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Auxology and Environmental Epidemiology: Lead Exposure, Physical Growth and Maturation.
(2010)
The theme of this dissertation is the potential impact of pre- and post-natal lead exposure on child growth and maturation. Maternal bone lead has been inversely associated with physical growth in infants and young children, ...
Life course socioeconomic position, depressive symptoms, and cardiovascular disease mortality in the Alameda County Study 1965-2000.
(2010)
Background: Lower socioeconomic position (SEP) over the life course has been posited as a contributing factor in the development of chronic illnesses, including cardiovascular disease (CVD) and subsequent mortality (CVDM). ...
The Health Consequences of Asian Immigrant Integration.
(2011)
This dissertation consists of three papers that explore contextual influences on the health trajectories of Asian immigrants. Current public health research has largely attributed Asian immigrants’ changing health patterns ...
Metals, Noise, Diet, and Hearing Loss.
(2011)
Hearing loss is one of the most common chronic health disabilities experienced by older adults, and the prevalence of hearing loss tends to increase dramatically with advancing age. Therefore, identification of modifiable ...
Some Novel Spatial Stochastic Models for Functional Neuroimaging Analysis.
(2011)
In this dissertation, we develop some new spatial point process models and discuss their applications to the analysis of functional neuroimaging data. In the first project, we propose a Bayesian spatial hierarchical model ...
Epidemiologic Approaches to Understanding Complex Diseases: Applications in Congenital Heart Disease and Cancer.
(2010)
Epidemiology provides a means of investigating the architecture of complex diseases by combining advances in technology with our current understanding of the epidemiology of disease. In this dissertation, epidemiologic ...
Role of Persistent Pathogens, Total Pathogen Burden and Inflammation in Determining Risk for All-Cause and Cardiovascular Disease-related Mortality in the United States.
(2011)
Although life expectancy has steadily increased in the United States (U.S.), socioeconomic disparities in risk for mortality persist, indicating the need to identify novel risk factors linking socioeconomic position (SEP) ...
A Micro-Analytical System for Complex Vapor Mixtures - Development and Application to Indoor Air Contaminants.
(2012)
This dissertation concerns the development of two fully integrated, automatically controlled, field-deployable Si-microfabricated gas chromatograph (µGC) prototypes, and their application to indoor-air monitoring of ...
Essays in Children's Access to Pediatric Health Care.
(2011)
This dissertation consists of three essays on factors related to children’s access to and utilization of health care.
The family is acknowledged as an important contextual factor in a child’s access to health care. In ...
Care friendliness in adolescent sexual and reproductive health services in Mexico and a characterisation of their clients
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Guttmacher Inst., 2022-12)
BackgroundSexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a very important issue in public health programs in low -and middle-income countries (LMICs). Health services that meet specific and differentiated needs of adolescents are ...