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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 ...
Social and Intergenerational Determinants of Children’s Physical and Cognitive Development
(2015-09-14)
Identifying the key determinants of poor developmental outcomes is critical in improving the lives of millions of children who suffer from poor physical growth and cognitive deficits. Much research suggests that early life ...
Innovative Approaches to Investigating Social Determinants of Health - Social Networks, Environmental Effects and Intersectionality
(2015-09-19)
Contexts are important social determinants of individual health trajectories and population level patterns of health disparities. This dissertation examines three types of contexts—social networks, physical environments, ...
Metal Speciation, Mixtures and Environmental Health Impacts
(2015-10-16)
Numerous applications of heavy metal have caused to their wide contamination in the environmental system and raised serious concerns over potential harmful effects on public health and the environment. Water, sediment, and ...
Emulation of Target Trials to Study the Effectiveness and Safety of Medical Interventions
(2015-09-14)
Ideally, clinical guidelines would be informed by well-designed randomized experiments. However, it is generally not possible to conduct a randomized trial for every clinically relevant decision. Decision makers therefore ...
Egg Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes
(2015-09-14)
Due to their cholesterol content, limiting egg intake has been widely recommended for prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, recent reports by the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Committee and AHA/ACC suggest that ...
Changes to the Social Patterning of Economic Resources and the Distribution of Mental and Biological Health Markers
(2015-01-22)
This dissertation examines the relationship between life course social mobility and socio-economic disparities in health using data from the Health and Retirement Study. Chapter 1 explores how eligibility for the Korean ...
Malaria Vector Control in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact and Economic Evaluation of Larviciding
(2015-01-06)
The last decade witnessed the important scaled-up of malaria control interventions in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). There is now renewed impetus to achieve the long-term goal of malaria elimination and reducing vectorial ...
Impact of Multiple Risk Factors and Preventive Interventions on Cardiovascular Diseases and Disparities
(2015-01-16)
Major cardiovascular risk factors have changed over the past 3-4 decades throughout the world. While adiposity and diabetes are rising worldwide, blood pressure and cholesterol are declining in high-income and even some ...
Confounding Adjustment in Comparative Studies of Newly Marketed Medications
(2015-01-20)
Observational studies of newly marketed medications can add important safety and effectiveness information to what is known from pre-approval randomized controlled trials. As new medications are often prescribed to select ...