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McLean, Hailey | Healthcare Encounters of Formerly Homeless Individuals Supported by the Housing first Program | Homeless individuals often have high utilization of emergency healthcare services. With United States healthcare costs continuing to rise encouraging appropriate utilization as a way to lower costs and improve outcomes is becoming a priority. This study examined the healthcare encounters of formerly... | | 2018 |
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Hendrickson, Hannah | Improving Outcomes for People Facing Homelessness | Despite extravagant health care spending in the United States today, a real and significant disparity still exists: The large homeless population is underrepresented in receiving good health care. Research shows the United States (U.S.) is missing its target of providing quality health care to all i... | | 2017 |
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Baker, Stephanie Rebecca | Neighborhood characteristics and obesity: A focus on the food environment | The rate of obese and overweight individuals in the United States is at epidemic proportions. Previous research has found that neighborhood characteristics are correlated with health outcomes and obesity rates. My study focuses on aspects of the food environment and how it may influence obesity rate... | Obesity - Research; Obesity - Social aspects; Obesity - Risk factors - United States - Utah | 2012-05 |
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Kozlowski, Zoe | Assessing the Contraceptive Needs of Homeless Women in Salt Lake City, Utah | Background: Homeless women across the US have reduced access to contraception and reproductive healthcare. They are at especially high risk for sexual trauma, contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted infections, and suffering from mental and physical conditions and substance use disorders. The ... | | 2018 |
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Caylor, Natalie | "Everything I really want to do": aging in place during the covid-19 pandemic | Aging in place allows older adults to live in one's own home and community safely, independently and comfortably. The majority of older adults hope to age in place for as long as possible, and a number of supportive factors are necessary to make aging in place successful. Literature suggests these f... | | 2022 |
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Mason, Indigo | Evaluating, implementing, and supporting sexual health programming for young adults at The University of Utah | Sex, sexuality, and reproduction are intimately tied to what it means to be human. The field of sexual and reproductive health explores the nuances and connections between intimacy, pregnancy, and birth with economic, social, and political power. Even though the field has made remarkable strides, st... | | 2021 |
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Grahmann, Bridget N. | Refugee use of the women, infants and children program | This study examines the experience refugee families have with the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, and attempts to identify the difficulties they have in order to make suggestions that might result in more efficient use of the WIC program among the refugee population. Thirty women enrolled... | Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.); Women refugees -- United States; Women refugees -- Food | 2014 |