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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Geographic Disparities"”.
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Place matters: Geographic disparities and credential pathways to agricultural careers in Illinois
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Communication and Trust in Virtual and Face-to-Face Teams
… technology-mediated communication to counteract geographic disparities. Rapid advances in technology have led to the near-ubiquity of VTs within modern organizations, but gaps in existing research designs afflict extant empirical VT research. This experiment evaluates the constructs of trust, …
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Under construction: infrastructure and modern fiction
… with its technological promises but widening geographic disparities and social and environmental consequences, informs both the narrative content and aesthetic forms of modernist and contemporary Anglophone fiction. Despite its prevalent material forms—roads, rails, pipes, and …
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Planning Towards Equal Spatial Accessibility of NCI Cancer Centers Across Geographic Areas and Demographic Groups in the U.S.
… and dummy variables, this research evaluates geographic disparities in spatial accessibility of the NCI Cancer Centers across geographic area, divisions and urbanicity. It also evaluates demographic disparities across ethnic and poverty groups. Then this research examines two planning …
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Possibilities for health-conscious assisted housing mobility
… to health, which contributes to stark racial and geographic disparities in health. Fighting health disparities requires buy-in from non-health professionals whose work directly impacts the way cities are designed and governed. This thesis provides a case study of one non-health initiative, …
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Effect of Extreme Temperature on Stroke Incidence and Mortality in General
… and those with cardiovascular comorbidities. Geographic disparities were observed, with heat-related strokes more prevalent in tropical regions and cold-related strokes more frequent in temperate zones. Urban heat island effects and poor heating infrastructure exacerbated risks. Air pollution, …
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Barriers and Facilitators to Hemodialysis Access and Utilization Among Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease in Ghana: A Mixed-Methods Study from the Perspectives of Patients, Providers, and Administrators.
… remain severely limited by financial, geographic, and systemic barriers, including high out-of-pocket costs, inadequate insurance coverage, and the uneven distribution of dialysis centers. Despite the increasing burden of ESKD, limited evidence explores the multifaceted barriers to …
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Stress, the Superwoman Schema, and Cardiovascular Wellbeing Among Rural and Medically Underserved African American Women
… underserved communities; highlighting racial and geographic disparities exist. The ideal cardiovascular health (ICH) tool was developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) to serve as a measure of cardiovascular wellbeing and address the need for prevention and treatment of CVD. Meeting the …
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The Human Rights Of Syrian Refugee Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Healthcare Access And Educational Opportunities In Turkey And Greece [before doctoral defense]
… — encompassing bureaucratic inefficiencies, geographic disparities, limited institutional capacity, and gender-blind service design — applied comparatively across both contexts. Third, empirical research grounded in Syrian women's own testimonies remains scarce, partly because the Assad …
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Retrospective analysis of treated prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity prevalence, and healthcare utilization and expenditures in commercially insured children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
… States. The aims of this study were to explain geographic variation in the treated prevalence of ASD, compare the prevalence of selected psychiatric conditions between ASD and non-ASD patients, and to estimate incremental healthcare utilization and expenditures. A commercial claims database was …
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Technology-Driven Solutions for Smarter Care: Telemedicine, Data-Driven Analytics, and AI in Healthcare Operations
… empirical study evaluates rising trauma demand, geographic disparities in access to Major Trauma Centres (MTCs), and the performance of Trauma Units (TUs). Despite lower injury severity, TU-managed patients often face worse outcomes, particularly among the elderly and socioeconomically …
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From the Mouths of Babes: Using Incremental Enamel Microstructures to Evaluate the Applicability of the Moorrees Method of Dental Formation to the Estimation of Age of Prehistoric Native American Children
… old. This suggests that despite the temporal and geographic disparities between the reference and target population, that the Moorrees method can provide appropriate age predictions for prehistoric Native American dental remains. Nevertheless, a closer look at the crown formation times and …
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Enhancing health equity in antidiabetic medication use and diabetes care outcomes through data science approaches
… sustained adherence are essential for reducing disparities and improving diabetes outcomes. The overarching objective of this dissertation is to apply data-oriented analytical and machine learning models to enhance understanding of inequities in antidiabetic medication use and to promote more …
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The Wealth and Color of Off-Campus Recruiting by Public Research Universities
… recruiting visits in-depth through a geographical lens. This second empirical study examines the spatial distributions of recruiting visits by four universities across sub- metropolitan areas of different racial and income compositions in the Los Angeles and Dallas metropolitan areas. …
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Influenza Antivirals in Adults: Analyzing Usage Trends, GI Safety, and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
… after outpatient influenza diagnosis, geographic variation across U.S. census divisions, and gap in treatment among high-risk groups. Among more than three million influenza episodes that met inclusion criteria, only slightly more than half received antiviral treatment. Considerable …
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Essays on poverty reduction in Latin America
… A careful examination of which factors generate disparities in living standards is crucial to design poverty reduction interventions. A common feature in many Latin America countries is the presence of geographic disparities in living standards that persist over time, in spite of growth at the …
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HIV self testing uptake and associated factors in Cape Town: a contextual framework
… Africa's unique socio-economic landscape and the disparities between urban and rural areas, understanding the factors shaping HIVST uptake is crucial for developing tailored interventions. This thesis seeks to address this gap by investigating and analyzing the demographic, socio-economic, and …