Kacey Ernst

Biographic Data

ID4218921
NAMEKacey Ernst
GIVEN NAMESKacey
FAMILY NAMEErnst
SIGNATUREERNST K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Perceived neighborhood disorder and achieving HIV viral suppression among adults living with HIV

    Open AccessLinda Jepkoech Kimaru, Chengcheng Hu et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is crucial for achieving and maintaining viral suppression in people living with HIV (PLWH). While individual factors affecting HIV viral suppression have been extensively studied, there is less attention on community-level factors, specifically perceived neighborhood disorder. This study aims to assess the relationship between perceived neighborhood disorder and achieving virologic suppression among peop…

  • Neighborhood characteristics and HIV treatment outcomes

    Open AccessLinda Jepkoech Kimaru, Magdiel A Habila et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Recognizing challenges faced by people living with HIV is vital for improving their HIV treatment outcomes. While individual-level interventions play a crucial role, community factors can shape the impact of individual interventions on treatment outcomes. Understanding neighborhood characteristics’ association with HIV treatment outcomes is crucial for optimizing effectiveness. This review aims to summarize the research scope on the association b…

  • Tracking the burden, distribution, and impact of Post-Covid conditions in diverse populations for children, adolescents, and adults (Track PCC)

    Open AccessResa M Jones, Jennifer Andrews et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    These data can help identify which groups are most affected by PCC, and what health differences among demographic groups exist, as well as indicate potential barriers to care. These additional levels of granularity can inform public health action and help direct needed clinical care for patients

  • Walking Into Their Lives

    Open AccessSarah Yeo, John Ehiri et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024References: 19

    The go-along method is a way of interviewing people in situ. Combining participant observation and interviewing, the method capitalizes on the advantages of both approaches. This places study participants in context and allows researchers to elicit the interpretations, practices, and experiences of those participants within the contexts. Based on a refugee maternal health study that involved the go-along method in the United States, we reflect on…

  • A scoping review of maternal health among resettled refugee women in the United States

    Open AccessSarah Yeo, Yuae Park et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Globally, refugee women continue to face higher maternity-related risks from preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth, partly due to high health care costs, unfamiliarity with the healthcare system, language barriers, and discrimination. Nevertheless, there is still a paucity of literature that evaluates the available evidence in the US. This scoping review delineated the body of literature on maternal health among re…

  • Risk factors associated with under-five stunting, wasting, and underweight in four provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Open AccessJoy Kinko Luzingu, Nancy Stroupe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Prevalence of undernutrition in DRC is high. This study has identified certain modifiable risk factors associated with stunting, wasting and underweight. To reduce the burden of undernutrition in DRC, authorities should target factors at individual and community levels by improving women's education, child feeding practices and promoting agriculture

  • Web-Based and mHealth Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Prevention

    Open AccessElizabeth J Anderson, Keegan C Krause et al.ARTICLETrauma Violence & Abuse2021

    Mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly used across health programming including intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention to optimize screening, educational outreach, and linkages to care via telehealth. We systematically evaluated current web-based and mHealth interventions, which include web- or mobile-based delivery methods for primary, secondary, and tertiary IPV victimization prevention. We searched MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, CI…

  • Chikungunya

    Open AccessJacqueline Duncan, Kelly Ann Gordon-Johnson et al.ARTICLERevista Panamericana de Salud…2017

    Objectives. To describe the clinical presentation of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) illness in adults during the 2014 outbreak in Jamaica and to determine the predictive value of the case definition. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted using clinical data from suspected cases of CHIKV that were reported to the Ministry of Health in April – December 2014. In addition, charts were reviewed of all individuals over 15 years of age with suspecte…

  • Gender differences in HIV-related stigma in Kenya

    George C T Mugoya, Kacey C Ernst et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2014

    Stigma associated with HIV/AIDS directly and indirectly drives HIV transmission. We examined how factors associated with HIV-related stigma differed by gender, using data from the 2008-2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS). Descriptive, bivariate and multinomial logistic regression analyses were conducted on selected HIV-related stigma indicators for men and women. Bivariate analyses showed significant gender differences in the overall …

  • Climate and Dengue Transmission

    Open AccessCory W Morin, Andrew C Comrie et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Health Perspectives2013