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Many health-related concerns due the interplay of community members’ social media and geographical uses exist. However, rapid deployment of massive amounts of social media data and big data analytic tools for sensing can also become a health interven…
Psychiatrists may soon be able to diagnose mental disorders, including psychosis and mania, by analyzing patients’ speech patterns. The same technique also promises to someday allow clinicians to spot neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s diseas…
Patient non-adherence to prescribed medicines is endemic and thus a central issue in the quality and economics of ambulatory medical care and drug trials. To be efficacious, a course of drug treatment must have a timely initiation, and treatment pers…
In their recent article for the special issue of the American Psychological Association’s Society for Health Psychology journal, Health Psychology: eHealth/mHealth, funded by the NIH Office of Behavior and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), Thomas and…
With the increasing availability and use of mobile technology such as wearable computing sensors (e.g., activity monitors), a wealth of wearable “smart tool interactions” are now, quite literally, at the consumer’s fingertips. The health care industr…
The research we conduct at the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER) at the University of Maryland is focused on the underlying determinants of substance use. We study addiction as a process and try to understand the factor…
Ann Marie White, Ed.D., a mental health researcher at the University of Rochester, and Melanie Funchess, the director of the Mental Health Association of Rochester, teamed up a decade ago to bring violence prevention research and community action tog…
As part of the medical ethics and the health care system module of our course at The University of North Carolina School of Medicine (UNCSOM), we consider coercion and involuntary treatment and the role each plays within the health care system. In th…
I became interested in this field about 7 years ago when I was trying to think of new interventions that might help people with chronic diseases, particularly diabetes. My father, 88 years old, had diabetes, and he did a great job of testing his bloo…
The Aqui Lá project, supported by the OBSSR and the NIH's National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, works with a multilevel framework to conceptualize the impact of culture and transnationalism on health. Aqui Lá,…
