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"Raising a Dad": Parenting Support and Psychological Stress Among African American Paternal Grandmothers Whose Sons Are Teenage Fathers.
(2013)
African American paternal grandmothers strengthen teenage-parent centered families by providing parenting support to teenage fathers. However, providing parenting support may increase their vulnerability to psychological ...
Sex Differences in the Neuroimmune Modulation of Learning and Memory
(2022)
The neuroimmune system is a specialized immune system in the brain crucial for both responding to illness and injury as well as regulating normal neural function and behavior. As such, it is perhaps not surprising that ...
Contemporary Issues in Population Health: Disability, Pain Management, and Opioid Overdose in the United States
(2020)
This dissertation addresses several contemporary health challenges affecting the US population, drawing on methods and perspectives from health services research, social demography, and medical sociology. Paper 1 examines ...
Investigating the Role of Social Networks in Antidepressant Medication Initiation Behaviors.
(2012)
Background: Medication adherence in depression continues to challenge patients and providers. Patients’ social networks are theorized to impact medication use decisions, particularly in patients with depression. Pescosolido ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2017)
My dissertation broadly relates to the low uptake of preventive health services in developing countries despite the services’ low cost and potential to avert subsequent catastrophic expenses. In the first two chapters, I ...
Motivational Interviewing in Clinical Settings.
(2013)
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a patient-centered counseling technique used for behavior change. MI has been evaluated in hundreds of clinical trials across contexts, focusing on mental health and addictions. Despite ...
Three Enquiries Concerning Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration
(2020)
Hospitals and physicians in the United States increasingly work together under common ownership. Over the past decade, physicians have gravitated toward employment at hospital-owned facilities and hospitals have acquired ...
Essays on Information Technology and Organizational Form in the Health Care Industry.
(2012)
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over physicians’ actions and resources and thereby enable efficiency gains, including implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives, ...
Understanding and Improving Personal Risk Management: New Perpective on Personal Policy Decision and an Illustration_ The Case of Seatbelts.
(2011)
This dissertation presents, tests, and explains the ability of two perspectives to guide productive efforts for understanding and improving how people, especially adolescents and young adults, manage significant daily ...
Successful Aging and Obesity: Social and Developmental Heterogeneity in Trajectories of Body Weight from Middle to Older Age
(2011)
Obesity is increasingly prevalent among older adults, yet little is known about the distribution of long-term trajectories of body-weight in this age group. The three essays included in this dissertation aim to depict the ...