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

    Creator:
    Racansky, Pamela A.
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    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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    Masters Thesis
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    internal medicine physicians-in-training. We reviewed articles and passages from medical anthropology

  • 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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    care and lack of primary, preventative care which forces patients to turn to the ER (Medicine 2007

  • The Effect of Burnout on Emergency Department Physicians and Current Preventative Measures

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Caileun H.
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    The demands of the healthcare system on its employees are heavy and intense. Long working hours, high-stress environments, and emotionally exhausting situations can lead to burnout. This is particularly a constant concern in emergency medicine. Burnout has been associated with impacting well-being and performance. There is also an interest in...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    ). Physician burnout: Contributors, consequences and solutions. Journal of Internal Medicine, 283(6), 516–529

  • Family dental care : perspectives from women recovering from methamphetamine addiction

    Creator:
    Hanks, Melissa A.
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    This research focuses on the economic and social impacts to women’s and children’s dental health after methamphetamine abuse. Family oral health status, access to professional services, health literacy and home hygienic practices are evaluated in the frameworks of critical medical anthropology, applied anthropological praxis and matrix and bio-psycho-social addiction models...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Melissa Anne Hanks for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied

  • 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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    becomes codified in the dominant ethos of the institution, presents an internal contradiction that is

  • Access and Utilization of Mental Healthcare Services Among Children and Adolescents in India – A mixed-methods study

    Creator:
    Vasanth Rao, Deeksha
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    Background: According to the National Mental Health Survey (NMHS), the treatment gap of any mental disorder in India among the general population was reported to be as high as 83% (R. S. Murthy, 2017). There is insufficient evidence currently describing the treatment gap among the child and adolescent population. Given...
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    Dissertation
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    : Lessons from Indian and global evidence and experience. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 8(7

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

    Creator:
    Priest, Jill Amy
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    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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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jill Amy Priest for the degree of

  • 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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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Amarah Niazi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Applied

  • An Evaluation of Staffing Needs at the Health Clinic in Maunatlala, Botswana

    Creator:
    Bedge, Sonya S.
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    As part of the Botswana Global Learning Internship Program, a qualitative study was conducted regarding the current staffing conditions at the local village health clinic in Maunatlala, Botswana. This was a month-long project conducted over the summer of 2018. Students from Oregon State University lived in the village of Maunatlala...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    Botswana Faculty of Medicine (UBFoM) was created in order to address the country’s dependence on foreign

  • Improving health communication : an anthropological perspective of health literacy among chronic disease patients

    Creator:
    van Bronkhorst, Kelly Marie
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    This research examines the relationship between health literacy among End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients and its relevance for communication between patients and providers. The study was conducted among dialysis services providers at the Good Samaritan Dialysis Center and dialysis patients receiving care at the Center. Data collection techniques included...
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    relationship were central to the socio- political critiques of medicine, particularly the feminist critiques