Browsing by Department "Medicine, Health, and Society"
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(2020-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySense-making (also known as meaning-making) is a process in which human beings participate to make sense of the world around them. This process is often seen after a tragic or cataclysmic event, and social media can document ...
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(2017-04-03)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis thesis examines the federal government’s current approach to HIV/AIDS prevention in the United States. In 2010, President Obama released the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) to direct and to align the nation’s ...
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(2018-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyTransgender people encounter many obstacles to receiving quality health care, including lack of access to gender transition-related care, health care providers’ unfamiliarity with how to provide appropriate care, and ...
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(2015-04-01)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietySouthern African American middle-aged men have high rates of obesity and premature mortality due to chronic illnesses. Different sources were brought together to perform a critical literature review to better understand ...
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(2017-04-03)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyWomen within professional organizations and occupations have made substantial strides, including gaining increases in income, advancing into higher level positions, and expanding their presence across a diversity of ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe varying difference of definition and value of a body between a physician and patient has been a rising discussion within healthcare. The overarching issue is that physicians have lost their “empathetic” or caring touch ...
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(2015-04-06)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis thesis seeks to contextualize current high levels of HIV/AIDS stigmatization (H/A stigma) by applying a structural functionalist perspective to the study of stigmatization and of apartheid. I argue that the latent ...
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(2017-12-08)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyWhile healthcare research has examined how social and emotional factors complicate treatment of chronic disease, practitioners often have few resources to assess and address the impact of non-biological influences on patient ...
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(2015-07-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyRefugees from disparate locations are consolidated and reconsolidated under the ‘refugee’ label as they are displaced and later resettled, and the accumulated layers of movement and categorization also create new layers ...
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(2020-04-14)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyPopular discourse in the media frequently frame and correlate mass shootings with an American mental illness epidemic. However, considering the media’s propensity to only extend this label to white shooters compels us to ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyIn the wake of President Trump’s refugee ban, hashtags such as “#veteransoverrefugees” circulated throughout Twitter, indirectly shaping public discourse on immigration. Memes questioning the government over “why we should ...
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(2016-04-14)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyChildren of low socioeconomic status (SES) families with intellectual and developmental disabilities have higher rates of dental caries but significant unmet dental needs due to unique factors such as low Medicaid reimbursement ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe Opioid Epidemic continues to spread throughout the United States. Fatalities due to overdose, addiction, and secondary consequences escalate every year, with the death toll predicted to reach approximately 72,000 in ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis thesis looks into the pediatric cancer services provided by some of the nation’s most prestigious children’s hospitals. The goal is to assess whether or not the services provided by these pediatric cancer facilities ...
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(2018-04-04)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe Hispanic immigrant population of the United States is rapidly growing. The need for accessing adequate healthcare services has led the healthcare system to utilize community navigators and fotonovelas as tools for ...
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(2015-07-29)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyMEDICINE, HEALTH AND SOCIETY Spirituality and Religion as a Social Determinant and Social Mediator of Health Christopher Lee Gross Thesis under the direction of Professors Jonathan M. Metzl and JuLeigh Petty In recent ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThe Iranian Revolution of 1979 prompted a wave of Iranian migrants to leave their homeland and move, largely, to the United States. These exiled individuals were forced to navigate their cultural identities through the ...
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(2013-05-02)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis project is concerned with clinician and family communication in critical care. In this thesis I address the development of expectations by clinicians and family members in critical care settings, the processes involved ...
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(2016-04-20)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyEvents that have occurred in the past can be traced along a historical trajectory that is evident in our present day, and those decisions greatly influence the success of future posterity. The construction of interstate-40 ...
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(2017-04-05)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyThis thesis illuminates the ways that medicalization of female sexual desire disorder lends authority to and is legitimized by heteronormative, patriarchal sexual norms. The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of ...