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  • "It Brings You into the Fold": Understanding Patients' Experiences of Mobile Health Technologies

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    Lee, Jenney R.
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    Chronic disease is costly to treat and burdensome for those living with its impacts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017), 117 million Americans currently live with chronic disease, and one in four adults live with two or more chronic diseases. The burden placed on the U.S....
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Melissa J. Cheyney

  • "It's not about place it's about space" : place-of-birth decision-making in Cork, Ireland

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    Houtman, Leah S.
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    Despite apparently supportive national policies, including nation-wide legalization of home birth and coverage by the national health care system of the costs associated with that option, these births account for less than 1% of all births in the Republic of Ireland. Using data collected during participant observation, both in person...
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    :   _________________________________________________________________________________________________   Melissa  J.  Cheyney       Despite  apparently  supportive  national

  • "I'm a Mom too!" - Stigma, Support & Contested Identities among Adolescent Mothers in the United States

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    Everson, Courtney L.
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    This dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of doula care in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between psychosocial stress, social support, institutionalized constraints, and their impacts on health and well-being among adolescent mothers in the Northwestern...
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    encouragement you have provided me through the years. To Dr. Melissa Cheyney, my major advisor: words cannot

  • "A fragile job" : Haitian traditional midwives (matwons) and the navigation of clinical, spiritual and social risk

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    Watson, Annaliese
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    Haiti's political and economy history has led to a maternity care system that lies out of reach, geographically and financially, of most Haitians, resulting in excessively high maternal and infant mortality. The most common birth practitioners are homebirth midwives (matwòns), who attend roughly three-fourths of all births in Haiti (UNICEF),...
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    and Social Risk Abstract approved: Melissa J. Cheyney Haiti’s

  • Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

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    Danna, Maria N.
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    Queer birthing parents in the Pacific Northwestern United States have multifaceted and variable paths when it comes to conceiving a family. With the innovations in assisted reproductive technology accompanying the wider acceptance and recognition of gender and sexual difference in mainstream society, a greater number of queer birthing parents are...
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    Melissa J. Cheyney Queer birthing parents in the Pacific Northwestern United States have

  • Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

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    Houtman, Leah S.
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    About 1% of U.S. births each year are planned home births (Vital Statistics Reports 2017). Of these, roughly 10% transfer to a higher level of care during labor (Melissa Cheyney et al. 2014), yet their experiences are rarely heard. Storytelling has long been used not only as entertainment, but as...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Melissa J. Cheyney About 1% of

  • Quest for a Cure: Persistent Residual Incontinence Post-obstetric Fistula Repair in Uganda

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    Ruder, Bonnie J.
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    Obstetric fistula is estimated to affect 1–2 million women worldwide, predominantly in low-resource countries in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia. The primary intervention for obstetric fistula is surgery, which is described as a relatively simple surgical procedure with an extremely high psychosocial and economic benefit relative to cost. Research addressing...
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Melissa J. Cheyney

  • Conceiving A Colony: A Multi-Level Biocultural Analysis of the Maternal Stress-Preterm Birth Nexus in Puerto Rico

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    Horan, Holly L.
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    This dissertation aims to elicit how a neo-colonial context shapes maternal and infant heath (MIH) outcomes by describing how they are socially, politically, historically, and culturally produced. Using a multi-level critical biocultural, medical anthropological research approach, the purpose of this research was to investigate maternal stress in the United States...
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    inspiring each other as I move forward in my professional career. To Dr. Melissa Cheyney, my major advisor

  • Shattered lives : understanding obstetric fistula in Uganda

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    Ruder, Bonnie J.
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    In Uganda, there are an estimated 200,000 women suffering from obstetric fistula, with 1,900 new cases expected annually. These figures, combined with a persistently high maternal mortality rate, have led to an international discourse that claims the solution to improving maternal health outcomes is facility-based delivery with a skilled birth...
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    Uganda Abstract approved: Melissa J. Cheyney In Uganda, there are an estimated

  • (Re)-conceiving birthing spaces in India : exploring NGO promotion of institutional delivery in Rajasthan, India

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    Price, Sara
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    In India, globalized flows of bio-medical discourse, practices and technologies are reshaping the field of reproductive healthcare, and the performance of childbirth more specifically. These projects aim to produce institutional delivery rooms that are "safe and modernized" by equating the utilization of westernized, obstetric techniques for managing delivery with better...
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    Abstract approved: ________________________________________________________________ Melissa J. Cheyney