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Nursing 461 - Community Health

Topical Articles

Community Health & Massachusetts & Health Promotion

  1. Fenway Community Health Center, issuing body. (1992). Frontlines  / Fenway Community Health Center. Fenway Community Health Center.
  2. Janiak, E., Clark, J., Bartz, D., Langer, A., & Gottlieb, B. (2018). Barriers and Pathways to Providing Long‐Acting Reversible Contraceptives in Massachusetts Community Health Centers: A Qualitative Exploration. Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 50(3), 111–118. https://doi.org/10.1363/psrh.12071  Link
  3. Nielsen, V. M., Ursprung, W. W. S., Song, G., Hirsch, G., Mason, T., Santarelli, C., Guimaraes, E., Marshall, E., Allen, C. G., Lei, P.-P., Brown, D., & Behl-Chadha, B. (2024). The Launch of Massachusetts Community Health Worker Certification: Findings From the Massachusetts Community Health Worker Workforce Surveys. Public Health Reports (1974), 139(6), 760–767. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549241253419
  4. DeMarco, R. F., & Healey-Walsh, J. (Eds.). (2024). Community and public health nursing : evidence for practice  / Rosanna F. DeMarco, PhD, RN, FAAN, Judith Healey-Walsh, PhD, RN. (4th edition.). Wolters Kluwer.
  5. Figueroa, J. F., Wadhera, R. K., Lee, D., Yeh, R. W., & Sommers, B. D. (2020). Community-Level Factors Associated With Racial And Ethnic Disparities In COVID-19 Rates In Massachusetts. Health Affairs (Millwood, Va.), 39(11), 1984–1992. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01040
  6. Kingsley, M., McGinnes, H., Song, G., Doane, J., & Henley, P. (2022). Impact of Massachusetts’ Statewide Sales Restriction on Flavored and Menthol Tobacco Products on Tobacco Sales in Massachusetts and Surrounding States, June 2020. American Journal of Public Health (1971), 112(8), 1147–1150. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306879
  7. Spangler, K. R., Patil, P., Peng, X., Levy, J. I., Lane, K. J., Tieskens, K. F., Carnes, F., Klevens, R. M., Erdman, E. A., Troppy, T. S., Fabian, M. P., & Leibler, J. H. (2022). Community predictors of COVID‐19 cases and deaths in Massachusetts: Evaluating changes over time using geospatially refined data. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 16(2), 213–221. https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.12926
  8. Motivational interviewing: smoking cessation part 1. (2020). [Video recording]. BMJ Publishing Group LTD.
  9. Motivational interviewing: smoking cessation part 2. (2020). [Video recording]. BMJ Publishing Group LTD.

Opioid & Substance Use Disorders

  1. Alpren, C., Dawson, E. L., John, B., Cranston, K., Panneer, N., Fukuda, H. D., Roosevelt, K., Klevens, R. M., Bryant, J., Peters, P. J., Lyss, S. B., Switzer, W. M., Burrage, A., Murray, A., Agnew-Brune, C., Stiles, T., McClung, P., Campbell, E. M., Breen, C., … Buchacz, K. (2020). Opioid Use Fueling HIV Transmission in an Urban Setting: An Outbreak of HIV Infection Among People Who Inject Drugs—Massachusetts, 2015–2018. American Journal of Public Health (1971), 110(1), 37–44. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305366
  2. LaBelle, C. T., Han, S. C., Bergeron, A., & Samet, J. H. (2016). Office-Based Opioid Treatment with Buprenorphine (OBOT-B): Statewide Implementation of the Massachusetts Collaborative Care Model in Community Health Centers. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 60, 6–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2015.06.010
  3. Zang, X., Skinner, A., Li, Z., Shaw, L. C., Behrends, C. N., Chatterjee, A., Jalali, A., Jordan, A. E., Morgan, J. R., Nolen, S., Schackman, B. R., Marshall, B. D. L., & Walley, A. Y. (2025). Improving racial/ethnic health equity and naloxone access among people at risk for opioid overdose: A simulation modeling analysis of community‐based naloxone distribution strategies in Massachusetts, United States. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 120(2), 316–326. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.16691

Home Health Care Nursing

  1. Falkenstrom, M. K. (2017). A Qualitative Study of Difficult Nurse-Patient Encounters in Home Health Care. Advances in Nursing Science, 40(2), 168–183. https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0000000000000156
  2. Quinn, M. M., Markkanen, P. K., Galligan, C. J., Kriebel, D., Chalupka, S. M., Kim, H., Gore, R. J., Sama, S. R., Laramie, A. K., & Davis, L. (2009). Sharps Injuries and Other Blood and Body Fluid Exposures Among Home Health Care Nurses and Aides. American Journal of Public Health (1971), 99(S3), S710–S717. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2008.150169

School Nursing

  1. Reisner, S. L., Sava, L. M., Menino, D. D., Perrotti, J., Barnes, T. N., Humphrey, D. L., Nikitin, R. V., & Earnshaw, V. A. (2020). Addressing LGBTQ Student Bullying in Massachusetts Schools: Perspectives of LGBTQ Students and School Health Professionals. Prevention Science, 21(3), 408–421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-019-01084-4
  2. Howland, J., Campbell, J., Thomas, R., Smyth, S., Chaneco, A., Torres, A., & Olshaker, J. (2023). An Evaluation of Post-Concussion Return to School Guidelines: A Survey of Massachusetts School Nurses. The Journal of School Nursing, 39(6), 422–430. https://doi.org/10.1177/10598405211032210
  3. Sava, L. M., Earnshaw, V. A., Menino, D. D., Perrotti, J., & Reisner, S. L. (2021). LGBTQ Student Health: A Mixed‐Methods Study of Unmet Needs in Massachusetts Schools. The Journal of School Health, 91(11), 894–905. https://doi.org/10.1111/josh.13082

Communicable Diseases

  1. Nagavedu, K., Eberhardt, K., Willis, S., Morrison, M., Ochoa, A., Soliva, S., Scotland, S., Cocoros, N. M., Callahan, M., Randall, L. M., Brown, C. M., & Klompas, M. (2024). Electronic Health Record Data for Lyme Disease Surveillance, Massachusetts, USA, 2017–2018. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 30(7), 1374–1379. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3007.230942
  2. DeMarco, R., & Johnsen, C. (2003). Taking Action in Communities: Women Living With HIV/AIDS Lead the Way. Journal of Community Health Nursing, 20(1), 51–62. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327655JCHN2001_05

COVID-19

  1. Erfani, P., Sandoval, R. S., Rich, K. M., Ojo, A., Walker, L., White-Hammond, G., Lambert, E., & Wurcel, A. (2022). Ask Me Anything”: Lessons learned in implementing a COVID-19 vaccine information initiative in Massachusetts jails. Vaccine, 40(22), 2981–2983.
  2. Sprague Martinez, L., Sharma, N., John, J., Battaglia, T. A., Linas, B. P., Clark, C. R., Hudson, L. B., Lobb, R., Betz, G., Ojala O’Neill, S. O., Lima, A., Doty, R., Rahman, S., & Bassett, I. V. (2024). Long COVID impacts: the voices and views of diverse Black and Latinx residents in Massachusetts. BMC Public Health, 24(1), Article 2265. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-19567-7
  3. Korber, B., Lin, A., Cherry, S. T., Brown, S. L., Vallo, B. D., McCabe, M., Levenson, D., Dehority, W., Culbreath, K., Southwell, B. G., Gonzales, D., Dzirasa, L., & Grabenstein, J. D. (Producers), & Schueler, C. (Director). (2021, Jan 01). Vaccination From the Misinformation Virus. [Video/DVD] Albuquerque,: Christopher Productions, LLC. https://www.proquest.com/audio-video-works/vaccination-misinformation-virus/docview/2829438845/se-2

Special Populations of Community Dwellers

  1. Kler, J. S., Victory, A., Chao, S., Suh, M., & Mushero, N. (2025). Retrospective review of deaths in the Massachusetts department of corrections after passage of medical parole. BMC Public Health, 25(1), Article 2465. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23692-2
  2. Sullivan-Bolyai, S. , Pellegrini, L. , Boucher, J. , Gravlin, G. , O'Neil, W. , Coco, A. & Vitello, J. (2020). Using a Nursing Salon to Identify and Develop an Initiative for Family Caregivers of Older Adults. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 50 (1), 40-44. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000837.

Community & Public Health Pioneers

  1. Ellis, H. (2008). Florence Nightingale: Creator of Modern Nursing and Public Health Pioneer. Journal of Perioperative Practice, 18(9), 404–406. https://doi.org/10.1177/175045890801800906
  2. Kim Curry. (2005). Pioneer in Florida Public Health Nursing: The Work of Joyce Ely, RN. Florida Public Health Review, 2, 17–22.
  3. Topcu, S., PhD., & Ardahan, M., PhD. (2019). Occupational Health Nursing and Pioneer Leaders from Past to Present. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 12(3), 1931-1935. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/occupational-health-nursing-pioneer-leaders-past/docview/2363845648/se-2
  4.  Smilios, M. (2023). The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (1st ed.). Penguin Publishing Group.
  5. Skloot, R. (2010). The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks  / Rebecca Skloot. Crown Publishers.
     
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