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  • Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

    Creator:
    Racansky, Pamela A.
    Abstract:
    The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
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    grandparents, Alice & charles Racansky, and bick & Helen Cameron, for all their stories, love and support. I

  • Perceptions of mental health and mental illness among the Wanniya-laeto of Sri Lanka

    Creator:
    Priest, Jill Amy
    Abstract:
    The Wanniya-laeto, often referred to as Veddas, are the indigenous people of Sri Lanka. They live primarily in governmental designated areas in the forest with a few Vedda villages on the eastern coastal region. In-depth, semi-structured interviews as well as participant observation were the methods used to access the perceptions...
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    .............................................. 63 Appendix A Wanniya-laeto interview questions ..... 63 Appencix B Psychiatric consutants interview

  • Is "Smart Growth" smart? : health effects of urban renewal in Portland, Oregon

    Creator:
    Buerger, Catherine F.
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    This thesis examines the impact of urban renewal on individual health, specifically focusing on an urban planning model called Smart Growth that is being used in Portland, Oregon. Findings are based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of interview and survey data from study participants living in a community where renewal...
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  • Preferred customers? : barriers for Hispanics in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program

    Creator:
    Keys, Robert T. III
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    From February to September of 2001, a significant body of qualitive data was collected to investigate barriers for Hispanic participation in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program. As a means to investigate this topic, comments were solicited from physicians, hospital administrators, social service agencies, and low-income Hispanics through semi-structured focus groups...
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  • Defining oppression, demanding childhood : the vision and work of an Indian social action group

    Creator:
    Henderson, Laura A.
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    Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys. Fieldwork completed at the ashram in 1997-98 centered around the issue of the organization's attempt to enact social change through the engineering of community within the ashram's walls. Several fundamental processes that contribute to this...
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    press representations ........... 133 Appendix B Selection from Bhoj Raj's testimony .............. 134