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Educational Advantage and Unintended Pregnancy.
(2015)
Unintended pregnancies constitute nearly half of total pregnancies in the United States. The concept of unintended pregnancy is considered essential to demographers, public health practitioners and scholars, and other ...
Barriers to and Incentives for Health Behaviors among African Women.
(2015)
This dissertation looks at health behaviors of African women and the way those behaviors are affected by information, incentives, peers, and own past experiences.
This first chapter causally evaluates the relative ...
Health Changes after Diabetes Diagnosed in Middle and Old Age: Physical, Mental and Cognitive Health Trajectories and Social Stratification
(2015)
The current study focuses exclusively on middle-aged and old-aged adults with incident diabetes, and describes the course of diabetes in late adulthood in terms of physical, mental, and cognitive health change. To do this, ...
Changing the Paradigm: Using an Integrative Approach to Improve Understanding of Tuberculosis Control in Michigan.
(2016)
Background. In the U.S., tuberculosis (TB) continues to disproportionately affect the poor, racial/ethnic minorities, and urban dwellers, yet traditional methods of TB control focus primarily on biomedical predictors for ...
Purpose in Life and Cardiovascular Health.
(2015)
A growing body of research suggests that purpose in life may provide a point of intervention to improve the health behaviors and health of the large segment of adults throughout the world who are progressing into old age. ...
Schooling and Health: A Life Course Approach.
(2013)
Health differences between adults with different levels of schooling are among the largest and most wide-ranging of health disparities in the United States. Yet there remains much we do not know about how and when in the ...
Social Capital and Health in the Developing World: Meaning, Mechanisms, and Measurement
(2013)
The overall goal of this dissertation is to contribute to the understanding of community-based development by exploring the relationship between social capital and health in the developing world. Distinct methodological ...
Effects of the 2016 US Presidential Election and Racialized Policing on Mental Health among Latinx in Connecticut by Documentation Status: A Mixed Methods Research Project Integrating Findings from Electronic Health Record Data and Patient/Participant Voices
(2022)
This dissertation addresses gaps in knowledge about the effects of the 2016 US presidential election and racialized policing on mental health among Latinx residents of Connecticut by documentation status and when compared ...
Stress Biomarkers and Latinos' Exposure to the United States.
(2016)
Background: Latino immigrants to the United States (US) have better health and mortality outcomes than US-born Latinos, but this health advantage erodes with increasing duration of US residence. Public health scholars have ...
The Health Benefits of Educational Attainment and Citizenship for Racialized Migrants to France
(2021)
This dissertation investigates ways that racism, a system that oppresses some racial groups while privileging others, may shape relationships between education, citizenship, and health outcomes of migrants to France by ...