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1 Farese, LudovicaThe impact of Global Health education in American Academic Medical Center (AAMCS)Global health has become an increasingly popular field of study among college and graduate students in the United States. A growing body of literature purports the benefits of Global Health Education (GHEs) in American Academic Medical Centers (AAMCs), including introduction to a wider spectrum of d...2018
2 Foote, CarolThe Impact of Past Drug Enforcement Legislation and Potential Success of a Three-Pronged Approach to the Opioid EpidemicThe opioid epidemic has gained widespread attention over the past decade as overdose and addiction rates soar across the country. Opioid abuse has been a problem for the United States dating back to the Civil War. With the pain revolution and aggressive marketing tactics by prescription drug manufac...2018
3 Warren, Bailey J.In context of consumer education: the environmental, human health, and community based externalities of confinement operations in BrazilConcentrated Animal Feeding Operations (henceforth CAFOs) are a signature feature of modern food production and consumption. This thesis will explore the various types of environmental pollution and contamination that surround CAFOs and what this means for neighboring ecosystems, human health, and t...2022
4 Oritt, MadeleineAccessibility to HIV/AIDS medications in resource-limited countriesThis research examines the impact of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on accessibility to HIV/AIDS medications for populations in resource-limited countries. This World Trade Organization agreement created provisions by which these countries can obtain o...2013
5 Mann, SaraApplying the theory of planned behavior to aggressive treatments at the end-of-lifePhysicians and other health care experts are continuously studying the efficacy of treatments and their long-term effects. For instance, research has shown that aggressive end-of-life care could be potentially more harmful to the patient than previously known. Naturally, this has led to a wave of ...Terminal care; Death2016-04
6 Siddiqui, RijaPilot Testing a Rapport Building Checklist with Law Enforcement and immigrant CommunitiesThis study engages with local law enforcement authorities (LEAs) and immigrant service providers (SPs) in order to construct a list of recommended practices which can be implemented to enhance rapport between LEAs and immigrants. Producing an efficient list of practices requires the assessment of cu...2019
7 Morgenstern, CamillePowerful Paradigms: Theoretical Frameworks Activated in National Discourse on Mining Policy and Political History in Peru and costa RicaThis comparative analysis between Costa Rica and Peru serves as an examination of the paradigms guiding national policy and discourse, with the potential outcome of being able to provide a clearer conceptualization of national and international relations that would be useful in other situations and ...2019
8 Bauer, MaleaSilence is violence: a nationakl legislative proposal for the criminalization of the enabler to institutional abuseFor centuries, institutions have exploited their power to abuse the vulnerable and avoid culpability. In many cases, the abuse would not have been possible if not for the institutional underpinnings which protect the perpetrators. These people, who initiate cover ups or turn a blind eye, ought to be...2023
9 Kim, JeanFemale labor participation in South Korea: implications of policy and cultureSouth Korea, although being a highly developed nation, surprisingly exhibits a lower female labor participation rate when compared to other countries belonging to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), such as the United States. The percent of Korean women in the workfor...Policy - South Korea; Culture - South Korea; Female labor - South Korea2015-04
10 Cook, Uinta BlueConnecting Cultures, Connecting People: U.S. Public Diplomacy in CubaThe theory of soft power, as described by Joseph Nye (1990), is evaluated, along with the theory behind public and cultural diplomacy as a means of engaging foreign publics in order to promote international rules in line with the practicing country's own goals and values. The tenets and implements o...soft power; public diplomacy; cultural diplomacy; Cuba2017
11 Manwill, EmmylouGrassroots yet global: the Idle No More indigenous movement in twenty-first century CanadaThe focus of this thesis is the indigenous sovereignty and land rights movement, selfidentified as the "Idle No More movement" (INM), that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies in December 2012. While Canadian natives have organized in resistance before, the INM movement sticks out compar...Idle No More (Movement); Protest movements - Canada; Indigenous peoples - Canada2014-05
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