Browsing SPH Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Understanding Effects of Exercise and Diet to Improve Mental and Physical Health in Children With Behavioral Health Disorders
(2017-01-10)Approximately 13%–20% of children living in the United States experience a diagnosable behavioral health disorder (BHD) in a given year. Children with BHDs have elevated risk of poor mental and physical health outcomes. ... -
Understanding Psychological Well-Being From the Behavioral Perspective
(2017-09-26)Despite the great burden of mood disorders, much of the treatment gap remains due to under-recognition. One way to alleviate this burden would be to target unhealthful behaviors that are more prevalent among those who ... -
Urinary Arsenic Methylation Species, Arsenic Methylation Efficiency during Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes
(2018-04-27)Arsenic exposure from drinking water has been associated with symptoms during pregnancy, as well as negative birth outcomes. The individual’s capability to methylate arsenic modifies the risk of arsenic-related health ... -
Use of Large Healthcare Databases for Understudied Patient Populations
(2018-04-19)Pregnant women with multiple sclerosis (MS) are an understudied patient population due to the difficulty of recruiting sufficient numbers of participants to evaluate relatively rare outcomes. This dissertation used ... -
Use of Simulation to Aid Design of Clinical Trials During Infectious Disease Outbreaks
(2018-09-24)Clinical trials for infectious diseases conducted during epidemics are complicated by the unpredictable nature of outbreaks and dynamic effects arising from disease transmission. Mathematical models can be used to understand ... -
Using Public Health Data to Monitor Killings by Law Enforcement in the United States
(2018-01-19)Injuries inflicted by police constitute an important cause of death in the United States, yet public health data collection systems routinely undercount these incidents. This dissertation presents three epidemiologic studies ... -
Utilization and Safety of Antipsychotic Medications in Special Populations
(2017-01-17)Antipsychotic medications are widely used in the United States (US). Understanding the extent of use and comparative safety of antipsychotics is especially important for certain groups of people such as pregnant women or ... -
Value for Money of Donor-Funded Health Programs: The Case of HIV/AIDS Programming in Mozambique
(2021-06-10)Value for money represents a critical component of development assistance for health programming in low- and middle-income countries. The costs that local individuals pay to access and use these programs seldom figure into ... -
Violence Prevention and Sexual Health Promotion Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
(2018-04-27)American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons experience high levels of intimate partner violence (IPV) and adverse sexual health outcomes. Exacerbating victimization, AI/AN victims face unique barriers to post-victimization ... -
Vitamin D and Neurodegenerative Disease With Selected Topics Related to Correlated and Missing Outcome Data
(2015-09-15)The following dissertation addresses of two themes: the role of vitamin D and neurodegenerative diseases and methodologic concepts related to correlated missing outcome data. In the first chapter, the relation between ... -
War-Related Trauma and Psychosocial Health in South Sudan and Liberia
(2018-04-26)The study of psychological trauma in humanitarian settings has consistently revealed the negative mental health impact of exposure to war atrocities, especially high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder. However, there ... -
Why Don’t Providers Identify and Manage Maternal Sepsis? a Mixed-Methods Approach to Developing an Awareness Campaign to Accompany a WHO-Led Multi-Country Study
(2018-04-20)Maternal sepsis continues to be one of the greatest contributors to maternal deaths globally. I explored the factors affecting healthcare provider awareness on maternal sepsis in order to better inform a campaign that ... -
Women’s Sexual Functioning as a Health Outcome and a New Approach to Engaging the Public in Health Intervention Development
(2018-04-24)Sexual functioning is a critical aspect of quality of life and a health outcome in its own right. Difficulties with sexual functioning are common population-wide, but even more prevalent among women than men. Chapters 1 ...