Browsing SPH Theses and Dissertations by Title
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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, ... -
Politics, Pills and Procurement: The Challenges of Ensuring Drug Quality in Bihar
(2018-04-18)Introduction: In 2014-6 the National Drug Survey, conducted by the Indian government, identified that 10.02% of drugs in the public sector were substandard. This study examined the challenges of ensuring the quality of ... -
Poverty, Energy Use, Air Pollution and Health in Ghana: A Spatial Analysis
(2015-05-01)Some of the major themes that characterize the relationship between the environment and population health in the developing world today include poverty, household access to clean cooking fuel, air pollution, sanitation, ... -
Predictive Genetic Testing Using Common Variants: Evidence and Translation
(2015-04-28)Starting with the publication of the first genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 2005, the last decade has seen the identification of thousands of novel genetic susceptibility loci. These common, low-penetrance single ... -
Predictors and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Impacting Children and Youth
(2018-04-19)Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a substantial public health problem in the United States with profound implications for the health and well-being of individuals. This dissertation examines predictors and consequences ... -
Predictors of Dementia and Memory Decline: Lifecourse Socioeconomic Status and Diabetes
(2016-01-15)This dissertation examines the relationship between both lifecourse socioeconomic status and diabetes and memory decline and dementia using data from the Health and Retirement Study. Chapter 1 examines associations between ... -
Pregnancy and Future Maternal Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the HUNT Study: A Life Course Perspective
(2018-04-26)Background: Pregnancy may be an ideal “window” into future cardiovascular health. During pregnancy, there are massive changes to the cardiovascular system which may directly alter a woman’s physiology. These changes may ... -
Prenatal Arsenic Exposure and Birth Outcomes in a Longitudinal Birth Cohort in Bangladesh
(2017-04-25)This research provides an in-depth investigation into the associations between prenatal arsenic exposure and adverse birth outcomes with a view to mechanistically explain these associations by exploring miRNA expression ... -
Prenatal Metals Exposure and Child Birth and Growth in Bangladesh
(2015-04-24)The objective of this dissertation is to contribute to ongoing research on prenatal metals exposure, in terms of arsenic, lead, and manganese, and infant health and growth, and to deepen the understanding of the complexity ... -
Prenatal Origins of Child Health: Independent and Joint Effects of Maternal Distress and Exposure to Air Pollution on Immune-Related Outcomes
(2018-04-27)Objective: The aim of this dissertation was to examine, both independently and jointly, the association of prenatal exposure to maternal depression and air pollution with immune responses in the neonate at birth, and with ...