Building Community Health Literacy to Achieve Health Equity: Insights from Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services Community Leader in a County-Level Health Literacy Initiative

“…This perspectives article shares insights from a county-level project in Franklin County, Ohio, to build collective organizational health literacy (HL) capacity across new sustainable networks to advance community-level HL. …”
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From Civic Group to Advocacy Coalition: Using a Food Policy Audit as a Tool for Change by Jill K. Clark

“…Using the advocacy coalition framework (ACF), this paper presents the case of Franklin County, Ohio to illustrate how a civically-oriented group transitioned into an advo­cacy coalition. …”
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Measuring the Differentiated Impact of New Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Projects on Households’ Movements by Income Level within Urban Areas by Sohyun Park, Aram Yang, Hui Jeong Ha, Jinhyung Lee

“…Using unique individual-level household movement data combined with origin–destination neighborhood characteristics, we developed zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) models to analyze the LIHTC’s impact on residential mobility patterns in Franklin County, Ohio, US, from 2011 to 2015. The results suggest that the LIHTC attracts low-income households while deterring higher-income families, and therefore the program is not proved to be effective at creating mixed-income neighborhoods.…”
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Characterizing seasonal changes in the reproductive activity of Culex mosquitoes throughout the fall, winter, and spring in Ohio by Alden Siperstein, Laura W. Pomeroy, Sydney Robare, Lucas Sarko, Hannah Dehus, Taylor Lowmiller, Lydia Fyie, Megan E. Meuti

“…Methods Mosquitoes were collected from parks using various traps and/or aspirated from culverts in Franklin County, Ohio, from October to mid-May from 2019 to 2022. …”
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RREACT: A mobile multidisciplinary response to overdose by Alexander J. Ulintz, Rebecca J. McCloskey, Gretchen Clark Hammond, Matthew Parrish, Isaac Toliver, Alina Sharafutdinova, Michael S. Lyons

“…RREACT provides harm reduction, linkage/transportation to care and wrap-around services to individuals following a nonfatal opioid overdose that resulted in an emergency response in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. Between 2018 and 2022, RREACT made 22,157 outreach attempts to 11,739 unique patients. …”
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Opioid Treatment Deserts: Concept development and application in a US Midwestern urban county. by Ayaz Hyder, Jinhyung Lee, Ashley Dundon, Lauren T Southerland, David All, Gretchen Hammond, Harvey J Miller

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We obtained individual-level data from one Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agency (Columbus Fire Department) in Franklin County, Ohio. Opioid overdose events were based on EMS runs where naloxone was administered from 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2017. …”
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