trafficking, Education, Communities. Classes. Races, HT51-1595
Abstract: Farmworkers are among the most underserved and marginalized populations of workers despite their essential role in the U.S. food supply chain. The Michigan Farmworker Project (MFP) evolved as a collaborative, community-based participatory project among state and regional service entities, legal service organizations, and the university. The overarching goal of the project was to study the relationship of precarious working conditions and labor exploitation with occupational and environmental health inequities and social justice for farmworkers in Michigan. We employed critical race theory and community-based participatory research approaches to guide the development and implementation of the MFP. We describe the development of the participatory process with community partners and discuss implementation challenges and lessons learned from the field. Throughout the research, we reflect on how farmworkers’ social and working environment goes beyond precarity, revealing labor exploitation as an important deterrent of farmworker health and well-being. Despite entrenched systems of structural oppression, farmworkers contribute to and improve our society with their rich cultural backgrounds, their work, and their resilience. The diverse composition of this community-university partnership amplified collaboration, enriched our understanding of the role of precarity and labor exploitation among farmworkers, and contributed to the study’s success. The MFP will continue strengthening the community-university partnership with the goal of continuing to address health inequities in the farmworker population.
Published: 2022
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3. Healthy Native Community Fellowship: An Indigenous Leadership Program to Enhance Community Wellness

Author: Rebecca Rae, Marita Jones, Alexis J. Handal, Marge Bluehorse-Anderson, Shelly Frazier, Kristine Maltrud, Chris Percy, Tina Tso, Frances Valera, and Nina Wallerstein
Subjects: American Indian, Alaskan Native, Indigenous leadership, community health and wellness, community capacity, participatory evaluation, community based participatory research, Political science, Social Sciences
Abstract: The Healthy Native Communities Fellowship (HNCF) is a grassroots evidence-based mentorship and leadership program that develops the skills and community-building capacities of leaders and community teams to improve health status through several intermediate social and cultural mechanisms: (a) strengthening social participation (also known as social capital or cohesion); (b) strengthening cultural connectedness and revitalization of cultural identity; and (c) advocating for health-enhancing policies, practices, and programs that strengthen systems of prevention and care, as well as address the structural social determinants of health. This leadership program uses a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach and participatory evaluation to investigate how the work of local American Indian and Alaska Native leaders (fellows) and their community coalitions contributes to individual, family, and community level health outcomes.
Published: 2016
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4. Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950-2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Author: V Bhattacharjee, N, E Schumacher, A, Aali, A, Habtegiorgis Abate, Y, Abbasgholizadeh, R, Abbasian, M, Abbasi-Kangevari, M, Abbastabar, H, Abd ElHafeez, S, Abd-Elsalam, S, Abdollahi, M, Abdollahifar, M, Abdoun, M, Abdullahi, A, Abebe, M, Shawel Abebe, S, Abiodun, O, Abolhassani, H, Abolmaali, M, Abouzid, M, Beressa Aboye, G, Guimarães Abreu, L, Aberhe Abrha, W, M Abrigo, M, Abtahi, D, Abualruz, H, Abubakar, B, Abu-Gharbieh, E, Me Abu-Rmeileh, N, Girum Girum Adal, T, Molla Adane, M, Atanda Adeagbo Adeagbo, O, Adesoji Adedoyin, R, Adekanmbi, V, Aden, B, Victor Adepoju, A, O Adetokunboh, O, Bunmi Adetunji, J, Adedayo Adeyinka, D, Israel Adeyomoye, O, Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Q, Adra, S, Felix Afolabi, R, Afyouni, S, Sohail Afzal, M, Afzal, S, Aghamiri, S, Agodi, A, Agyemang-Duah, W, Opoku Ahinkorah, B, J Ahlstrom, A, Ahmad, A, Ahmad, D, Ahmad, F, M Ahmad, M, Ahmad, S, Ahmad, T, Ahmed, A, Ahmed, H, A Ahmed, L, Saleh Ahmed, M, Anees Ahmed, S, Ajami, M, Aji, B, Taddesse Akalu, G, 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Juexiao Zhou, Bin Zhu, Lei Zhu, Magdalena Zielińska, Zhiyong Zou, Samer H Zyoud, Christopher J L Murray, Amanda E Smith, and Stein Emil Vollset
Abstract: Background: Accurate assessments of current and future fertility-including overall trends and changing population age structures across countries and regions-are essential to help plan for the profound social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges that these changes will bring. Estimates and projections of fertility are necessary to inform policies involving resource and health-care needs, labour supply, education, gender equality, and family planning and support. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 produced up-to-date and comprehensive demographic assessments of key fertility indicators at global, regional, and national levels from 1950 to 2021 and forecast fertility metrics to 2100 based on a reference scenario and key policy-dependent alternative scenarios. Methods: To estimate fertility indicators from 1950 to 2021, mixed-effects regression models and spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression were used to synthesise data from 8709 country-years of vital and sample registrations, 1455 surveys and censuses, and 150 other sources, and to generate age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) for 5-year age groups from age 10 years to 54 years. ASFRs were summed across age groups to produce estimates of total fertility rate (TFR). Livebirths were calculated by multiplying ASFR and age-specific female population, then summing across ages 10-54 years. To forecast future fertility up to 2100, our Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) forecasting model was based on projections of completed cohort fertility at age 50 years (CCF50; the average number of children born over time to females from a specified birth cohort), which yields more stable and accurate measures of fertility than directly modelling TFR. CCF50 was modelled using an ensemble approach in which three sub-models (with two, three, and four covariates variously consisting of female educational attainment, contraceptive met need, population density in
Published: 2024

5. Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries

Author: Aluísio J D Barros, Günther Fink, Goodarz Danaei, Christopher R Sudfeld, Rose McGready, Nynke van den Broek, Joseph M Braun, Karim Manji, Shams E Arifeen, Melissa Gladstone, Jena Hamadani, Fahmida Tofail, Alicia Matijasevich, Sunita Taneja, Honorati Masanja, Wafaie Fawzi, Ayesha Sania, Dana C McCoy, Zhaozhong Zhu, Mary C Smith Fawzi, Mehmet Akman, David Bellinger, Maureen M Black, Alemtsehay Bogale, Verena Carrara, Paulita Duazo, Christopher Duggan, Lia C H Fernald, Alexis J Handal, Siobán Harlow, Melissa Hidrobo, Chris Kuzawa, Ingrid Kvestad, Lindsey Locks, Christine McDonald, Arjumand Rizvi, Darci Santos, Leticia Santos, Dilsad Save, Roger Shapiro, Barbara Stoecker, Martha-Maria Tellez-Rojo, and Aisha K Yousafzai
Subjects: Medicine
Abstract: Objective To determine the magnitude of relationships of early life factors with child development in low/middle-income countries (LMICs).Design Meta-analyses of standardised mean differences (SMDs) estimated from published and unpublished data.Data sources We searched Medline, bibliographies of key articles and reviews, and grey literature to identify studies from LMICs that collected data on early life exposures and child development. The most recent search was done on 4 November 2014. We then invited the first authors of the publications and investigators of unpublished studies to participate in the study.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Studies that assessed at least one domain of child development in at least 100 children under 7 years of age and collected at least one early life factor of interest were included in the study.Analyses Linear regression models were used to assess SMDs in child development by parental and child factors within each study. We then produced pooled estimates across studies using random effects meta-analyses.Results We retrieved data from 21 studies including 20 882 children across 13 LMICs, to assess the associations of exposure to 14 major risk factors with child development. Children of mothers with secondary schooling had 0.14 SD (95% CI 0.05 to 0.25) higher cognitive scores compared with children whose mothers had primary education. Preterm birth was associated with 0.14 SD (–0.24 to –0.05) and 0.23 SD (–0.42 to –0.03) reductions in cognitive and motor scores, respectively. Maternal short stature, anaemia in infancy and lack of access to clean water and sanitation had significant negative associations with cognitive and motor development with effects ranging from −0.18 to −0.10 SDs.Conclusions Differential parental, environmental and nutritional factors contribute to disparities in child development across LMICs. Targeting these factors from prepregnancy through childhood may improve health and development of children.
Published: 2019
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6. Innovative participatory bilingual data analysis with Latinx/@ immigrants: Language, power, and transformation

Author: Alexis J. Handal, Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant, Annette Carreon Fuentes, Kimberly R. Huyser, Norma Casas, Julia Meredith Hess, Margarita Galvis, Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman, Mario Chavez, Dulce Medina, and Jessica R. Goodkind
Subjects: Data Analysis, Community-Based Participatory Research, Praxis, Knowledge management, Data collection, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Participatory action research, Emigrants and Immigrants, Citizen journalism, PsycINFO, Article, Mental Health, General partnership, Humans, Psychology, business, Inclusion (education), media_common, Meaning (linguistics), Language
Abstract: Objective The insights of Latinx/@ immigrants are essential to developing interventions that better address complex multilevel phenomena impacting mental health. Despite important advances in methods that genuinely embody participatory research practices, attention to collaborative data collection, analysis, and dissemination are limited. Our aim is to describe the development and implementation of research practices to address these gaps through an emphasis on and understanding of the centrality of language in collaborative research processes. Method Guided from the outset by community-based participatory research principles, our community-academic research partnership recognized the importance of developing and intentionally studying our collaborative processes. As part of an ethnographic interview study with 24 Latinx/@ immigrants, a community-university research team developed innovative methods, including practices related to research team meetings, data collection, analysis, and dissemination, which we documented through ongoing discussion and reflection. Results The resulting participatory research processes were grounded in a theoretical framework of praxis and language and included six innovative and iterative stages: (a) Establishing the research team, (b) planning the interview process/data collection, (c) developing the data analysis methodology, (d) interpreting findings to adapt the intervention, (e) integrating results of the participatory process into the analysis, and (f) data analysis for dissemination. Conclusions A focus on praxis and language revealed how the language of research structures' power, meaning, feeling, collaboration, analysis, and transformation. We also found that bilingual participatory analytic processes have important implications with respect to achieving genuine inclusion in rigorous research that moves toward equity for Latinx/@ immigrants and other populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Published: 2023

7. Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure in Latin American and the Caribbean Populations: A Scoping Review

Author: Liliana A. Zúñiga-Venegas, Carly Hyland, María Teresa Muñoz-Quezada, Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá, Mariana Butinof, Rafael Buralli, Andres Cardenas, Ricardo A. Fernandez, Claudia Foerster, Nelson Gouveia, Juan P. Gutiérrez Jara, Boris A. Lucero, María Pía Muñoz, Muriel Ramírez-Santana, Anna R. Smith, Noemi Tirado, Berna van Wendel de Joode, Gloria M. Calaf, Alexis J. Handal, Agnes Soares da Silva, Sandra Cortés, and Ana M. Mora
Subjects: Placenta, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Agriculture, Environmental Exposure, S Agricultura (General), Organophosphates, Latin America, Caribbean Region, Pregnancy, Occupational Exposure, Humans, Female, Carbamates, Pesticides, Child, SB Cultura de la planta
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Multiple epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to pesticides is associated with adverse health outcomes. However, the literature on pesticide-related health effects in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region, an area of intensive agricultural and residential pesticide use, is sparse. We conducted a scoping review to describe the current state of research on the health effects of pesticide exposure in LAC populations with the goal of identifying knowledge gaps and research capacity building needs. METHODS: We searched PubMed and SciELO for epidemiological studies on pesticide exposure and human health in LAC populations published between January 2007 and December 2021. We identified 233 publications from 16 countries that met our inclusion criteria and grouped them by health outcome (genotoxicity, neurobehavioral outcomes, placental outcomes and teratogenicity, cancer, thyroid function, reproductive outcomes, birth outcomes and child growth, and others). RESULTS: Most published studies were conducted in Brazil (37%, n = 88) and Mexico (20%, n = 46), were cross-sectional in design (72%, n = 167), and focused on farmworkers (45%, n = 105) or children (21%, n = 48). The most frequently studied health effects included genotoxicity (24%, n = 62) and neurobehavioral outcomes (21%, n = 54), and organophosphate (OP) pesticides were the most frequently examined (26%, n = 81). Forty-seven percent (n = 112) of the studies relied only on indirect pesticide exposure assessment methods. 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Center for Environmental Research and Community Health; Estados Unidos, Fil: Mora, Ana M. Universidad Nacional. Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances. Infants’ Environmental Health Study; Costa Rica
Published: 2022
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8. Violence and the Academic Lives of College Students at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Author: Alexis J. Handal, Francisco Soto Mas, Theresa H. Cruz, Mary D. Carmody, and Fares Qeadan
Subjects: Male, Intersectionality, Race ethnicity, Gender identity, Sexual Behavior, media_common.quotation_subject, education, Gender Identity, Gender studies, Violence, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Clinical Psychology, Intersection, Ethnicity, Institution, Sexual orientation, Humans, Female, Students, Psychology, Applied Psychology, media_common
Abstract: To ascertain whether sexual and/or gender minority (SGM) students at a Hispanic-serving institution who experience violence are more likely to experience interference with their academic lives when compared to heterosexual, cisgender students, and how this relationship differs by race/ethnicity. Data came from 736 undergraduate students at a university in the Southwestern United States responding to a 2017 Campus Climate Survey. Multivariable logistic regression was conducted on self-identified SGM students and reported interference with their academic lives. The model was also tested for effect modification by race/ethnicity. Two-thirds (67.65%) of SGM students reported four or more incidences of violence. Nearly one-fifth (18.83%) of SGM students reported being harassed, insulted, threatened, or intimidated, and 2.63% reported being physically hurt (including forced sex), because the perpetrator thought the individual might have been gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. SGM students had 2.44 (95% CI: 1.29, 4.61) increased odds of interference with academic life as a result of violence victimization compared with non-SGM students. When the model was evaluated for effect modification by race/ethnicity, large effect sizes were observed, although the results were not significant. SGM undergraduate students are at significantly increased risk of violence and interference with their academic lives. This research emphasizes the need for institutions of higher education to ensure that their policies and practices support equal access to education by SGM students. Additionally, this study contributes insights into a potential protective effect of Hispanic ethnicity that warrants further research.
Published: 2020
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9. Experiences of female agricultural workers in Michigan: Perspectives from the Michigan Farmworker Project

Author: Alexis J. Handal, Mislael Valentín Cortés, and Lisbeth Iglesias Rios
Subjects: Economic growth, Hazardous waste, Agriculture, business.industry, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Face (sociological concept), Business, Agricultural work, General Environmental Science
Abstract: BACKGROUND AND AIM: Agricultural work is recognized as one of the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations worldwide and farmworkers face a myriad of complex social vulnerabilities that ...
Published: 2021
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10. 'Essential' but Expendable: Farmworkers During the COVID-19 Pandemic-The Michigan Farmworker Project

Author: Alexis J. Handal, Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios, Paul J. Fleming, Mislael Valentín-Cortés, and Marie S. O'Neill
Subjects: Male, 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, Michigan, Farmers, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), Pneumonia, Viral, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19, Emigrants and Immigrants, Hispanic or Latino, Occupational safety and health, Geography, Socioeconomic Factors, Environmental health, Pandemic, Housing, AJPH Perspectives, Humans, Female, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics, Occupational Health
Published: 2020

11. Michigan Farmworker Project: Bridging our understanding of the complex interplay of environmental and occupational exposures with labor exploitation in migrant and seasonal farmworkers in Michigan

Author: Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios, Alexis J. Handal, M.A. Valentín Cortés, Paul J. Fleming, and Marie S. O'Neill
Subjects: Geography, Bridging (networking), General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Socioeconomics, General Environmental Science
Published: 2020
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12. SEMILLA: Study of Environmental Exposure of Mothers and Infants Impacted by Large-Scale Agriculture

Author: S. Montenegro, F.A. Orozco, Niko Kaciroti, Betsy Lozoff, Alexis J. Handal, and Siobán D. Harlow
Subjects: Scale (ratio), Agriculture, business.industry, Environmental health, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental science, Environmental exposure, business, General Environmental Science
Published: 2020
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13. Understanding the characteristics of a population of working women recruited for participation in a prenatal cohort study and the impact on recruitment strategies: Observations from the SEMILLA Project in Ecuador

Author: Alexis J. Handal, F.A. Orozco, and S.M. Montenegro
Subjects: education.field_of_study, business.industry, Population, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Medicine, business, education, General Environmental Science, Demography, Cohort study
Published: 2020
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14. Implementation of a community based prospective prenatal cohort in an international setting: Reflections on the Proyecto SEMILLA

Author: S.M. Montenegro, Alexis J. Handal, and F.A. Orozco
Subjects: Community based, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Family medicine, Cohort, medicine, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, business, General Environmental Science
Published: 2020
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15. Latinx/@ immigrant inclusion trajectories: Individual agency, structural constraints, and the role of community-based organizations in immigrant mobilities

Author: Margarita Galvis, Annette Carreon-Fuentes, Mario Chavez, Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant, Julia Meredith Hess, Alexis J. Handal, Diana Anahi Torres, Dulce Medina, Felipe Rodriguez, Norma Casas, Jessica R. Goodkind, and Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman
Subjects: Male, Community-Based Participatory Research, Mobilities, media_common.quotation_subject, Immigration, Participatory action research, Emigrants and Immigrants, Context (language use), Criminology, Article, Interviews as Topic, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Agency (sociology), Developmental and Educational Psychology, Humans, Sociology, Qualitative Research, media_common, Hispanic or Latino, Focus Groups, Mental health, United States, Psychiatry and Mental health, Mental Health, Female, Psychology (miscellaneous), Psychological resilience, Inclusion (education), Acculturation
Abstract: Immigration is at the forefront of national, state, and local policy struggles in the United States, and Latinx/@ immigrants have experienced increased deportations, detention, and individual threats. A mobilities perspective allows analysis to extend our view of migration beyond frameworks confined to pre- and postmigration, examining trajectories of social inclusion and exclusion that are influenced by multiple factors in the receiving country. The Immigrant Well-being Project, a community-based participatory research project involving university faculty, students, staff, and representatives from 4 community-based organizations (CBOs), was initiated in New Mexico in 2017 to better understand and promote Latinx/@ immigrant mental health and integration by creating change at multiple levels. We began these efforts by conducting an in-depth study of the mental health needs, stressors, current socioeconomic, legal, and political context, and local solutions as experienced by 24 Latinx/@ immigrants and their mixed status families. Five trajectories of immigrant integration emerged: continuous exclusion, simultaneous exclusion and inclusion, continuous inclusion, movement from exclusion to inclusion, and movement from inclusion to exclusion. These diverse mobilities were shaped by participants' social locations, agency, and experiences with CBOs, which played critical roles in creating, maintaining, and/or transforming immigrants' trajectories. However, CBOs could not completely buffer immigrants from the current hostile climate and related stressors that resulted in experiences of exclusion or movement from inclusion to exclusion. These findings add to understandings of immigrant mental health, complex ongoing mobility, and mechanisms of resilience and resistance within the United States and have important implications for policy and practice. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
Published: 2020

16. The Mental Health of the Organic Farmer: Psychosocial and Contextual Actors

Author: Alexis J. Handal, Christina Brigance, Francisco Soto Mas, and Victoria Sánchez
Subjects: Adult, Male, Nursing (miscellaneous), New Mexico, media_common.quotation_subject, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, immune system diseases, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sustainable agriculture, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Occupational Health, media_common, Organic Agriculture, Farmers, business.industry, Contentment, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, food and beverages, Agriculture, Middle Aged, 030210 environmental & occupational health, Mental health, respiratory tract diseases, Mental Health, Socioeconomic Factors, Feeling, Female, business, Psychology, Psychosocial, Social psychology, Organic movement, Social capital
Abstract: Despite the large body of research and literature on the health and mental health of farmers, we should not assume that research findings necessarily apply to the organic farmer. The limited literature on the mental health of the organic farmer points to potential differences. Research has found that workers on organic farms may be happier than their counterparts; others have identified added sources of stress related to the perceived need of organic farmers to embrace concepts linked to the organic movement. However, further research is needed to identify both risk and protective factors for mental health among organic farmers. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the psychosocial and contextual factors that may relate to the mental health of the organic farmer. Key informant interviews were conducted with 10 farm producers and 20 farm workers. The findings indicated that respondents recognized mental health as influential in the workplace and the future of organic practices (e.g., the mental, financial, physical stress). Some of the risk factors mentioned by participants reflected those experienced by conventional, nonorganic farmers. Participants also reported contentment with farming as an occupation, the benefits of being connected to the land, feelings of social and environmental responsibility, and engagement in social activities that may promote human and social capital. These feelings and activities ultimately benefit the farmer, contribute to social cohesion, and may have positive implications for mental health. Results suggest that there may be protective mental health factors unique to the organic farmer.
Published: 2018
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17. Health and Safety in Organic Farming: A Qualitative Study

Author: Rose Elizabeth Rohrer, Eric Tomalá Viteri, Francisco Soto Mas, and Alexis J. Handal
Subjects: Adult, Male, Adolescent, New Mexico, Poison control, Certification, Suicide prevention, Occupational safety and health, 03 medical and health sciences, Agricultural science, 0302 clinical medicine, Risk Factors, Environmental health, Sustainable agriculture, Injury prevention, Humans, Medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, Occupational Health, Qualitative Research, Organic Agriculture, Farmers, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Middle Aged, 030210 environmental & occupational health, Agricultural Workers' Diseases, Organic farming, Female, Perception, Ergonomics, business, Qualitative research
Abstract: To explore health and safety issues in organic farming, particularly among small farmers in central New Mexico.Participants included 10 certified organic producers and 20 workers. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observations.The sample consisted of a young, educated, low experienced population that may differ from conventional farmers. Both producers and workers seemed to be aware of the health risks involved with small-scale farming. Producers presented mixed attitudes toward health and safety, while the attitudes of workers were more systematically negative. Perception of risk was generally lower among workers compared to producers. Although health and safety training was not specifically mentioned, most participants seemed to understand the relevance of the work environment for health and safety. Regarding ergonomics, the physical demands of working for long hours and the necessity to perform a multitude of tasks that contribute to physical stress were issues of concern.This is one of the few studies in the United States exploring health and safety among organic farmers. Although participants reported very few actual incidents, the study identified relevant intrapersonal and behavioral factors that may increase or reduce the risk for disease and injury. Results also indicate the need for research that focuses on the psychosocial and contextual factors that may contribute to injury and disease among organic farmers.
Published: 2018
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18. Early life risk factors of motor, cognitive and language development: a pooled analysis of studies from low/middle-income countries

Author: Sunita Taneja, Paulita Duazo, Lindsey M. Locks, Christine McDonald, Karim Manji, Alexis J. Handal, Verena I. Carrara, Christopher W. Kuzawa, Zhaozhong Zhu, Melissa Gladstone, Joseph M. Braun, Aluísio J D Barros, Dana Charles McCoy, Shams El Arifeen, Letícia Marques dos Santos, Mehmet Akman, Majid Ezzati, Christopher R. Sudfeld, Goodarz Danaei, Martha-Maria Tellez-Rojo, Günther Fink, Barbara J. Stoecker, Arjumand Rizvi, Jena D. Hamadani, Maureen M. Black, Ayesha Sania, Melissa Hidrobo, Dilşad Save, Honorati Masanja, Ingrid Kvestad, Fahmida Tofail, Mary C. Smith Fawzi, David C. Bellinger, Alemtsehay Bogale, Rose McGready, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Wafaie W. Fawzi, Siobán D. Harlow, Roger L. Shapiro, Darci Neves dos Santos, Nynke van den Broek, Tor A. Strand, Alicia Matijasevich, Christopher Duggan, Lia C. H. Fernald, Sania, Ayesha, Sudfeld, Christopher R., Danaei, Goodarz, Fink, Gunther, McCoy, Dana C., Zhu, Zhaozhong, Fawzi, Mary C. Smith, Akman, Mehmet, Arifeen, Shams E., Barros, Aluisio J. D., Bellinger, David, Black, Maureen M., Bogale, Alemtsehay, Braun, Joseph M., van den Broek, Nynke, Carrara, Verena, Duazo, Paulita, Duggan, Christopher, Fernald, Lia C. H., Gladstone, Melissa, Hamadani, Jena, Handal, Alexis J., Harlow, Sioban, Hidrobo, Melissa, Kuzawa, Chris, Kvestad, Ingrid, Locks, Lindsey, Manji, Karim, Masanja, Honorati, Matijasevich, Alicia, McDonald, Christine, McGready, Rose, Rizvi, Arjumand, Santos, Darci, Santos, Leticia, Save, Dilsad, Shapiro, Roger, Stoecker, Barbara, Strand, Tor A., Taneja, Sunita, Tellez-Rojo, Martha-Maria, Tofail, Fahmida, Yousafzai, Aisha K., Ezzati, Majid, and Fawzi, Wafaie
Subjects: Developmental Disabilities, access to clean water, Primary education, INFANTS, Global Health, diarrhoea, DOUBLE-BLIND, 0302 clinical medicine, Child Development, Cognition, paternal education, maternal anaemia and anaemia in infancy, Risk Factors, Cognitive development, Medicine, motor development, early life risk factors, LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT, 030212 general & internal medicine, Aetiology, Child, breast feeding, Original Research, Pediatric, General Medicine, language development, maternal education, ZINC SUPPLEMENTATION, IRON-DEFICIENCY, Language development, Motor Skills, access to sanitation, Child, Preschool, Public Health and Health Services, MATERNAL EDUCATION, social and economic factors, ws_141, ws_100, cognitive development, maternal short stature, Pediatric Research Initiative, wa_950, Clinical Sciences, MEDLINE, PRETERM CHILDREN, wa_395, Language Development, GESTATIONAL-AGE CHILDREN, SGA, 03 medical and health sciences, MENTAL-DEVELOPMENT, Clinical Research, 2.3 Psychological, 030225 pediatrics, Behavioral and Social Science, Humans, Preschool, Developing Countries, Other Medical and Health Sciences, business.industry, Prevention, Infant, Protective Factors, Child development, NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS, business, preterm, Breast feeding, Demography
Abstract: ObjectiveTo determine the magnitude of relationships of early life factors with child development in low/middle-income countries (LMICs).DesignMeta-analyses of standardised mean differences (SMDs) estimated from published and unpublished data.Data sourcesWe searched Medline, bibliographies of key articles and reviews, and grey literature to identify studies from LMICs that collected data on early life exposures and child development. The most recent search was done on 4 November 2014. We then invited the first authors of the publications and investigators of unpublished studies to participate in the study.Eligibility criteria for selecting studiesStudies that assessed at least one domain of child development in at least 100 children under 7 years of age and collected at least one early life factor of interest were included in the study.AnalysesLinear regression models were used to assess SMDs in child development by parental and child factors within each study. We then produced pooled estimates across studies using random effects meta-analyses.ResultsWe retrieved data from 21 studies including 20 882 children across 13 LMICs, to assess the associations of exposure to 14 major risk factors with child development. Children of mothers with secondary schooling had 0.14 SD (95% CI 0.05 to 0.25) higher cognitive scores compared with children whose mothers had primary education. Preterm birth was associated with 0.14 SD (–0.24 to –0.05) and 0.23 SD (–0.42 to –0.03) reductions in cognitive and motor scores, respectively. Maternal short stature, anaemia in infancy and lack of access to clean water and sanitation had significant negative associations with cognitive and motor development with effects ranging from −0.18 to −0.10 SDs.ConclusionsDifferential parental, environmental and nutritional factors contribute to disparities in child development across LMICs. Targeting these factors from prepregnancy through childhood may improve health and development of children.
Published: 2019

19. Assessment of Maternal-Infant Interaction: Application of the Still Face Paradigm in a Rural Population of Working Women in Ecuador

Author: Maritza Páez, Jean R. Lowe, Ronald M. Schrader, Alexis J. Handal, Crystal Aragón, and Luigi Garcia Saavedra
Subjects: Adult, Male, Rural Population, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, Emotions, Mothers, Affect (psychology), Social class, 050105 experimental psychology, Developmental psychology, Child Development, Adaptation, Psychological, Still face, medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Child, Association (psychology), Public health, 05 social sciences, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Attention seeking, Infant, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Child development, Mother-Child Relations, Social Class, Child, Preschool, Infant Behavior, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Female, Ecuador, Psychology, Stress, Psychological, Women, Working, 050104 developmental & child psychology
Abstract: Objectives The importance of mother-child interaction in early infancy on child development has been well documented. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of using the Still Face Paradigm to measure mother interactive style, infant affect and emotional regulation in a rural Ecuador setting. Methods Infant’s emotional regulation and the quality of mother’s interaction were measured with the Still Face Paradigm at 4 months of age (±15 days). Twenty-four infants and their mothers were assessed in their home. Mother interactive style was coded for attention seeking and contingent responding. Emotional regulation was described by change in infant affect between Still Face episodes. Results A significant difference was found for infant affect between the five Still Face episodes (F1,118 = 9.185, p = 0.003). A significant negative correlation was found for infant affect between episode 3 and 2 with attention seeking mother interactive style during episode 3 (rho = −0.44, p = 0.03), indicating that mothers using more contingent-responding interactions had infants with more positive affect. Conversely, a significant positive association was found for infant affect between episode 3 and 2 and contingent responding mother interactive style during episode 3 (rho = 0.46, p = 0.02), indicating that mothers who used more attention seeking play had infants who showed less positive affect. Conclusion for Practice Study results demonstrate feasibility in using the Still Face Paradigm in working populations residing in a rural region in Ecuadorian highlands and may be feasible in other similar populations in Latin America, and as a successful approach to measuring maternal-child interactions within a field-based epidemiological study design.
Published: 2016
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20. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Author: Gregory A Roth, Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Solomon M Abay, Cristiana Abbafati, Nooshin Abbasi, Hedayat Abbastabar, Foad Abd-Allah, Jemal Abdela, Ahmed Abdelalim, Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Haftom Temesgen Abebe, Molla Abebe, Zegeye Abebe, Ayenew Negesse Abejie, Semaw F Abera, Olifan Zewdie Abil, Haftom Niguse Abraha, Aklilu Roba Abrham, Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad, Manfred Mario Kokou Accrombessi, Dilaram Acharya, Abdu A Adamu, Oladimeji M Adebayo, Rufus Adesoji Adedoyin, Victor Adekanmbi, Olatunji O Adetokunboh, Beyene Meressa Adhena, Mina G Adib, Amha Admasie, Ashkan Afshin, Gina Agarwal, Kareha M Agesa, Anurag Agrawal, Sutapa Agrawal, Alireza Ahmadi, Mehdi Ahmadi, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Sayem Ahmed, Amani Nidhal Aichour, Ibtihel Aichour, Miloud Taki Eddine Aichour, Mohammad Esmaeil Akbari, Rufus Olusola Akinyemi, Nadia Akseer, Ziyad Al-Aly, Ayman Al-Eyadhy, Rajaa M Al-Raddadi, Fares Alahdab, Khurshid Alam, Tahiya Alam, Animut Alebel, Kefyalew Addis Alene, Mehran Alijanzadeh, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Syed Mohamed Aljunid, Ala'a Alkerwi, François Alla, Peter Allebeck, Jordi Alonso, Khalid Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Azmeraw T Amare, Leopold N Aminde, Erfan Amini, Walid Ammar, Yaw Ampem Amoako, Nahla Hamed Anber, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Sofia Androudi, Megbaru Debalkie Animut, Mina Anjomshoa, Hossein Ansari, Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Carl Abelardo T Antonio, Palwasha Anwari, Olatunde Aremu, Johan Ärnlöv, Amit Arora, Monika Arora, Al Artaman, Krishna K Aryal, Hamid Asayesh, Ephrem Tsegay Asfaw, Zerihun Ataro, Suleman Atique, Sachin R Atre, Marcel Ausloos, Euripide F G A Avokpaho, Ashish Awasthi, Beatriz Paulina Ayala Quintanilla, Yohanes Ayele, Rakesh Ayer, Peter S Azzopardi, Arefeh Babazadeh, Umar Bacha, Hamid Badali, Alaa Badawi, Ayele Geleto Bali, Katherine E Ballesteros, Maciej Banach, Kajori Banerjee, Marlena S Bannick, Joseph Adel Mattar Banoub, Miguel A Barboza, Suzanne Lyn Barker-Collo, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Simon Barquera, Lope H Barrero, Quique Bassat, Sanjay Basu, Bernhard T Baune, Habtamu Wondifraw Baynes, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, Neeraj Bedi, Ettore Beghi, Masoud Behzadifar, Meysam Behzadifar, Yannick Béjot, Bayu Begashaw Bekele, Abate Bekele Belachew, Ezra Belay, Yihalem Abebe Belay, Michelle L Bell, Aminu K Bello, Derrick A Bennett, Isabela M Bensenor, Adam E Berman, Eduardo Bernabe, Robert S Bernstein, Gregory J Bertolacci, Mircea Beuran, Tina Beyranvand, Ashish Bhalla, Suraj Bhattarai, Soumyadeeep Bhaumik, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Belete Biadgo, Molly H Biehl, Ali Bijani, Boris Bikbov, Ver Bilano, Nigus Bililign, Muhammad Shahdaat Bin Sayeed, Donal Bisanzio, Tuhin Biswas, Brigette F Blacker, Berrak Bora Basara, Rohan Borschmann, Cristina Bosetti, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Oliver J Brady, Luisa C Brant, Carol Brayne, Alexandra Brazinova, Nicholas J K Breitborde, Hermann Brenner, Paul Svitil Briant, Gabrielle Britton, Traolach Brugha, Reinhard Busse, Zahid A Butt, Charlton S K H Callender, Ismael R Campos-Nonato, Julio Cesar Campuzano Rincon, Jorge Cano, Mate Car, Rosario Cárdenas, Giulia Carreras, Juan J Carrero, Austin Carter, Félix Carvalho, Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela, Jacqueline Castillo Rivas, Chris D Castle, Clara Castro, Franz Castro, Ferrán Catalá-López, Ester Cerin, Yazan Chaiah, Jung-Chen Chang, Fiona J Charlson, Pankaj Chaturvedi, Peggy Pei-Chia Chiang, Odgerel Chimed-Ochir, Vesper Hichilombwe Chisumpa, Abdulaal Chitheer, Rajiv Chowdhury, Hanne Christensen, Devasahayam J Christopher, Sheng-Chia Chung, Flavia M Cicuttini, Liliana G Ciobanu, Massimo Cirillo, Aaron J Cohen, Leslie Trumbull Cooper, Paolo Angelo Cortesi, Monica Cortinovis, Ewerton Cousin, Benjamin C Cowie, Michael H Criqui, Elizabeth A Cromwell, Christopher Stephen Crowe, John A Crump, Matthew Cunningham, Alemneh Kabeta Daba, Abel Fekadu Dadi, Lalit Dandona, Rakhi Dandona, Anh Kim Dang, Paul I Dargan, Ahmad Daryani, Siddharth K Das, Rajat Das Gupta, José Das Neves, Tamirat Tesfaye Dasa, Aditya Prasad Dash, Adrian C Davis, Nicole Davis Weaver, Dragos Virgil Davitoiu, Kairat Davletov, Fernando Pio De La Hoz, Jan-Walter De Neve, Meaza Girma Degefa, Louisa Degenhardt, Tizta T Degfie, Selina Deiparine, Gebre Teklemariam Demoz, Balem Betsu Demtsu, Edgar Denova-Gutiérrez, Kebede Deribe, Nikolaos Dervenis, Don C Des Jarlais, Getenet Ayalew Dessie, Subhojit Dey, Samath D Dharmaratne, Daniel Dicker, Mesfin Tadese Dinberu, Eric L Ding, M Ashworth Dirac, Shirin Djalalinia, Klara Dokova, David Teye Doku, Christl A Donnelly, E Ray Dorsey, Pratik P Doshi, Dirk Douwes-Schultz, Kerrie E Doyle, Tim R Driscoll, Manisha Dubey, Eleonora Dubljanin, Eyasu Ejeta Duken, Bruce B Duncan, Andre R Duraes, Hedyeh Ebrahimi, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Dumessa Edessa, David Edvardsson, Anne Elise Eggen, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Ziad El-Khatib, Hajer Elkout, Christian Lycke Ellingsen, Matthias Endres, Aman Yesuf Endries, Benjamin Er, Holly E Erskine, Babak Eshrati, Sharareh Eskandarieh, Reza Esmaeili, Alireza Esteghamati, Mahdi Fakhar, Hamed Fakhim, Mahbobeh Faramarzi, Mohammad Fareed, Farzaneh Farhadi, Carla Sofia E sá Farinha, Andre Faro, Maryam S Farvid, Farshad Farzadfar, Mohammad Hosein Farzaei, Valery L Feigin, Andrea B Feigl, Netsanet Fentahun, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Eduarda Fernandes, Joao C Fernandes, Alize J Ferrari, Garumma Tolu Feyissa, Irina Filip, Samuel Finegold, Florian Fischer, Christina Fitzmaurice, Nataliya A Foigt, Kyle J Foreman, Carla Fornari, Tahvi D Frank, Takeshi Fukumoto, John E Fuller, Nancy Fullman, Thomas Fürst, João M Furtado, Neal D Futran, Silvano Gallus, Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro, Miguel A Garcia-Gordillo, William M Gardner, Abadi Kahsu Gebre, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Amanuel Tesfay Gebremedhin, Bereket Gebremichael, Teklu Gebrehiwo Gebremichael, Tilayie Feto Gelano, Johanna M Geleijnse, Ricard Genova-Maleras, Yilma Chisha Dea Geramo, Peter W Gething, Kebede Embaye Gezae, Mohammad Rasoul Ghadami, Reza Ghadimi, Khalil Ghasemi Falavarjani, Maryam Ghasemi-Kasman, Mamata Ghimire, Katherine B Gibney, Paramjit Singh Gill, Tiffany K Gill, Richard F Gillum, Ibrahim Abdelmageed Ginawi, Maurice Giroud, Giorgia Giussani, Shifalika Goenka, Ellen M Goldberg, Srinivas Goli, Hector Gómez-Dantés, Philimon N Gona, Sameer Vali Gopalani, Taren M Gorman, Atsushi Goto, Alessandra C Goulart, Elena V Gnedovskaya, Ayman Grada, Giuseppe Grosso, Harish Chander Gugnani, Andre Luiz Sena Guimaraes, Yuming Guo, Prakash C Gupta, Rahul Gupta, Rajeev Gupta, Tanush Gupta, Reyna Alma Gutiérrez, Bishal Gyawali, Juanita A Haagsma, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Tekleberhan B Hagos, Tewodros Tesfa Hailegiyorgis, Gessessew Bugssa Hailu, Arvin Haj-Mirzaian, Arya Haj-Mirzaian, Randah R Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Alexis J Handal, Graeme J Hankey, Hilda L Harb, Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Josep Maria Haro, Mehedi Hasan, Hadi Hassankhani, Hamid Yimam Hassen, Rasmus Havmoeller, Roderick J Hay, Simon I Hay, Yihua He, Akbar Hedayatizadeh-Omran, Mohamed I Hegazy, Behzad Heibati, Mohsen Heidari, Delia Hendrie, Andualem Henok, Nathaniel J Henry, Claudiu Herteliu, Fatemeh Heydarpour, Pouria Heydarpour, Sousan Heydarpour, Desalegn Tsegaw Hibstu, Hans W Hoek, Michael K Hole, Enayatollah Homaie Rad, Praveen Hoogar, H Dean Hosgood, Seyed Mostafa Hosseini, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mihaela Hostiuc, Sorin Hostiuc, Peter J Hotez, Damian G Hoy, Thomas Hsiao, Guoqing Hu, John J Huang, Abdullatif Husseini, Mohammedaman Mama Hussen, Susan Hutfless, Bulat Idrisov, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Usman Iqbal, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Caleb Mackay Salpeter Irvine, Nazrul Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Farhad Islami, Kathryn H Jacobsen, Leila Jahangiry, Nader Jahanmehr, Sudhir Kumar Jain, Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Moti Tolera Jalu, Spencer L James, Mehdi Javanbakht, Achala Upendra Jayatilleke, Panniyammakal Jeemon, Kathy J Jenkins, Ravi Prakash Jha, Vivekanand Jha, Catherine O Johnson, Sarah C Johnson, Jost B Jonas, Ankur Joshi, Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, Suresh Banayya Jungari, Mikk Jürisson, Zubair Kabir, Rajendra Kadel, Amaha Kahsay, Rizwan Kalani, Manoochehr Karami, Behzad Karami Matin, André Karch, Corine Karema, Hamidreza Karimi-Sari, Amir Kasaeian, Dessalegn H Kassa, Getachew Mullu Kassa, Tesfaye Dessale Kassa, Nicholas J Kassebaum, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi, Anil Kaul, Zhila Kazemi, Ali Kazemi Karyani, Dhruv Satish Kazi, Adane Teshome Kefale, Peter Njenga Keiyoro, Grant Rodgers Kemp, Andre Pascal Kengne, Andre Keren, Chandrasekharan Nair Kesavachandran, Yousef Saleh Khader, Behzad Khafaei, Morteza Abdullatif Khafaie, Alireza Khajavi, Nauman Khalid, Ibrahim A Khalil, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Muhammad Ali Khan, Young-Ho Khang, Mona M Khater, Abdullah T Khoja, Ardeshir Khosravi, Mohammad Hossein Khosravi, Jagdish Khubchandani, Aliasghar A Kiadaliri, Getiye D Kibret, Zelalem Teklemariam Kidanemariam, Daniel N Kiirithio, Daniel Kim, Young-Eun Kim, Yun Jin Kim, Ruth W Kimokoti, Yohannes Kinfu, Adnan Kisa, Katarzyna Kissimova-Skarbek, Mika Kivimäki, Ann Kristin Skrindo Knudsen, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Sonali Kochhar, Yoshihiro Kokubo, Tufa Kolola, Jacek A Kopec, Parvaiz A Koul, Ai Koyanagi, Michael A Kravchenko, Kewal Krishan, Barthelemy Kuate Defo, Burcu Kucuk Bicer, G Anil Kumar, Manasi Kumar, Pushpendra Kumar, Michael J Kutz, Igor Kuzin, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, Deepesh P Lad, Sheetal D Lad, Alessandra Lafranconi, Dharmesh Kumar Lal, Ratilal Lalloo, Tea Lallukka, Jennifer O Lam, Faris Hasan Lami, Van C Lansingh, Sonia Lansky, Heidi J Larson, Arman Latifi, Kathryn Mei-Ming Lau, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Georgy Lebedev, Paul H Lee, James Leigh, Mostafa Leili, Cheru Tesema Leshargie, Shanshan Li, Yichong Li, Juan Liang, Lee-Ling Lim, Stephen S Lim, Miteku Andualem Limenih, Shai Linn, Shiwei Liu, Yang Liu, Rakesh Lodha, Chris Lonsdale, Alan D Lopez, Stefan Lorkowski, Paulo A Lotufo, Rafael Lozano, Raimundas Lunevicius, Stefan Ma, Erlyn Rachelle King Macarayan, Mark T Mackay, Jennifer H MacLachlan, Emilie R Maddison, Fabiana Madotto, Hassan Magdy Abd El 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Gopalakrishnan Natarajan, Nahid Neamati, Ionut Negoi, Ruxandra Irina Negoi, Subas Neupane, Charles R J Newton, Frida N Ngalesoni, Josephine W Ngunjiri, Anh Quynh Nguyen, Grant Nguyen, Ha Thu Nguyen, Huong Thanh Nguyen, Long Hoang Nguyen, Minh Nguyen, Trang Huyen Nguyen, Emma Nichols, Dina Nur Anggraini Ningrum, Yirga Legesse Nirayo, Molly R Nixon, Nomonde Nolutshungu, Shuhei Nomura, Ole F Norheim, Mehdi Noroozi, Bo Norrving, Jean Jacques Noubiap, Hamid Reza Nouri, Malihe Nourollahpour Shiadeh, Mohammad Reza Nowroozi, Peter S Nyasulu, Christopher M Odell, Richard Ofori-Asenso, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, In-Hwan Oh, Olanrewaju Oladimeji, Andrew T Olagunju, Pedro R Olivares, Helen Elizabeth Olsen, Bolajoko Olubukunola Olusanya, Jacob Olusegun Olusanya, Kanyin L Ong, Sok King Sk Ong, Eyal Oren, Heather M Orpana, Alberto Ortiz, Justin R Ortiz, Stanislav S Otstavnov, Simon Øverland, Mayowa Ojo Owolabi, Raziye Özdemir, Mahesh P A, Rosana Pacella, Smita Pakhale, Abhijit P Pakhare, Amir H Pakpour, Adrian Pana, Songhomitra Panda-Jonas, Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, Andrea Parisi, Eun-Kee Park, Charles D H Parry, Hadi Parsian, Shanti Patel, Sanghamitra Pati, George C Patton, Vishnupriya Rao Paturi, Katherine R Paulson, Alexandre Pereira, David M Pereira, Norberto Perico, Konrad Pesudovs, Max Petzold, Michael R Phillips, Frédéric B Piel, David M Pigott, Julian David Pillay, Meghdad Pirsaheb, Farhad Pishgar, Suzanne Polinder, Maarten J Postma, Akram Pourshams, Hossein Poustchi, Ashwini Pujar, Swayam Prakash, Narayan Prasad, Caroline A Purcell, Mostafa Qorbani, Hedley Quintana, D Alex Quistberg, Kirankumar Waman Rade, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Alireza Rafiei, Fakher Rahim, Kazem Rahimi, Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar, Mahfuzar Rahman, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Muhammad Aziz Rahman, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Sasa Rajsic, Usha Ram, Chhabi Lal Ranabhat, Prabhat Ranjan, Puja C Rao, David Laith Rawaf, Salman Rawaf, Christian Razo-García, K Srinath Reddy, Robert C Reiner, Marissa B Reitsma, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Andre M N Renzaho, Serge Resnikoff, Satar Rezaei, Shahab Rezaeian, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Seyed Mohammad Riahi, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro, Maria Jesus Rios-Blancas, Kedir Teji Roba, Nicholas L S Roberts, Stephen R Robinson, Leonardo Roever, Luca Ronfani, Gholamreza Roshandel, Ali Rostami, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Ambuj Roy, Enrico Rubagotti, Perminder S Sachdev, Basema Saddik, Ehsan Sadeghi, Hosein Safari, Mahdi Safdarian, Sare Safi, Saeid Safiri, Rajesh Sagar, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Mohammad Ali Sahraian, Nasir Salam, Joseph S Salama, Payman Salamati, Raphael De Freitas Saldanha, Zikria Saleem, Yahya Salimi, Sundeep Santosh Salvi, Inbal Salz, Evanson Zondani Sambala, Abdallah M Samy, Juan Sanabria, Maria Dolores Sanchez-Niño, Damian Francesco Santomauro, Itamar S Santos, João Vasco Santos, Milena M Santric Milicevic, Bruno Piassi Sao Jose, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Rodrigo Sarmiento-Suárez, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Benn Sartorius, Shahabeddin Sarvi, Brijesh Sathian, Maheswar Satpathy, Arundhati R Sawant, Monika Sawhney, Sonia Saxena, Mehdi Sayyah, Elke Schaeffner, Maria Inês Schmidt, Ione J C Schneider, Ben Schöttker, Aletta Elisabeth Schutte, David C Schwebel, Falk Schwendicke, James G Scott, Mario Sekerija, Sadaf G Sepanlou, Edson Serván-Mori, Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi, Hosein Shabaninejad, Katya Anne Shackelford, Azadeh Shafieesabet, Mehdi Shahbazi, Amira A Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Mehran Shams-Beyranvand, Mohammadbagher Shamsi, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Kiomars Sharafi, Mehdi Sharif, Mahdi Sharif-Alhoseini, Rajesh Sharma, Jun She, Aziz Sheikh, Peilin Shi, Mekonnen Sisay Shiferaw, Mika Shigematsu, Rahman Shiri, Reza Shirkoohi, Ivy Shiue, Farhad Shokraneh, Mark G Shrime, Si Si, Soraya Siabani, Tariq J Siddiqi, Inga Dora Sigfusdottir, Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir, Donald H Silberberg, Diego Augusto Santos Silva, João Pedro Silva, Natacha Torres Da Silva, Dayane Gabriele Alves Silveira, Jasvinder A Singh, Narinder Pal Singh, Prashant Kumar Singh, Virendra Singh, Dhirendra Narain Sinha, Karen Sliwa, Mari Smith, Badr Hasan Sobaih, Soheila Sobhani, Eugène Sobngwi, Samir S Soneji, Moslem Soofi, Reed J D Sorensen, Joan B Soriano, Ireneous N Soyiri, Luciano A Sposato, Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Vinay Srinivasan, Jeffrey D Stanaway, Vladimir I Starodubov, Vasiliki Stathopoulou, Dan J Stein, Caitlyn Steiner, Leo G Stewart, Mark A Stokes, Michelle L Subart, Agus Sudaryanto, Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Patrick John Sur, Ipsita Sutradhar, Bryan L Sykes, P N Sylaja, Dillon O Sylte, Cassandra E I Szoeke, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Takahiro Tabuchi, Santosh Kumar Tadakamadla, Ken Takahashi, Nikhil Tandon, Segen Gebremeskel Tassew, Nuno Taveira, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Tigist Gashaw Tekalign, Merhawi Gebremedhin Tekle, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Omar Temsah, Abdullah Sulieman Terkawi, Manaye Yihune Teshale, Belay Tessema, Gizachew Assefa Tessema, Kavumpurathu Raman Thankappan, Sathish Thirunavukkarasu, Nihal Thomas, Amanda G Thrift, George D Thurston, Binyam Tilahun, Quyen G To, Ruoyan Tobe-Gai, Marcello Tonelli, Roman Topor-Madry, Anna E Torre, Miguel Tortajada-Girbés, Mathilde Touvier, Marcos Roberto Tovani-Palone, Bach Xuan Tran, Khanh Bao Tran, Suryakant Tripathi, Christopher E Troeger, Thomas Clement Truelsen, Nu Thi Truong, Afewerki Gebremeskel Tsadik, Derrick Tsoi, Lorainne Tudor Car, E Murat Tuzcu, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Kingsley N Ukwaja, Irfan Ullah, Eduardo A Undurraga, Rachel L Updike, Muhammad Shariq Usman, Olalekan A Uthman, Selen Begüm Uzun, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Afsane Vaezi, Gaurang Vaidya, Pascual R Valdez, Elena Varavikova, Tommi Juhani Vasankari, Narayanaswamy Venketasubramanian, Santos Villafaina, Francesco S Violante, Sergey Konstantinovitch Vladimirov, Vasily Vlassov, Stein Emil Vollset, Theo Vos, Gregory R Wagner, Fasil Shiferaw Wagnew, Yasir Waheed, Mitchell Taylor Wallin, Judd L Walson, Yanping Wang, Yuan-Pang Wang, Molla Mesele Wassie, Elisabete Weiderpass, Robert G Weintraub, Fitsum Weldegebreal, Kidu Gidey Weldegwergs, Andrea Werdecker, Adhena Ayaliew Werkneh, T Eoin West, Ronny Westerman, Harvey A Whiteford, Justyna Widecka, Lauren B Wilner, Shadrach Wilson, Andrea Sylvia Winkler, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Charles D A Wolfe, Shouling Wu, Yun-Chun Wu, Grant M A Wyper, Denis Xavier, Gelin Xu, Simon Yadgir, Ali Yadollahpour, Seyed Hossein Yahyazadeh Jabbari, Bereket Yakob, Lijing L Yan, Yuichiro Yano, Mehdi Yaseri, Yasin Jemal Yasin, Gökalp Kadri Yentür, Alex Yeshaneh, Ebrahim M Yimer, Paul Yip, Biruck Desalegn Yirsaw, Engida Yisma, Naohiro Yonemoto, Gerald Yonga, Seok-Jun Yoon, Marcel Yotebieng, Mustafa Z Younis, Mahmoud Yousefifard, Chuanhua Yu, Vesna Zadnik, Zoubida Zaidi, Sojib Bin Zaman, Mohammad Zamani, Zohreh Zare, Ayalew Jejaw Zeleke, Zerihun Menlkalew Zenebe, Anthony Lin Zhang, Kai Zhang, Maigeng Zhou, Sanjay Zodpey, Liesl Joanna Zuhlke, Mohsen Naghavi, and Christopher J L Murray., Rubagotti, Enrico, Abay, Solomon M., Roth, Gregory, Abd Allah, Foad, Abdela, Jemal, Abbastabar, Hedayat, and Abbasi, Nooshin
Subjects: Overview, Disease, Territory, Causes of death, humanities
Abstract: Global development goals increasingly rely on country-specific estimates for benchmarking a nation's progress. To meet this need, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016 estimated global, regional, national, and, for selected locations, subnational cause-specific mortality beginning in the year 1980. Here we report an update to that study, making use of newly available data and improved methods. GBD 2017 provides a comprehensive assessment of cause-specific mortality for 282 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2017. The Lancet Publishing Group
Published: 2019

21. Characterization of Pesticide Exposure in a Sample of Pregnant Women in Ecuador

Author: Dana B. Barr, Alexis J. Handal, Lauren Hund, Maritza Páez, Carolyn Greenberg, Richard A. Fenske, and Samantha Bear
Subjects: Adult, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Metabolite, Urine, 010501 environmental sciences, Toxicology, 01 natural sciences, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Pesticides, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Pyrethroid, Ethylene thiourea, General Medicine, Pesticide, medicine.disease, Pollution, TCPy, chemistry, Maternal Exposure, Environmental chemistry, Malathion, Environmental Pollutants, Female, Ecuador
Abstract: Few studies have detailed the prenatal pesticide exposure levels of women employed in or residing near large-scale agricultural industries. This study reports pesticide metabolite levels during and shortly after pregnancy in a pilot study of workers in Ecuador. Urine samples were collected for 16 rose workers and 10 nonagricultural workers enrolled into the study in early pregnancy. We measured six nonspecific organophosphatedialkylphosphate (DAP) pesticide metabolites, two alkylenebis-dithiocarbamate pesticide metabolites [ethylene thiourea (ETU) and propylene thiourea (PTU)], 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinol (TCPy), malathion dicarboxylic acid, and two pyrethroid metabolites (2,2-dimethylcyclo propanecarboxylic acid and 3-phenooxybenzoic acid). We collected 141 urine samples (mean: 5.4 per woman). We observed high detection frequencies for five DAP metabolites and ETU, PTU, and TCPy. We report elevated levels of ETU in the entire sample (median 4.24 ng/mL, IQR 2.23, 7.18), suggesting other possible non-occupational pathways of exposure. We found no statistical differences in pesticide levels by current employment status, although the highest pesticide levels were among rose workers. We observed within-woman correlation in TCPy and PTU levels, but not in ETU or DAP levels. The present study is the first to characterize prenatal pesticide exposure levels among working women in Ecuador. Limitations include a small sample size and use of a convenience sample. Strengths include a longitudinal design and multiple urine samples per woman. Results provide an initial characterization of prenatal pesticide exposure levels and how these levels vary over pregnancy in a community impacted by agricultural industry and will inform further studies in the region.
Published: 2015
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22. The State of US Health, 1990-2016 Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States

Author: Christopher Troeger, Scott D Glenn, Nancy Fullman, Michael H. Criqui, Benn Sartorius, Derrick Tsoi, Stein Emil Vollset, Andrea Werdecker, Danny V. Colombara, Eun-Kee Park, Harvey Whiteford, Mitch T Wallin, Ben Zipkin, Gregory R. Wagner, Jasvinder A. Singh, Amir Kasaeian, Talha Farid, Yohannes Kinfu, Tejas V. Patel, Janni Leung, George C Patton, Samir Soneji, Ben Anderson, Roman Topor-Madry, Maryam S. Farvid, Louisa Degenhardt, Jürgen Unützer, Paul S Briant, Stephen M. Amrock, Michelle Echko, Fiona J Charlson, Simon I. Hay, Janet L Leasher, Alexis J. Handal, Rasmus Havmoller, Mojde Mirarefin, Yuichiro Yano, Philimon Gona, Spencer L. James, Abdur Rahman Khan, Jacob E. Sunshine, Leslie T. Cooper, Patrick Liu, Brian J. Biroscak, Honglei Chen, H. Dean Hosgood, Peter J. Hotez, Sudha Jayaraman, Damian Santomauro, Leah E. Cahill, Hsiang Huang, Jean B. Nachega, Guoqing Hu, Bryan L. Sykes, Kaja Abbas, Michelle L. Bell, E. Ray Dorsey, Michael Brauer, Jagdish Khubchandani, Hmwe H Kyu, Kanyin Ong, Juan Sanabria, Mark Moses, Simon Yadgir, David C. Schwebel, Tahiya Alam, Jost B. Jonas, Holly E. Erskine, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Christopher J L Murray, Amit Kandel, Max Griswold, Alexander Lee, Kristopher J. Krohn, Alireza Ahmadi, Theo Vos, Mustafa Z. Younis, Eyal Oren, Ricky Leung, Tahvi Frank, Elaine O. Nsoesie, Leslie Cornaby, Dariush Mozaffarian, Mostafa Qorbani, Vegard Skirbekk, Saverio Stranges, Erin C Mullany, Minh Nguyen, Helen E Olsen, Austin Carter, Tsegaye Telwelde Gebrehiwot, Ali H. Mokdad, Colin D. Rehm, Stan Biryukov, Daniel Kim, Ziyad Al-Aly, Ruth W Kimokoti, Eric L. Ding, Ira Martopullo, Dhaval Kolte, Alem Mehari, Alize J. Ferrari, Masako Horino, Joshua A. Salomon, Nicholas J K Breitborde, Gregory A. Roth, Emma Nichols, Berrin Serdar, Karen M. Tabb, Till Bärnighausen, Katherine Ballestros, Christina Fitzmaurice, Ted R. Miller, Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, and Tomi Akinyemiju
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Poison control, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Cost of Illness, Risk Factors, Injury prevention, Epidemiology, Disability-adjusted life year, Medicine, Humans, Disabled Persons, 030212 general & internal medicine, Mortality, business.industry, Mortality, Premature, Mortality rate, General Medicine, Health Status Disparities, Middle Aged, United States, Quality-adjusted life year, Years of potential life lost, Life expectancy, Wounds and Injuries, Female, Quality-Adjusted Life Years, Morbidity, business, Demography
Abstract: Introduction Several studies have measured health outcomes in the United States, but none have provided a comprehensive assessment of patterns of health by state. Objective To use the results of the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) to report trends in the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors at the state level from 1990 to 2016. Design and Setting A systematic analysis of published studies and available data sources estimates the burden of disease by age, sex, geography, and year. Main Outcomes and Measures Prevalence, incidence, mortality, life expectancy, healthy life expectancy (HALE), years of life lost (YLLs) due to premature mortality, years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 333 causes and 84 risk factors with 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) were computed. Results Between 1990 and 2016, overall death rates in the United States declined from 745.2 (95%UI, 740.6 to 749.8) per 100 000 persons to 578.0 (95%UI, 569.4 to 587.1) per 100 000 persons. The probability of death among adults aged 20 to 55 years declined in 31 states and Washington, DC from 1990 to 2016. In 2016, Hawaii had the highest life expectancy at birth (81.3 years) and Mississippi had the lowest (74.7 years), a 6.6-year difference. Minnesota had the highest HALE at birth (70.3 years), andWest Virginia had the lowest (63.8 years), a 6.5-year difference. The leading causes of DALYs in the United States for 1990 and 2016 were ischemic heart disease and lung cancer, while the third leading cause in 1990 was low back pain, and the third leading cause in 2016 was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Opioid use disorders moved from the 11th leading cause of DALYs in 1990 to the 7th leading cause in 2016, representing a 74.5%(95%UI, 42.8%to 93.9%) change. In 2016, each of the following 6 risks individually accounted for more than 5%of risk-attributable DALYs: tobacco consumption, high body mass index (BMI), poor diet, alcohol and drug use, high fasting plasma glucose, and high blood pressure. Across all US states, the top risk factors in terms of attributable DALYs were due to 1 of the 3 following causes: tobacco consumption (32 states), high BMI (10 states), or alcohol and drug use (8 states). Conclusions and Relevance There are wide differences in the burden of disease at the state level. Specific diseases and risk factors, such as drug use disorders, high BMI, poor diet, high fasting plasma glucose level, and alcohol use disorders are increasing and warrant increased attention. These data can be used to inform national health priorities for research, clinical care, and policy.
Published: 2018

23. Social and clinical predictors of drug-resistant tuberculosis in a public hospital, Monterrey, Mexico

Author: Jeffrey C. Long, Jack Baker, Adrian G. Rosas-Taraco, Adrian Rendon, Alexis J. Handal, Keith Hunley, Bonnie N. Young, and Marcos Burgos
Subjects: Adult, Genetic Markers, Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Tuberculosis, Epidemiology, Comorbidity, Logistic regression, Medical Records, Mycobacterium, Interviews as Topic, Cocaine-Related Disorders, Hospitals, Urban, Recurrence, Risk Factors, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant, medicine, Humans, Mexico, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, business.industry, Medical record, Confounding, Case-control study, DNA, Odds ratio, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, Logistic Models, Case-Control Studies, Public hospital, Crack Cocaine, Female, business, Demography
Abstract: Purpose Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DRTB) is steadily increasing in Mexico, but little is known of patient risk factors in the Mexico–United States border region. This preliminary case-control study included 95 patients with active pulmonary TB with drug susceptibility results attending the Jose E. Gonzalez University Hospital in the urban hub of Nuevo Leon—the Monterrey Metropolitan Area. We report potential social and clinical risk factors of DRTB among this hospital-based sample. Methods We collected data through face-to-face interviews and medical record reviews from 25 cases with DRTB and 70 drug-sensitive controls. DNA was collected to assess an effect of genetic ancestry on DRTB by using a panel of 291,917 genomic markers. We calculated crude and multivariate logistic regression. Results After adjusting for potential confounding factors, we found that prior TB treatment (odds ratio, 4.5; 95% confidence interval, 0.9–21.1) and use of crack cocaine (odds ratio, 4.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.1–18.7) were associated with DRTB. No other variables, including genetic ancestry and comorbidities, were predictive. Conclusions Health care providers may benefit from recognizing predictors of DRTB in regions where routine drug susceptibility testing is limited. Prior TB treatment and illicit drug use, specifically crack cocaine, may be important risk factors for DRTB in this region.
Published: 2014
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24. Obesity and malnutrition among Hispanic children in the United States: double burden on health inequities

Author: Celia Iriart, Blake Boursaw, Gabriela P. Rodrigues, and Alexis J. Handal
Subjects: Desigualdades en la salud, lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, lcsh:RC955-962, bienestar del niño, lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, Estados Unidos, lcsh:R, lcsh:Medicine, lcsh:RA1-1270, hispanoamericanos, obesidad, desnutrición
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To examine important micronutrient deficiencies related to child health and growth outcomes for all weight statuses to 1) better understand other potential nutritional problems and inequities that may be masked by focusing solely on BMI percentiles and overweight/obesity, and 2) draw attention to the need for more studies focused on the nutritional well-being of children at all weight statuses, including healthy weight. METHODS: A sample of children (ages 2-19 years) old from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2010 was analyzed. Prevalence of stunting, folate, vitamin D, iron, iodine, and anemia, was considered. Comparisons were conducted between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics, and within Hispanics, based on socio-demographic and economic characteristics. RESULTS: Hispanic children experienced significantly higher prevalence of stunting (6.1% versus 2.6%), and the prevalence of stunted Hispanic children in the healthy weight category was higher than those in the overweight/obese category. Comparable percentages were observed by ethnicity for most analyzed micronutrients, although girls had consistently higher prevalence of nutritional deficiencies than boys, especially girls reaching reproductive age. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this article draw attention to the need for more specific and differentiated analyses of child obesity and nutritional status among and within ethnic, sex, and age groups. Appropriate public health interventions need to consider the entire range of weight statuses and micronutrient deficiencies to eliminate inequities among minority children, especially girls.
Published: 2013

25. Healthy Native Community Fellowship: An Indigenous Leadership Program to Enhance Community Wellness

Author: Marita Jones, Rebecca Rae, Alexis J. Handal, Chris Percy, Kristine Maltrud, Tina Tso, Frances Varela, Marge Bluehorse-Anderson, Nina Wallerstein, and Shelley Frazier
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Alaskan Native, Sociology and Political Science, Cultural identity, education, Community-based participatory research, Participatory action research, lcsh:Political science, Indigenous, lcsh:Social Sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Grassroots, 0302 clinical medicine, Nursing, Participatory evaluation, 030212 general & internal medicine, Social determinants of health, Sociology, 030505 public health, business.industry, participatory evaluation, Public relations, Social engagement, community capacity, lcsh:H, community based participatory research, community health and wellness, Anthropology, American Indian, Indigenous leadership, 0305 other medical science, business, lcsh:J
Abstract: The Healthy Native Communities Fellowship (HNCF) is a grassroots evidence-based mentorship and leadership program that develops the skills and community-building capacities of leaders and community teams to improve health status through several intermediate social and cultural mechanisms: (a) strengthening social participation (also known as social capital or cohesion); (b) strengthening cultural connectedness and revitalization of cultural identity; and (c) advocating for health-enhancing policies, practices, and programs that strengthen systems of prevention and care, as well as address the structural social determinants of health. This leadership program uses a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach and participatory evaluation to investigate how the work of local American Indian and Alaska Native leaders (fellows) and their community coalitions contributes to individual, family, and community level health outcomes.
Published: 2016

26. Chronic Malnutrition Among Overweight Hispanic Children: Understanding Health Disparities

Author: Blake Boursaw, Gabriela P. Rodrigues, Celia Iriart, and Alexis J. Handal
Subjects: Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, Adolescent, Epidemiology, media_common.quotation_subject, Immigration, Ethnic group, Overweight, Childhood obesity, Young Adult, Environmental health, Humans, Medicine, Young adult, Child, media_common, business.industry, Public health, Malnutrition, digestive, oral, and skin physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Health Status Disparities, Hispanic or Latino, Nutrition Surveys, medicine.disease, Obesity, United States, Health equity, Child, Preschool, Chronic Disease, Female, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract: Obesity may be masking other health problems such as height deficit, or stunting. Stunting may reflect the cumulative effect of chronic malnutrition especially in underserved immigrant communities. Exploratory analysis of a sample of children 2-19 years old from the 2007-2008 NHANES was used to assess the relationship between chronic malnutrition and overweight/obesity in Hispanic children. Overall, overweight/obesity prevalence was nearly 1 in 3 children and stunting prevalence was 3.1%. The prevalence of stunting varied significantly across race/ethnicity, with prevalence among Hispanics of 6.6%. Prevalence of stunting varied significantly by socio-economic characteristics within the Hispanic population. Our exploratory study showed differences in the prevalence of stunting across racial/ethnic groups and highlighted that overweight/obese Hispanic children have a higher prevalence of stunting compared with Non-Hispanic White overweight/obese children. More studies are needed to better understand the phenomenon and the implications for health inequities.
Published: 2011
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27. Occupational Exposure to Pesticides During Pregnancy and Neurobehavioral Development of Infants and Toddlers

Author: Betsy Lozoff, Jaime Breilh, Alexis J. Handal, and Siobán D. Harlow
Subjects: Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Developmental Disabilities, Vision Disorders, Occupational medicine, Young Adult, chemistry.chemical_compound, Pregnancy, Occupational Exposure, Odds Ratio, medicine, Humans, Pesticides, Psychomotor learning, business.industry, Organophosphate, Infant, Agriculture, Pesticide, medicine.disease, chemistry, In utero, Case-Control Studies, Child, Preschool, Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, Gestation, Female, Ecuador, business
Abstract: Few studies have examined the effects of in utero exposure to organophosphate and carbamate pesticides on neurobehavioral development in infants and young children. This study considers the potential effects of maternal occupation in the cut-flower industry during pregnancy on neurobehavioral development in Ecuadorian children.Data were collected during 2003-2004 for 121 children aged 3-23 months and living in the rural highland region of Cayambe, Ecuador. Children were administered the Ages and Stages Questionnaire and were given specific developmental tests including prehension (reach-and-grasp) and visual skills. Information was gathered on maternal health and work characteristics, the home environment, and child health status. Growth measurements and a hemoglobin finger-prick blood test were obtained. We conducted multiple linear and logistic regression analyses.Children whose mothers worked in the flower industry during pregnancy scored lower on communication (8% decrease in score, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -16% to 0.5%) and fine motor skills (13% decrease, 95% CI: -22% to -5), and had a higher odds of having poor visual acuity (odds ratio = 4.7 [CI =1.1-20]), compared with children whose mothers did not work in the flower industry during pregnancy, after adjusting for potential confounders.Maternal occupation in the cut-flower industry during pregnancy may be associated with delayed neurobehavioral development of children aged 3-23 months. Possible hazards associated with working in the flower industry during pregnancy include pesticide exposure, exhaustion, and job stress.
Published: 2008
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28. Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980-2015 : a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

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Hay, Johan Ärnlöv, Ivo Rakovac, Alexandra Brazinova, Nancy Fullman, Sara Sheikhbahaei, Liliana G Ciobanu, Nader Jahanmehr, Yuming Guo, Luigi Naldi, Rana Jawad Asghar, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Corine Karema, Biju Abraham, Rynaz H S Rabiee, Emerito Jose A. Faraon, Philimon Gona, Jonathan I. Silverberg, Alexandria Brown, Kovin Naidoo, Suleman Atique, Yun Jin Kim, Benn Sartorius, Hwashin Hyun Shin, George Mugambage Ruhago, Adugnaw Berhane, Tesfaye Tekle, Abdur Rahman Khan, Vipin Gupta, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Héctor Gómez-Dantés, Jun She, Ted R. Miller, Tolesa Bekele, Yohannes Kinfu, Srinivas Murthy, Alaa Badawi, Mahfuzar Rahman, Raghib Ali, Robert G. Weintraub, Nicholas Steel, Khalid A Altirkawi, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Thomas N. 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Resnikoff, Serge, Reynolds, Alex, Rojas-Rueda, David, Ronfani, Luca, Roshandel, Gholamreza, Roth, Gregory A, Roy, Ambuj, Ruhago, George Mugambage, Sagar, Rajesh, Saleh, Muhammad Muhammad, Sanabria, Juan R, Sanchez-Niño, Maria Dolore, Santos, Itamar S, Santos, João Vasco, Sarmiento-Suarez, Rodrigo, Sartorius, Benn, Satpathy, Maheswar, Savic, Miloje, Sawhney, Monika, Schneider, Ione J C, Schöttker, Ben, Schwebel, David C, Seedat, Soraya, Sepanlou, Sadaf G, Servan-Mori, Edson E, Setegn, Tesfaye, Shahraz, Saeid, Shaikh, Masood Ali, Shakh-Nazarova, Marina, Sharma, Rajesh, She, Jun, Sheikhbahaei, Sara, Shen, Jiabin, Sheth, Kevin N, Shibuya, Kenji, Shin, Hwashin Hyun, Shin, Min-Jeong, Shiri, Rahman, Shuie, Ivy, Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora, Silva, Diego Augusto Santo, Silverberg, Jonathan, Simard, Edgar P, Sindi, Shireen, Singh, Abhishek, Singh, Jasvinder A, Singh, Om Prakash, Singh, Prashant Kumar, Singh, Virendra, Soriano, Joan B, Soshnikov, Sergey, Sposato, Luciano A, Sreeramareddy, Chandrashekhar T, Stathopoulou, Vasiliki, Steel, Nichola, Stroumpoulis, Konstantino, Sturua, Lela, Sunguya, Bruno F, Swaminathan, Soumya, Sykes, Bryan L, Szoeke, Cassandra E I, Tabarés-Seisdedos, Rafael, Tavakkoli, Mohammad, Taye, Bineyam, Tedla, Bemnet Amare, Tefera, Worku Mekonnen, Tekle, Tesfaye, Shifa, Girma Temam, Terkawi, Abdullah Sulieman, Tesfay, Fisaha Haile, Tessema, Gizachew Assefa, Thapa, Kiran, Thomson, Alan J, Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L, Tobe-Gai, Ruoyan, Tonelli, Marcello, Topor-Madry, Roman, Topouzis, Foti, Tran, Bach Xuan, Troeger, Christopher, Truelsen, Thoma, Dimbuene, Zacharie Tsala, Tura, Abera Kenay, Tyrovolas, Stefano, Ukwaja, Kingsley N, Uneke, Chigozie Jesse, Uthman, Olalekan A, Vaezghasemi, Masoud, Vasankari, Tommi, Vasconcelos, Ana Maria Nogale, Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy, Verma, Raj Kumar, Violante, Francesco S, Vladimirov, Sergey K, Vlassov, Vasiliy Victorovich, Vollset, Stein Emil, Wang, Linhong, Wang, Yanping, Weichenthal, Scott, Weiderpass, Elisabete, Weintraub, Robert G, Weiss, Daniel J, Werdecker, Andrea, Westerman, Ronny, Widdowson, Marc-Alain, Wijeratne, Tissa, Williams, Thomas Neil, Wiysonge, Charles Shey, Wolfe, Charles D A, Wolfe, Ingrid, Won, Sungho, Wubshet, Mamo, Xiao, Qingyang, Xu, Gelin, Yadav, Ajit Kumar, Yakob, Bereket, Yano, Yuichiro, Yaseri, Mehdi, Ye, Pengpeng, Yebyo, Henock Gebremedhin, Yip, Paul, Yonemoto, Naohiro, Yoon, Seok-Jun, Younis, Mustafa Z, Yu, Chuanhua, Zaidi, Zoubida, Zaki, Maysaa El Sayed, Zeeb, Hajo, Zhang, Hao, Zhao, Yong, Zheng, Yingfeng, Zhou, Maigeng, Zodpey, Sanjay, and Murray, Christopher J L
Subjects: Pediatrics, Nutrition and Disease, Global Health, Communicable Disease, 0302 clinical medicine, Voeding en Ziekte, Infant Mortality, Compensation law of mortality, Global health, Medicine, LIFE EXPECTANCY, 030212 general & internal medicine, DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES, 10. No inequality, Medicine(all), NEWBORN BABIES, Medicine (all), Mortality rate, 1. No poverty, DEATH, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology, General Medicine, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, Stillbirth, 3. Good health, Child Mortality, SURVIVAL, CHILD-MORTALITY, HEALTH, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, DEVELOPMENT GOAL 4, Human, INTERVENTIONS, medicine.medical_specialty, RJ, INTEGRATED APPROACH, Developing country, Communicable Diseases, neonatal, 03 medical and health sciences, Medicine, General & Internal, 030225 pediatrics, General & Internal Medicine, Life Science, Humans, Global Burden of Disease Study, VLAG, Estimation, Science & Technology, business.industry, Klinisk medicin, Infant, GBD 2015 Child Mortality Collaborators, Infant mortality, Malaria, Child mortality, Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi, Life expectancy, Clinical Medicine, RG, business, Demography
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Established in 2000, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) catalysed extraordinary political, financial, and social commitments to reduce under-5 mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. At the country level, the pace of progress in improving child survival has varied markedly, highlighting a crucial need to further examine potential drivers of accelerated or slowed decreases in child mortality. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides an analytical framework to comprehensively assess these trends for under-5 mortality, age-specific and cause-specific mortality among children under 5 years, and stillbirths by geography over time. METHODS: Drawing from analytical approaches developed and refined in previous iterations of the GBD study, we generated updated estimates of child mortality by age group (neonatal, post-neonatal, ages 1-4 years, and under 5) for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational geographies, from 1980-2015. We also estimated numbers and rates of stillbirths for these geographies and years. Gaussian process regression with data source adjustments for sampling and non-sampling bias was applied to synthesise input data for under-5 mortality for each geography. Age-specific mortality estimates were generated through a two-stage age-sex splitting process, and stillbirth estimates were produced with a mixed-effects model, which accounted for variable stillbirth definitions and data source-specific biases. For GBD 2015, we did a series of novel analyses to systematically quantify the drivers of trends in child mortality across geographies. First, we assessed observed and expected levels and annualised rates of decrease for under-5 mortality and stillbirths as they related to the Soci-demographic Index (SDI). Second, we examined the ratio of recorded and expected levels of child mortality, on the basis of SDI, across geographies, as well as differences in recorded and expected annualised rates of change for under-5 mortality. Third, we analysed levels and cause compositions of under-5 mortality, across time and geographies, as they related to rising SDI. Finally, we decomposed the changes in under-5 mortality to changes in SDI at the global level, as well as changes in leading causes of under-5 deaths for countries and territories. We documented each step of the GBD 2015 child mortality estimation process, as well as data sources, in accordance with the Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER). FINDINGS: Globally, 5·8 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 5·7-6·0) children younger than 5 years died in 2015, representing a 52·0% (95% UI 50·7-53·3) decrease in the number of under-5 deaths since 1990. Neonatal deaths and stillbirths fell at a slower pace since 1990, decreasing by 42·4% (41·3-43·6) to 2·6 million (2·6-2·7) neonatal deaths and 47·0% (35·1-57·0) to 2·1 million (1·8-2·5) stillbirths in 2015. Between 1990 and 2015, global under-5 mortality decreased at an annualised rate of decrease of 3·0% (2·6-3·3), falling short of the 4·4% annualised rate of decrease required to achieve MDG4. During this time, 58 countries met or exceeded the pace of progress required to meet MDG4. Between 2000, the year MDG4 was formally enacted, and 2015, 28 additional countries that did not achieve the 4·4% rate of decrease from 1990 met the MDG4 pace of decrease. However, absolute levels of under-5 mortality remained high in many countries, with 11 countries still recording rates exceeding 100 per 1000 livebirths in 2015. Marked decreases in under-5 deaths due to a number of communicable diseases, including lower respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, measles, and malaria, accounted for much of the progress in lowering overall under-5 mortality in low-income countries. Compared with gains achieved for infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies, the persisting toll of neonatal conditions and congenital anomalies on child survival became evident, especially in low-income and low-middle-income countries. We found sizeable heterogeneities in comparing observed and expected rates of under-5 mortality, as well as differences in observed and expected rates of change for under-5 mortality. At the global level, we recorded a divergence in observed and expected levels of under-5 mortality starting in 2000, with the observed trend falling much faster than what was expected based on SDI through 2015. Between 2000 and 2015, the world recorded 10·3 million fewer under-5 deaths than expected on the basis of improving SDI alone. INTERPRETATION: Gains in child survival have been large, widespread, and in many places in the world, faster than what was anticipated based on improving levels of development. Yet some countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, still had high rates of under-5 mortality in 2015. Unless these countries are able to accelerate reductions in child deaths at an extraordinary pace, their achievement of proposed SDG targets is unlikely. Improving the evidence base on drivers that might hasten the pace of progress for child survival, ranging from cost-effective intervention packages to innovative financing mechanisms, is vital to charting the pathways for ultimately ending preventable child deaths by 2030. FUNDING: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Erratum: Department of Error, The Lancet,Volume 389, Issue 10064, 2017, Page e1. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32608-3
Published: 2016
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29. Sociodemographic and nutritional correlates of neurobehavioral development: a study of young children in a rural region of Ecuador Factores sociodemográficos y nutricionales relacionados con el desarrollo neuroconductual: estudio en niños pequeños de una zona rural de Ecuador

Author: Alexis J. Handal, Betsy Lozoff, Jaime Breilh, and Siobán D. Harlow
Subjects: child development, population characteristics, lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, Epidemiology, lcsh:RC955-962, lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, lcsh:R, lcsh:Medicine, factores socioeconómicos, socioeconomic factors, lcsh:RA1-1270, ambiente, developmental disabilities, características de la población, Epidemiología, Ecuador, desarrollo infantil, discapacidades del desarrollo, environment
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To identify and describe the sociodemographic and nutritional characteristics associated with neurobehavioral development among young children living in three communities in the northeastern Andean region of Cayambe-Tabacundo, Ecuador. METHODS: Women in the study communities who had a child 3 to 61 months of age completed a questionnaire about maternal and child health and sociodemographic characteristics. The Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) was directly administered to 283 children by two trained interviewers. Growth measurements and a hemoglobin finger-prick blood test were obtained in 2003-2004. Prevalence of developmental delay was calculated, and associations between child development and maternal, child, and household characteristics were explored. RESULTS: High frequencies of developmental delay were observed. Children 3 to 23 months old displayed delay in gross motor skills (30.1%), and children 48 to 61 months old displayed delay in problem-solving skills (73.4%) and fine motor skills (28.1%). A high frequency of both anemia (60.4%) and stunting (53.4%) was observed for all age groups. Maternal educational level was positively associated with communication and problem-solving skills, and monthly household income was positively associated with communication, gross motor, and problem-solving skills. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest a high prevalence of developmental delay and poor child health in this population. Child health status and the child's environment may contribute to developmental delay in this region of Ecuador, but sociodemographic factors affecting opportunities for stimulation may also play a role. Research is needed to identify what is causing high percentages of neurobehavioral developmental delay in this region of Ecuador.OBJETIVOS: Identificar y describir las características sociodemográficas y nutricionales asociadas con el desarrollo neuroconductual en niños pequeños de tres comunidades de la región nororiental andina de Cayambe-Tabacundo, Ecuador. MÉTODOS: Mujeres de las comunidades estudiadas con algún hijo de 3 a 61 meses de edad llenaron un cuestionario sobre sus características, las características de salud de su hijo y las características sociodemográficas. Dos entrevistadores entrenados aplicaron el Cuestionario sobre Edades y Etapas (Ages and Stages Questionnaire, ASQ) directamente a 283 niños. Se midió el crecimiento y se realizó una prueba de hemoglobina mediante punción digital en el período 2003-2004. Se calculó la prevalencia del retraso en el desarrollo y se exploraron las asociaciones entre el desarrollo del niño y las características de la madre, del niño y del hogar. RESULTADOS: Se observaron elevadas frecuencias de retraso en el desarrollo. Los niños de 3 a 23 meses de edad presentaron retraso en las habilidades motrices básicas (30,1%) y los niños de 48 a 61 meses de edad presentaron retraso en las habilidades para solucionar problemas (73,4%) y en las habilidades motrices finas (28,1%). Se encontró una elevada frecuencia de anemia (60,4%) y de retraso en el crecimiento (53,4%) en todos los grupos de edad. Se observó una asociación directa entre el nivel educacional de la madre y las habilidades de comunicación y de solución de problemas de sus hijos, así como entre los ingresos mensuales del hogar y las habilidades de comunicación, las motrices básicas y de solución de problemas. CONCLUSIONES: Los resultados indican que hay una elevada prevalencia de retraso en el desarrollo y una deficiente salud infantil en la población estudiada. El estado de salud del niño y su entorno pueden contribuir al retraso en el desarrollo en esta región de Ecuador, sin embargo, los factores socioedemográficos que afectan negativamente a las oportunidades de estimulación pueden desempañar un papel importante en ello. Se requieren investigaciones que identifiquen las causas del elevado porcentaje de retraso en el desarrollo neuroconductual en esta región de Ecuador.
Published: 2007

30. Maternal touch and infant affect in the Still Face Paradigm: A cross-cultural examination

Author: Rebecca E. Rieger, Jean R. Lowe, Natalia Moss, John P. Phillips, Arvind Caprihan, Alexis J. Handal, Crystal Aragón, Peggy C. MacLean, and Patrick Coulombe
Subjects: Adult, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Male, Emotions, Mothers, Affect (psychology), 050105 experimental psychology, Developmental psychology, Synchronicity, Still face, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cross-cultural, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Maternal Behavior, integumentary system, 05 social sciences, Multilevel model, Attention seeking, Emotional regulation, Infant, Cross-cultural studies, Mother-Child Relations, United States, Touch, Face, Infant Behavior, Female, Ecuador, Psychology, 050104 developmental & child psychology
Abstract: Touch between mother and infant plays an important role in development starting from birth. Cross-cultural differences surrounding rearing practices have an influence on parent-infant interaction, including types of touch used and the development of emotional regulation. This study was designed to investigate maternal touch and infant emotional regulation in infant-mother dyads from Ecuador (n=25) and Hispanic dyads from the United States (US) (n=26). Mothers and their 4-month-old full-term infants participated in the Still Face Paradigm. Second-by-second coding of maternal touch and infant affect was completed. Overall the analyses showed that Ecuadorian mothers used more nurturing and accompaniment touch and less attention seeking touch than US Hispanic mothers during the pre-stressor (baseline) episode. Lagged multilevel models were used to investigate the effect of the different types of touch on infant emotional regulation in the groups for the episodes. The data suggest that playful touch had a significant increase in infant affect, whereas accompaniment and attention-seeking touch had a significant decrease in infant affect. Overall, this study provides support for the role of touch in mother-infant synchronicity in relation to infant's emotional regulation. Identifying touch that is more calming is important to foster emotional regulation in infancy, which can have important implications for development.
Published: 2015

31. Knowledge And Experiences Of Work Conditions Among Female Workers In A Flower-Growing Region Of Ecuador: A Qualitative Study

Author: Celia Iriart, Doris Sanchez, Fiorella P. Vera Adrianzen, Alexis J. Handal, and Maritza Páez
Subjects: Geography, Work (electrical), Growing region, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Socioeconomics, General Environmental Science, Qualitative research
Published: 2015
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32. Characterization of Pesticide Exposure in a Sample of Pregnant Women in Ecuador: Results of a Pilot Longitudinal Cohort Study

Author: Maritza Páez, Alexis J. Handal, Lauren Hund, and Dana B. Barr
Subjects: Geography, Intensive farming, Environmental health, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Developing country, Sample (statistics), Longitudinal cohort, Pesticide, General Environmental Science
Abstract: Background- Industrial agriculture is increasingly important to the economies of developing countries, accounting for a large percentage of exported goods for use in the United States and other ind...
Published: 2014
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33. A Pilot Study Comparing Observational and Questionnaire Surrogate Measures of Pesticide Exposure Among Residents Impacted by the Ecuadorian Flower Industry

Author: Alison McGough-Maduena, Andrew S. Rowland, Siobán D. Harlow, Betty J. Skipper, Richard A. Fenske, Alexis J. Handal, and Maritza Páez
Subjects: Adult, Adolescent, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Observation, Pilot Projects, Flowers, Toxicology, Article, Young Adult, Cohen's kappa, Environmental protection, Pregnancy, Environmental health, Occupational Exposure, Surveys and Questionnaires, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Information bias, Pesticides, General Environmental Science, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Direct observation, Agriculture, Pesticide, Geography, Observational study, Female, Occupational exposure, Ecuador, business, Kappa
Abstract: Self-reported measures of residential pesticide exposure are commonly used in epidemiological studies, especially when financial and logistical resources are limited. However, self-reporting is prone to misclassification bias. This pilot study assesses the agreement between self-report of residential pesticide exposure with direct observation measures, in an agricultural region of Ecuador, as a cross-validation method in 26 participants (16 rose workers and 10 controls), with percent agreement and kappa statistics calculated. Proximity of homes to nearby flower farms was found to have only fair agreement (kappa =.35). The use of discarded plastics (kappa =.06) and wood (kappa =.13) were found to have little agreement. Results indicate that direct observation or measurement may provide more accurate appraisals of residential exposures, such as proximity to industrial farmland and the use of discarded materials obtained from the flower farms.
Published: 2014

34. Obesity and malnutrition among Hispanic children in the United States: double burden on health inequities

Author: Celia, Iriart, Blake, Boursaw, Gabriela P, Rodrigues, and Alexis J, Handal
Subjects: Male, Young Adult, Adolescent, Cost of Illness, Child, Preschool, Malnutrition, Humans, Female, Health Status Disparities, Hispanic or Latino, Obesity, Child, United States
Abstract: To examine important micronutrient deficiencies related to child health and growth outcomes for all weight statuses to 1) better understand other potential nutritional problems and inequities that may be masked by focusing solely on BMI percentiles and overweight/obesity, and 2) draw attention to the need for more studies focused on the nutritional well-being of children at all weight statuses, including healthy weight.A sample of children (ages 2-19 years) old from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2003-2010 was analyzed. Prevalence of stunting, folate, vitamin D, iron, iodine, and anemia, was considered. Comparisons were conducted between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics, and within Hispanics, based on socio-demographic and economic characteristics.Hispanic children experienced significantly higher prevalence of stunting (6.1% versus 2.6%), and the prevalence of stunted Hispanic children in the healthy weight category was higher than those in the overweight/obese category. Comparable percentages were observed by ethnicity for most analyzed micronutrients, although girls had consistently higher prevalence of nutritional deficiencies than boys, especially girls reaching reproductive age.The results of this article draw attention to the need for more specific and differentiated analyses of child obesity and nutritional status among and within ethnic, sex, and age groups. Appropriate public health interventions need to consider the entire range of weight statuses and micronutrient deficiencies to eliminate inequities among minority children, especially girls.
Published: 2012

35. Sociodemographic and nutritional correlates of neurobehavioral development: a study of young children in a rural region of Ecuador

Author: Jaime Breilh, Siobán D. Harlow, Alexis J. Handal, and Betsy Lozoff
Subjects: Male, Rural Population, Gerontology, medicine.medical_specialty, Gross motor skill, Population, Nutritional Status, Environmental pollution, MEDIO AMBIENTE, Child Development, SALUD MATERNO INFANTIL, Epidemiology, medicine, Humans, education, education.field_of_study, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infant, ASPECTOS SOCIALES, Child development, Socioeconomic Factors, Child, Preschool, DESARROLLO DEL NIÑO, Household income, Female, EPIDEMIOLOGÍA, Ecuador, ASPECTOS ECONÓMICOS, Rural area, Demography
Abstract: To identify and describe the sociodemographic and nutritional characteristics associated with neurobehavioral development among young children living in three communities in the northeastern Andean region of Cayambe-Tabacundo, Ecuador. Women in the study communities who had a child 3 to 61 months of age completed a questionnaire about maternal and child health and sociodemographic characteristics. The Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) was directly administered to 283 children by two trained interviewers. Growth measurements and a hemoglobin finger-prick blood test were obtained in 2003–2004. Prevalence of developmental delay was calculated, and associations between child development and maternal, child, and household characteristics were explored. High frequencies of developmental delay were observed. Children 3 to 23 months old displayed delay in gross motor skills (30.1%), and children 48 to 61 months old displayed delay in problem-solving skills (73.4%) and fine motor skills (28.1%). A high frequency of both anemia (60.4%) and stunting (53.4%) was observed for all age groups. Maternal educational level was positively associated with communication and problem-solving skills, and monthly household income was positively associated with communication, gross motor, and problem-solving skills. The results suggest a high prevalence of developmental delay and poor child health in this population. Child health status and the child’s environment may contribute to developmental delay in this region of Ecuador, but sociodemographic factors affecting opportunities for stimulation may also play a role. Research is needed to identify what is causing high percentages of neurobehavioral developmental delay in this region of Ecuador. Identificar y describir las características sociodemográficas y nutricionales asociadas con el desarrollo neuroconductual en niños pequeños de tres comunidades de la región nororiental andina de Cayambe-Tabacundo, Ecuador. Mujeres de las comunidades estudiadas con algún hijo de 3 a 61 meses de edad llenaron un cuestionario sobre sus características, las características de salud de su hijo y las características sociodemográficas. Dos entrevistadores entrenados aplicaron el Cuestionario sobre Edades y Etapas (Ages and Stages Questionnaire, ASQ) directamente a 283 niños. Se midió el crecimiento y se realizó una prueba de hemoglobina mediante punción digital en el período 2003–2004. Se calculó la prevalencia del retraso en el desarrollo y se exploraron las asociaciones entre el desarrollo del niño y las características de la madre, del niño y del hogar. Se observaron elevadas frecuencias de retraso en el desarrollo. Los niños de 3 a 23 meses de edad presentaron retraso en las habilidades motrices básicas (30,1%) y los niños de 48 a 61 meses de edad presentaron retraso en las habilidades para solucionar problemas (73,4%) y en las habilidades motrices finas (28,1%). Se encontró una elevada frecuencia de anemia (60,4%) y de retraso en el crecimiento (53,4%) en todos los grupos de edad. Se observó una asociación directa entre el nivel educacional de la madre y las habilidades de comunicación y de solución de problemas de sus hijos, así como entre los ingresos mensuales del hogar y las habilidades de comunicación, las motrices básicas y de solución de problemas. Los resultados indican que hay una elevada prevalencia de retraso en el desarrollo y una deficiente salud infantil en la población estudiada. El estado de salud del niño y su entorno pueden contribuir al retraso en el desarrollo en esta región de Ecuador, sin embargo, los factores socioedemográficos que afectan negativamente a las oportunidades de estimulación pueden desempañar un papel importante en ello. Se requieren investigaciones que identifiquen las causas del elevado porcentaje de retraso en el desarrollo neuroconductual en esta región de Ecuador.
Published: 2007
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36. Effect of community of residence on neurobehavioral development in infants and young children in a flower-growing region of Ecuador

Author: Jaime Breilh, Betsy Lozoff, Siobán D. Harlow, and Alexis J. Handal
Subjects: Male, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Developing country, Context (language use), Flowers, organophosphorus compounds, 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, chemistry.chemical_compound, Hemoglobins, 0302 clinical medicine, Environmental protection, Residence Characteristics, Environmental health, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine, Humans, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, 2. Zero hunger, child development, business.industry, Altitude, Research, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infant, Agriculture, Environmental exposure, Environmental Exposure, pesticides, Pesticide, Child development, 3. Good health, chemistry, Motor Skills, Child, Preschool, Children's Health, flower industry, Residence, Female, Ecuador, business, Carbofuran, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract: The adverse effects of environmental chemicals on neurologic development and function have been of interest for several decades. Previous research has focused on effects of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (Schantz et al. 2003; Seegal 1996), metals such as lead (Banks et al. 1997; Counter et al. 1998; Dietrich et al. 1987) and methylmercury (Gilbert and Grant-Webster 1995; Marsh et al. 1995), and organochlorine pesticides (Guillette et al. 1998). Although the organophosphate (OP) and carbamate classes of pesticides are in widespread use, their potential adverse impacts have received scant attention. These pesticides are less environmentally persistent than organochlorines, but animal evidence suggests that they are developmental neurotoxicants (Chanda and Pope 1996; Houeto et al. 1995; Miller 1982). A few studies have reported potential adverse effects of OP and carbamate pesticide exposure on neurobehavioral development in young children. Young and colleagues (2005) found associations between prenatal exposure to OP pesticides and abnormal reflexes in neonates. Ruckart and colleagues (2004) conducted a study in Mississippi and Ohio examining the long-term neurobehavioral effects of exposure to the OP methyl parathion. Results of this study suggested possible problems with motor skills, attention, and short-term memory. Rohlman and colleagues (2005) found that children who resided in an agricultural community displayed poorer response speed and latency abilities compared with children from nonagricultural communities in the United States. Recently, Grandjean and colleagues (2006) reported an association between prenatal occupational exposure to OPs and neurotoxic damage among schoolchildren living in a flower-growing region of Ecuador. The global use of pesticides has doubled every 10 years since 1945, and this trend is expected to continue in the following decades, with about half of the increase in pesticide use occurring in developing countries in the context of large-scale agricultural industries (World Health Organization 1990). In Ecuador, large-scale agricultural products dominate the export industry, and the cut-flower industry, which depends heavily on the use of pesticides, has become the country’s third most valuable export, behind oil and bananas. According to research conducted by the Centro de Estudios y Asesoria en Salud (CEAS) in Quito, Ecuador, the most commonly used classes of pesticides in this industry are OPs, carbamates, and dithiocarbamates (Breilh et al. 2005). Some examples of the pesticides used in this industry include mancozeb, methylbromide, captan, carbofuran, malathion, and diazinon. Few community-based studies of the effects of pesticide exposure on neurobehavioral development have been conducted in Ecuador (Grandjean et al. 2006). This preliminary study was conducted under the auspices of the EcoSalud Project, a collaboration between CEAS and the International Development Research Center. In the present study we compare neurobehavioral development of infants and young children 3 to 61 months of age in communities that are dominated largely by cut-flower production and in more traditional rural communities.
Published: 2007

37. Pesticide Exposure and Neurobehavioral Development in Ecuadorian Infants and Children: a Component of the EcoSalud Project

Author: Siobán D. Harlow, Alexis J. Handal, Jaime Breilh, and Betsy Lozoff
Subjects: Epidemiology, business.industry, Component (UML), Environmental health, Medicine, Pesticide, business
Published: 2006
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38. P-228

Author: Katty Turqueres, Dana B. Barr, Alison McGough-Maduena, Maritza Páez, Alexis J. Handal, Andrew S. Rowland, Siobán D. Harlow, Richard A. Fenske, and William Waters
Subjects: Epidemiology
Published: 2012
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39. Employment in the Ecuadorian cut-flower industry and the risk of spontaneous abortion

Author: Siobán D. Harlow and Alexis J. Handal
Subjects: medicine.medical_specialty, Pregnancy, education.field_of_study, business.industry, lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, Public health, Population, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Developing country, lcsh:RA1-1270, Abortion, medicine.disease, Logistic regression, Occupational safety and health, Environmental health, Research article, medicine, business, education, Reproductive health
Abstract: Background Research on the potentially adverse effects of occupational pesticide exposure on risk of spontaneous abortion (SAB) is limited, particularly among female agricultural workers residing in developing countries. Methods Reproductive histories were obtained from 217 Ecuadorian mothers participating in a study focusing on occupational pesticide exposure and children's neurobehavioral development. Only women with 2+ pregnancies were included in this study (n = 153). Gravidity, parity and frequency of SAB were compared between women with and without a history of working in the cut-flower industry in the previous 6 years. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess the relation between SAB and employment in the flower industry adjusting for maternal age. Results In comparison to women not working in the flower industry, women working in the flower industry were significantly younger (27 versus 32 years) and of lower gravidity (3.3 versus 4.5) and reported more pregnancy losses. A 2.6 (95% CI: 1.03-6.7) fold increase in the odds of pregnancy loss among exposed women was observed after adjusting for age. Odds of reporting an SAB increased with duration of flower employment, increasing to 3.4 (95% CI: 1.3, 8.8) among women working 4 to 6 years in the flower industry compared to women who did not work in the flower industry. Conclusion This exploratory analysis suggests a potential adverse association between employment in the cut-flower industry and SAB. Study limitations include the absence of a temporal relation between exposure and SAB, no quantification of specific pesticides, and residual confounding such as physical stressors (i.e., standing). Considering that approximately half of the Ecuadorian flower laborers are women, our results emphasize the need for an evaluating the reproductive health effects of employment in the flower industry on reproductive health in this population.
Published: 2009

40. Maternal Occupational Exposure to Pesticides During Pregnancy and Neurobehavioral Development in Ecuadorian Children in a Flower Growing Region of Ecuador

Author: J. Breilh, Betsy Lozoff, Alexis J. Handal, and Siobán D. Harlow
Subjects: Pregnancy, Epidemiology, business.industry, Growing region, Environmental health, medicine, Occupational exposure, Pesticide, medicine.disease, business
Published: 2006
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41. "Essential" but Expendable: Farmworkers During the COVID-19 Pandemic-The Michigan Farmworker Project.

Author: Handal AJ, Iglesias-Ríos L, Fleming PJ, Valentín-Cortés MA, and O'Neill MS
Subjects: COVID-19, Emigrants and Immigrants, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Housing, Humans, Male, Michigan, Socioeconomic Factors, Coronavirus Infections prevention & control, Farmers, Occupational Health, Pandemics prevention & control, Pneumonia, Viral prevention & control
Published: 2020
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