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Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences

# overview
My research focuses on adolescent smoking cessation, school health education, youth smoking prevention, and adolescent mental health and substance abuse.

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Outcome And Process Assessment, Health Care

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3 Prevention Of Disease And Conditions, And Promotion Of Well-being

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3.1 Primary Prevention Interventions To Modify Behaviours Or Promote Wellbeing

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Indiana University Bloomington - (Bloomington, Indiana, United States)

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Western Kentucky University - (Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States)

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Purdue University - (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States)

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COVID-19 vaccine decisions: considering the choices and opportunities.

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Examining social determinants of undiagnosed diabetes in Namibia and South Africa using a behavioral model of health services use.

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PREDICTORS OF SELF-ASSESSED HEALTH-STATUS IN BLUE COLLAR WORKERS

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Heat-not-burn tobacco product use in Japan: its prevalence, predictors and perceived symptoms from exposure to secondhand heat-not-burn tobacco aerosol.

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Creation of a Global Vaccine Risk Index.

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Confirming the structure of the Why Do You Smoke? Questionnaire: a community resource for adolescent tobacco cessation.

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PRELIMINARY OUTCOMES OF A PRE-ADJUDICATION DIVERSION INITIATIVE FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INVOLVED YOUTH WITH MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS IN TEXAS

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Monkeypox Rash Severity and Animal Exposures in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Comparisons of social and demographic determinants of tobacco use in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Better practices for youth tobacco cessation: evidence of review panel.

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Theory-based development and testing of an adolescent tobacco-use awareness program.

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Opportunities for Adolescent Tobacco Cessation: Developmental and Ecological Perspectives

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An exploration of transactional states and cessation-related social variables within adolescent smokers.

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The impact of a communitywide smoke-free ordinance on smoking among older adults.

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Roles of community organizations in improving cancer prevention instruction in schools.

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Seasonal variations in the initiation of smoking among adolescents.

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Disparity and Trends in Secondhand Smoke Exposure among Japanese Employees, Particularly Smokers vs. Non-Smokers.

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A Smoke-Free Paso del Norte: impact over 10 years on smoking prevalence using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

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Low Varicella Zoster Virus Seroprevalence Among Young Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Improving the future of youth smoking cessation.

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Psychosocial correlates of smokeless tobacco use among Indiana adolescents.

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Factors associated with tobacco smoking practices among middle-aged and older women in Texas.

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Tobacco use and quit behaviors among delinquent youth: a pilot study.

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An exploration of self-reported negative affect by adolescents as a reason for smoking: implications for tobacco prevention and intervention programs.

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Importance of tobacco cessation services at higher education public institutions in Texas.

# streetAddress
Texas A&M Health Science Center; Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences; 1266 TAMUS

# organizations[]
Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences

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Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences@en-US