Deborah Glik
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1320864 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Deborah Glik |
| NOMBRES | Deborah |
| APELLIDO | Glik |
| FIRMA | GLIK D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2532-3661 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Integrating Theory With a User-Centered Design Approach to Maximize mHealth Acceptability and Usability
Mobile phone interventions are evidence-based methods for preventing obesity among Latino adults and school-aged children; however, few such interventions exist to improve the obesogenic behaviors of children in the developmentally critical preschool years (ages 2–5). Focusing on this age group is important since over one-quarter of 2- to 5-year-old Latino children are overweight or obese. Moreover, most documented interventions target mothers ex…
Measuring impact of storyline engagement on health knowledge, attitudes, and norms
Background: "Cest la Vie!" (CLV) is a serial drama that entertains, educates, and promotes positive health behaviors and social change for West African audiences. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if watching the CLV Season 2 series online had an impact on people's health knowledge, attitudes, and norms, focusing on populations in francophone West Africa. Methods: Between July 2019 and October 2019, viewers of CLV and non-viewers were rec…
Factors Influencing the Use of Domestic Violence Restraining Orders in Los Angeles
Domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs), although a widely used legal intervention in preventing future risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), there is a lack of documentation on the facilitators and barriers of utilization of DVROs among IPV survivors in Los Angeles County (LAC). We conducted 19 key informant interviews with various professionals working in domestic violence prevention in LAC. Factors such as survivors' motivation, ease o…
Community Advantage and Individual Self-Efficacy Promote Disaster Preparedness
Disaster preparedness initiatives are increasingly focused on building community resilience. Preparedness research has correspondingly shifted its attention to community-level attributes that can support a community's capacity to respond to and recover from disasters. While research at the community level is integral to building resilience, it may not address the specific barriers and motivators to getting individuals prepared. In particular, peo…
A Program for Local Health Departments to Adapt and Implement Evidence-Based Emergency Preparedness Programs
The goal of this project was to enhance the capacity of local health departments to translate and implement evidence-based programs in emergency preparedness by using the Getting To Outcomes approach. Our evaluation determined that local health department staff reported improved capacities. A “Getting To Outcomes Guide for Community Emergency Preparedness” guidebook was produced and is available online
Who Participates in the Great ShakeOut? Why Audience Segmentation Is the Future of Disaster Preparedness Campaigns
Background : In 2008, the Southern California Earthquake Center in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program launched the first annual Great ShakeOut, the largest earthquake preparedness drill in the history of the United States. Materials and Methods : We collected online survey data from 2052 campaign registrants to assess how people participated, whether audience segments shared behavioral patterns, and whether t…
A corner store intervention to improve access to fruits and vegetables in two Latino communities
Objective Investments have been made to alter the food environment of neighbourhoods that have a disproportionate number of unhealthy food venues. Corner store conversions are one strategy to increase access to fruits and vegetables (F&V). Although the literature shows modest success, the effectiveness of these interventions remains equivocal. The present paper reports on the evaluation of Proyecto MercadoFRESCO, a corner store conversion interve…
A Smartphone Application to Reduce Time-to-Notification of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Objectives. To measure whether the implementation of Healthvana—an online patient engagement platform and smartphone application—reduced the number of days between sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, notification, and treatment at AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Wellness Centers. Methods. We analyzed the retrospective data for 917 male clients who tested positive and received treatment for chlamydia, gonorrhea, or syphilis between Janu…
Evaluating Strategies For Reducing Health Disparities By Addressing The Social Determinants Of Health
The opportunities for healthy choices in homes, neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces can have decisive impacts on health. We review scientific evidence from promising interventions focused on the social determinants of health and discuss how such interventions can improve population health and reduce health disparities. We found sufficient evidence of successful outcomes to support disparity-reducing policy interventions targeted at education a…
Substantial improvements not seen in health behaviors following corner store conversions in two Latino food swamps
Results suggest limited effectiveness of food retail interventions on improving health behaviors. Future research should focus on other strategies to reduce community-level obesity
Addressing violent extremism as public health policy and practice
Addressing violent extremism could potentially benefit from new initiatives that extend beyond criminal justice and are a part of public health policy and practice. This claim is based on knowledge from prior countering violent extremism (CVE) research and on immersion with communities, practitioners, and policymakers. This knowledge indicates that to date law enforcement-centered initiatives have not generated targeted evidence-based prevention …
Comparing Lay Community and Academic Survey Center Interviewers in Conducting Household Interviews in Latino Communities
With a lower cost per completed survey and lower item nonresponse rates, lay community interviewers are a viable alternative to professional interviewers for fieldwork in community-based research. Additional research is needed to assess other important aspects of data quality interviewer such as interviewer effects and response error
Trends in racial/ethnic disparities in overweight self-perception among US adults, 1988–1994 and 1999–2008
Objective Weight self-perceptions, or how a person perceives his/her weight status, may affect weight outcomes. We use nationally representative data from 1988–1994 and 1999–2008 to examine racial/ethnic disparities in weight self-perceptions and understand how disparities have changed over time. Design Using data from two time periods, 1988–1994 and 1999–2008, we calculated descriptive statistics, multivariate logistic regression models and pred…
Access to and Use of Health Care Services Among Latinos in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights
This study examined differences in access, utilization, and barriers to health care by nativity, language spoken at home, and insurance status in East Los Angeles and Boyle Heights, California. Data from household interviews of neighborhood residents conducted as part of a corner store intervention project were used. Binary and multinomial logistic regression models were fitted. Results showed that uninsured and foreign-born individuals were diff…
Language use affects food behaviours and food values among Mexican-origin adults in the USA
Our results provide evidence that the well-documented relationship between acculturation and diet among Mexican Americans may be just one indicator of a broader pattern characterized by decreased home meal preparation and increased reliance on convenience foods
Health-related media use among youth audiences in Senegal
Lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing rapid changes in access to and use of new internet and digital media technologies. The purpose of this study was to better understand how younger audiences are navigating traditional and newer forms of media technologies, with particular emphasis on the skills and competencies needed to obtain, evaluate and apply health-related information, also defined as health and media literacy. Sixt…
Perceptions about Recovery Needs and Drug-Avoidance Recovery Behaviors among Youth in Substance Abuse Treatment
Findings highlight essential aspects of recovery in terms of need and drug-avoidance behaviors considered important to youth in treatment. Such information will help to better address clinical and recovery support models aimed at relapse prevention to ensure that the perceived problems of substance-abusing youth are adequately met
Perspectives of Community- and Faith-Based Organizations about Partnering with Local Health Departments for Disasters
Public health emergency planners can better perform their mission if they develop and maintain effective relationships with community- and faith-based organizations in their jurisdictions. This qualitative study presents six themes that emerged from 20 key informant interviews representing a wide range of American community- and faith-based organizations across different types of jurisdictions, organizational types, and missions. This research se…
Findings Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Adolescent Health Literacy
This multidimensional measure becomes relevant in an era of health care reform in which many will for the first time have health insurance requiring them to navigate a system that uses a managed care model
Understanding Recovery Barriers
Youth perceptions about relapse during treatment should be used to better inform clinical approaches and shape early-intervention recovery agendas for substance-abusing youth
Immigration Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Awareness
Terrorism-Related Fear and Avoidance Behavior in a Multiethnic Urban Population
Objectives. We sought to determine whether groups traditionally most vulnerable to disasters would be more likely than would be others to perceive population-level risk as high (as measured by the estimated color-coded alert level) would worry more about terrorism, and would avoid activities because of terrorism concerns. Methods. We conducted a random digit dial survey of the Los Angeles County population October 2004 through January 2005 in 6 l…
Communicating With the Public About Emerging Health Threats
Objectives. We sought to better understand the challenges of communicating with the public about emerging health threats, particularly threats involving toxic chemicals, biological agents, and radioactive materials. Methods. At the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we formed an interdisciplinary consortium of investigative teams from 4 schools of public health. Over 2 years, the investigative teams conducted 79 focus grou…
Risk Communication for Public Health Emergencies
This review defines crisis risk communication, traces its origins to a number of applied fields, and then shows how basic principles have become incorporated into emergency preparedness and risk communication for public health. Literature from four different disciplines that inform crisis risk communications are reviewed. These are (a) environmental risk communication, (b) disaster management, (c) health promotion and communication, and (d) media…
Disaster Planning and Risk Communication With Vulnerable Communities
Objectives. We studied the experience of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to better understand factors influencing evacuation decisions in impoverished, mainly minority communities that were most severely affected by the disaster. Methods. We performed qualitative interviews with 58 randomly selected evacuees living in Houston’s major evacuation centers from September 9 to 12, 2005. Transcripts were content analyzed using grounded theory methodology. R…
Disaster Planning and Risk Communication With Vulnerable Communities
Objectives. We studied the experience of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to better understand factors influencing evacuation decisions in impoverished, mainly minority communities that were most severely affected by the disaster. Methods. We performed qualitative interviews with 58 randomly selected evacuees living in Houston’s major evacuation centers from September 9 to 12, 2005. Transcripts were content analyzed using grounded theory methodology. R…
Symbolic, ritual and social dynamics of spiritual healing
Addressing violent extremism as public health policy and practice
Addressing violent extremism could potentially benefit from new initiatives that extend beyond criminal justice and are a part of public health policy and practice. This claim is based on knowledge from prior countering violent extremism (CVE) research and on immersion with communities, practitioners, and policymakers. This knowledge indicates that to date law enforcement-centered initiatives have not generated targeted evidence-based prevention …
Psychosocial wellness among spiritual healing participants
Terrorism-Related Fear and Avoidance Behavior in a Multiethnic Urban Population
Objectives. We sought to determine whether groups traditionally most vulnerable to disasters would be more likely than would be others to perceive population-level risk as high (as measured by the estimated color-coded alert level) would worry more about terrorism, and would avoid activities because of terrorism concerns. Methods. We conducted a random digit dial survey of the Los Angeles County population October 2004 through January 2005 in 6 l…
Communicating With the Public About Emerging Health Threats
Objectives. We sought to better understand the challenges of communicating with the public about emerging health threats, particularly threats involving toxic chemicals, biological agents, and radioactive materials. Methods. At the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we formed an interdisciplinary consortium of investigative teams from 4 schools of public health. Over 2 years, the investigative teams conducted 79 focus grou…
Focus-group methods
In the West African nation of Togo an essential element of health education in support of child survival is the training of mid-level health workers to conduct focus-group interviews with caretakers of children under 5 years of age. The intent is to develop the capability of the National Health Education Unit to establish qualitative data bases that complement survey data on maternal practices related to child health. These data are used to desig…
The redefinition of the situation
This paper is based on interviews with 160 persons who were participants in spiritual healing groups in Baltimore between 1981 and 1983. Survey data are used to describe how participants in spiritual healing groups presented their health problems, and how and if these problems were resolved or 'healed' over a six-month period. The majority of respondents claimed some degree of healing, associated mainly with symptom alleviation rather than cure. …
Malaria Treatment Practices Among Mothers in Guinea
A survey of mothers of young children in Guinea, West Africa (June-July 1988) suggests that individual, sociocultural, and structural factors influence the use of antimalarials for episodes of fever presumed to be malaria. A survey of 243 mothers was carried out in eight different sites (four urban and four rural) in two regions of the country. Among mothers interviewed, use of Western antimalarials for infants and children with fever was accepta…
Language use affects food behaviours and food values among Mexican-origin adults in the USA
Our results provide evidence that the well-documented relationship between acculturation and diet among Mexican Americans may be just one indicator of a broader pattern characterized by decreased home meal preparation and increased reliance on convenience foods
Participation in Spiritual Healing, Religiosity, and Mental Health
Survey data are used to examine the relationship between religiosity and psychosocial distress among persons in Christian, charismatic (n = 83), 'New Age,''metaphysical' healing groups (n = 93), and a comparison group of medical patients (n = 137). Data partially support the hypothesis that religiosity is an independent predictor of positive mental health. However, the relationships vary by type of healing group, by psychosocial distress indicato…
Comparing Lay Community and Academic Survey Center Interviewers in Conducting Household Interviews in Latino Communities
With a lower cost per completed survey and lower item nonresponse rates, lay community interviewers are a viable alternative to professional interviewers for fieldwork in community-based research. Additional research is needed to assess other important aspects of data quality interviewer such as interviewer effects and response error
Media Literacy and Public Health
The influence of mass media on the culture and health-related behaviors of youth has prompted health education and health promotion practitioners and researchers to turn toward media literacy approaches. In this article, development, implementation, and evaluation of a media literacy curriculum for tobacco control for high school students are discussed. Various theories from the field of public health are used to frame practice and research issue…
Implementing a Malaria Curtains Project in Rural Malawi
This paper describes planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities carried out in support of a malaria control project that used permethrin-impregnated curtains in eight villages in rural Malawi. Findings from formative evaluation and project monitoring aspects of the evaluation are presented. Permethrin-impregnated curtains were introduced to villagers who participated in household self-help projects. To implement the project, v…
Psychosocial wellness among spiritual healing participants
Symbolic, ritual and social dynamics of spiritual healing
Malaria Treatment Practices Among Mothers in Guinea
A survey of mothers of young children in Guinea, West Africa (June-July 1988) suggests that individual, sociocultural, and structural factors influence the use of antimalarials for episodes of fever presumed to be malaria. A survey of 243 mothers was carried out in eight different sites (four urban and four rural) in two regions of the country. Among mothers interviewed, use of Western antimalarials for infants and children with fever was accepta…
Focus-group methods
In the West African nation of Togo an essential element of health education in support of child survival is the training of mid-level health workers to conduct focus-group interviews with caretakers of children under 5 years of age. The intent is to develop the capability of the National Health Education Unit to establish qualitative data bases that complement survey data on maternal practices related to child health. These data are used to desig…
Participation in Spiritual Healing, Religiosity, and Mental Health
Survey data are used to examine the relationship between religiosity and psychosocial distress among persons in Christian, charismatic (n = 83), 'New Age,''metaphysical' healing groups (n = 93), and a comparison group of medical patients (n = 137). Data partially support the hypothesis that religiosity is an independent predictor of positive mental health. However, the relationships vary by type of healing group, by psychosocial distress indicato…
The redefinition of the situation
This paper is based on interviews with 160 persons who were participants in spiritual healing groups in Baltimore between 1981 and 1983. Survey data are used to describe how participants in spiritual healing groups presented their health problems, and how and if these problems were resolved or 'healed' over a six-month period. The majority of respondents claimed some degree of healing, associated mainly with symptom alleviation rather than cure. …
Maternal and Primary Care System Factors Affecting Oral Rehydration Therapy in Rural Guinea
Maternal sociodemographics, knowledge about oral rehydration, and specific health practices were found to interact with access to primary care system variables in predicting the use of oral rehydration in two areas of rural Guinea. Extremely limited primary health care resources were related to very low levels of usage even with a national effort to increase oral rehydration therapy. The study used a stratified sampling design to compare the diff…
Safety behaviors of mothers of young children
We explore the relative contribution of cognitive, stress, and background variables as factors that explain safety behaviors of parents of young children. The data set was a probability sample of mothers of young children ( N= 1247). The focus of survey questions was predominantly home safety, a setting where young children are at highest risk for injury. We tested hypotheses using structural equations models. Our analyses indicate that stress an…
Comparison of Traffic Accident and Chronic Disease Risk Perceptions
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether having a commonly identified risk factor for certain chronic diseases or accidents predicted higher perceptions of risk for those health problems, Methods: Survey data from 618 adults in a southeastern metropolitan area were used. Health status and socio-demographic measures were identified as risk factors and examined as predictors off risk perceptions, Results: Older, less healthy adults saw themselves at greater ri…
Implementing a Malaria Curtains Project in Rural Malawi
This paper describes planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities carried out in support of a malaria control project that used permethrin-impregnated curtains in eight villages in rural Malawi. Findings from formative evaluation and project monitoring aspects of the evaluation are presented. Permethrin-impregnated curtains were introduced to villagers who participated in household self-help projects. To implement the project, v…
The Politics of International Health
In this book, Dr. Willam Muraskin traces the genesis and initial history of efforts over the past decade to accelerate the development and supply of newer, better vaccines for children in the developing world. Known as the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI), this idea was conThe second article in this section, by Mechanic, reviews the goals of any health care system and raises the question of what lessons may be gained by the U.S. health care sy…
Small Wars
CONTRIBUTORS: Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli Philippe Bourgois John A. Brett Caroline B. Brettell Donna M. Goldstein Matthew C. Gutmann Michael Harris Daniel Hoffman Jill E. Korbin J. S. La Fontaine Leonard B. Lerer Lynn M. Morgan Susan Niermeyer Maria B. Olujic Mary Picone Elizabeth F. S. Roberts Carolyn Sargent Nancy Scheper-Hughes Meira Weiss Linda M. Whiteford
Impact of an Immunization Education Program on Middle School Adolescents
Infectious disease control and immunizations are under-developed subject areas within school-based health promotion in the United States that can be effectively taught to middle school students
Tobacco use in popular movies during the past decade
The decrease in smoking rates found in films in the past decade is modest given extensive efforts to educate the entertainment industry on this issue over the past decade. Monitoring, education, advocacy, and policy change to bring tobacco depiction rates down further should continue
Media Literacy and Public Health
The influence of mass media on the culture and health-related behaviors of youth has prompted health education and health promotion practitioners and researchers to turn toward media literacy approaches. In this article, development, implementation, and evaluation of a media literacy curriculum for tobacco control for high school students are discussed. Various theories from the field of public health are used to frame practice and research issue…
Risk Communication for Public Health Emergencies
This review defines crisis risk communication, traces its origins to a number of applied fields, and then shows how basic principles have become incorporated into emergency preparedness and risk communication for public health. Literature from four different disciplines that inform crisis risk communications are reviewed. These are (a) environmental risk communication, (b) disaster management, (c) health promotion and communication, and (d) media…
Disaster Planning and Risk Communication With Vulnerable Communities
Objectives. We studied the experience of Hurricane Katrina evacuees to better understand factors influencing evacuation decisions in impoverished, mainly minority communities that were most severely affected by the disaster. Methods. We performed qualitative interviews with 58 randomly selected evacuees living in Houston’s major evacuation centers from September 9 to 12, 2005. Transcripts were content analyzed using grounded theory methodology. R…
Communicating With the Public About Emerging Health Threats
Objectives. We sought to better understand the challenges of communicating with the public about emerging health threats, particularly threats involving toxic chemicals, biological agents, and radioactive materials. Methods. At the request of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we formed an interdisciplinary consortium of investigative teams from 4 schools of public health. Over 2 years, the investigative teams conducted 79 focus grou…
Terrorism-Related Fear and Avoidance Behavior in a Multiethnic Urban Population
Objectives. We sought to determine whether groups traditionally most vulnerable to disasters would be more likely than would be others to perceive population-level risk as high (as measured by the estimated color-coded alert level) would worry more about terrorism, and would avoid activities because of terrorism concerns. Methods. We conducted a random digit dial survey of the Los Angeles County population October 2004 through January 2005 in 6 l…
Immigration Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Awareness
Perspectives of Community- and Faith-Based Organizations about Partnering with Local Health Departments for Disasters
Public health emergency planners can better perform their mission if they develop and maintain effective relationships with community- and faith-based organizations in their jurisdictions. This qualitative study presents six themes that emerged from 20 key informant interviews representing a wide range of American community- and faith-based organizations across different types of jurisdictions, organizational types, and missions. This research se…
Findings Toward a Multidimensional Measure of Adolescent Health Literacy
This multidimensional measure becomes relevant in an era of health care reform in which many will for the first time have health insurance requiring them to navigate a system that uses a managed care model
Understanding Recovery Barriers
Youth perceptions about relapse during treatment should be used to better inform clinical approaches and shape early-intervention recovery agendas for substance-abusing youth
Perceptions about Recovery Needs and Drug-Avoidance Recovery Behaviors among Youth in Substance Abuse Treatment
Findings highlight essential aspects of recovery in terms of need and drug-avoidance behaviors considered important to youth in treatment. Such information will help to better address clinical and recovery support models aimed at relapse prevention to ensure that the perceived problems of substance-abusing youth are adequately met
Language use affects food behaviours and food values among Mexican-origin adults in the USA
Our results provide evidence that the well-documented relationship between acculturation and diet among Mexican Americans may be just one indicator of a broader pattern characterized by decreased home meal preparation and increased reliance on convenience foods
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