Browsing by Subject "public health"
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"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
(2014)Between 1890 and 1965, the ideology of government responsibility for maternal and child health represented a continuous and central goal that fueled programs and institutional networks of progressive and liberal social policy ... -
Assessing BRAC's Community Health Volunteer Program in Tanzania
(2012-04-20)Life expectancy in Tanzania is 58 years for women, and 53 for men (WHO 2011). Tanzania’s maternal mortality ratio is among the world’s highest at 454 per 100,000 births (UNDP); likewise, its infant mortality ratio is high ... -
Cookstove Interventions in Developing Countries: Designing Tools for Effective Program Evaluation
(2011-05-02)Approximately half of the world’s population depends on biomass and coal as fuel for household energy. Burning these fuels in traditional cookstoves creates detrimental social, health, and environmental impacts that can ... -
Do Drugstores Contribute to Urban Food Deserts?
(2009-12)Problem This project explores the possible role of competition from chain pharmacies in the lack of access to healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods by seeking to answer the question, “How and to what extent is the ... -
Evaluating the impact of evidence-based practice and policy in public health: A case study on parent-child interaction therapy
(2012-05-17)The purpose of this study was to explore the evidence-based practice movement and its implications for the realm of public health. The paper first described the evidence-based practice movement and examined its pros and ... -
Examining Wastewater Treatment Struggles in Lowndes County, AL
(2018-04-27)Many poor, rural Americans currently live without access to basic wastewater treatment, raising sobering environmental justice and public health issues. Recent research found a 34.5% incident rate of N. americanus (hookworm) ... -
Exploring Strategies to Address the Prevalence of Islamophobia in America
(2012-04-27)9/11 marked a notable rise in Islamophobia within American society that has since remained a prevailing reality. For the purposes of this paper, I define Islamophobia as a negative bias against Islam and/or Muslims expressed ... -
Optimising mHealth helpdesk responsiveness in South Africa: towards automated message triage.
(BMJ global health, 2018-01)In South Africa, a national-level helpdesk was established in August 2014 as a social accountability mechanism for improving governance, allowing recipients of public sector services to send complaints, compliments and questions ...
