This dissertation uses fundamental cause theory to understand how providers, essential staff, and Black, Hmong, and Latinx community members perceive the oral health and tobacco environment in a rural region of California’s Central Valley. According to Link and Phelan, fundament…
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Recent studies of children's vitamin A (VA) status have highlighted the importance of intra-household food allocation. Research into food habits and VA deficiency has suggested the potential importance of food taboos and other dietary beliefs for specific nutrient deficiencies. …
This dissertation is a multilevel study of determinants of infant mortality in rural Indonesia. Individual (bio-demographic), household (socio-economic and environmental), and community variables (health facilities and personnel) are "blended" into a unique model to comprehensiv…
The general objective of this study was to examine the factors associated with child health outcomes. Its specific focus was to examine the process through which maternal education influences child mortality and child nutrition among rural Egyptian children under five years of a…
Widespread arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh places the health of millions of Bangladeshis in jeopardy. Ninety-five percent of the population of Bangladesh is estimated to rely on groundwater for drinking purposes and naturally occurring arsenic contaminates ove…
The research for this dissertation was conducted over nearly two years in a rural area of eastern Uganda With Muslims of the Basoga ethnic group who had been reached by an intensive, faith-based HIV/AIDS education and prevention program (the Islamic Medical Association of Uganda…
The study of reproductive decision making and the control of therapy management is a significant sphere of inquiry with implications for women's reproductive health, and the analysis of gender and power relations at the household level and in society. This study examines reprodu…