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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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Care Access and Quality: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis Abstract approved

Disparities in Health Outcomes and Health Care Access : A Quantitative Intersectional Approach

Creator:: Alvarado, Carla S.
Abstract:: Health disparity scholars and researchers call to expand the conceptualization of health disparities research beyond the predominant and long-standing race-based analyses. The call requests the inclusion of frameworks and theories that reflect the complex, multi-level and multifactorial social processes that yield health disparities. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: truly an honor to be under his tutelage. I am thankful to Dr. Luck, for a productive and

Identifying factors driving sensitivity to fragmentation in forest breeding songbirds

Creator:: Valente, Jonathon J.
Abstract:: Habitat loss and fragmentation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Fragmentation impacts landscape configuration, resulting in a larger number of patches that are smaller in size and further apart from one another. Island biogeography and metapopulation theory predict populations in these remnant patches should be smaller, have higher extinction...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Songbirds Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Matthew G

Perceived Usefulness of Remote Health Monitoring among Healthcare Providers, Mexican-origin and non-Hispanic White Heart Failure Patients and Informal Caregivers

Creator:: Anthony, Katherine (Katherine Philippoff)
Abstract:: Few remote health monitoring (RHM) studies have included Mexican-origin Latinos, and even fewer have explored RHM acceptance and utility, reasons for RHM uptake success or failure, or how cultural values influence RHM use among this population. The primary purpose of this study was to determine the remote health monitoring (RHM)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck Few remote health monitoring (RHM) studies have included

An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

Creator:: Opas, Matthew E.
Abstract:: Thesis explores the ways in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT)use, specifically that of telephones and the Internet, impacts the lives of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy. Informal interviews, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation were carried out in a 'center of second reception.' Results show that information obtained through the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Technology Use on the Part of Eritrean Refugees in Rome, Italy by Matthew E. Opas A THESIS submitted to

Pull-Oriented Faculty Development: A Multiple, Descriptive-Explanatory Case Study

Creator:: Barner, Matthew S.
Abstract:: Traditional faculty development programs aimed at disseminating research-based pedagogy and innovations at potential adopters have helped increase awareness of these innovations; however, their adoption into engineering classrooms has been limited. This paper aims to present an alternative, pull-oriented approach to faculty development where faculty participants co-develop curricular innovations with engineering...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Descriptive-Explanatory Case Study by Matthew S. Barner A THESIS

Fostering upward mobility of Mexican American adults through a critical incident

Creator:: Matthews, Mildred Shuman
Abstract:: This research design was based upon the mutual relevance between the fields of education and anthropology to cause cognitive cultural awareness by the teachers of adults as well as visibility within the Mexican American ethnic group. Specifically the purpose of this study was twofold:. (1) to determine whether the adult...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: through a critical incident AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF MILDRED SHUMAN MATTHEWS for the Ph. D. (Name

Processes of orientation to the informal caregiving role among Mexican-origin women : a qualitative analysis

Creator:: McDermott, Elizabeth A.
Abstract:: This thesis presents the steps that were taken to develop thematic findings using data from a qualitative study. Using a grounded approach, the study focused on qualitatively exploring Mexican origin caregivers' conceptualizations of elder caregiving in terms of role functioning, social norms, cultural beliefs, and familial obligations. Data collected from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________________________________ Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck Karen Hooker This thesis presents the steps that were taken to

The Association Between Patient Activation and Cost, Utilization, and Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Elective, Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty

Creator:: Owen, Erin Callahan
Abstract:: Background. Total knee arthroplasty, or replacement, is a common, generally successful, and expensive procedure. Tools to predict outcomes following orthopedic procedures are abundant, yet no commonly used assessment accounts for an individual’s propensity to engage in adaptive health behavior. The 13-item Patient Activation Measure (PAM) questionnaire is a tool that...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Jeff Luck Viktor E. Bovbjerg Background. Total knee arthroplasty, or replacement, is a

Binding of bacterial lipopolysaccharide by the cationic amphiphilic peptide WLBU2 at interfaces

Creator:: Ryder, Matthew P.
Abstract:: Passage of blood through a sorbent device for removal of bacteria and endotoxin by specific binding with immobilized, membrane-active, bactericidal peptides holds promise for treating severe blood infections. Peptide insertion in the target membrane and stable binding is desirable, while membrane disruption and release of degradation products to the circulating...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Matthew P Ryder, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Nature abhors a vacuum. As it turns out, so do

ScholarsArchive@OSU

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

Disparities in Health Outcomes and Health Care Access : A Quantitative Intersectional Approach

Identifying factors driving sensitivity to fragmentation in forest breeding songbirds

Perceived Usefulness of Remote Health Monitoring among Healthcare Providers, Mexican-origin and non-Hispanic White Heart Failure Patients and Informal Caregivers

An exploration of information and communication technology use on the part of Eritrean refugees in Rome, Italy

Pull-Oriented Faculty Development: A Multiple, Descriptive-Explanatory Case Study

Fostering upward mobility of Mexican American adults through a critical incident

Processes of orientation to the informal caregiving role among Mexican-origin women : a qualitative analysis

The Association Between Patient Activation and Cost, Utilization, and Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Elective, Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty

Binding of bacterial lipopolysaccharide by the cationic amphiphilic peptide WLBU2 at interfaces

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