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James VanDerslice

Researcher at University of Utah

Publications -  80
Citations -  2875

James VanDerslice is an academic researcher from University of Utah. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Water quality. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 74 publications receiving 2267 citations. Previous affiliations of James VanDerslice include University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Washington State Department of Health.

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Workgroup report: Drinking-water nitrate and health--recent findings and research needs.

TL;DR: The role of drinking-water nitrate exposure as a risk factor for specific cancers, reproductive outcomes, and other chronic health effects must be studied more thoroughly before changes to the regulatory level for nitrate in drinking water can be considered.
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Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater with COVID-19 disease burden in sewersheds.

TL;DR: In this article, a nine-week wastewater epidemiology study of ten wastewater facilities, serving 39% of the state of Utah or 1.26 million individuals was conducted in April and May of 2020.
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Introduction of an Area Deprivation Index Measuring Patient Socio-economic Status in an Integrated Health System: Implications for Population Health

TL;DR: The Utah ADI shows promise in providing a proxy for patient-reported measures reflecting key socio-economic indicators useful for tailoring patient interventions to improve health care delivery and patient outcomes, and initial evidence of its broad applicability in addressing the impact of social determinants on health is provided.
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Drinking-water quality, sanitation, and breast-feeding: their interactive effects on infant health.

TL;DR: This issue is explored using data from a prospective study of 2355 urban Filipino infants during the first 6 months of life to estimate the effects of full breast-feeding and mixed feeding on diarrhoeal disease at different levels of sanitation.
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Environmental Interventions in Developing Countries: Interactions and Their Implications

TL;DR: The findings suggest that improvements in both water supply and sanitation are necessary if infant health in developing countries is to be improved and imply that it is not epidemiologic but behavioral, institutional, and economic factors that should correctly determine the priority of interventions.