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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"population health"”.
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Surface Ozone and Population Health
… associated with adverse effects on ecosystem and population health through exposure; and iv) sophisticated photochemical mechanisms make the parametrisation for numerical modelling a chasing-deer challenge (Chapter 1). Original research starts from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase …
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Mortality, morbidity and population health dynamics
This thesis is concerned with the dynamics of the health of populations with low levels of mortality, using the non-Maori population in New Zealand as a case study. The primary objective is to study patterns and trends in mortality and morbidity, their interactions, and their implications for the …
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Innovation's Impact on County-Level Population Health
… innovative economic activity and its impact on health outcomes at the county level. The influence of patent assignment activity per county in the United States from 2010 - 2014 on all-cause and specific type mortality rates per 100,000 per county was analyzed. Previous studies have only looked …
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Essays on the economics of population health
… consists of three essays on the economics of population health. In Chapter 2, I study employment shocks and demand for pain medication. Declining economic opportunity is often portrayed as one of the drivers of the opioid epidemic. Better employment conditions can, however, affect opioid use …
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Population health in Namibia: an analytical approach
… and objectives: Namibia aims to improve population health and human development. As there is limited research to date exploring the sociodemographic patterns of disease and healthcare access in the country, this thesis aimed to assess the burden of infectious and non-communicable …
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A Population Health Approach for Community Health Improvement
<p>Providence Health & Services (Providence), a not-for-profit Catholic health care system serving five western states, established an organizational vision of <em>Creating healthier communities, together</em> (Providence Health & Services, 2014). This vision served as the catalyst for the …
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Validation Of An Emr Prioritization Tool For Diabetes Population Health
<p>The goal of evidence based population health aligned with financial outcomes is to effectively and efficiently manage a defined population to promote wellness, prevent disease progression and manage chronic conditions and acute events. A prerequisite to this model, which is in its early stages …
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Inclusive and adaptive assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness for population health research
… fitness (i.e., fitness) in large population studies, overcoming logistical constraints and safety considerations associated with exercise testing that often lead to selection bias and distorted health associations. It presents the development, validation, and application of a …
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Active Urbanism: Improving population health based on physiological and socio-psychological experiments
… shown to have a significant positive effect on health and well-being, preventing and treating cardio-respiratory diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, and obesity, as well as depression and anxiety. Although the above facts are widely known, engaging sedentary people in exercise has been difficult in …
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Enhancing Secondary-use of Electronic Health Records for Geospatial-temporal Population Health Research
… the United States Department of Human and Health Services, Center for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization have recognized the role of social and environmental determinants of health in understanding the health of populations. Community and population health is a function of …
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The Ethical Balance Between Individual and Population Health Interests To Effectively Manage Pandemics and Epidemics
… for attaining balance between individual and population oriented ethical concerns generated in the pandemic and the epidemic interventions. The shortfall leads to competing individual and population interests that hamper the effective management of pandemics and epidemics. The libertarian …
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Application of Visualization-based Analytic Methods in Population Health and Health Services Research to Rehabilitation Sciences
… allowing knowledge generation from large healthcare datasets. However, their application in the rehabilitation sciences, particularly related to population health and health services research is limited. This research is divided into two main parts. The first presents two systematic …
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Population health and climate change: public perceptions, attitudes and adaptation to heat waves in Adelaide, Australia
… frequency of heat waves which have an impact on population health. In Adelaide, unprecedented heat waves have been experienced in recent years which had significant impact on human health. The objectives of this research project were to: (1) explore public opinion (views and attitudes) about heat …
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The Study of a Unique Athletic Population: Health Concerns, Interventions, and Prevention in Elite Ballet Dancers
Ballet dancers are a unique population of athletes in that, unlike other sports, their success strictly depends on both physical capabilities and aesthetic factors. While the physical demands of the performing sport are strenuous, ballet dancers are often required to exhibit a thin physique, …
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An Examination of How National Policies are Driving Population Health Outcomes and Organizational Change in Private and Public Sectors
The United States spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, but still trails most other countries when it comes to important health indicators. There has been an increasing recognition that in order to address this discrepancy, the U.S. health system must begin to address the …
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Borderline personality disorder and its impact on public health: population health and healthcare models from work-based learning and practice
… disorder (BPD) and its implications for public health, a cohesive theoretical framework integrating behavioural and general health models to amalgamate data from various fields re-mains absent. I propose that practitioner-researchers with direct engagement in their respective settings and target …
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Investigating the health of free-ranging Blanding’s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Northern Illinois through epidemiologic tools, individual, and population health modeling
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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The Multilevel, Multicultural, and Multi-Temporal Ecosocial Framework of Population Health : How Neighborhoods, Culture, and History Impact Health Outcomes and Produce Health Disparities
… now been established that the impact of race on health is mostly a function of a people's lived experience, not their genetic make-up. Due to this, the role of race in the study of health outcomes and health disparities has traditionally been specified improperly in statistical models due to …
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