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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 ...
Influencing Health Behaviors via Short Message Service (SMS): Evidence for Best Practices From Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Xi’an China
(2016-04-25)
Text messaging, also known as short message services (SMS), is a burgeoning innovation area showing promise in eliciting health behavior changes. This dissertation details two intervention trials that each comparatively ...
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 ...
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 ...