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Secondary Analysis Of Morbidity Data From A Rural Haitian Village., Emma Karin Draluck Nov 2016

Secondary Analysis Of Morbidity Data From A Rural Haitian Village., Emma Karin Draluck

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Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with most of the population surviving on $1 per day. Health outcomes among Haitians are poor, with a life expectancy 16 years less than the US. The majority of health research in Haiti has been narrow, focusing on specific issues like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, maternal health, and cholera. Unfortunately, this has resulted an incomplete understanding of health in Haiti. This study aims to fill this gap by describing the most common health complaints, how they differ by age, sex, and temporality, and if there are associations between these health issues and environmental …

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Radiography Students: Factors Contributing To Their Stress And Methods Of Coping, Kayla A. Rosenbaum Aug 2016

Radiography Students: Factors Contributing To Their Stress And Methods Of Coping, Kayla A. Rosenbaum

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College students experience high levels of stress, especially those in health care programs. The purpose of this study was to determine what factors contribute to Tennessee radiography student stress levels and the methods by which they cope with stress. Additionally, do demographic factors affect radiography student stress levels? The research was conducted February 4 to March 30, 2016. A survey was distributed to students in a radiography program at two and four year colleges in Tennessee. Participants were asked questions on factors that influence their stress levels, coping strategies, and health issues experienced in the past year. Descriptive statistics, independent …

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Women And Healthcare In Appalachia: Impeding Circumstance And The Role Of Technology, Ashley Cano May 2016

Women And Healthcare In Appalachia: Impeding Circumstance And The Role Of Technology, Ashley Cano

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For decades, healthcare access and quality in central and southern Appalachia have trailed the rest of the country. Entrenched poverty and low educational attainment compound healthcare problems. This study examines the healthcare obstacles women encounter in southern and central Appalachia and analyzes how technology use, such as Internet searching and social media affect women’s healthcare decisions. Data were analyzed from four focus groups conducted with women from the region. Results indicate that seeing a physician or not did not influence women’s propensity to search the Internet for health-related information or to seek support through social media sites. Additionally, women reported …

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Instructional School Gardens: Opportunities For And Barriers To Scaling, Patricia Sprague Jan 2016

Instructional School Gardens: Opportunities For And Barriers To Scaling, Patricia Sprague

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When children are engaged in school gardens, they aren’t just digging in the dirt. School gardens have been shown to help improve student health by impacting food preferences and physical activity; to enhance learning in many subject areas; to encourage critical thinking skills by utilizing inquiry-based learning; and to engender a positive association with nature. Children from disadvantaged environments disproportionately may miss out on each of these important experiences. School gardens can serve as venues to enhance social justice by helping marginalized students access these advantageous experiences they otherwise might not have. Given the evidence that school gardens improve the …

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Cyber Dating Abuse: How Coercive Control And Attitudes About Dating Aggression Affect Health And Relationship Quality, Samantha Daskaluk Jan 2016

Cyber Dating Abuse: How Coercive Control And Attitudes About Dating Aggression Affect Health And Relationship Quality, Samantha Daskaluk

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The present study applied Johnson’s (2006) typology to cyberspace. In addition, it examined how cyber intimate partner aggression (IPA), cyber control, and acceptance of cyber IPA related to emerging adults’ (i.e., ages 18-25) relationship satisfaction and commitment and mental and physical health. Participants (N = 209) completed measures of demographics, cyber IPA, in-person IPA, coercive control, relationship quality, health, acceptance of cyber IPA, and social desirability. Situational couple violence had similar prevalence rates in person and in cyberspace, violent resistance and mutual violent control were more prominent in cyberspace than in person, and intimate terrorism was more prevalent in person …

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Are Canada’S Older Adults Aging Successfully? An Analysis Of The Canadian Community Health Survey, Evan Gammon Jan 2016

Are Canada’S Older Adults Aging Successfully? An Analysis Of The Canadian Community Health Survey, Evan Gammon

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Defining successful aging (SA) has been a topic of debate amongst researchers since Rowe and Kahn introduced the topic of “usual” versus “successful” aging in the late 1980s. Researchers have criticized their biomedical model of successful aging, which has been used as an unofficial gold standard in determining whether one has aged usually or successfully. This perspective focuses on having high physical and mental functional capacities, being void of disease or disease-related disability, and having an active engagement with life, and is considered too narrow in its focus and lacking subjective interpretations of aging. Using the 2011-2012 version of the …

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Linearly Stressed To Death: Consideration Of Early Childhood Stress As A Main Contributor To The Regional Variability In Classic Maya Mortuary Profiles, Nicholas Billstrand Jan 2016

Linearly Stressed To Death: Consideration Of Early Childhood Stress As A Main Contributor To The Regional Variability In Classic Maya Mortuary Profiles, Nicholas Billstrand

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The Late and Terminal Classic periods were times of great social, economic, and political change in Maya civilization. Scholars have suggested that increasing levels of dietary stress during this time may have been the result of ecological instability, drought, warfare, and significant levels of population movement across the Maya lowlands. All of these processes may have affected human health and left measurable markers of stress in human skeletal material. The burial population recovered from two sites on Ambergris Caye, located near the coast of Belize, have significantly more sub-adult individuals than sites in inland Belize, such as Actuncan, suggesting the …

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Zoetic Fitness, Brooke S. Fremeau Jan 2016

Zoetic Fitness, Brooke S. Fremeau

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Graphic design is a problem-solving field. A client or company tasks a designer with a problem, and to solve that problem the designer uses 2D fundamentals and technology. As a designer, one must carefully listen to the client to understand their needs before making design decisions. While graphic designers are responsible for creating stunning visuals for both print and digital media, one of the most important aspects of graphic design is branding. Broadly speaking, branding is the process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product or service in a consumers mind. Through branding, the designer aims …

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