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  • Seeking Support as Native Women Survivors of IPV: a Mixed-Methods Study

    Creator:
    Park, Susanna Y.
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    Intimate partner violence (IPV) against American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) women is a significant public health issue, requiring deeper understanding on how to better support Native women survivors. This mixed-methods project utilizes both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine factors associated with support-seeking behaviors and explore how women seek support and...
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    Dissertation
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    methods to examine factors associated with support-seeking behaviors and explore how women seek support

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    presents the reader with a rich enthnohistonc and cultural context to the local issues surrounding

  • Health literacy among end stage renal disease patients

    Creator:
    Wolfe, RoxiAnn Blanche
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    This research examines the impact of low health literacy among patients with End Stage Renal Disease. The sample included individuals who participated in a health education class (Pre-Renal Education Program) offered at the Samaritan Dialysis Services in Corvallis, Oregon. Data collection techniques included participant observation, individual interviews, evaluation of the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    impact of low health literacy among patients with End Stage Renal Disease. The sample included

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    interview, I would first have to sign in with a security officer and then check in with the receptionist

  • Prescribing politics : an examination of the local and global factors which govern access to "atypical" psychotropic medications for Oregon's unfunded clients

    Creator:
    Maxey, Judith L.
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    This thesis is based on a study conducted for the state of Oregon's Office of Mental Health Services (OMHS). OMHS' primary research objectives included 1) the identification of the unfunded population (individuals who are uninsured and ineligible for Medicaid) who seek services at community mental health programs and 2) an...
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    Masters Thesis
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    atypicals fund. The author collected ethnographic data through semi-structured interviews with 57 mental

  • Seeking primary care in Oregon : utilization of the emergency room services in a Salem hospital

    Creator:
    Young, Elizabeth A.
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    This thesis examines how changes made to the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) in 2003 impacts those now utilizing the emergency room (ER) for primary health care. This thesis also examines how these changes impact staff members working in the ER of Salem Hospital. Through the utilization of qualitative research methods,...
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    became my interview guide for interviews with patients and the questions for the survey distributed to

  • Balancing impact and efficiency in microfinance administration : the importance of attention to program design

    Creator:
    Kearney, Emily Q.
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    Microfinance, or the technique of lending small amounts of money to the world’s poor for productive activities, has become a popular strategy for poverty-alleviation, achieving legislative status as a development strategy in the U.S. in 2000 with the Microenterprise for Self-Sufficiency Act. However, microfinance has increasingly failed to achieve the...
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    Capstone Project
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    me in any way she could, to Roger Hammer for making learning SAS an enjoyable experience, and to

  • 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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    Khanna Mukti Ashram is a rehabilitation center in north India that works with ex-child laborer boys

  • Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

    Creator:
    Niazi, Amarah
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    This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive...
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    approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to