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Urban-Rural Influences on Driving Behaviors and Driving Outcomes Among Michigan Young Adults: An Investigation of Roadway Characteristics, Alcohol Establishments, and Social Influences.
(2010)
Objective: Motor vehicle crashes are a huge public health problem. Identifying area characteristics (or aspects of the physical and social environment) and how these area characteristics are associated with driving ...
Essays on Race/Ethnic Variations in the Dynamics of Chronic Diseases Among Middle and Old Aged Americans.
(2010)
This dissertation is composed of three empirical papers on ethnic disparities in chronic disease morbidity. Data come from Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants aged 51+ from 1995-2006. The first paper analyzes ...
Memory, Interference and Depression.
(2010)
This dissertation explores the role of interference in short-term memory and how interference in memory may influence depression. The first chapter tackles whether forgetting in the short-term is due to decay with the ...
Narrowing the Gap: Chronic Illness Information as Experienced in Everyday Life and Healthcare Contexts.
(2011)
This research examines the information experience of people with chronic health conditions in everyday life and as shaped by the healthcare context in order to understand informational aspects of patient-provider disconnects. ...
The Impact of Serotonin Transporter Gene Variation on Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Goal-Directed Cognition
(2011)
In order to enable goal-directed behavior in a dynamically changing environment, the human brain must meet two competing requirements: (1) the goal representations must be stably and robustly maintained in the face of ...
Diabetes Health and Disability Pathways: Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Gender Disparities.
(2010)
This dissertation examines how race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and gender relate to longitudinal health outcomes among older adults with type 2 diabetes. Further, this dissertation analyzes the extent to which certain ...