Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Medicine, Health & Society"
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(2022-03-28)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyIn 2020 the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Racial Equity Task Force was created in order to dismantle structural racism and grapple with the institution’s historical injustices that were brought to the forefront ...
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(2021-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyRural health inequities do not steam from a singular problem, rather they are a series of intertwined access issues in which addressing one can often result in the surfacing of one or more others. The current public sector ...
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Approach to the Global Human Trafficking Crisis: Analyzing Applications of Social Network Analysis (2022-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietySocial network analysis is an analytical tool for studying people, their relationships, and their social networks. The methodology has been used to study criminal enterprises, enabling researchers to understand crime ...
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(2022-07-18)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyOver the past century, grief has transformed from a necessarily non-pathological experience into an object of psy-discipline expertise to be clinically defined, tracked, diagnosed, and treated. Even as care for the painful ...
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(2022-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyRace based stress, also known as racial trauma, is defined as significant distress due to real or perceived racial discrimination. These can include threats to harm and/or injure, shaming and humiliation, and being witness ...
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(2021-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyDermatology, a specialty that focuses on skin, is not exempt from health disparities based on race. I argue that the low rate of representation of darker skin in dermatology education in medical school negatively impacts ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyMinority representation in clinical trials matters because it ultimately affects health outcomes. In many instances, there is an overrepresentation of minority populations in Phase I, but they are vastly underrepresented ...
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(2023-07-17)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyTransgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people are at a greater risk of experiencing poor mental health than their cisgender peers (Carter et al., 2020). These mental health disparities are exacerbated by unsupportive ...
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(2023-07-17)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyTransgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people are at a greater risk of experiencing poor mental health than their cisgender peers (Carter et al., 2020). These mental health disparities are exacerbated by unsupportive ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyMotorcycle clubs have existed since the early 1800s and 1900's and U.S. military veterans have had a long-standing relationship with American motorcycle clubs since returning from World War I in 1945. The dominant explanation ...
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(2022-07-20)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyWith the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global issue of vaccine hesitancy has become a significant concern for the public health community. The United States has been able to facilitate an expansive COVID-19 vaccine ...
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(2021-07-21)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the prioritization of physical or fiscal health in pandemic policies has been widely debated among politicians and scholars worldwide. Studies on European COVID-19 polices have found that ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThis thesis examines the tensions between the social determinants of health framework and structural competency in medical education. It proposes an online assessment tool that can be used to measure one’s ability to ...
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(2021-07-26)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyStructural competency informed education has been proposed as a way to teach students how to recognize and critically analyze the role of race in health. This study aims to evaluate the degree to which their education in ...
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(2021-08-20)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyGiven data about vaccine hesitancy in mid-2021, efforts for herd immunity against the COVID-19 pandemic are being threatened by low vaccination rates of rural white, non-college educated conservatives. As a result, country ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyHuman Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a common virus that many people can fight on their own, but it also contributes to hundreds of thousands of cancer cases globally according to the National Cancer Institute (2023). An HPV ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThis thesis examines youth mental health before and after the pandemic to find out how social determinants influence rates of depression and anxiety in children and adolescents. It aims to inform policymakers about the ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyThe current state of the United States healthcare system leaves the door wide open for already existing health and healthcare disparities to be perpetuated. The structure of the United States healthcare system makes health ...
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(2021-05-01)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyDuring the last several years, the World Health Organization and United Nations have advocated for universal healthcare (UHC) adoption around the world. This effort has been brought into sharper focus by the onset of the ...
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(2021-03-25)Department: Medicine, Health & SocietyBecause of news media’s role in information dissemination and communication, researchers believe that news media plays a significant role in social construction, the process by which meaning and value are attributed to ...