D A Henderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D A Henderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | D A |
| FAMILY NAME | Henderson |
| SIGNATURE | HENDERSON D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lessons Learned from Community Partnership During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Underserved communities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Project Promoting Engagement and COVID-19 Testing for Health (PEACH) study was designed to understand the attitudes, beliefs, and infrastructure associated with COVID-19 risk, testing, and prevention behaviors in people living with, caring for, or at risk for type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this joint community-academic partnered manuscript is to share les…
An ode to volunteers: Reflections on community response through restorative practices before and after Covid-19
Biopreparedness and Public Health
I was astonished to learn from Fee and Brown's article on preemptive biopreparedness1 that beginning in the 1950s, Dr Alex Langmuir's stress on biopreparedness efforts fed the Cold War climate, narrowed the scope of public health activities, and failed to achieve sustained benefits for public health programs across the country. They point out that as “funding for biological warfare research was increasing . . . funds for local health departments …
Voices of Welfare Reform: Bureaucratic Rationality Versus the Perceptions of Welfare Participants
The miracle of vaccination
Among all medical procedures, vaccination ranks at the forefront in lives saved and disabling illnesses prevented. Jenner's first experiments with vaccination, 200 years ago, culminated in the eradication of smallpox at the conclusion of a ten–year World Health Organization programme begun in 1967. Two million lives were saved each year and tens of thousand of blindness cases. In 1974, the smallpox campaign was expanded to include six additional …
A Stochastic Cumulative Scaling Method Applied to Measuring Wealth in Indonesian Villages
Stochastic cumulative scaling (SCS), sometimes called Mokken scaling, is a technique for converting several dichotomous variables into a single ordinal or interval measure of some latent trait. After a brief review of scaling approaches developed by Guttman and Mokken, the usefulness of SCS is illustrated by applying it to measure individual household wealth in two provinces in Indonesia: East Java and Bali. Recommendations are also offered regar…
Stocks of variola virus
Stocks of variola virus. D A HendersonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.2.238-a Published Online: November 15, 2011
The Triumph of Scientific Medicine in America: An Essay Review
Journal Article The Triumph of Scientific Medicine in America: An Essay Review Get access PETER RAZZELL. Edward Jenner's Cowpox Vaccine: The History of a Medical Myth. 2nd ed. Firle, Sussex, Eng., Caliban Books, 1980. 133 pp. [no price given]. D. A. HENDERSON, M.D., M.P.H. D. A. HENDERSON, M.D., M.P.H. Dean School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 Search for other works by this…
Edmonston B and a further attenuated measles vaccine--a placebo controlled double blind comparison
Edmonston B and a further attenuated measles vaccine--a placebo controlled double blind comparison. G Miller, J Gale, V Villarejos, W James, C G Arteaga, H Casey, and D A HendersonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.57.8.1333 Published Online: August 29, 2011
A Stochastic Cumulative Scaling Method Applied to Measuring Wealth in Indonesian Villages
Stochastic cumulative scaling (SCS), sometimes called Mokken scaling, is a technique for converting several dichotomous variables into a single ordinal or interval measure of some latent trait. After a brief review of scaling approaches developed by Guttman and Mokken, the usefulness of SCS is illustrated by applying it to measure individual household wealth in two provinces in Indonesia: East Java and Bali. Recommendations are also offered regar…
Edmonston B and a further attenuated measles vaccine--a placebo controlled double blind comparison
Edmonston B and a further attenuated measles vaccine--a placebo controlled double blind comparison. G Miller, J Gale, V Villarejos, W James, C G Arteaga, H Casey, and D A HendersonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.57.8.1333 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The Triumph of Scientific Medicine in America: An Essay Review
Journal Article The Triumph of Scientific Medicine in America: An Essay Review Get access PETER RAZZELL. Edward Jenner's Cowpox Vaccine: The History of a Medical Myth. 2nd ed. Firle, Sussex, Eng., Caliban Books, 1980. 133 pp. [no price given]. D. A. HENDERSON, M.D., M.P.H. D. A. HENDERSON, M.D., M.P.H. Dean School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 Search for other works by this…
Stocks of variola virus
Stocks of variola virus. D A HendersonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.2.238-a Published Online: November 15, 2011
A Stochastic Cumulative Scaling Method Applied to Measuring Wealth in Indonesian Villages
Stochastic cumulative scaling (SCS), sometimes called Mokken scaling, is a technique for converting several dichotomous variables into a single ordinal or interval measure of some latent trait. After a brief review of scaling approaches developed by Guttman and Mokken, the usefulness of SCS is illustrated by applying it to measure individual household wealth in two provinces in Indonesia: East Java and Bali. Recommendations are also offered regar…
The miracle of vaccination
Among all medical procedures, vaccination ranks at the forefront in lives saved and disabling illnesses prevented. Jenner's first experiments with vaccination, 200 years ago, culminated in the eradication of smallpox at the conclusion of a ten–year World Health Organization programme begun in 1967. Two million lives were saved each year and tens of thousand of blindness cases. In 1974, the smallpox campaign was expanded to include six additional …
Voices of Welfare Reform: Bureaucratic Rationality Versus the Perceptions of Welfare Participants
Biopreparedness and Public Health
I was astonished to learn from Fee and Brown's article on preemptive biopreparedness1 that beginning in the 1950s, Dr Alex Langmuir's stress on biopreparedness efforts fed the Cold War climate, narrowed the scope of public health activities, and failed to achieve sustained benefits for public health programs across the country. They point out that as “funding for biological warfare research was increasing . . . funds for local health departments …
An ode to volunteers: Reflections on community response through restorative practices before and after Covid-19
Lessons Learned from Community Partnership During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Underserved communities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Project Promoting Engagement and COVID-19 Testing for Health (PEACH) study was designed to understand the attitudes, beliefs, and infrastructure associated with COVID-19 risk, testing, and prevention behaviors in people living with, caring for, or at risk for type 2 diabetes. The purpose of this joint community-academic partnered manuscript is to share les…
Medicine (7 works) · Virology (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Virology (3 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Measles (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)