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BREATHE Team has Article Featured in Journal of Environmental Health

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff Mar 13, 2017

Members of the UK College of Nursing Bridging Research Efforts and Advocacy Toward Health Environments (BREATHE) team recently had an article published in the Journal of Environmental Health (JEH) titled “Lung Cancer Worry and Home Screening for Radon and Secondhand Smoke in Renters.”

Assistant Professor Works with Patients with Mental Illness to Create Tailored Tobacco Treatment Program

By: Sally Evans Nov 10, 2016

Assistant Professor Chizimuzo (Zim) Okoli, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN, picked up his first and last cigarette when he was just six years old – a mistake that landed him in the emergency room but inspired his life’s work to study mental illness and substance use among marginalized and underrepresented populations.

Are Kentucky Cigarette Prices to Blame for Smoking Rates?

By: Lisa Gillespie Oct 13, 2016

Ten months after completing a smoking cessation class, Terrence Silver started smoking cigarettes again. It was his first attempt at quitting after smoking for 40 years. His biggest motivation to quit: cost. “That was the primary reason I was going to quit, the money,” Silver said. “It wasn’t health, wasn’t that I didn’t like it. It was the money.” Silver lives across the river in Jeffersonville, Indiana, where the tax on cigarettes is 99 cents per pack. So he comes to Kentucky to buy his cigarettes, where the tax is 60 cents.

BREATHE Nursing Researchers Collaborate with Geologists to Map Radon Risks in Kentucky

By: Elizabeth Adams Aug 15, 2016

A blending of ideas, expertise and perspective allows research teams to consider every angle of a public health problem, leaving no stone unturned in the search for a solution. For Ellen Hahn, a professor in the UK College of Nursing and director of the Bridging Research Efforts and Advocacy Toward Healthy Environments (BREATHE) initiative, understanding the risk potential of radon across Kentucky’s diverse geological landscape required digging beneath the surface of the issue.

Pregnancy Treated as a Moment for Recovery through UK HealthCare’s PATHways Clinic

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff Jul 26, 2016

Opioid addiction is a complex medical disorder that impacts the entire nation, but much of the problem is condensed to disparate regions of Kentucky. This is the second installment of a series of articles exploring the work of University of Kentucky researchers and UK HealthCare medical providers who are making progress toward solutions to the epidemic in our state and at large. LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 19, 2016) — As she scooted around a table at the UK HealthCare Polk-Dalton Clinic, Lenn’s volleyball-size baby bump knocked over a soda can.

Faculty Members Receive Grant for Tobacco-free Ambassadors (TAP) Partnership: Linking K-12 Schools and Community Colleges Project

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff Jul 26, 2016

College of Nursing Professor Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN, and College of Education Assistant Professor Mindy Ickes, PhD, recently received $100,000 from the CVS Health Foundation for their Tobacco-free Ambassadors Partnership (TAP): Linking K-12 Schools and Community Colleges project.

New Study Examines Use of Multiple Tobacco Products in College Students

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff Jul 18, 2016

A new study co-authored by College of Nursing Professor Ellen Hahn, PhD, RN, FAAN, found that roughly 15 percent of college students who had ever used tobacco currently use more than one tobacco product. Polytobacco use (using more than one tobacco product) drives nicotine addiction and can prolong the use of tobacco products, leading to acute and chronic negative health risks such as lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and more.

PhD Student Fights to Fix Our Health Care Systems

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff Apr 26, 2016

After working at the bedside in critical care, emergency medicine and as a rapid response nurse for seven years, PhD student Shannon Parsley, RN, BSN, CEN, felt in her gut that something wasn’t quite right—her passion aligned more with improving patient outcomes and the undeniable injustices she frequently witnessed in the health care system.

LGBT HealthLink Blog post by Dr. Amanda Fallin: 50 Years of Progress and Kentucky’s LGBT Youth Smoke at Disproportionately High Rates

By: BREATHE Faculty and Staff Apr 3, 2016

Assistant Research Professor Amanda Fallin wrote a blog post for the The Network for the LGBT Health Equity's HealthLink, which is community-driven network of advocates and professionals looking to enhance LGBT health by eliminating tobacco use, and enhancing diet and exercise.

Campus Community Rallies for the Sixth Anniversary of the Tobacco-free Policy

By: Elizabeth Adams Apr 3, 2016

University of Kentucky students, faculty and staff members will cheer for clear air as the campus celebrates the sixth year of the tobacco-free policy on Nov. 19.

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