I gave a talk early this month at Trifecta Technology and Innovation for Health, at MSU’s College of Communications Arts and Sciences about some of the research going on with my collaborators there. I presented ongoing research on online health information seeking behavior (HISB) that examines various online channels (emailing providers, talking about health in chat… Read More »
Pang Vang, has recently published a paper based off of data gathered by the Social Determinants of Health Lab. Her paper, published in the UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal was titled The Importance of Advocating for Oral Health Education Programs on College Campuses: Original Research on the Systematic Examination of Oral Health Beliefs among College Student Minorities. Pang… Read More »
Undergraduate student Kesia Garibay, who was a research assistant for the Social Determinants of Health Lab last academic year and summer 2016 was the recipient of an award for the poster Oral Health Risks Among UC Merced Students (authors: Garibay K, Pena E, Vang P, Marines M, De Guzman K, Gonzalez M.) at the October… Read More »
In an article published in the Journal of Asthma, my colleagues and I find that soda consumption could be a point of intervention to reduce asthma severity, as we find a relationship between soda consumption and hospitalization for asthma related conditions. Soda consumption and hospital admissions among Californian adults with asthma ABSTRACT Introduction Asthma prevalence… Read More »
The conversation has published my article – Latinos face digital divide in health care
We have recently had an article published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). The team of researchers included faculty at UC Merced, Cal State Stanislaus, and Michigan State University. Online Health Information-Seeking Behavior and Confidence in Filling Out Online Forms Among Latinos: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the California Health Interview Survey, 2011-2012 Background:… Read More »
I have been awarded a Hellman Fellows Faculty Fellowship is to examine young adult oral health beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, practices and access to care among young adults attending UC Merced (UCM) in general, and those from the San Joaquin Valley (SJV) in particular. This current study builds upon an exploratory study undertaken at UCM in… Read More »
Examining the age distribution of the population in the SJV shows us that children are an important category – 30% of the population is under the age of 18. As a result, promoting well-being among children is crucial for the health and growth of the region. While children make up 30% of the population, they… Read More »
This week I had the honor of giving a speech at a California Tobacco Control Program event. My speech was titled “Understanding how tobacco use and other risk behaviors are linked is crucial for the health of California.” In this talk I presented some preliminary research we had… Read More »
The undergraduate student research assistants in my lab – Kesia Garibay, Karina DeGuzman, Morelia Marines, Elizabeth Pena, and Pang Vang – presented the poster “Oral Health Risks Among UC Merced Students” at the Student Research Poster Competition on Tuesday. You can see their poster as part of the Student Research Display sponsored by UCM ReCCES in… Read More »