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Spatio-temporal landscape models for West Nile virus vector population abundance and distribution
(2007)
In response to the rapid spread of West Nile virus throughout North America there has been an increase in the number of mosquito vector surveillance and control programs. However, mosquito surveillance programs are costly ...
Geographical analysis of disease incidence, mortality, and deprivation: A study of people living with HIV/AIDS in northern Thailand
(2007)
In Thailand, the young population is living under the threat of getting HIV infected one way or the other. The main goal of this study is to understand the geographic patterns of HIV/AIDS in Chiang Rai, a northern province ...
Health care disparities in Buffalo, New York: The intersections of individual and community level factors
(2007)
Race, socioeconomic status (SES), and place/area of residence have been identified in sociological research as contributing to health disparities. Because individual level variables alone do not account for the complex ...
Role of acculturation on oral contraceptive use among Korean immigrant women
(2007)
The current dissertation study was formatted as a manuscript style and consisted of three unified, journal-ready manuscripts. Manuscript I and II correspond to a systematic review of the literature on attitudes toward oral ...
Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Thai versions of Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz and Kogan's Attitude Toward Old People in Thai adolescents
(2007)
Background. Thailand faces a disproportionately large older adult population, who will be cared for by the youth of today. Negative attitudes and misconceptions can make adolescents more fearful and uncomfortable relating ...
College student knowledge of New York State gaming laws and self-reported gambling participation
(2006)
The purpose of the exploratory study was to describe college student knowledge of New York State gaming laws, their confidence in the accuracy of their knowledge, and their self-reported willingness to engage in various ...
The effects of disinfectant by-products on the risk for urinary bladder and rectal cancers
(2006)
This study addresses two topics: (1) the national spatial and temporal patterns of mortality for urinary bladder and rectal cancers in males in the continental United States for the time period 1968-1998, and (2) the risks ...
Emergence of endometriosis in North America: A study in the history of ideas
(2009)
This dissertation is first and foremost an intellectual history, a history of a disease, and a history of ideas. It is the history of a family of chronic müllerian diseases in women told from a scientific and clinical ...
The reformed public health insurance in urban China: An economic assessment
(2007)
With its transition to a market-oriented economy, China has gone through significant changes in health care delivery and financing systems in the last three decades. Since 1998, a new public health insurance program for ...
Inflammatory biomarkers and subclinical atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: The Breakfast with a Buddy Biomarkers of Lupus Study
(2007)
African-American women are at high risk for Systemic lupus erythematosus. Women with lupus are five to eight times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than women in the general population. Inflammation is suspected ...