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  • Factors affecting contraceptive use among women of reproductive age in northern Jordan : a framework for health policy action

    Creator:
    Hijazi, Heba Hesham
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    Jordan has a higher fertility rate (3.8) than the averages of countries similar in income to Jordan (2.2) and compared to the Middle East and North Africa region as a whole (2.8) (WHO, WB, UNICEF, & DHS, 2011). The findings of the 2009 Jordanian Population and Family Health Survey demonstrated...
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    Dissertation
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    JPFHS 2009 N u m b er o f b ir th s p er w o m a n Source: (DOS, 2010b) 3

  • Prenatal and Early-life Metals Exposure and Immune Function in Children

    Creator:
    Welch, Barrett M.
    Abstract:
    Immune system development during prenatal and early-life periods are essential for healthy development. Environmental and nutritional factors during these periods have strong influences on immune development and can have impacts on disease susceptibility for an individual throughout adulthood. Globally, hundreds of millions of people experience elevated environmental exposure to arsenic,...
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    Dissertation
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    interpretation of findings, and reviewed the second manuscript. Sharia M. Ahmed helped to organize data

  • Environmental and Community Exposures and Children’s Infectious Diseases in Bangladesh

    Creator:
    Ahmed, Sharia M.
    Abstract:
    Under-5 mortality has decreased globally, but millions of children still die every year. In Bangladesh, respiratory infection and diarrheal disease remain leading causes of morbidity and mortality for children under-5, despite incredible progress in the past three decades. Immune system development begins in utero and continues into adulthood. Toxic environmental...
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    Dissertation
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    ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Sharia M. Ahmed for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Public

  • Community Risk Factors for Post-Hurricane Disease

    Creator:
    Hultberg, Kate
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores interrelationships between the geographical impact of recent hurricanes, rates of giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis in impacted communities, and effects of hurricanes on local water infrastructure systems. I obtained quantitative data on geographical hurricane attributes, demographic characteristics of populations struck by hurricanes, and confirmed cases of giardiasis and cryptosporidiosis...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    seen in developed nations such as the United States ​(Haque, 2007)​. Perhaps the two most prevalent

  • Environmental Metal Exposures and Effects on Maternal and Child Health in Bangladesh

    Creator:
    Andrews, Faye V.
    Abstract:
    Bangladesh is a developing country with burdens of environmental pollution and disparities in maternal and child health. Arsenic, manganese, and lead are pervasive environmental contaminants throughout Bangladesh with major exposures through drinking water and ambient pollution. Chronic exposures to arsenic, manganese, and lead in sensitive populations such as pregnant women,...
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    Dissertation