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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 ...
Intersections of Environmental and Reproductive Justice: Examining Social Movement Efforts to Protect Vulnerable Communities from Toxic Exposures Harmful to Reproductive Health.
(2016)
Cross-movement collaboration is emerging amongst advocates at the intersection of environmental justice (EJ) and reproductive justice (RJ) to protect communities of color, Indigenous, and low-income communities from toxicants ...
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, ...
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 ...
Geographic Distribution of Aging and Health-Related Resources in Urban Neighborhoods: Implications for Health Care Delivery to Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Physical and/or Cognitive Impairment
(2019)
The number of older adults using home and community-based services funded by federal and state governments has increased over the last two decades. This has occurred largely due to a growth in beneficiary preferences for ...
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 ...
Assessing Social, Ecological, and Nutritional Outcomes of Crop Diversification: Transitions to Agroecological Management in Southern Brazil
(2021)
Global industrial agriculture drives worsening environmental and public health crises, prompting a search for transformative agricultural approaches that can maintain productivity while increasing social and environmental ...
Predicting Disability Self-Identification: A Mixed-Methods Approach.
(2013)
In this dissertation, nearly three thousand (n = 2,764) people with disabilities completed a 31-question, fully accessible, online survey about the experience of disability. Both our survey and our methods combined ...
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 ...
Was That a Seizure? Diagnosis in Lived Experience and Medical Practice
(2021)
This dissertation examines how people with epilepsy and physicians make sense of seizure and epilepsy. Seizures are transient phenomena during which people lose control over parts of body-mind function. This can mean the ...