Browsing SPH Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Examining the Effect of Supply and Demand-Side Interventions to Increase Health Service Use
(2018-04-24)In both the United States and low-income countries, health service quality and utilization fall below global and national targets set by policy makers. This dissertation examines three different approaches to increasing ... -
Examining the Mortality of an Unsheltered Homeless Cohort From Boston, MA, 2000 Through 2009
(2016-09-30)Purpose: This dissertation addressed a gap in homelessness literature by examining mortality outcomes of an unsheltered cohort and by applying criteria developed at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) ... -
Exploratory Approach of Developing Biomarkers for Linking Sub-Lethal Neonicotinoids Exposure and Health Risks
(2018-04-18)Since the development of neonicotinoids, their usage has been growing dramatically in pest control while limited studies focused on their impact on human exposure. With a concern of the systemic property of neonicotinoids ... -
Exposure Characterization and Prediction of Ambient Particulate Matter: From Boston to the Middle East
(2016-05-03)Chapter one of this manuscript identifies the sources, composition, and temporal variability of fine (PM2.5) and coarse (PM2.5-10) particles. A Harvard Impactor was used to collect daily particle samples from 2002-2010 at ... -
Factors Affecting Patient Perceptions of Quality and Health-Seeking Behavior
(2018-01-25)In this dissertation, I address three issues related to patient-perceived quality of care: the impact of switching to the new World Health Organization (WHO) HIV treatment guidelines on patient perception of quality of ... -
Fathers' Parenting and Early Child Development
(2018-04-19)Parents are the primary providers of nurturing care for young children’s healthy early development. However, the parenting literature during early childhood has primarily focused on mothers. Consequently, much less is known ... -
Fatty Acids, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Diabetes Mellitus
(2015-01-16)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause for mortality and morbidity around the world. Meanwhile, diabetes mellitus (DM) has become an emerging epidemic, causing 1.5 million deaths in 2012, with 80% occurring ... -
Fine Particulate Exposure and Cardiac Autonomic Effects in Boilermakers
(2015-04-27)Background: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as a research outcome has the potential for misclassification due to its inability to account for changes in the heart rate. HRV can be parsed into Acceleration Capacity (AC) and ... -
From Promise to Delivery: Organizing the Government of Peru to Improve Public Health Outcomes
(2017-04-21)Knowledge and good intentions in public health often do not translate into concrete impact. While politicians and health system officials struggle to fulfill promises and achieve results, populations bear an increasing ... -
From Source to Dose: Modeling Human Exposure to Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances
(2018-04-26)Poly- and Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) are a class of synthetic organic chemicals that have been in production since 1950s. They are detectable in virtually all Americans. Exposure to some PFASs have been linked to a ... -
From the Inside Out – Application of the Mass Balance Model for PM Exposure Assessment in Residential Settings Under the Influences of Indoor and Outdoor Factors
(2015-09-30)The application of the widely used mass balance model in determining portable air purifier (PAP) effectiveness in particulate matter (PM) removal was not validated in occupied residential settings. The corresponding ... -
Gender Expression, Discrimination, and Health Among U.S. Adolescents and Young Adults: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
(2015-04-27)Young people who are perceived as transgressing societal gender norms—that is, who have a nonconforming gender expression—are at heightened risk of discrimination and violence victimization in the U.S., which can adversely ... -
Genetic Overlap and Causal Mediation Relationship Between Psychiatric and Non-Psychiatric Phenotypes
(2018-01-19)Genome-wide genotyping studies are providing evidence that psychiatric disorders are truly polygenic, that is they have a genetic architecture of many genetic variants. Cross-trait polygenic analysis has been applied to ... -
Genetics and Genomics of Endometrial Cancer
(2016-05-07)Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynecological cancer among women in the developed world and is hypothesized to arise from excess estrogen exposure from established risk factors like estrogen-only hormone therapy ... -
Genetics, Caffeine Consumption, Height and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer
(2016-05-03)Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), including basal and squamous cell carcinoma (BCC and SCC, respectively), is the most common malignancy among populations of European ancestry. It is estimated that over 2 million cases of ... -
Geographic Disparities in Saudi Mortality: Toward a Policy Relevant Analysis
(2017-04-17)Health disparities rank as a leading public health challenge for much of the world. While many countries have launched national efforts to address health disparities, led by the United Kingdom, such themes have received ... -
Girl Child Marriage, Health, and Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Mixed Methods Investigation
(2018-09-27)Nearly 650 million girls and women alive today have experienced girl child marriage, a formal union before age 18. Yet gaps exist in understanding its health consequences for women and children in African contexts. The ... -
Global Access Diagnostics: Transforming the Path for Equitable Access to Life Science innovations for Epidemics
(2021-06-10)The current system of research and development (R&D) for medical countermeasures to control epidemics is inadequate and insufficient, exacerbated by a lack of focus upfront on manufacturing and access. This is the central ... -
Global Health Financing Trends in the Age of Transitions: Impact Bonds & Loan Buy-Downs
(2018-05-02)The global health financing architecture is undergoing a defining moment characterized by multiple transitions, alongside a changing global political economy. These changes have brought with them challenges which require ... -
Green Buildings and Health
(2016-09-28)40 years of public health research on buildings has identified the indoor environmental drivers of health and productivity. Concurrently, increased environmental awareness spurred the green building movement with the goal ...