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Algorithms & Techniques for Studying In Vitro Oral Biofilms
(2018)
Dental caries and periodontal disease affect billions of people annually with a global prevalence estimated at 35% and 11%, respectively. Oral biofilms that develop on tooth surfaces and within gingival crevices are a major ...
Changes in Spending, Risk Selection, and the Response of Frontline Clinicians: Understanding Performance Mechanisms in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
(2021)
Confronted by an increasingly expensive and fragmented health care system, public and private payers have established a series of reforms designed to lower costs and improve quality. A leading example is the Medicare Shared ...
Inter-organizational Collaborations Working to Change Policies that Affect Adolescents: A Qualitative Study of Three Youth-Serving Inter-organizational Collaborations.
(2012)
Differences in health status by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status have been well documented in the literature. Inter-organizational collaborations (IOCs) are a strategy used to address public health concerns and ...
The Impact of Sanitation on Child Health in Vulnerable Populations: a Multicountry Analysis across Income Levels
(2020)
The separation of humans from fecal waste through sanitation is a crucial element of public health that has prevented countless deaths throughout history. However, health improvements from sanitation are not shared equally ...
Menstrual Cycle Patterns and Their Determinants during the Menopausal Transition among a Multiethnic Cohort of Women.
(2012)
Examining menstrual cycle patterns among early and mid-reproductive aged women suggests that ethnicity, body mass index (BMI), and medical conditions influence menstrual characteristics. Little data is available on bleeding ...
Disparities in Environmental Exposures and Health in Thailand: Molecular Effects of Chronic Cadmium Exposure and Trends in Childhood Leukemia
(2016)
Thailand has undergone rapid social and economic changes over the past fifty years, and prevalence and mortality of disease has decreased for infectious diseases and increased for chronic diseases across the age spectrum. ...
Inside or Out: Characterizing petrobactin use by Bacillus anthracis
(2018)
Bacillus anthracis is a Gram-positive, spore-forming bacillus and causes the disease anthrax. Anthrax is a deadly infection that begins with phagocytosis of a B. anthracis spore by an antigen presenting cell and ends when ...
Nutritional and Environmental Impacts of Foods on Human Health
(2018)
Suboptimal diet is a major public health concern, responsible for ~10 million death/year globally associated with nutrition, plus additional deaths associated with environmental emissions from food production. Informing ...
Three Essays in Health Care
(2018)
This dissertation examines two common sources of increased health care costs – readmissions and the co-occurrence of depression among patients with diabetes. The first paper examines hospital performance in the Hospital ...
New Statistical Methods for Phase I Clinical Trials of a Single Agent
(2017)
The primary goal of phase I clinical trials in oncology is to determine a safe and possibly effective dose of a treatment, and to recommend this dose for further testing in larger trials. With chemotherapeutic treatments, ...