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Understanding health behavior influences of undergraduate students during college transition

Creator:: Hart, Kerry A.
Abstract:: As college students transition to life away from their parental home, the need to make independent decisions regarding their eating and exercise behaviors is evident. This life transition may be a critical period for establishment of long term behavior patterns with potential impact on health, disease and weight balance. This...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: All Rights Reserved UNDERSTANDING HEALTH BEHAVIOR INFLUENCES AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

The effect of a mail-mediated intervention on exercise behavior

Creator:: Levy, Susan S.
Abstract:: Self-determination theory suggests that social contexts that promote a sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness will increase internalization of behavioral regulation and lead to more self-determined forms of motivation, the prototype of which is intrinsic motivation. A positive relationship between internalization of exercise behavior regulation and actual levels of exercise...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Behavior INTRODUCTION Despite the overwhelming evidence of the physiological and psychological health

Behavioral determinants of insulin resistance in non-diabetic patients with coronary artery disease

Creator:: Littrell, Tanya R.
Abstract:: Greater degrees of insulin resistance are associated with increased rates of coronary artery disease (CAD) progression. However, the specific behavioral determinants of insulin resistance are not well known in patients with CAD. Although abdominal obesity contributes to insulin resistance, the extent to which abdominal obesity may modify the relationship between...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Understanding health care utilization : a theoretically-based analysis of the Ecuadorian health care system

Creator:: López-Cevallos, Daniel F.
Abstract:: One in four Ecuadorians do not have access to health services; while more than two-thirds have no health insurance and insufficient resources to pay for the health care services they might require. The following three studies examined utilization of health care services using Andersen’s Health Care Utilization Behavior Theory. Secondary...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Andersen’s Health Care Utilization Behavior Theory. Secondary data (in a multilevel multivariate framework

Knowledge, information-seeking behavior, and health beliefs about prostate cancer and breast cancer among men 18-40 years of age : a pilot study and comparative analysis

Creator:: Johnson, Brian Keith
Abstract:: Prostate cancer is responsible for a substantial loss of life and burden of suffering among adult males. Evidence suggests that the risk of morbidity and mortality from prostate cancer can be reduced through specific screening and dietary practices (MCI, 2002; Ries et al., 2002). Further evidence suggests that screening can...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Seeking Behavior, and Health Beliefs about Prostate Cancer and Breast Cancer Among Men 18 to 40 Years of

Life course perspective : a journey of participation in physical activity

Creator:: Li, Kin-Kit
Abstract:: A life course perspective provide a meta-theoretical framework to understand human development. This perspective is characterized by studying the changing lives within the changing environment (George, 2004). Building upon the literature in the psychosocial paradigm and ecological models, Manuscript 1 discusses the uniqueness and the practical importance of a life...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ) suggested that identity shift could be a turning point in health behavior change. Identity shift is

Factors influencing the outcomes of public health legislation in the 2001 Oregon legislature

Creator:: Wise, Kendra J.
Abstract:: Legislation can be an effective public health tool, and understanding the factors that influence legislative outcomes is advantageous for public health practitioners who propose and advocate for legislation. The literature indicates that the issues of personal freedoms, the presence or absence of strong coalition leadership, and political conditions and ideology...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Public Health Legislation in the 2001 Oregon Legislature Abstract approved: Amiette M. Rossignol

Health insurance coverage differentials in Oregon

Creator:: Kleiner, Erica
Abstract:: In addition to analyzing rural and non-rural differences in health insurance coverage among Oregonians, this essay examines the effect of key socioeconomic and demographic factors in relation to differentials in health insurance coverage.
Resource Type:: Capstone Project

Emergency contraceptive pills and college women : factors influencing intention and use

Creator:: Nelson, Heather A.
Abstract:: Approximately half of the 6.4 million pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended (Finer & Henshaw, 2006). Unintended pregnancies, defined as pregnancies not wanted at the time conception occurs, regardless of contraceptive use (Chandra, Martinez, Mosher, Abma, & Jones, 2005) can have serious repercussions on women, children,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: specifically at college students, the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS) shows that over

Toxic blooms in Oregon waters

Creator:: Stone, David L. (David Louis), Hitchko, Kara Leeann, and Oregon State University. Extension Service
Abstract:: Published July 2009. Reviewed December 2013. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Resource Type:: Technical Report
Full Text:: health advisories have been increasing in Oregon during that time. Whether this reflects greater

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Understanding health behavior influences of undergraduate students during college transition

The effect of a mail-mediated intervention on exercise behavior

Behavioral determinants of insulin resistance in non-diabetic patients with coronary artery disease

Understanding health care utilization : a theoretically-based analysis of the Ecuadorian health care system

Knowledge, information-seeking behavior, and health beliefs about prostate cancer and breast cancer among men 18-40 years of age : a pilot study and comparative analysis

Life course perspective : a journey of participation in physical activity

Factors influencing the outcomes of public health legislation in the 2001 Oregon legislature

Health insurance coverage differentials in Oregon

Emergency contraceptive pills and college women : factors influencing intention and use

Toxic blooms in Oregon waters

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