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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, ...
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 ...
Fertility Change in Central Asia: How Marriage Timing & Contraceptive Use are Evolving in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.
(2011)
Kyrgyzstan has undergone great societal change since gaining independence from the USSR in 1991. While government and economic shifts have affected many aspects of daily life, what effect have policy changes had on family ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mimicking partial to total placental insufficiency in a rabbit model of cerebral palsy
(Springer International PublishingWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-12)
All placental abruptions begin as partial abruptions, which sometimes manifest as fetal bradycardia. The progression from partial to total abruption was mimicked by a new rabbit model of placental insufficiency, and we ...