Browsing SPH Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Natural Language Processing in Perinatal Epidemiology
(2018-04-26)Suicide is one of the leading causes of maternal deaths. Early detection of pregnant women with suicidal behavior presents an important opportunity for directing suicide prevention efforts to those at high risk for suicide ... -
The Neurodevelopment and Mental Health of Children Affected by HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2016-09-30)This dissertation assesses neurodevelopment in children affected by HIV in Botswana, by examining associations between a range of factors and neurodevelopmental outcomes at 24 months of age and adjusting for potential ... -
Neurological Soft Signs, Cognition in Childhood, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Lifetime Major Depressive Disorder
(2017-01-11)Background: Neurological soft signs (NSS), subtle but abnormal motor and sensory signs and involuntary movements, have been implicated as risk factors for a number of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Prior ... -
Non-Invasive Identification of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy (LVH)/ Cardiomegaly in US Firefighters
(2016-05-03)Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes 45% of firefighters’ on-duty deaths, but the risk of these events is limited to susceptible individuals. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)/cardiomegaly increases arrhythmia, ... -
Novel Insights on Lifestyle Recommendations and Mechanisms for Colorectal Cancer Prevention
(2018-04-19)Many modifiable risk factors have been identified for colorectal cancer (CRC), but additional research is required to synthesize these findings to create the best guidelines for prevention. Furthermore, additional work is ... -
Novel Risk Factors for Clinical Vertebral Fracture in Women
(2018-04-19)Vertebral fracture (VF) is the most common type of fracture. Vertebral fractures are associated with significant disability, poorer quality of life, high cost, increased morbidity, higher mortality, and are predictive of ... -
Nutrient Validation In Women's Lifestyle Validation Study
(2015-04-27)Nutritional factors have been intensively studied as important determinants of many diseases. Food frequency questionnaires (FFQ), dietary records, 24-hour dietary recalls, nutrient biomarkers are important dietary assessment ... -
Nutrition, Growth and Health in Tanzanian Infants
(2016-05-03)Undernutrition in early life increases children’s risk of mortality, morbidity, and impaired growth and development. This thesis analyzes data from two randomized controlled trials in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The first ... -
Nutritional and Lifestyle Factors for Cancer Incidence and Survival
(2016-09-28)Background: The association between meat consumption and breast cancer risk and the relationship between vitamin D and colorectal cancer risk have been examined in numerous studies, but questions still remain. For colorectal ... -
Occupation, Environment, and Mental Health
(2018-04-24)Despite a decades-old call for better understanding of the role of environmental pollutant influences on mental health, a comprehensive review of the literature on non-occupational exposures to environmental pollutants and ... -
Optimal Use of New and Existing Drugs for Tuberculosis Control
(2016-06-29)Tuberculosis (TB) recently surpassed HIV as the world’s leading infectious killer. Because antibiotic therapy forms the cornerstone of TB control, prevention, and treatment, it is important to apply TB drugs in a way that ... -
Participatory Evaluation for Multisector Partnerships: Framework and Implementation Guide for Partnerships Addressing Social Determinants of Health
(2021-04-21)The growing focus of the public health field on addressing social determinants of health (SDoH) has helped to popularize multisector, community-based partnerships as a health promotion strategy. The central premise of this ... -
Particle Pollution: Trends, Sources, Components and Health
(2016-04-25)Eastern Mediterranean (EM) region experience poor air quality because it is highly influenced by local and transported pollution. For this reason, we examined the particulate pollution in Cyprus, an EU-member country located ... -
Physical Activity and Enjoyment: Measurement, Evaluation, and Theory
(2016-04-25)Childhood engagement in physical activity improves health and contributes to the sustainment of physical activity in adulthood. My dissertation research broadens scholarship by disentangling the effects of sports- vs. ... -
Physical Activity and Prostate Cancer
(2018-04-12)Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men worldwide and is characterized by substantial clinical and molecular heterogeneity. As a modifiable risk factor with far-reaching health benefits, physical ... -
Physician Agency, Patients' Trust and Institutions Within Physician Groups
(2016-05-03)One of the major challenges of health care contracting is that physicians' financial and personal interests are often not aligned with patients' best interests. When this physician agency problem is widespread, patients ... -
Plant-Based Diets and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease
(2016-05-03)Plant-based diets, defined as “vegetarian” diets, are associated with reduced risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD). To examine the health effects of gradual reductions in animal food consumption ... -
Pneumococcal Population Dynamics in the Conjugate Vaccine Era
(2016-05-05)The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) in the early years of the 21st century have led to significant changes in pneumococcal epidemiology. Using transmission modeling and genomics based approaches, ... -
Point-of-Purchase Food Marketing and Policy Solutions
(2016-05-03)Background: Food marketing has been implicated as a driver of obesity. However, few studies have examined point-of-purchase marketing in supermarkets and restaurants, or marketing in lower-income countries. Furthermore, ... -
The Political Economy of Health Reform: Turkey's Health Transformation Program, 2003-2012
(2015-05-01)This dissertation explores the political economy of Turkey’s large-scale health systems reform, known as the Health Transformation Program (HTP) (2003 – 2012). It does this by analyzing the role of institutions, physicians, ...