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Creator:: Tsang, Christabelle W.
Abstract:: More than 30,000 children and adults are diagnosed with life-threatening blood diseases such as leukemia, anemia and lymphomas in the U.S. every year. A transplant of stem cells, obtained from the bone marrow of a healthy donor, can be a cure for these diseases. The National Marrow Donor Program's registry...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: a Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive organized by the author on the OSU campus in January. 150

Creator:: Bean, Sandra J.
Abstract:: Health care providers, including complementary and alternative medical (CAM) practitioners, exert a significant influence on parental pediatric vaccination decisions. Use of CAM therapies is increasing in Oregon. Concomitantly, there has been a decade-long increase in parental vaccine refusal in Oregon, rising from 1 to 5 percent from 2000-2009. For example,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: possible in locations where vaccine resistance persists. In the spring of 2012, an alarming pertussis

Creator:: Bavarian, Niloofar
Abstract:: The illicit use of prescription stimulants (IUPS) is a critical Public Health problem in the college population that represents a unique form of substance use. Namely, the primary motives for IUPS by college students are academic in nature (e.g., Teter, McCabe, LaGrange, Cranford, & Boyd, 2006), which may explain why...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: final 96-item version of the BEACH-Q was administered throughout campus using one-stage cluster

Creator:: Bracken, Caragwen L.
Abstract:: The focus of this research was to develop bacterial community indicators of stream sanitary and ecological condition. The first study compared substrate utilization patterns between centrifuged and uncentrifuged split samples. We found a shift in the relative proportion of each group of bacteria following centrifugation, with a marked increased in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Philosophy Presented September 8, 2003 Commencement June 2004 Doctor of Philosophy dissertation of

Creator:: Taylor, Nina R.
Abstract:: Many female undergraduate students engage in disordered eating, an umbrella term for sub clinical behaviors such as food restriction, binge eating, over exercising, and general preoccupation with food, weight, and body. Depending on the type of behavior and the length of time engaged with the behavior, disordered eating behaviors can...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of 18- 25, enrolled at a west coast university campus. To understand the breadth of

Creator:: Hoxmeier, Jill C.
Abstract:: Sexual assault is a major public health concern in the U.S, and college students are particularly vulnerable to victimization. A health issue that affects nearly one in four women (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000; Karjane, Cullen, & Turner, 2005) and that is associated with severe negative health outcomes, including depression...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: professors at OSU for seeing the importance of this study and allowing me into your classes for data

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:: (2004) found that Arab Americans in metropolitan Detroit had higher proportions of leukemia, liver

Creator:: Bean, Maddison M.
Abstract:: Weight-based stigmatization (WBS) exists in healthcare and can be categorized as direct, indirect, or structural. WBS is harmful to individual’s health and contributes to worse healthcare engagement, including reduced care satisfaction, patient-centered communication (PCC), and utilization of services. Little is known about young adults’ experiences of WBS in healthcare. Young...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Maddison M

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