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Health Effects of PM2.5 and Its Components on Mortality, Blood Pressure, and DNA Methylation
(2016-09-30)
Epidemiological studies have examined the association between PM2.5 mass and mortality, but there remains uncertainty about the relative importance of species. PM2.5 contains various species, such as organic carbon, elemental ...
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 ...
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) ...
Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, and Hiv
(2016-10-03)
Reducing maternal and child mortality was established as a global priority with the signing of the Millennium Declaration in September 2000. Neonatal vitamin A supplementation and very early breastfeeding initiation are ...
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 ...
Communication to Promote Healthier Behaviors – Understanding the Roles of Channels and Message Formats
(2016-09-27)
Communication has been used to change people’s health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, and it is critical for improving people’s lives, especially those who are in a disadvantaged group. Many studies suggest that ...
The Associations Between Consumption of Coffee and Soy Food With Health Outcomes.
(2016-01-26)
Obesity has become a global epidemic, and obesity prevalence rose from 4.8% to 9.8% in men and from 7.9% to 13.8% in women between 1980 and 2008 1. Preventing obesity and related chronic diseases, especially type 2 diabetes ...
Achieving Access to Antimalarials: Views From Ghana on the Political-Economy of Adopting and Implementing the Affordable Medicines Facility-Malaria (AMFm)
(2016-01-19)
My research examines the adoption and implementation processes involved in transferring a global health policy into national-level practice. More specifically, I consider how high-level stakeholders adopted and street-level, ...
Health Behaviors in the Context of Malaria Treatment in Uganda
(2016-05-05)
Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly among young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. There exists a very effective treatment for malaria, a class of drugs known as artemisinin-based ...
Longitudinal, Time-Varying Behavioral Exposures and Changes in Childhood Adiposity
(2016-05-03)
Problem: Our objective was to exam associations between time-varying behaviors in childhood and changes in adiposity. Our aim in Paper 1 was to assess patterns and regional trends in seasonal variation of moderate-vigorous ...