Claire D Brindis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 124447 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Claire D Brindis |
| PRENOMES | Claire D |
| SOBRENOME | Brindis |
| ASSINATURA | BRINDIS C D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2284-3936 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 153 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
How feasible or useful are timeliness metrics as a tool to optimise One Health outbreak responses
INTRODUCTION: As timeliness metrics gain traction to assess and optimise outbreak detection and response performance, implementation and scale-up require insight into the perspectives of stakeholders adopting these tools. This study sought to characterise the feasibility and utility of tracking One Health outbreak milestones across relevant human, animal, plant, and environmental sectors to systematically quantify timeliness metrics in Uganda, a …
Integrated Theory-Based Health and Development Interventions for Young People
BACKGROUND: Most health and developmental issues affecting young people are interrelated. However, few interventions address multiple behavioral domains simultaneously or are based on theories that encompass a holistic perspective of youth development. AIM: The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and describe the range of theory-based, multibehavioral health interventions aimed at improving two or more of the following behavioral youth…
Sex Out of Boredom
Addressing anti-black racism in an academic preterm birth initiative
This case study contributes key lessons which move beyond individual-level and theoretical approaches towards transparency and accountability in academic institutions aiming to address anti-Black racism. Even with PTBi's strong commitment and efforts towards racial equity, these case study findings illustrate that actions must have sustained support by the broader institution and include leadership commitment, capacity-building via ongoing coachi…
The Perfect Storm
Pursuing Research Justice Through Community–Academic Partnership to Address Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth
Community-academic partnerships addressing racial health disparities should confront internal and structural power dynamics early on and support affected communities to lead the efforts, including committing to funding and capacity-building activities to ensure research justice
Using Collective Impact to Advance Birth Equity
Bridging the Gap between Sexual Health Education and Clinical Services
BACKGROUND: Adolescents often lack access to accurate and appropriate sexual health information and services. Providing information about local clinical services during sexual health education classes is one strategy to increase awareness, yet many programs miss this opportunity. This study aims to learn about adolescents' experiences with sexual health education and their perceptions of barriers and facilitators to clinical care. METHODS: Nine f…
Concerns About the Cost of Contraception Among Young Women Attending Community College
An Underpinning of School Inequities
BACKGROUND: Asthma is epidemic in many locations in the United States. Asthma exacerbations pose serious health and education risks for students through school absences, school dropout, and introduction to the juvenile justice system. Accurate school district-level asthma data, currently in short supply, would enable early interventions that focus on specific geographic areas and racial and ethnic subgroups that have higher asthma prevalence. MET…
Effects of a multipronged beverage intervention on young children’s beverage intake and weight
Objective: To evaluate whether a multipronged pilot intervention promoting healthier beverage consumption improved at-home beverage consumption and weight status among young children. Design: In this exploratory pilot study, we randomly assigned four childcare centres to a control (delayed-intervention) condition or a 12-week intervention that promoted consumption of healthier beverages (water, unsweetened low- or non-fat milk) and discouraged co…
Exploring the Influence of Neighborhood-Level Factors on Adolescent Birth Rates in California
This article examines neighborhood-level factors to help explain why adolescent birth rate trajectories differ in certain communities in California, with rates in some areas remaining elevated or increasing while rates in other areas with similar demographic characteristics declined. Researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 94 community stakeholders and 22 focus groups with 186 adolescents from five 'promising' communities (with declining a…
Innovative Approaches to Address Social Determinants of Health Among Adolescents and Young Adults
Background: Social determinants are the leading causes of health disparities. Yet health care systems have not systemically addressed social determinants of health as it pertains to adolescents and young adults (AYAs), among other populations in need. This study identified promising innovative programs across the United States. Methods: Thirteen representatives from 10 programs completed a 45-min telephone interview. Transcripts were reviewed and…
A social determinants framework identifying state-level immigrant policies and their influence on health
Many conceptual frameworks that touch on immigration and health have been published over the past several years. Most discuss broad social trends or specific immigrant policies, but few address how the policy environment affects the context of settlement and incorporation. Research on the social determinants of health shows how policies across multiple sectors have an impact on health status and health services, but has not yet identified the pol…
Neighborhoods matter. A systematic review of neighborhood characteristics and adolescent reproductive health outcomes
Building Responsive Health Systems to Help Communities Affected by Migration
Policy makers need tools, data and resources to address health systems challenges. Policies need to avoid preventable deaths of migrants and barriers to basic health services
Improving Receipt and Preventive Care Delivery for Adolescents and Young Adults
The Use of Acog Guidelines
The Risk of Remaining Silent
Validation of a survey to examine drinking-water access, practices and policies in schools
Objective Ensuring ready access to free drinking-water in schools is an important strategy for prevention of obesity and dental caries, and for improving student learning. Yet to date, there are no validated instruments to examine water access in schools. The present study aimed to develop and validate a survey of school administrators to examine school access to beverages, including water and sports drinks, and school and district-level water-re…
The Role of Publicly Funded Family Planning Sites In Health Insurance Enrollment
Although there were significant variations among them, publicly funded family planning providers in California are actively engaged in health insurance enrollment. Supporting their vital role in enrollment could help in the achievement of universal health insurance coverage
Coming of Age on the Margins
Postpartum Contraception and Interpregnancy Intervals Among Adolescent Mothers Accessing Public Services in California
Exploring how residential mobility and migration influences teenage pregnancy in five rural communities in California
Teenage birth rates among young people aged 15-19 years in California, USA, have declined from 47 births per 1000 in 2000 to 24 per 1000 in 2013. Nevertheless, the US counties with the highest teenage birth rates are predominantly rural and have a high proportion of Latinos/as. We conducted 42 interviews with key stakeholders and 12 focus groups with 107 young people in five rural communities to better understand local migration patterns and thei…
Research and Engagement Strategies for Young Adult Immigrants Without Documentation
Using multiple culturally responsive strategies including participant-driven sampling, engagement with CBOs, and use of social media, those eligible for DACA eagerly engage as research participants. Educating researchers and institutional review boards (IRBs) about legal and safety concerns can improve research engagement
Neighborhood Context and Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents
CONTEXT: Adolescent sexual behaviors are a significant public health concern because of the risks of STDs and the negative social consequences of teenage pregnancies. Associations between neighborhood characteristics and adolescents' initiation of sex and contraceptive use are poorly understood. METHODS: Multilevel logistic regression analyses of data from 14,151 adolescents in grades 7–12 in Wave 1 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescen…
The Protective Role of Social Capital and Cultural Norms in Latino Communities
This study investigates how community characteristics can protect adolescents from the negative effects of poverty. Using economic predictors, eight communities with low or high birthrates for 15- to 17-year-old Latinas were identified. Quantitative data on birth-rates, demographics, and the physical environment were obtained from government, hospital, and local sources. Qualitative data on the physical environment and social processes in the com…
Lessons learned in systems change initiatives
Measuring progress toward systems change, sustainable efforts that address root causes of an issue by changing policies and practices, is a difficult task for communities, evaluators, and foundations. Tracking and documenting changes in resources, power, policy, sustainable funding, structured relationships and roles, and underlying values require multi‐level analyses. Systems change analysts must consider at least four “strata” at once: (1) even…
Empowerment and Physical Violence Throughout Women's Reproductive Life In Mexico
This article analyzes intimate partner violence (IPV) against women aged 15 to 21, 30 to 34, and 45 to 49, based on the 2003 National Survey on the Dynamics of Household Relationships (in Spanish, ENDIREH) in Mexico. The authors examined the degree of women's empowerment and autonomy in relation to their partners. Logit regression analyses showed that variables significantly associated with physical violence varied between the three age groups, s…
Finding Teens in TheirSpace
The increasing popularity and widespread use of the Internet has made it an emerging venue for delivering health-related messages and interventions. The current study explored the potential for using social networking sites (SNS), specifically MySpace, to connect youth to sexual health services. Surveys and focus groups with youth aged 14–19 living in low-income communities in California revealed high levels of overall Internet access, frequent u…
Race, Ethnicity and Differences in Contraception Among Low‐Income Women
Although Family PACT eliminates financial barriers to method choice, the methods women received differed substantially by race and ethnicity in this low-income population. The reduction in racial and ethnic disparities following introduction of the patch suggests that methods with novel characteristics may increase acceptability of contraceptives among minority women
Willingness to Have Unprotected Sex
Little is known about people's willingness to engage in sex without protection from unwanted pregnancy. This study surveyed 1,497 women and men at 75 clinics and physician offices across California after their reproductive health care visits in late 2007 and early 2008. When asked if they would have sex without contraception, 30% said definitively that yes, they would have unprotected sex, and 20% indicated they would "sometimes" or "maybe" engag…
Adolescent School-Based Sex Education
Room to Grow
Factors Associated With Delayed Childbearing
There has been limited research on the protective factors that help Latinas delay childbearing until adulthood. In-depth interviews were conducted with 65 pregnant Latina teenage and adult women in California who were about to have their first child. Lack of or inconsistent birth control use as teens was attributed to wanting or ambivalence toward childbearing, concern about contraceptive side effects and infertility, and/or inadequate contracept…
Neighborhood Context and Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents
Expanded State-Funded Family Planning Services
Objectives. The California Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment Program was implemented in 1997 to provide family planning services for uninsured, low-income women and men. We estimated the impact on fertility of providing 500 000 women with contraceptives. Methods. Paid claims and medical record review data were used to estimate pregnancies averted. Pregnancies women experienced while enrolled in the program and pregnancies they would ha…
A profile of sexually active male adolescent high school students in Lima, Peru
To document knowledge and attitudes regarding sexuality and sexual practices of male adolescent high school students in Lima, Peru, a self-administered, anonymous survey was completed by 991 male adolescents aged 12-19 as part of a School-Based Sex Education Intervention model. Questions concerned sociodemographic information; family characteristics; personal activities; knowledge and attitudes regarding sexuality; sexual experience; and contrace…
Research and Engagement Strategies for Young Adult Immigrants Without Documentation
Using multiple culturally responsive strategies including participant-driven sampling, engagement with CBOs, and use of social media, those eligible for DACA eagerly engage as research participants. Educating researchers and institutional review boards (IRBs) about legal and safety concerns can improve research engagement
Enhancing Service Delivery Through Title X Funding
Compared with other Family PACT providers, clinics that receive Title X funding have implemented greater infrastructure enhancements to promote access and improve the quality of service for underserved populations. This may be because Title X-funded providers have more financial opportunities to provide the array of services that best respond to their clients' needs
The Role of School Health Centers in Health Care Access and Client Outcomes
Objectives. We describe the impact of school health centers in Alameda County, California, on adolescents' access to care and their mental and physical health outcomes. Methods. We used a multimethod evaluation of 12 school health centers to track data on clients (n = 7410), services, and provider-reported outcomes; client pre–post surveys (n = 286); and student focus groups (n = 105 participants). Results. School health centers were the most com…
Estimates of Pregnancies Averted Through California's Family Planning Waiver Program in 2002
CONTEXT: During its first year of operation (1997‐1998), California's family planning program, Family PACT, helped more than 750,000 clients to avert an estimated 108,000 pregnancies. Given subsequent increases in the numbers of clients served and contraceptive methods offered by the program, updated estimates of its impact on fertility are needed. METHODS: Claims data on contraceptives dispensed were used to estimate the number of pregnancies ex…
The Unique Health Care Needs of Adolescents
Health insurance coverage plays a key role in meeting adolescents' needs by increasing their access to health care, yet adolescents are more likely to lack coverage than younger children. (1) One in seven adolescents ages 10 to 18 has no form of public or private insurance. (2) Even higher rates of uninsurance are found among low-income, black, and Hispanic adolescents. For low-income adolescents, insurance through public programs such as Medicai…
Unequal Power—Changing Landscapes
The analyses presented in this article are based on the authors’ experiences over the past 5 years evaluating community initiatives located in several low-income, California Latino communities. The dynamic interactions between major stakeholder groups including funders, community-based organization staff, community members, and evaluators are examined through a context-sensitive lens. A case study of El Centro Familiar provides a vehicle for pres…
Cost Savings From the Provision of Specific Methods of Contraception in a Publicly Funded Program
Objectives. We examined the cost-effectiveness of contraceptive methods dispensed in 2003 to 955 000 women in Family PACT (Planning, Access, Care and Treatment), California's publicly funded family planning program. Methods. We estimated the number of pregnancies averted by each contraceptive method and compared the cost of providing each method with the savings from averted pregnancies. Results. More than half of the 178 000 averted pregnancies …
A Call to Action
Through considerable efforts and investments of resources, adolescent pregnancy and birth rates in the United States have decreased significantly over the past two decades. Nonetheless, large disparities persist for many populations of youth. Reducing unintended adolescent pregnancies is considered a “winnable public health battle,” but one that will require innovative thinking and continued persistence. This paper reviews the recent research lit…
Creating an Environmental Justice Framework for Policy Change in Childhood Asthma
Objectives. The Community Action to Fight Asthma Initiative, a network of coalitions and technical assistance providers in California, employed an environmental justice approach to reduce risk factors for asthma in school-aged children. Policy advocacy focused on housing, schools, and outdoor air quality. Technical assistance partners from environmental science, policy advocacy, asthma prevention, and media assisted in advocacy. An evaluation tea…
Expanding Organizational Advocacy Capacity
Organizational advocacy capacity is an increasingly important area of inquiry, raising questions about the opportunities (and limits) for achieving and sustaining policy change
Turning the Ship
This article examines success factors for a statewide initiative to reduce health disparities by establishing environmental policies to reduce asthma risk factors for school-aged children
Evaluation of a Peer Provider Reproductive Health Service Model for Adolescents
The peer provider model appears to be a promising addition to the mix of service delivery models, particularly for certain subgroups of clients. The findings underscore the importance of tailoring programs on the basis of clients' risk profiles
Options for Recovery
In recent years imprisonment has been used increasingly for a wide range of nonviolent and petty offenses committed by women. Among incarcerated women, particularly those who are pregnant or parenting, substance use and its deleterious consequences are often exacerbated by imprisonment. Women who have been identified as chemically dependent are also at high risk for losing custody of their children. In California, the Options for Recovery (OFR) t…
The Interplay of National, State, and Local Policy in Financing Care for Drug-Affected Women and Children in California
Recent prevalence studies in California indicate that perinatal alcohol and other drug use remains a serious issue for large numbers of women and their children. In response, national, state and local policymakers have taken steps to address the problem, including increasing funding for treatment services. To gauge the impact of policy attention to this problem, the Center for the Vulnerable Child at Children's Hospital, Oakland, California, surv…
Integrating Children's Health Services
The Role of Case Management in Substance Abuse Treatment Services for Women and Their Children
Given that addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, ongoing support services are considered a crucial part of preventing relapse and assisting clients in building the foundation for a drug-free life. Building on the substantial history of case management services with other at-risk client populations, drug treatment programs have begun to integrate case management services as an effective, cost-efficient method of delivering coordinated care. T…
California's Approach to Perinatal Substance Abuse
In the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a growing awareness of the many health, social, psychological, treatment, and recovery needs of pregnant and parenting women and their drug-exposed children. This awareness sensitized policymakers and service providers to the necessity for women-centered programs. Many points of intervention, from primary prevention to treatment of drug dependence, are required to adequately respond to the various needs…
Options for Recovery
In response to the increasing magnitude of problems related to perinatal exposure to alcohol and other drugs, a novel interagency collaboration was formed that involved the California Departments of Alcohol and Drug Programs, Developmental Services. Health Services, and Social Services. This collaboration was named Options for Recovery (OFR). Its mission was to promote the recovery of pregnant, postpartum, and parenting chemically dependent women…
Perceptions of Motivators and Barriers to Public Prenatal Care Among First-Time and Follow-Up Adolescent Patients and Their Providers
Community Health Monitoring
Community and treatment program challenges for chemically dependent American Indian and Alaska Native women
Alcohol and other drug (AOD) use is a serious and growing problem among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women. In addition, there is wide variation across communities in AOD use patterns, access to treatment for substance use, and access to other needed health services. An evaluation study was conducted to document the needs of AI/AN women in AOD treatment and the treatment services and community factors that both facilitate and impede …
Room to Grow
A profile of sexually active male adolescent high school students in Lima, Peru
To document knowledge and attitudes regarding sexuality and sexual practices of male adolescent high school students in Lima, Peru, a self-administered, anonymous survey was completed by 991 male adolescents aged 12-19 as part of a School-Based Sex Education Intervention model. Questions concerned sociodemographic information; family characteristics; personal activities; knowledge and attitudes regarding sexuality; sexual experience; and contrace…
Nebulous margins
This paper reports on research conducted among young people in two rural communities in the state of Morelos, Central Mexico. Methods used included participant observation, indepth interviews and focus groups. Findings suggest that a person's constitution or 'nature', their gender and perceived risks during agricultural work were strongly associated with riskrelated sexual behaviour. Those who perceive themselves as having a strong constitution s…
Adolescent Latino Reproductive Health
Latino adolescent reproductive health has become an increasingly important topic because of the growth in the numbers of Latino youth and because Latino youth are at high risk for negative reproductive health outcomes. Latinas now have the highest teen birth rates, and Latinos have disproportionately high rates of HIV/AIDS. These trends highlight the need for greater understanding of the sexual and reproductive health and behavior of Latino youth…
The Protective Role of Social Capital and Cultural Norms in Latino Communities
This study investigates how community characteristics can protect adolescents from the negative effects of poverty. Using economic predictors, eight communities with low or high birthrates for 15- to 17-year-old Latinas were identified. Quantitative data on birth-rates, demographics, and the physical environment were obtained from government, hospital, and local sources. Qualitative data on the physical environment and social processes in the com…
A Profile of Adolescent Health
As the adolescent population living in this country undergoes dramatic demographic changes in the 21st Century, increasing both in numbers and ethnic/racial diversity, practitioners and policy makers need to understand the prevalence of and trends in adolescent risk-taking behaviors, morbidity and mortality. Significant disparities in health status exist by ethnicity/race and gender in areas including: unintentional injury, violence, mental healt…
Unequal Power—Changing Landscapes
The analyses presented in this article are based on the authors’ experiences over the past 5 years evaluating community initiatives located in several low-income, California Latino communities. The dynamic interactions between major stakeholder groups including funders, community-based organization staff, community members, and evaluators are examined through a context-sensitive lens. A case study of El Centro Familiar provides a vehicle for pres…
Integrating Chlamydia trachomatis Control Services For Males in Female Reproductive Health Programs
Integrating Chlamydia trachomatis Control Services For Males in Female Reproductive Health Programs
The Unique Health Care Needs of Adolescents
Health insurance coverage plays a key role in meeting adolescents' needs by increasing their access to health care, yet adolescents are more likely to lack coverage than younger children. (1) One in seven adolescents ages 10 to 18 has no form of public or private insurance. (2) Even higher rates of uninsurance are found among low-income, black, and Hispanic adolescents. For low-income adolescents, insurance through public programs such as Medicai…
Expanded State-Funded Family Planning Services
Objectives. The California Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment Program was implemented in 1997 to provide family planning services for uninsured, low-income women and men. We estimated the impact on fertility of providing 500 000 women with contraceptives. Methods. Paid claims and medical record review data were used to estimate pregnancies averted. Pregnancies women experienced while enrolled in the program and pregnancies they would ha…
Evaluation of a Peer Provider Reproductive Health Service Model for Adolescents
CONTEXT The use of peer providers in family planning clinics has been proposed as a strategy that could better serve sexually active adolescent populations. METHODS Baseline and follow-up survey data from 1,424 female and 166 male adolescent clients of five California community health clinics were analyzed to assess the effectiveness of a peer provider model between 1996 and 1999. Multivariable analyses examined differences in outcomes between cl…
Neighborhood Context and Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents
Neighborhood Context and Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents
CONTEXT: Adolescent sexual behaviors are a significant public health concern because of the risks of STDs and the negative social consequences of teenage pregnancies. Associations between neighborhood characteristics and adolescents' initiation of sex and contraceptive use are poorly understood. METHODS: Multilevel logistic regression analyses of data from 14,151 adolescents in grades 7–12 in Wave 1 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescen…
Evaluation of a Peer Provider Reproductive Health Service Model for Adolescents
The peer provider model appears to be a promising addition to the mix of service delivery models, particularly for certain subgroups of clients. The findings underscore the importance of tailoring programs on the basis of clients' risk profiles
Acculturation and the Sexual and Reproductive Health Of Latino Youth in the United States
CONTEXT: The high birthrate among Latina teenagers in the United States has generated increased interest in the role of acculturation in their sexual and reproductive health. It is critical to identify gaps in the existing research and to ascertain the relationship between acculturation and Latino sexual behavior. METHODS: PUBMED, ERIC and POPLINE were searched for journal articles published between 1985 and 2006 that explicitly examined accultur…
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