Anthony Sallar

Anthony Sallar
Jackson State University | JSU · Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

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Household waste management is a challenge in Accra, Ghana, due to increasing urbanization and unscrupulous dumping of garbage. The aim of this study was to determine the correlates of household waste management as well as their implications for public health. The study employed a descriptive, cross-sectional design with self-administered questionna...
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Nosocomial infections are enhanced due to a flop in the infection control processes such as disinfection. The aim of this study was to assess long term effectiveness and the stability of disinfectants currently used within healthcare settings in Accra, Ghana against two indicator pathogens. Two locally produced and two imported disinfectants usuall...
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Antibiotics are very important in the fight against infectious disease caused by bacteria and other microbes for decades. Today microbes have developed ways to resist antimicrobial agents targeted at them. We sought to characterize and simultaneously detect virulence genes associated water-borne antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli, obtained from...
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This study explores experiences of 50 culturally and linguistically diverse African immigrant students attending public urban middle and high schools in the US. Drawing on in-depth interviews, and through constant comparison analysis, emerging findings highlight pedagogical, linguistic, and curricular variation struggles in the classroom; transitio...
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Global warming is a serious threat to human existence. The relatively higher level of global warming in recent times poses higher health risks to humans, both directly and indirectly. The aim of the study was to investigate public knowledge of global warming and its effects on human health. A nationally representative survey of Ghanaian adults (N =...
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This qualitative study explored digital technologies that promote educational experiences and achievements of culturally diverse learners via interviews with 46 culturally and linguistically diverse students across different academic programs. A qualitative research design using semi-structured interviews was used to collect the data for the study....
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Climate change is a serious challenge to human existence. It threatens efforts towards the attainment of sustainable development goals and aggravates conditions that lead to health inequities and inequalities for vulnerable populations. The study aimed to investigate knowledge and adaptation to climate change among people in Ghana. A nationally rep...
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Food safety has become a global issue due to the morbidity and mortality associated with it, particularly in developing countries. The objective of this community-based study is to examine food safety practices and its associated factors among postnatal mothers in the Western Region of Ghana. A cross-sectional survey study was conducted from August...
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Discourses of African immigrant children are rare in educational research. As such, African immigrant educational experiences are often obscured (in part, owing to the model minority myth about Africans based on higher education degrees received by African immigrants), as well as the actual experiences and realities for African immigrant K-12 stude...
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Following the UN's declaration of the Cessation Clause in December 2011 with six months grace period, the Liberian refugees in Ghana on June 30th 2012, ceased to be refugees. Prior to the Cessation Clause, about 5,000 have been resettled in USA, Canada Australia, Norway and Holland after UNHCR assessed and recommended these individuals and receivin...
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Introduction HIV transmission in sub Saharan Africa has been consistently reported to be heterosexual. The existence of Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) has been denied and the epidemic among them ignored although homosexuality in the continent has been documented. Homosexuality is underreported because of stigma. Homophobia is said to be driving th...
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Background Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men. Health disparities in diagnosis and mortality are manifested in the age-adjusted rates: 145.1/100,000, 226.0/100,000, 121.6/100,000, respectively for white, African American (AA), and Hispanics. Methods We conducted a cross sectional study in diverse settings in 2010 of adult...
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HIV transmission in sub Saharan Africa has been consistently reported to be heterosexual. The existence of Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) has been denied and the epidemic among them ignored although homosexuality in the continent has been documented. Consequently, limited research has been conducted among Africa’s MSM. Homophobia has been reported...
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Aim The objective of this study was to assess beliefs, misconception, and anxiety in relation to swine flu outbreak and whether perception of the outbreak predicted changes in behavior. Subject and methods In November 2009, we conducted an Internet-based cross-sectional survey of college students aged 18–24 years in a Midwestern State in the USA. W...
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We assessed the differences and similarities in knowledge, attitude, beliefs, myths, and misconceptions; and the various high-risk behavioral factors that influence the rate of infectivity of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS among African American men in urban and rural communities of Mississippi. A cross-sectional sample survey was conducte...
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Background Prostate cancer remains the most common noncutaneous malignancy among men in USA and the leading cause of death among African Americans. Compared with whites and other ethnic groups, men of color have over fourfold increased risk of developing and dying from prostate cancer. This study assessed prostate cancer knowledge, attitude, and pr...
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In 2003 it was reported about 5,000 people die annually in MVI which exceeds a monthly crash of Boeing 747. MVI involves vehicles used for commercial purposes: buses, mini-buses, taxis and trucks. Inadequate healthcare system and less access to care combined with overcrowding on vehicles, poor maintenance, unsafe roads, an uneducated driving public...
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Issues: In March 1986, Ghana's first case of AIDS was reported. In 2007 HIV prevalence was estimated at 2.6% from 3.6% in 2003 with national adult prevalence of 1.9%. The Ghana AIDS Commission projects that by 2014, without concerted efforts, nearly 1.36 million Ghanaians could be infected. Description: Steps taken by governments such as sentinel s...
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Compared to whites, African Americans have almost a 2-fold increased risk of first-ever stroke. Our study sought to determine awareness of stroke risk factors and management, symptoms, and risk reduction strategies in African Americans in Mississippi, which is part of the "stroke belt. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of African Americans aged...
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Issues Since its inception in the 1980s, HIV has continued to have a tremendous effect in the world. Nowhere is this felt more than in sub-Saharan Africa where the devastating tremendous impact has not only been on morbidity and mortality, but also on family structure, social organizations, and economics. There have been suggestions that homose...
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Issues This paper discusses the historical context in which most settlements were done in Ghana....usually not far from water bodies which were used by the indigenes for agriculture and consumption. With industrialization and population growth there has been pressure on the water body systems. Development had ushered in portable water but challen...
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A quarter century into the HIV pandemic, knowledge about sexual transmission and sharing of needles remain high just as misperceptions relating to casual contact. To assess HIV knowledge, misperceptions, and attitude towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) among adolescents. A cross sectional quantitative and qualitative study was conducted am...
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Among adolescents in Africa and in the rest of the world, unprotected sexual intercourse is the primary cause of HIV transmission. There is limited information on population based study of adolescents who are not-in-school. A quantitative and qualitative study was conducted among adolescents aged 10-19 (n = 483, mean age = 16.6) in the Ashanti regi...
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality has been decreasing in the United States, possibly due in part to educational programs about CVD prevention. This study investigates CVD risk-reduction knowledge among demographic subgroups in two New England cities and how the level of knowledge changed in these subgroups over time. Six independent cross-sect...
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The objective of this study is to examine the rates of mortality among different social classes and socioeconomic groups of British Columbian males from causes of death amenable to medical intervention. We examined the rates of avoidable mortality from the causes of death published by Charlton, excluding causes of death restricted to women as well...
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By using a classical Liouville-type model of two dimensional dilaton gravity we show that the one-loop theory implies that the fate of a black hole depends on the conformal frame. There is one frame for which the evaporation process never stops and another one leading to a complete disappearance of the black hole. This can be seen as a consequence...
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Theis (M.P.H.)--New York Medical College, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-66). Photocopy.

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