Diana Cassady's research while affiliated with University of California, Davis and other places

... Recent analyses have identified significant state-wide disparities in "Purchase of Service" (POS) expenditures from California's Department of Developmental Services (DDS). Analyses of DDS Purchase of Service administrative data reveal disparities in service use and expenditures for schoolage youth (ages 7 to 16) and for people who are racial/ ethnic minorities (Harrington & Kang, 2016;Leigh et al., 2016). Specifically, Latino people had the lowest annual service expenditures across diagnosis and age groups compared to other racial and ethnic groups (Leigh et al., 2016). ...

... Research consistently shows disparities in unhealthy food and beverage advertising exposure by SES [32]. Previous research has found that neighborhood-level income demographics are also associated with the outdoor food and beverage advertising environment, with lower-income areas consistently having higher densities of food and beverage marketing than higher-income areas [33][34][35][36][37]. However, few have specifically examined if this economic disparity in advertising applies to school environments [37], nor if the types of beverages advertised vary by neighborhood income level. ...

... Research by Hwang & Lorenzen (2008) shows that restaurant customers currently exhibit the most positive attitudes towards low-calorie items and are willing to pay more when menus provide nutrition information. Nutritional information tends to contain information about calories, serving sizes, and nutrients Miller & Cassady (2015); Pink et al (2022), and this basic information is easily understood by most individuals (Graham & Jeffery, 2011). It is likely that a healthy lifestyle will lead to healthy food choices and food consumption among older generations of Z-ers (Savelli & Murmura, 2023). ...

... The score was calculated by summing the points for each item; total score ranges from 0 to 73 (21). The score was then categorised into needs work (< 33), getting there (33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38), excellent (39-46) and outstanding (47+) according to Marshall et. al (21). ...

... Organizational health literacy focuses on the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others (HSS, 2021). At the individual level, adequate health literacy skills play a pivotal role in preventing and managing chronic diseases and other health concerns (Miller et al., 2015). Conversely, limited health literacy has been linked to unhealthy lifestyles, including smoking, poor diet, and lack of physical activity, all of which increase the risk of mortality and premature death (Mayberry et al., 2018;Wolf et al., 2007). ...

... To address the limitations of standardized tutorials, a variety of approaches to research ethics training have been developed across different research contexts. For example, Jetter et al. [20] supplemented a self-administered research ethics course designed for university researchers with a two-part "round table seminar" to discuss the content of the Belmont report and highlight issues of particular relevance to American Indian/Alaskan Native communities. Yonas et al. [12] created flexible research ethics training resources for academic and community partners that can be delivered in-person or online and have been deployed in a wide variety of CBPR contexts in the US. ...

... For example, Specht and Szot 9 tested six GPS receivers and found that logging receivers, such as Garmin Forerunner 310XT, demonstrated the highest accuracy in determining positions. In another similar research, four wearable GPS monitors were compared while four adults walked a distance of 1.24 km and the most accurate device was Garmin Forerunner 205. 10 Using a similar methodological approach, Lee et al. 11 chose four low cost GPS minotors and found that all devices were valid for distance estimation, with Garmin 60 to be the most accurate. ...

... 2 In response, some landlords have established smokefree policies for their housing units, and some cities have established such policies for all multi-unit housing within their jurisdictions. 3 The military is in effect the largest landlord in the U.S., with control over approximately 630,000 units of housing, including about 134,000 family units, and barracks space (for single enlisted personnel) for 500,000, with locations in all 50 states, as well as in numerous countries around the world. Military personnel who live in such housing frequently have little or no control over whether to stay there. ...

... The themes identified in this case study are consistent with previous research on local, state, and national tobacco control policies that found that, among others, policy champions or change agents [7,[42][43][44], engagement with youth advocates [7,45], supporting data, and other localities previously enacting the policy influenced adoption [42]. Past studies also suggest that the absence of supporting data may have hampered states which attempted to adopt T21 early [6,7], but in later years, the IOM report proved powerful enough to elevate the attention of T21 as a tool to reduce youth tobacco use. ...

... However, research examining the feasibility of using such community-based programs to address vaccine uptake in immigrant and refugee populations is limited. A systematic review [58] of vaccine hesitancy and uptake among refugee and immigrants found very few studies [33,59,60] that documented the effectiveness of such community-based initiatives in increasing vaccine uptake in immigrant and refugee populations. ...