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  • Healthcare challenges in Ecuador : a narrative exploration

    Creator:
    Braun, Lindsay R.
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    This thesis explores a three month period that I spent abroad working in medical clinics and hospitals in Ecuador. My work was conducted in three distinct areas: the urban landscape of Quito, Ecuador’s capital; Puyo, a small town bordering the Amazonian rainforest; and a small community located in the heart...
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    Honors College Thesis

  • 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...
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    Dissertation
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    relationship between emigrant remittances and health care utilization in Ecuador. Emigrant predictors were

  • Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

    Creator:
    Hammer, Michaela
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    After decades of expert-based modernization efforts that have had profound negative impacts on human and environmental health, Ecuador is currently pursuing a rights-based, participatory development paradigm known as sumak kawsay or "the good life". Despite its promises of inclusion and interculturality, this approach continues to rely on highly trained specialists,...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • The praxis of cultural competence in medical education : using environmental factors to develop protocols for action

    Creator:
    Stohs, Sheryl Magee
    Abstract:
    Cultural competence is a topic that concerns social scientists and medical anthropologists who pay attention to demographic changes and health disparities. This study demonstrates practical approaches to developing cultural competence in medical education by using factors from the social environment to develop protocols for action. With current concerns in domestic...
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    Dissertation
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    information that validates and/or standardizes assessments of medical students in a health care environment

  • An exploratory study of an intranet dashboard in a multi-state healthcare system

    Creator:
    Wolpin, Seth E.
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    Introduction: Management of complex systems is facilitated through effective information systems that provide real-time data to decision makers. For example, instrument panels in airplanes ensure that pilots have well-designed feedback concerning the status of mission-critical variables. Problem: While pilots have dashboards for feedback and communication, healthcare executives may be unaware...
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    Dissertation
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    medical records and found that on average the participants received only half the recommended care

  • Household Healthcare Expenditure in Bangladesh : Analyses of Progressivity and Impacts on Poverty

    Creator:
    Molla, Azaher Ali
    Abstract:
    Health systems financing aims at providing adequate services, ensuring sufficient providers’ incentives, and protecting individuals and families from financial catastrophe. Health services are financed through government funding, taxation, out-of-pocket payments, insurance, donations and voluntary aid. Low- income countries mostly rely on out-of-pocket payments. In South East Asia region, the latter...
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    Dissertation
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    reimburse medical care for employees in formal sectors, and some business entities. The contribution of

  • Use and Disclosure of Complementary Health Approaches Among Children with Developmental Disabilities

    Creator:
    Lindly, Olivia J.
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    Children with developmental disabilities (DD), particularly autism spectrum disorder (ASD), may use complementary health approaches (CHA), including some modalities that can be unsafe, inefficacious, and/or costly. Still, the prevalence of CHA use among US children with DD is not known and their reasons for use are not well understood. By...
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    Dissertation
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    household income, not living in the South, difficulty accessing conventional care, or comorbidity

  • Preferred customers? : barriers for Hispanics in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program

    Creator:
    Keys, Robert T. III
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    From February to September of 2001, a significant body of qualitive data was collected to investigate barriers for Hispanic participation in Oregon's managed care Medicaid program. As a means to investigate this topic, comments were solicited from physicians, hospital administrators, social service agencies, and low-income Hispanics through semi-structured focus groups...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ? Barriers for Hispanics in Oregon's Managed Care Medicaid Program. Abstract approved: Sunil Khanna From

  • Experiences and Correlates of Healthcare Discrimination Among Saudis in the United States

    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...
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    Dissertation
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    healthcare services, use of alternative means of healthcare, delays in medical care, less satisfaction with

  • The impact of Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations on Prenatal Care Access and Quality : A Difference-in-Differences Analysis

    Creator:
    Muoto, Ifeoma O.
    Abstract:
    Background: Prenatal care (PNC) is an important preventive health service that can influence the health of the four million women who give birth annually in the United States, and the health their infants. Despite efforts to increase women’s access to PNC services, significant disparities in PNC utilization and maternal/child health...
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    Dissertation
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    renamed Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) as the primary provider of integrated medical, behavioral