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Public Health

10/30/2013

 
​structural violence
sex workers survive and thrive.
old laws kill and maim.

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Marlise Richter
Ghent University
Thesis title: “Characteristics, sexual behaviour and access to health care services for sex workers in South Africa and Kenya”
My research focused on the impact of the 2010 Soccer World Cup on the sex industry in South Africa, and explored various factors that render sex workers vulnerable to HIV and other STIs.

Public Health

2/25/2010

 
Hormonal methods:
safe for those with HIV.
Protective? Perhaps.

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Chelsea B. Polis
Johns Hopkins University

​My dissertation assessed whether use of hormonal contraception influenced the rate of HIV disease progression in HIV-positive women in Rakai, Uganda. Hormonal contraceptive use did not appear to be associated with time from HIV infection until death, and appeared to be significantly protective in terms of time from HIV infection until progression to AIDS or death (the “perhaps” is included to be cautious about overinterpretation of any potential protective effect, since the data are observational).

Public Health

9/29/2009

 
​Patients don’t take meds
To learn why they don’t, ask them,
not computer files

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Kenneth Shermock
The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

​My dissertation assessed why people don’t take prescribed medications. I assessed whether the relationship with the prescriber or the prescribers’ specialties mattered. The database I used proved inadequate to fully answer these questions.

Public Health

9/5/2009

 
​Moms with depression
Poverty and single-parents, too
Do their kids get shots?

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Lisa M. Lyman
Johns Hopkins University

​My thesis was entitled “Associations Between Maternal Depression Symptoms, Socioeconomic Factors and Vaccine Receipt by Very Young Children”. I study access and quality of health care for children and women.

Public Health

9/1/2009

 
​kids buy smokes online
it’s really way too easy
we need to stop them

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Rebecca S. Williams
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

​Dissertation Title: “Youth access to cigarettes online: Advertised and actual sales practices of Internet cigarette vendors”

Public Health

9/1/2009

 
​Hospitals, you lose
Insurance always wins out
Follow the money

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Mary Logan
George Mason University

​I developed a simulation model of the US health care system, focusing on the nursing and physician workforces, hospitals, and the insurance industry (1998). I then used the model to explore workforce issues, the effectiveness of the introduction of HMOs, epidemics, and policies for physician and nursing workforces. The model suggested strategies for health policies and system reform.

Public Health

8/31/2009

 
The secret of a
healthy society is
closer connections.

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Elizabeth R. Mackenzie
University of Pennsylvania

​Dissertation Title: Healing the Social Body: A Holistic Approach to Public Health Policy (1998).
In this work, I attempted to demonstrate that societies characterized by cohesion (connection) in the three key areas of spiritual, social and natural spheres are healthy (i.e. sustainable), while those characterized by fragmentation in these areas are diseased and unsustainable. In other words, societies composed of individuals with close connections to nature, spirit and other people are relatively healthy, while those composed of individuals who are generally alienated from nature, spirit and others are relatively unhealthy (and I think the last decade has confirmed this).

Public Health

10/20/2008

 
​To give women rights
Could benefit society?
Shocking but true.
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Amber Peterman
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

My dissertation is a three essay compilation focusing on economic and health gains from granting women inheritance and property rights, access to contraception and decreasing sexual violence in sub-Saharan Africa.

Public Health

10/13/2008

 
​Eat or exercise?
What should Chinese people do?
They are getting fat!


Shuwen Ng
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

My work is on how the nutrition transition in emerging economies (such as China’s) affect people’s weight and health outcomes as the built environment urbanizes and diets change.

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​​​           Doctoral Dissertations in Haiku
“One of my old professors liked to say that a poem isn’t any good unless you can explain it to a three-year-old. I never would have thought one could apply that same standard to a doctoral dissertation, but then I came across a brilliant little website called Dissertation Haiku.” 
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09/30/2009 05:12 am ET | Updated Nov 17, 2011
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09/23/2009

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