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Recovery from job-loss injury is more than physical

When a person leaves a job due to a serious injury, the resulting mental health issues, like depression or post-traumatic stress, can endure longer than the physical ones. New research by Aimee Palumbo, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, finds a connection between returning to work and mental health outcomes in Black men in Philadelphia recovering from serious injuries. The research, newly published in the journal Injury, finds not returning to work after injury to be strongly associated with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder...

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Psychographic factors contribute to vaccine hesitancy, study finds

Given the national goal that 70 percent of the adult population receive at least one COVID-19 vaccine by July 4, understanding who is most likely to be hesitant—and why—is important in developing community vaccine programs, says Sarah Bauerle Bass, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences and director of the College of Public Health's Risk Communication Laboratory. In a poll released May 17 by PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist, 59 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said they have been vaccinated, and 24 percent said they do not plan to. A key to closing the gap is getting...

Coronavirus

Social and Behavioral Sciences

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To improve language learning, look beyond socioeconomic status

Children from low socioeconomic status (SES) households tend to show lower levels of language and communicative skills than those from higher SES homes at the group level. But these group-level findings provide limited information about the individual strengths and needs of families. A broad generalization suggesting low SES as a predictor of poor language learning can lead to stereotyping and obscure what parental interactions with children really do make a difference. A new study from the College of Public Health’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders seeks to...

Language and cognition

Communication Sciences and Disorders

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Leaders in diversity, child welfare named to Gallery of Success

College of Public Health alumna Sandra Davis, CPH ’91, and School of Social Work alumna Kimberly Ali, SSW ’99, have been named this year’s inductees into Temple University’s Gallery of Success, which honors alumni who have used their experience at Temple to make an impact in their field. Davis and Ali will be honored on the Gallery’s website and as part of a display in the lower level of Mitten Hall. Read more about our inductees: ...

Alumni

School of Social Work

Nursing

Could a better understanding of financial abuse help prevent IPV deaths?

Financial problems are a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV), which affects millions of people annually in the United States. Financial dependence on a partner can be a barrier to leaving an abusive relationship. Abusers may also control a romantic partner by using strategies such as employment sabotage and economic control. IPV can lead to suicide ideation and homicide; approximately 1 in 5 homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. Laura Johnson, assistant professor in the School of Social Work, is leading a project to examine the indicators of financ...

Research

School of Social Work

IPV

What's next: six graduates from Class of 2021 look to the future

For the Class of 2021, graduation year was different than expected: students took classes online or in hybrid format, searched for jobs and applied to graduate school remotely, and celebrated at last week’s physically distanced in-person graduation ceremony. But while the year was extraordinary, so were the students, who demonstrated exceptional perseverance in the face of this year’s challenges. We spoke with six graduates to find out what's next....

iByte4Health wins HRSA 'Preventing Childhood Obesity' challenge

“High-tech” solutions to broad public health issues don’t always need the most advanced technology. Sometimes a simple approach meets the community’s needs best. A team at the College of Public Health has won the grand prize in a competition aimed at using technology to combat childhood obesity. The winning project, iByte4Health, sends daily mobile-phone text messages and video links to parents. “We thought, people are on their phones all the time. Text messaging is a really easy way to reach people,” says Gina Tripicchio, assistant professor in the Department of S...

Obesity

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Social and Behavioral Sciences

Research

At graduation, students reminded of lessons learned during life in pandemic

After more than a year of remote and hybrid learning, and with students wearing masks and seated six feet apart, the College of Public Health was finally able to recognize graduating students at an in-person, physically distanced graduation ceremony on May 6 at Geasey Outdoor Field Complex on Temple’s Main Campus. More than 700 students in the College of Public Health and School of Social Work Class of 2021 were recognized; students who were unable to attend, or felt uncomfortable doing so, were able to submit photographs in order to be recognized in a slideshow of all the...

Graduation

College partners with local groups to vaccinate vulnerable communities

The College of Public Health will take a lead role in setting up COVID-19 vaccination sites in some of Philadelphia’s most vulnerable communities this spring and summer. With a grant from the City of Philadelphia, the College of Public Health is working with more than a dozen community organizations to give thousands of people in medically underserved neighborhoods easy, local access to vaccinations. In coming weeks, the college will provide trained staff to deliver vaccines and manage the sites, while offering resources to inform community residents about the vaccines, dispel...

Coronavirus

Community

Kruth stresses patience and empathy in his DPT clinical work

Between earning his undergraduate degree from Temple and starting in the college's doctor of physical therapy program, Kevin Kruth took a year off. For him, that year “off” involved working at children’s hospitals and outpatient clinics and getting experience in physical therapy, “just to confirm if this was the right path for me,” he says. Now, Kruth is set to receive his doctoral degree in May, with support from Temple’s Matt Williams Scholarship. He values the scholarship for helping him pursue his studies, but he sees more to it than that. Established in mem...

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