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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Alameda County"”.
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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of the Alameda County Oral Communication Program in Listening
… an oral communication program was developed in Alameda County, California to improve students' listening skills. It was the purpose of the study to determine the effectiveness of the Alameda County Oral Communication Program in an itinerant speech and hearing program in Central Washington. The …
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Raising Children the American Way: Court-Mandated Parenting Education in Alameda, California
<p>Based on ethnographic research in Alameda County, California, this dissertation examines the parenting practices and knowledge that are taught in court-mandated parenting classes along with those of parents enrolled in these classes. In California, two of the primary reasons that parents would …
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Loneliness as a risk factor for mortality and morbidity
… techniques, this thesis uses data from the Alameda County Health and Ways of Living Study to characterize the impact of loneliness on self-rated health, mortality, and fatalities from specific diseases. A key hypothesis is that loneliness as a health problem hinges on its persistence over …
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An Evidence-Based Implementation Project on High Utilizers in the Emergency Department
… ED<sup>TM</sup> implementation pilot in Alameda County enables identification of patients frequently using ED services within a shared geographical region (Azar, Pressman, Oehmke, & Xu, 2017). This quality improvement project sought to educate the nursing staff, increasing their knowledge …
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Paying it Forward: Training doulas as a form of reintegration and support for communities of color
<p>As part of the birth justice movement in Alameda County, Roots of Labor Birth Collective (RLBC) is committed to support, empower and care for birthing members of the community. RLBC works to empower people of color with education and tools to have healthy babies and positive birth experiences …
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Investigating The Dual Mortgage Market: The Distribution Of Subprime Lending By Race And Its Consequences For Minority Communities
… in Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco and Alameda County California. The findings demonstrate that blacks and borrowers in black neighborhoods have a higher likelihood of originating a subprime loan than whites or borrowers in white neighborhoods. Further, blacks borrowing in largely white …
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Organ Trade : sea level rise adaptation strategies for the San Francisco Bay Area
… sea level rise. A particular watershed clip in Alameda County, located in South San Francisco Bay, is taken as a test case in order to assess this hypothesis. The site is selected from a set of nested types of more general coastal and fluvial conditions. This thesis traverses multiple landscape …
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Doula Support as a Means to Improve Birth Outcomes for Minority Women
<p>Ethnic minorities such as African Americans, American Indians, Hispanics, Laotions, Hmongs, and Alaskan Natives have higher rates of cesarean delivery, pre-term birth, fetal demise, perinatal laceration, and congenital abnormalities than their white counterparts. Continuous labor support by way …