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Creator:: Seifert, Madeleine
Abstract:: Unintended pregnancy has been found to be one of the most prominent challenges that the public health system is forced to overcome due to the financial and social burdens that accompany it (Yazdkhasti et al., 2015). With nearly 48% of reproductive-age American female patients having experienced at least one unintended...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: —------------------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Cheyney, representing the School of Language, Culture, and Society

Creator:: Xue, Han
Abstract:: Pre-med attrition is the loss of students participating in academic pre-medical programs over time. Attrition in medical school has been the subject of many studies, but pre-med attrition is less researched, despite its relevance to the emergence and performance of future medical professionals. Interviewing former pre-med students who chose other...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: _____________________________________________________________________ Melissa Cheyney, Committee Member, representing Anthropology

Creator:: Ventrella, Jennifer L.
Abstract:: Clean cooking technologies and fuels have been cited as a viable way to slow climate change and reduce the health and environmental impacts associated with traditional cooking devices used by 40% of the world. While engineers in the Design for Development sector have created hundreds of stove designs that perform...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Schoon, Rebecca L.
Abstract:: Background: All health systems struggle with unlimited needs for health care, yet limited resources with which to address them. Under national health insurance systems, policymakers must make explicit and potentially contested decisions around resource allocation. Policymakers have recognized the need to include public values in decisions of how to distributing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Sinky, Tassnym Hussein
Abstract:: Healthcare discrimination is associated with various health-related attitudes, behaviors, intentions, and outcomes including provider avoidance, underutilization or increased use of healthcare services, use of alternative means of healthcare, delays in medical care, less satisfaction with care, poor health behaviors, and poorer health outcomes. Since 2001, Muslims and Arabs in the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Dolcini, Dr. Ellen Smit, Dr. Melissa Cheyney, and Dr. Kim Hannigan-Downs), thank you for your advice

Creator:: Henning, Margaret Jo
Abstract:: In Zambia, there are approximately 920,000 people living with HIV/AIDS. Children are often referred to as a "window of hope" due to a low HIV/AIDS prevalence rate (UNAIDS/WHO, 2006). With growing numbers of infections and an increased strain on the social and economic structure due to HIV/AIDS there is a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: research process. Thank you to Dr. Melissa Cheyney, and Dr. Margaret Dolcini, for suggestions on the

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