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Race, Socioeconomic Position and Depression: The Mental Health Costs of Upward Mobility.
(2009)
The relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and depression among African Americans was explored in this dissertation. Several SEP indicators, specifically household income, education, parental education, net ...
Role of Noradrenergic Signaling in the Basolateral Amygdala in Habituation to Repeated Stress.
(2009)
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is an important stress-responsive system, but overactivity of the HPA axis can be detrimental to the physiological and psychological health of the organism. HPA activity ...
The Impact of News Media Frames of Type 2 Diabetes on the Public's Health Policy Opinions.
(2008)
Public opinion may be an important influence on policy development to improve population health and reduce disparities. Yet little is known about the public’s opinions about the determinants of health or the impact of the ...
Transitioning: The History of Childbirth in Puerto Rico, 1948-1990s.
(2008)
This dissertation documents and analyzes the dramatic transformations in birthing practices that accompanied broader economic, political and cultural shifts in Puerto Rico during the latter half of the twentieth century. ...
"Whatever It Means To You": Ethnicity, Language, and the Survey Response in Telephone-Administered Health Surveys of African Americans.
(2008)
Many public health surveys match the race of telephone interviewers to the anticipated race of respondents. This practice may be particularly prevalent when surveying populations with a possible mistrust of health research, ...
Mechanisms Involved in the Psychological Distress of Black Caribbeans in the United States.
(2009)
The accelerated growth of ethnic minorities implores academics to investigate more deeply health disparities and the factors that exacerbate or minimize such inequalities. This dissertation attends to that concern by using ...
"The Numbers Don't Work for Us:" An Alternative Model of Fundamental Causality from the Perspectives of African Americans in Urban Atlanta.
(2008)
Racial/ethnic disparities between African Americans and Whites in a number of health outcomes continue to exist despite decades of intervention research and social policy changes. Several perspectives have been proposed ...
French Families, Paper Facts: Genetics, Writing, and Intimate Histories.
(2009)
Biogenetics dominates contemporary discussions—scientific, media, and in everyday talk—about the origins of diseases, ethnicities, tribes, and nations. This dissertation sheds light on the dynamics—of affect, history, ...