Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

Published April 2, 2020

CommonHealth

CommonHealth, a journal of the College of Public Health at Temple University, is a peer-reviewed, online-only, open access journal for rapid dissemination of high quality research and scholarship related to all aspects of public health. The journal publishes papers of interest to public health scholars in academic, clinical, government and industry roles working on all aspects of major public health issues.

This inaugural issue includes work from CPH faculty and students in a form of original research papers, a research letter, as well as conference proceedings from the 2019 CPH Research and Evidence Based Practice Day. These articles represent the truly ground-breaking work being conducted by our students and faculty.

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Table of Contents

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Welcome

Laura A. Siminoff

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Letter from the Dean

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Molly A. Beiting, Hamlet Gasoyan, Jennifer K. Ibrahim, David B. Sarwer, Jacqueline C. Spitzer

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Letter from the Editors

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Original Research Articles

Megan Urbanski, Salini Inaganti, Chidera Agu, David Sarwer, Heather Gardiner

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Body Mass Index as a Patient Selection Criterion for Kidney Transplant

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Christopher Taylor, Tyler Kmiec, Christopher Thompson

12-23

Differences in Human Motoneuron Excitability Between Functionally Diverse Muscles

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Research Letters

Samantha Davis, Bradley Collins, Stephen Lepore

24-30

Exploring mindfulness and its psychosocial correlates in a population of low-income, female, tobacco smokers with young children

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Conference Proceedings

Kwadwo Osei Appiah-Kubi, Anne Galgon, Ryan Tierney, Richard Lauer, W. Geoffrey Wright

31-36

Effects of Vestibular Training on Postural Control of Healthy Adults

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Ryan William Paul, Angela Tate, Joseph Sarver, Laura DiPaola, Jeffery Yim, Stephen John Thomas

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Changes in Clinical Measures and Tissue Adaptations in Collegiate Swimmers Across a Competitive Season

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