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sex workers survive and thrive. old laws kill and maim. 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. Hormonal methods:
safe for those with HIV. Protective? Perhaps. 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). Patients don’t take meds
To learn why they don’t, ask them, not computer files 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. Moms with depression
Poverty and single-parents, too Do their kids get shots? 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. kids buy smokes online
it’s really way too easy we need to stop them 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” Hospitals, you lose
Insurance always wins out Follow the money 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. The secret of a
healthy society is closer connections. 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). To give women rights
Could benefit society? Shocking but true. 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. 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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