Browsing by Department "Global Health Institute"
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A Policy Analysis of No Hit Zones: What are barriers to No Hit Zone implementation?
(2018-12-05)No Hit Zones (NHZs) represent a new policy to prevent corporal punishment and to ensure healthy environments for children and their families. NHZs designate spaces where no hitting of any kind is tolerated and serve as an ... -
Analyzing the Connections Among Water Access, Sanitation, Malaria and Diarrhea Outcomes in Rural Central Uganda
(2016-04-22)Access to safe water and sanitation around the world has increased significantly in the past few decades. The United Nations claims that 91% of the world’s population has access to safe water, exceeding the Millennium Development ... -
Combining cross-sectional survey data with geographic activity space to examine the relationship between place and youth HIV risk behavior in Kenya
(2017-04-23)Adolescents (15-24) comprise 37% of the nearly 1 million new HIV infections in southern and eastern Africa each year (UNAIDS, 2016a), representing a particularly vulnerable and important at-risk population. Despite increasing ... -
Determinants of Secondary School Attrition and Related Health Factors among Female Youth in Rural Kenya
(2016-04-28)This paper investigates the determinants of secondary school attrition and related health factors among female students in rural Kenya. To explore the relationship between attrition determinants and negative health outcomes, ... -
Drug Development for Neglected Tropical Diseases: DNDi and the Product Development Partnership (PDP) Model
(2016-04-25)Abstract Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), including leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, sleeping sickness, dengue fever, and schistosomiasis to name a few, are endemic in 149 countries and impact 1.4 billion people- often ... -
Ecological Modeling for Public Health: Predicting Hotspots of Human and Vector Contact in Rural Madagascar
(2019-04-12)Vector-borne diseases account for almost one-fifth of all infectious disease cases globally, and are a particularly pressing public health issue in low and middle-income countries. In Madagascar, ticks and flea vectors are ... -
Exploring Machista Gender Roles and Psychosocial Well-being: An Exploratory Analysis in Camasca, Honduras
(2019-04-20)There is a severe lack of mental health research in rural regions of Latin America like Camasca, Honduras, where typically there exists a societal construct of hypermasculinity and patriarchal authority termed machismo. ... -
Influence of social support on childhood vaccine uptake in a migrant community in Roatan, Honduras
(2019-04-01)According to the World Health Organization, greater social support from family, friends, and community members is correlated with better health outcomes. In the migrant community of La Colonia on the island of Roatán, Honduras, ... -
Is Alternative Rite of Passage the Key to Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting? A case study of the Samburu of Kenya
(2016-04-25)While Female Genital Cutting (FGC) has been condemned worldwide and seen as a violation of women’s right, individuals in communities that still practice the rite claim that it is an integral and respectable component of ... -
Medical pluralism in beliefs and practices surrounding epilepsy care in Uganda
(2019-04-22)Background: In the context of a massive epilepsy treatment gap in Sub-Saharan Africa, people with epilepsy consult multiple sources of treatment, including biomedical, traditional and pastoral providers. Thus, in this study, ... -
Needs and Experiences of Latinx Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Before, During, and After Natural Disasters in Rural North Carolina
(2018-12)Due to structural factors, migrant and seasonal farmworkers (MSFWs) in the United States experience heightened challenges surviving and recovering from natural disasters, which negatively impact public health. Climate change ... -
The Long-Term Benefits of an Integrated Model to Treat Childhood Obesity
(2019-04-15)Objective: To understand short- and long-term outcomes of diverse, low-income participants in a childhood obesity intervention, and to examine participant expectations, motivators, facilitators, and barriers to program ... -
The state of children from birth to age 5 across developed nations: how do their early childhood policies compare?
(2017-04-30)Early childhood development (ECD) has a lifelong impact on individuals and leads to positive outcomes for entire societies. The experiences children have from birth to age 5 are critical in supporting cognitive ... -
THEATRE OF HEALTH: An Ethnographic Exploration of Female Physician Well-being and Applied Theatre in Accra, Ghana
(2019-05-30)This thesis brings together ethnographic research and theatre techniques to understand and confront the challenges - from gender barriers to professional burnout – faced by female physicians in Accra, Ghana. For three months, ... -
Understanding Community-Sourced Practices Used by Lay Counselors in a Family Therapy Intervention in Eldoret, Kenya
(2018)The large global burden of mental health disorders calls for the development and implementation of contextually-appropriate mental health interventions that improve the wellbeing of children and families in low-resource ... -
Women and WIC: Assessing WIC Use and Effect on Postpartum Health in Rural Northeastern North Carolina
(2018-04-26)Postpartum health outcomes of low-income women in the rural South are among the lowest in the country and use of governmental services, especially supplemental nutrition programs, is disproportionately lower in rural communities ...
