Browsing SPH Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Large Population-Based Health Care Databases for Maternal and Infant Outcomes: the Role of Maternal Age, Race, and Interpregnancy Interval
(2018-04-23)Delayed childbearing is associated with increased risks of adverse outcomes. The precise form with which risks increase with maternal age remain unclear. Different distributions of age-related risk factors across racial ... -
Late-Life Depression Trajectories in Relation to Health and Aging
(2018-04-24)Depression is common in older adults and has been associated with a myriad of adverse health and quality of life outcomes. However, most studies rely on a classification of depression symptoms at a single time point rather ... -
Leveraging Pharma, Digital Innovation, and Partnerships to Increase Healthcare Access in China: A COVID-19 Case Study
(2021-06-10)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted healthcare systems globally and posed challenges for disease management, medication access, and adherence. Before the pandemic, digital healthcare had been increasing in China ... -
Lifecourse Psychosocial Factors and Racial Disparities in Cognitive Aging
(2021-06-10)Poor cognitive function has been linked to lower quality of life and daily functioning. Racial disparities in cognitive function have been widely documented, but factors that drive the disparities are unclear. Leveraging ... -
Lifestyle, Hormones, and Breast Cancer
(2014-11-07)Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among women in the US. Although many risk factors for breast cancer are known, few are modifiable and little is known about ways to ... -
“Like Turning a Ship in a Channel”: Reframing Complexities and Solutions for Supplier Diversity and Local Purchasing in Healthcare
(2022-09-23)Background: US healthcare systems have begun establishing and expanding supplier diversity and local purchasing programs, in response to an increasing focus on equity and the role of hospitals as anchor institutions. The ... -
Linking the Exposure to Engineered Nanoparticles Released From Nano-Enabled Products to Toxicology: a Case Study of Laser Printers
(2015-04-27)A research gap in the fields of exposure assessment and toxicology that remains unaddressed is the assimilation of experimental conditions to those of the real world human exposure. Currently, there is a lack of understanding ... -
Long-Term Use of Cardiovascular Medications: Identifying and Encouraging Optimal Duration
(2017-09-20)In the face of increasingly widespread availability and uptake of medications to treat and prevent cardiovascular disease, this dissertation is motivated by two broad research questions regarding the duration of cardiovascular ... -
Longitudinal, Time-Varying Behavioral Exposures and Changes in Childhood Adiposity
(2016-05-03)Problem: Our objective was to exam associations between time-varying behaviors in childhood and changes in adiposity. Our aim in Paper 1 was to assess patterns and regional trends in seasonal variation of moderate-vigorous ... -
Macronutrient Composition and Plasma Metabolites in Relation to Cardiometabolic Disease
(2018-07-30)The connection between macronutrient composition, metabolic pathways, and cardiometabolic disease has been a popular target of investigation. However, there exist large research gaps relating to macronutrient composition, ... -
Malaria Vector Control in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact and Economic Evaluation of Larviciding
(2015-01-06)The last decade witnessed the important scaled-up of malaria control interventions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). There is now renewed impetus to achieve the long-term goal of malaria elimination and reducing vectorial ... -
Managing Non-Communicable Disease Risk Factors in Developing Countries: Tobacco Control, Cardiovascular Disease Risk Surveillance, and Diabetes Prevention
(2015-04-28)Non-communicable diseases (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, and mental illnesses) and associated risk factors (unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol, physical ... -
Mass Shootings in the United States: Hospital Experiences in Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
(2023-05-12)The United States has more mass shootings than any other developed nation worldwide. These events are of particular concern to healthcare systems because they can result in many victims with complex, penetrating injuries ... -
Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, and Hiv
(2016-10-03)Reducing maternal and child mortality was established as a global priority with the signing of the Millennium Declaration in September 2000. Neonatal vitamin A supplementation and very early breastfeeding initiation are ... -
Maternal Diet, Arsenic Exposure, and Pregnancy Outcomes in Bangladesh
(2017-09-06)This study investigated the relationship between maternal diet, arsenic exposure and birth outcomes in the Bangladeshi administrative regions of Sirajdikhan and Pabna Sadar. First, the study assessed the validity of a ... -
Maternal, Behavioral, and Environmental Risk Factors for Gestational Diabetes and Preterm Birth Among Pregnant Women
(2016-04-25)Background: Lifestyle changed in Kuwait with the rapid development and economic expansion and the Americanization of the Kuwaiti market. Fast food and sedentary lifestyle became very prevalent. Environmental exposures such ... -
Measurement and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Healthcare: Diagnosing Poor Quality and Testing Solutions
(2018-04-23)The burden of maternal and child mortality remains high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Over the past 15 years use of health services for childbirth has increased, however there is growing evidence that higher use does not ... -
Measuring the Quality of Reproductive Health Services in Mexico and the United States
(2017-01-20)A focus on quality of care in health services is important from both public health and human rights perspectives. From a public health perspective, a central premise underlying quality improvement work is that improving ... -
Mechanisms and Risk Factors of Cognitive Aging
(2015-04-21)This dissertation explores the role of biologic factors and a novel method of measuring cognitive function in investigating mechanisms and risk factors of cognitive aging. With a rapidly increasing aging population, the ... -
Media, Health Communication, and the Cancer Risk Factors of Smoking and Obesity
(2015-04-27)Introduction: Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and obesity is the second cause. Both are risk factors for various types of cancer. Specifically, smoking is linked to lung, esophageal, ...