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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Childhood Health"”.
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Three Essays on Education and Childhood Health
… is comprised of three essays on education and childhood health. Each chapter examines the effect of health or health insurance coverage during childhood on schooling outcomes. Chapters 1 and 3 estimate the impact of insurance coverage for disability-related healthcare on academic and behavioral …
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Bringing Childhood Health into Focus: Incorporating Survivors into Standard Methods of Investigation
… how well interpretations of past population health generated from human skeletal remains reflect the health of the living population from which they were drawn. Selective mortality and hidden heterogeneity in frailty are particularly relevant when assessing childhood health in the past, as …
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Subadult Cortical Bone Analysis As An Indicator of Childhood Health Status Among the Tipu Maya Population
<p>This thesis explores juvenile health at the contact Maya site of Tipu in western Belize. The associated cemetery was excavated and provided a large and well-preserved population. Although Tipu has been a focus of many studies, few studies have focused on subadults and none on their cortical …
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Consequences of Contact: An Evaluation of Childhood Health Patterns Using Enamel Hypoplasias Among the Colonial Maya of Tipu
… mission church was analyzed to investigate health disturbances associated with European contact. Dental defect called enamel hypoplasias were scored to assess childhood health. Standard methods of scoring (Buikstra and Ubelaker 1994) were employed to assess frequency, severity, and type of …
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Community-Based Asthma Intervention Programs and their Impact on Childhood Health Outcomes and Burdens on the Healthcare System
… emergency department visit rates, and an overall healthcare spending of 50 billion dollars. However, this increase in prevalence is disproportionately impacting children. Asthma is the third leading cause for hospitalization in children, have higher proportions of children being hospitalized with …
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HEALTHY IMMIGRANTS? EXPLORING COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, PRE-IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCES, AND ACCULTURATION IN RELATIONSHIP TO U.S. IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTH
… groups might not be benefitting from the healthy migrant effect. With data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), which includes immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica, I examine the odds of three health outcomes, chronic conditions, depressive symptoms, and …
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Bibliotherapy for bereaved youth: using literature to process grief and understand loss
… libraries to encourage general wellbeing and health. One of the largest detriments to childhood health in the United States is childhood loss – 1 in 12 children will lose a parent or sibling by the age of eighteen. By applying developmental bibliotherapy practice to young people who have …
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A multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the lived-experience of people with ‘leprosy’ and Hansen’s Disease in medieval England
… and biomolecularly reconstructable proxies of health and social status/treatment. Osteobiographies (n=559), palaeopathological descriptions (n=554), δ13C and δ15N isotope data of early (n=56) and late life (n=56), aDNA confirmation of M. leprae infection (n=25) and radiocarbon data (n=15) were …
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Older Adults' Self-Assessments of Health: Personal and Contextual Influences Throughout the Life Course
… was to examine older adults' perceptions of health by exploring life course factors perceived as shaping the meanings of health in their daily lives. Using life course and life span perspectives as the theoretical framework to guide this mixed method study, I identified the contextual factors …
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Perspectives about Family Meals from Parents in Low-income and Minority Households
… have shown that family meals are associated with childhood healthful eating behaviors, family cohesion, and positive development outcomes for children. However, few studies have examined the family meals in low-income and minority families and no studies have qualitatively examined whether there …
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Care Coordination for Pediatric Patients at Federally Qualified Health Centers in Arizona
Childhood chronic diseases have increased dramatically in the past few decades in the United States. Care coordination in patient- or family-centered medical home (PCMH/FCMH) models is one evidence-based strategy to help better manage childhood chronic diseases. Federally qualified health centers …
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Essays on the Long-term Effects of Childhood Chronic Conditions
… with understanding the long-term implications of childhood chronic conditions (e.g., physical, mental/developmental) on health and socioeconomic outcomes in young adulthood. Across three studies, I address issues pertaining to underlying mechanisms, sources of heterogeneity, and comparatively …
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The adverse health effects associated with drought in Africa: working towards developing a vulnerability index
… Cape. Droughts are associated with several health effects. The direct and indirect risks of climate change to human health have become a global concern. The most recent systematic review available on the adverse health effects associated with drought was published in 2013, and as such, an …
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Essays on inequality of opportunity in health and human development
… four essays on inequality of opportunity in health and human development. Chapter 2 proposes an empirical implementation of the concept of inequality of opportunity in health and applies it to data from the UK National Child Development Study. Drawing on the distinction between circumstance …
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The Bioarchaeology of An Sơn and Hòa Diêm: Biosocial Insights into Prehistoric Southern Vietnam
… themes were employed to assess and situate the health and behaviour of these people 1) health as an indicator of childhood stress 2) oral health and extramasticatory modifications and 3) palaeodiet. The interpretation of these key factors were undertaken with a consideration of the local natural …
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The Bioarchaeology of An Sơn and Hòa Diêm: Biosocial Insights into Prehistoric Southern Vietnam
… themes were employed to assess and situate the health and behaviour of these people 1) health as an indicator of childhood stress 2) oral health and extramasticatory modifications and 3) palaeodiet. The interpretation of these key factors were undertaken with a consideration of the local natural …
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Children's Convalescent Home, 1845-1970
… middle of the nineteenth century a new type of health care institution, the children's convalescent home, began to provide care to sick children. Institutional convalescence quickly became an established part of medical orthodoxy, particularly for urban working-class children. Convalescent homes …
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Essays on health economics and the early-life determinants of adult outcomes
… chapters of this dissertation explore topics in health economics, namely how early-childhood health circumstances affect long-run health and economic outcomes, as well as how insurance reimbursement impacts the nature of physician practices. The first chapter assesses the impact of in utero and …
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A sustainable journey to school: global issues, local places, children's lives
… is located in the fields of the geographies of childhood, social and environmental policy and urban transport studies. It adds to geographical thinking about children’s choices in their everyday mobilities. My thesis makes an original contribution by filling in large gaps in knowledge about the …
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Influence of a physical exercise program, physical activity, sedentarism, body composition and physical fitness during pregnancy on body composition, physical fitness and neurocognition of the offspring: the gestafitos project
… pregnancy to improve maternal and offspring health outcomes, as it has been shown to contribute positively to a better metabolic intrauterine environment. Body composition is a strong determinant of birth complications and future diseases. Exercise during pregnancy has been shown to …
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