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Advancing Health Equity Through Multi-Sector Collaboration
(2020-04-23)
This doctoral thesis, Advancing Health Equity Through Multi-Sector Collaboration, highlights the need for multi-sector collaboration to address current health inequities. It is focused on three separate projects based in ...
Exploring Cross-Sector Approaches to Promote Healthy Eating and Prevent Obesity
(2020-09-18)
Obesity impacts two-thirds of adults and one-third of children in the United States. This dissertation explores approaches to promote healthy eating and prevent obesity in primary care and grocery retail settings.
In Chapter ...
With or Without: an Assessment of Brazil’s More Doctors Program on Population Health
(2020-04-28)
Renewed commitment to the Universal Health Coverage agenda reinvigorated interest in primary care. Yet, there is limited evidence on the performance of community-level targeting methods used in large-scale primary care ...
Investing in the Right Start-Ups: a Decision-Making Model for Chinese Venture Capital Investment in Precision Oncology in the United States
(2020-04-28)
Precision oncology aims to combat cancer through targeted, personalized medicine, while technology transfer helps to translate knowledge in the field of precision oncology from research to practice; venture capital is the ...
A Traditional Mexican Diet Score, Diet Quality Scores, and Risk of Hypertension Among U.S. Adults of Mexican Heritage
(2020-01-27)
Despite the fact that existing dietary scores that capture the overall healthiness of the diet have extensively been used to study associations with risk factors for cardiovascular disease, it is questionable whether these ...
Neighborhood Greenness and Prostate Cancer: Association and Explanation in Diverse Populations
(2020-01-27)
Prostate cancer (CaP) is the most common non-cutaneous cancer diagnosed among men in the United States. Neighborhood greenness could confer benefits to men at risk of CaP by promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing ...
Psychosocial Factors and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
(2020-05-14)
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are among the most common causes of disability and mortality worldwide, encompassing a wide range of disorders including myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, stroke and heart failure. ...
Dioxins, Furans, Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Male Puberty
(2020-10-15)
Background. Dioxins, furans and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic compounds released into the environment as a result of industrial activity. They disrupt endocrine function, and may have contributed ...
Aligning Business and Public Health Needs: Assessing the Customer Value Proposition of an HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Adherence Startup
(2020-04-24)
Entrepreneurship plays a major role in developing innovative medical technologies that contribute to better public health; however, most entrepreneurs fail to scale their innovations. One of the most commonly cited reasons ...
Advanced Illness Support in Massachusetts: From Perceptions to Practice
(2020-04-27)
While it is a good thing that modern medicine allows people to live longer and postpone disability due to chronic illness, there has been a relative lack of focus on how to support patients as their underlying illnesses ...