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  • The Role of the Urban Matters Community of Practice within the National Park Service

    Creator:
    O’Casey, Elizabeth
    Abstract:
    There is a growing movement in the U.S., and throughout the world, involving top down government bureaucracies or government agencies within the natural resources field, to develop new and innovative processes and structures for integrating societal viewpoints into agency decision-­making. This study examines Urban Matters, a community of practice within...
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     O’Casey  for  the  degree  of  Master  of  Public  Policy  presented  on  June  3rd,  2014   Title:  The

  • Examining equity in out-of-pocket expenditures and utilization of healthcare services in Malawi

    Creator:
    Mwandira, Ruth
    Abstract:
    Best international health practice requires that all people benefit equally from health care services regardless of their socio-economic status and that healthcare payments be based on ability to pay. Although recent household surveys in Malawi show progress in a number of health indicators population averages, many inequalities in health outcomes...
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    Dissertation
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    sector to increase access to health care services for the majority population through public private

  • Essays on Public-Private Contracting

    Creator:
    Gultom, Yohanna M. L.
    Abstract:
    In this work, I address foundational concerns at the interface of institutions, governance structure, transaction costs, and efficiency in public-private contracting. Following transaction cost economic perspective, I build and justify the theoretical models explaining that institutions may affect the economic performance of public-private contracting through the effect of transaction costs....
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    and essential way of delivering public goods and services when the transaction cost economizing

  • Advocacy Coalitions, Shifting Priorities and Disability Services: An Integrative and Iterative Approach to Explaining Policy Change

    Creator:
    Giordono, Leanne S.
    Abstract:
    Under the label “Supported Employment,” services that promote competitive, integrated employment (CIE) for working-age adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been federally funded since the 1980s, alongside other more traditional day habilitation and segregated or sub-minimum wage employment services. However, since the early 2000s, over 30 states have adopted...
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    Dissertation
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    remained low through the 2010s, there was no public mass defection of service providers from the Choice

  • Health Service Utilization among Medicaid Enrollees in Oregon : Assessing Variation by Level of Rurality

    Creator:
    Larson, Annie E.
    Abstract:
    Research Objective: Nearly 60 million people in the United States reside in a rural area. Residents in rural areas have higher rates of chronic disease, risky health behaviors, disability, infant mortality, and age-adjusted mortality than their urban counterparts. Health insurance and access to care mitigate those risks, in part because...
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    Dissertation
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    and Services Administration Primary Care Service Area data. Linear probability models were used to

  • Factors impacting intimate partner violence and access to services among women in the occupied Palestinian territories

    Creator:
    Fitzgerald, Meghan R.
    Abstract:
    A study which analyzes the impact of husband's exposure to political violence on intimate partner violence perpetration and identifies factors associated with help-seeking among women in Gaza and the West Bank. Further, a qualitative component examines Gazan women's narratives regarding IPV and help-seeking and barriers faced.
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    Dissertation
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    Fitzgerald for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health presented on May 13, 2019. Title

  • Federal Timber Payments and County Government Expenditures in Oregon

    Creator:
    Adams, Vince
    Abstract:
    The federal government owns 60 percent of Oregon’s forests and, since 1908, has shared proceeds from federal forest timber harvests with counties. These revenues have provided a relatively stable source of funds for the provision of services by county governments in Oregon. Shared revenues from US Forest Service (USFS) lands...
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    Capstone Project
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    focused on personnel and service cuts: Oregon counties responded most commonly by cutting services

  • The Role of Social Networks in Federal Agency Hiring: A Comparison of Employees from Diverse Backgrounds

    Creator:
    Moreno Luna, Arlyn Yire
    Abstract:
    Due to past hiring practices U.S. federal agencies have workforces that do not match the diversity of the populations they serve. In 2011, the Partnership for Public Service found that the United States Forest Service (USFS) ranked number 149 out of 206 agencies in the category of ‘Support for Diversity,’...
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    match the diversity of the populations they serve. In 2011, the Partnership for Public Service found

  • Networks and Relationships: Differences in State-Level Child Abuse and Neglect Policy Implementation in Multnomah and Klamath Counties, Oregon

    Creator:
    Wornell, Emily
    Abstract:
    Using Richard Matland’s ambiguity/conflict model of policy implementation, this research examines the connections that agencies and organizations in one rural county, Klamath, and one urban county, Multnomah, in Oregon utilize to implement a particular state policy. The policy being examined is ORS 418.746-800, which mandates the use of Multidisciplinary Teams...
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    Capstone Project
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     requirements  for  the   degree  of         Master  of  Public  Policy

  • Experiencing service-learning in prison

    Creator:
    Kopet, Julie G.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of incarcerated women who participated in a service-learning program to help the homeless. Service-learning is effective pedagogy for involving students in civic engagement, and their involvement has been shown to increase the self-esteem of participating college students....
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    Dissertation
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    Service-Learning In Prison. Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________