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Prioritization of Evolutionary Events for Immune Response Studies: Introgression, Selection, and Infectious Disease Among Indigenous Americans
(2020)
A history of exposure to infectious diseases has influenced the biology of Mesoamericans. From the urbanization of Mesoamerican communities to colonial contact in the 15th century, immune response to various pathogens have ...
Incarceration and Sexual Risk: An Examination of How Incarceration Shapes the Context of HIV Risk.
(2013)
This dissertation introduces a conceptual framework theorizing that incarceration and the inequities inherent in the current criminal justice system in the United States render changes in individual sexual decision-making ...
Racialized Sexual Discrimination (RSD) and Psychological Wellbeing Among Young Black Gay/Bisexual Men (YBGBM)
(2018)
The vast majority of research addressing the health needs of young Black gay/bisexual men (YBGBM) has focused on sexuality and HIV, and there is a deficit of research exploring issues related to racism and psychological ...
Meeting the Geriatric Care Needs of an Aging Population: Older Adult, Family Caregiver, and Provider Perspectives
(2020)
There is a critical need to ensure the provision of high-quality health care for a growing population of adults age 65 and older (older adults). Recent policy initiatives emphasize the need for a health care workforce that ...
Health Care Use Among Transgender and Other Gender Diverse People in the United States: Influences of Stigma and Resilience
(2019)
Background: This dissertation explores the relationships between stigma, resilience, and health care among transgender and other gender diverse (TGGD) populations in the United States. The dissertation draws from multiple ...
Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in Michigan: A Mixed Methods Analysis of the Impact of an Obstetric Hemorrhage Patient Safety Bundle
(2022)
The United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality despite outspending all other resource-rich countries in per-capita reproductive health care. Contributing to this problem are a combination of factors including ...
Change in the Built Environment and its Association with Change in Walking and Obesity in Middle Age and Older Adults.
(2014)
The built environment, a subset of the physical environment that includes land-use patterns, transportation, and design, has been shown to influence walking and obesity. However, the majority of evidence is cross-sectional, ...
Optogenetic Insights into Central Amygdala Motivational Mechanisms
(2018)
A characteristic hallmark of addiction is the focused pursuit of drugs at the expense of other life rewards. Focusing motivation towards the appropriate target and at appropriate times is an adaptive strategy, and helpful ...
Social Networks: Collection, Uncertainty, and Applications to College Student Alcohol Use
(2019)
Behavior, attitudes, and infection can transmit across networks of contacts via social mixing, making network analysis methods a key tool in social and infectious disease epidemiology. Through analysis of the simultaneous ...
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 ...