An Argument for Ecological Research and Intervention in Health Communication Meghan Bridgid Moran, Lauren B. Frank, Nan Zhao, Carmen Gonzalez, Prawit Thainiyom, Sheila T. Murphy & Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach To cite this article: Meghan Bridgid Moran, Lauren B. Frank, Nan Zhao, Carmen Gonzalez, Prawit Thainiyom, Sheila T. Murphy & Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach (2016) An Argument for Ecological Research and...

Objective: Our laboratory previously demonstrated that asymptomatic vaginal colonization during pregnancy is a factor predisposing patients to subsequentsymptomatic vulvovaginal candidiasis. It is unknownwhether symptoms result from strain replacement or a change in host relationship to the original colonizing strain. This study was undertaken to determine whether Candida albicans isolates from...

Coral reefs are important ecosystems in terms of their biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Particularly at local scales, coral vulnerable to natural anthropogenic disturbances, leading the degradation reef health. Here, we employed two different methods monitor First, conducted line transect surveys record benthic community structure infer ecological Secondly, trace metal concentrations sedim...

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Recently, there has been an increased interest in modeling the association between aggregate disease counts and environmental exposures measured, for example via air pollution monitors, at point locations. This paper has two aims: first, we develop a model for such data in order to avoid ecological bias; second, we illustrate that modeling the exposure surface and estimating exposures may lead ...

Environmental mercury (Hg) contamination is an urgent global health threat. The complexity of Hg in the environment can hinder accurate determination of ecological and human health risks, particularly within the context of the rapid global changes that are altering many ecological processes, socioeconomic patterns, and other factors like infectious disease incidence, which can affect Hg exposur...

Ecological studies have been evaluated in epidemiological contexts in terms of the "ecological fallacy." Although the empirical evidence for a lack of comparability between correlations derived from ecological- and individual-level analyses is compelling, the conceptual meaning of the ecological fallacy remains problematic. This paper argues that issues in cross-level inference can be usefully ...