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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"School of Public Health"”.
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Disability Resources for Students (DRS) Services Utilization Among School of Public Health Students
… yet significant barriers to full utilization of accommodations exist. We used a survey methodology to assess University of Washington Public Health student opinions of student disability services on campus. I found expected proportions of different genders, ethnicities, and frequency of …
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College Women and The Occurrence of Unwanted Sexual Advances in Public Drinking Settings: A Feminist Routine Activities Approach
Using existing data from the 1999 Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, this thesis analyzes the social predictors of unwanted sexual advances experienced by college women and where this type of victimization occurs. Hypotheses were derived from routine activities theory and …
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Einflüsse epidemiologischer Forschung auf das Strahlenschutzrecht
… accepted as a doctoral thesis within the Doctor of Public Health Program by the School of Public Health at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) in summer 2005. It explains the interaction between epidemiology and law in the field of radiation protection and its legal regulations. An in-depth …
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An exploration of community partners' experiences of a 4th year medical students' community-based research and health promotion course
The shift to a primary health care (PHC) led curriculum, and the need for graduates to work in a transformed district health system, requires that students in the health professions acquire skills in community-based research and health promotion. Over the past nine years, the School of Public …
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Value Added Services und deren Management im Krankenhaus
… difficult to position in a market economy. The health sector in the German speaking countries is more and more developing to a market, and the services are more or less identical, of unknown quality, since there is not the same tradition of quality assurance and management like in the …
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Making an impact in public health through philanthrocapitalism : the PaCT Project and ImPaCT Commercial Ventures
… longitudinal cohort studies are a distinct area of epidemiology and public health. To conduct such studies, it often requires exorbitant resources. African collaborators and a team of Harvard scientists have initiated what is groundbreaking to the field of epidemiology and will be the largest …
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Process and Outcome Evaluation of a Social-Networking Website for Health Promotion
… and obesity pose a significant threat to the health and wellbeing of college students. However, studies of interventions to improve the health behaviors of college students are few in number, largely atheoretical, and have limited potential for widespread dissemination. The goal of this study …
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Alcohol Use and Religiosity Among College Students
Alcohol use among college students is often in the news. Some scholars argue, with literature to support it, that problem drinking in college is just a media-driven myth (Lederman et al. 2004). Yet it is clear that college students do drink, some to excess. Various reasons are cited from alcohol …
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New applications of heteroarylzinc nucleophiles
… thesis describes the development and application of chemical methodologies for the use of 2-pyridyl and other aryl and heteroaryl organometallic nucleophiles. Aiming for a practical and effective alternative to 2-pyridylboron reagents, a solid 2-pyridylzinc compound was prepared and is described …
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Characteristics of and factors associated with infectious disease hospital admissions in children by HIV-exposure status in an era of high coverage of prevention of vertical HIV transmission in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
In South Africa, an estimated 22% of children under age 15 years are exposed to HIV and uninfected (HEU). Since the implementation of lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all pregnant women living with HIV in 2013 (Option B+) and all individuals living with HIV in 2016 (Universal ART), the …
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Actual and Perceived Physical Fitness in a Sample of Washington, D.C. Firefighters
… in performing their jobs. Accurate perception of fitness is essential for making behavioral changes necessary to improve fitness. Little research is available comparing actual and perceived fitness in a firefighter population.</p> <p>This study establishes the first baseline level of fitness …
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Continuum Models of Collective Migration in Living Tissues
… dissertation investigates the physical mechanics of collective cell migration in monolayers of epithelial cells. Coordinated cell motion underlies a number of biological processes, including wound healing, morphogenesis and cancer metastasis, and is controlled by the interplay of single cell …
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Factors influencing faculty participation in internationalization at the University of Minnesota's schools of nursing and public health: a case study
The internationalization of higher education is no longer a desirable academic ideal. Rather, it is an essential component for higher education. In the era of globalization, colleges and universities are deploying widespread initiatives to infuse a global dimension into their teaching, research and …
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Community health workers in Kajiado County: an evaluation of the community health strategy in rural Kenya
Between 1980 and 2000, mortality rates of children under the age of five and maternal mortality ratios declined across sub-Saharan Africa. During the same period, Kenya's mortality rates continued to rise until 2005 when the Kenyan Ministry of Health (MOH) introduced the Kenya Essential Package for …
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The Promise of Student Pathway Programs in Diversifying and Replenishing the Public Health Workforce: The Connecticut Public Health Fellowship Program
<p dir="ltr"><b>Context:</b> The ongoing public health workforce shortage poses a significant threat to the United States population. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted this crisis, drawing attention to the lack of critical diversity within the public health workforce, which is necessary to …
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COFFEE AND TEA CONSUMPTION AND GASTRIC CANCER: A POOLED ANALYSIS IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES.
The main focus of my doctoral research was to examine the effect of coffee and tea drinking on gastric (stomach) cancer risk. Coffee and tea are among the most popular drinks worldwide after water, and their consumption is expected to rise by an average of 17% over the next several years. The World …