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Hands on the Green Leaf Labor, Resistance, and Bittersweet Dwelling in Argentina's Yerba Mate Country.
(2015)
Hands on the Green Leaf is an ethnographic homage to the men, women, and children called tareferos (tarefer@s) who labor to produce yerba mate, the naturally bitter, green tea that is both symbolic drink and staple food ...
Implementing Obamacare: Intergovernmental Battles Over the Creation of Health Insurance Exchanges.
(2014)
The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) implementation has been marked by deep political division. Health insurance exchanges were a provision expected to elude controversy given their history of Republican support and since states ...
Towards Energy Justice: A Multidimensional Analysis of Energy Poverty Recognition and Responses in the United States
(2021)
Energy justice frameworks and approaches build upon the foundation developed by environmental justice scholarship and activism to combat energy-related disparities. Disparities in access to modern energy services and ...
Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Urban Politics and America's Homeless Crisis
(2019)
Chronic homelessness has severe implications for health disparities. Black Americans are four times as likely and Hispanic Americans are two times more likely to experience homelessness compared to white Americans (Fusaro, ...
Young Families in the Community: An Exploratory Analysis of Child Welfare Contact Among Young Mothers and their Children
(2020)
The dominant frame in the literature regarding pregnancy and parenting among women with a history of child welfare contact is that of teen pregnancy as social crisis. This project reconsiders the issue of pregnancy and ...
Race, Property, and Population Health: Examining Policy-Driven Patterns of Whiteness, Anti-Blackness and Health Inequity in Metropolitan Detroit
(2021)
Trenchant health inequities between Black and White Americans persist in metropolitan areas in the Midwest and Northeast characterized by high levels of residential segregation and municipal fragmentation. The recalcitrance ...
From Sickness to Badness: Michigan HIV Law as a Site of Social Control.
(2014)
In the state of Michigan, people infected with HIV are required by law to disclose their HIV-status to their partners before engaging in sexual contact. Failure to do so is a felony, punishable by up to four years in prison. ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2022)
This dissertation investigates whether healthcare decisions and health behaviors are affected by institutions and incentives, focusing on the legal system (Chapter 1), health insurance coverage (Chapter 2), and soda taxes ...