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Transgender Adults Living with Disabilities: Factors Associated with Health Care Utilization

Creator:: Mulcahy, Abigail
Abstract:: Background: Although both transgender adults and adults living with disabilities struggle to access healthcare, both populations are underserved and understudied. Existing research either examines transgender adults and adults with disabilities as separate groups or frames disability as a health outcome a transgender person may experience. Health care utilization and health...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: dissertation, was a group effort. To my major professor, Dr. Marie Harvey, we did it! Thank you for taking me

Examining Discrimination, HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs, and Condom Use Among a Diverse Sample of Young Adults

Creator:: Dowhower, Daniel P.
Abstract:: Racial/ethnic discrimination and HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs may contribute to disparities in use and satisfaction with healthcare services and engaging in safer sex practices. Previous studies that examined racial/ethnic discrimination and HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs focused primarily on African Americans with few studies focusing on Latinos. This study used longitudinal data from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Examining Discrimination, HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs, and Condom Use Among a Diverse Sample of Young

Use of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among American Indians and Alaska Natives including the Role of the Great Recession : Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth

Creator:: Cahn, Megan A.
Abstract:: American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) have more negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes than non-Hispanic whites. Little is known, however, about the factors that lead to sexual and reproductive health disparities for AIANs, including the role of sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS). Logistic regression analyses were performed on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: National Survey of Family Growth AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Megan A. Cahn

Associations Between Family Nutrition and Physical Activity, Food Security, and Childhood Obesity in Rural Oregon

Creator:: Jackson, Jennifer A.
Abstract:: Childhood obesity and food insecurity are public health issues that often coexist, and both conditions are more prevalent among rural compared to non-rural populations. Social ecological prevention efforts are recommended, yet limited research has examined how rural family-home environments may influence obesity-preventing and -promoting behaviors. The purpose of this dissertation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee co-chairs, Dr. Ellen Smit and Dr. Marie Harvey. A better team of doctoral program mentors, I

Facilitators and Barriers to Contraceptive Use among College-Age Latinas: Listening to Student Health Care Providers

Creator:: Farr, Carly Michelle
Abstract:: This study explored factors that affect acquisition and proper use of contraception among the college-age Latina population at Oregon State University. Interviews were conducted with eleven health care providers at OSU’s Student Health Services during the spring of 2014. Using content analysis we identified individual-level barriers including lack of knowledge...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: Medical Association, 274(17). Harvey, S., Henderson, J., Thorburn, S., Beckman, L., Casillas, A

The relationship between abortion and depression : evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Creator:: Warren, Jocelyn T.
Abstract:: A majority of states require parental consent or notification before a minor may have an abortion. Parental involvement laws are based in part on the assumption that abortion poses a risk to the psychological health of adolescents. Previous research has catalogued the risks to adolescent mothers and their children posed...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Harvey A majority of states require parental consent or notification before a minor may have an

Factors That Influence the Statewide Scaling-up of an Evidence-Based Arthritis Self-Management Program : Walk With Ease

Creator:: Conte, Kathleen P.
Abstract:: Interest by public health organizations in scaling-up efficacious health interventions is increasing as the prevalence of arthritis increases and treatment becomes more costly. Although arthritis evidence-based interventions (EBIs) have been found efficacious in improving healthy behaviors and the ability to self-manage symptoms, little research has examined whether scaled-up delivery of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: S. Marie Harvey Interest by public health organizations in scaling-up efficacious health

Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors among Young Adults in Rural Zacatecas, Mexico

Creator:: Jones, Garrett C.
Abstract:: According to The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS report of regional statistics for HIV/AIDS from 2001-2008, Latin America has the third highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS among children and adults in the world with about 2 million infected in 2008. Among all of these countries, Mexico has the...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________ S. Marie Harvey According

Factors that influence risk behavior in HIV infected women receiving antiretroviral therapy in Kampala and Masaka, Uganda

Creator:: MacLachlan, Ellen W.
Abstract:: Women living in sub-Saharan Africa are more affected by HIV/AIDS than any other population in the world. Two-thirds of all new HIV infections worldwide occur in sub-Saharan Africa and over 60% of these infections are in women. Indeed, 70% of all women globally who are infected with HIV reside in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________ S. Marie Harvey Women living in sub-Saharan Africa are more

Death Investigation: Factors Associated with Scene Investigation and Autopsy Completion at Two US Medicolegal Offices

Creator:: Snippen, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: Background/Purpose: US public health, criminal justice, and many other social and scientific processes are affected by the quality of data obtained about death. Yet, little research has focused on how death investigations are conducted. The overall goal of this research was to examine the process by which information was obtained...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________________________ S. Marie Harvey Background/Purpose: US public health, criminal justice, and many other

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Transgender Adults Living with Disabilities: Factors Associated with Health Care Utilization

Examining Discrimination, HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs, and Condom Use Among a Diverse Sample of Young Adults

Use of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services among American Indians and Alaska Natives including the Role of the Great Recession : Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth

Associations Between Family Nutrition and Physical Activity, Food Security, and Childhood Obesity in Rural Oregon

Facilitators and Barriers to Contraceptive Use among College-Age Latinas: Listening to Student Health Care Providers

The relationship between abortion and depression : evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Factors That Influence the Statewide Scaling-up of an Evidence-Based Arthritis Self-Management Program : Walk With Ease

Exploring Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sexual Behaviors among Young Adults in Rural Zacatecas, Mexico

Factors that influence risk behavior in HIV infected women receiving antiretroviral therapy in Kampala and Masaka, Uganda

Death Investigation: Factors Associated with Scene Investigation and Autopsy Completion at Two US Medicolegal Offices

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