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Seang, Emily | From Ground to Air: Connecting Nonemergency Medical Transportation in Rural Utah | Sufficient transportation is essential to supporting medical care in rural communities. Due to spatial barriers, or the lack of health facilities or pharmacies, patients often find themselves paying a high cost for consistent medical care. For patients needing multiple medical appointments, transpor... | | 2020 |
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Christian, Lauren Piper | Utilizing feedback from Utah families with asthmatic children to mitigate air pollution health consequences | Air pollution is an ongoing public health threat in the US and in Utah. While air pollution triggers asthma, we know little about what parents of asthmatic children think about what schools, health care providers and policymakers should do to improve air quality and their children's health. Data to ... | | 2022 |
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Rose, Brooke | Improving Mechanisms Between Interventional Community Partnerships to Better Promote Multidimensional Health | In the past, access to health care was often considered one of the most critical determinants of health status. However, in recent years the degree to which health care is considered to have a direct impact on health status has shifted. Depending on the source, only 10-20% of an individual's overall... | | |
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Howard, Kathryn | Religious trauma effects on LGBTQ+ individuals in the LDS context religious trauma effects on LGBTQ+ individuals in the LDS context | In recent years, there has been more discussion around the trauma and trauma responses that come from being a queer individual (one who identifies with members of the LGBTQIA+ community) inside a high-demand religion that does not affirm existence or behaviors of LGBTQ+ individuals. Emerging literat... | | 2023 |
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Long, Danielle | Diabetes risk, physical activity, and the physical environment | The current exploratory study investigated the relationships among subjective and objective physical environment ratings, physical activity, and diabetes status. The basic question was whether diabetics were less physically active than non-diabetics and if this lack of physical activity was due to d... | Psychology | 2014-05 |
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Nazarenko, Elena | Current and future financial wellbeing of old age Russian pensioners | This paper compares pensioners' income with cost of living and subsistence minimum level to gauge financial wellbeing of pensioners. Using data from Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey (RLMS-HSE), I formally test whether pensioners' income covers the cost of living across five regions: Moscow, Sai... | Old age pensions -- Russia; Retirees -- Russia -- Economic conditions | 2015-03 |
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Seastrand-Bachynski, Sara Jayne | An act to decrease childhood obesity rates in the U.S. | The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 was signed into law in order to address alarming childhood obesity rates in the U.S. In this paper, I address the importance of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 and how it enhances child health by improving the food environment for children in public ... | Childhood obesity - Utah | 2014-05 |
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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 |
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Sanchez, Eliana C. | Surgery or mutilation?: How autonomy can strengthen the anti-FGM movement | The World Health Organization (WHO) defines female genital mutilation as any alteration to the female external genitalia or genital organs for nonmedical reasons. This definition is both over- and under-inclusive. Western cosmetic surgeries, such as vaginal rejuvenation, are technically included in ... | Female genital mutilation | 2014-05 |
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Johnson, Christianna | Diverse Neighborhoods, Food Access, and Urban Agriculture: a Case Study of Four Community Gardens in Salt Lake City | Community gardens have been shown to increase food security as well as develop social capital in an urban setting. Several socioeconomic factors (including age, education, annual household income, and more) have been demonstrated to substantially affect perceptions of benefits from participating in ... | Food access; Community gardens; Urban agriculture; Planning | |
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Chong, Alisha | Effects of increasing sleep duration on C-Reactive protein, insulin sensitivity, and blood pressure in adults with habitual short sleep | Short sleep, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes are all highly prevalent health issues in modern society. Previous findings demonstrate that obtaining short sleep is linked to an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease. However, the mechanisms un... | | 2023 |
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Cordova, Lauren A. | Associations Between Race, Education Level, Socioeconomic Status and Contraceptive Disontinucation after 1 year of Free Contraceptives in Salt Lake county | Unplanned pregnancies make up nearly half of all pregnancies. This prompted the HER Salt Lake Project to offer free contraceptives to women in Salt Lake County, Utah. Discontinuation or switching of free contraceptives is linked to race, education level, socioeconomic status, and the choice of contr... | | 2020 |
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Ferguson, Christina M. | Marital status and distress among low-income couples transitioning to parenthood | The transition to parenthood is associated with declines in couple relationship functioning and increases in psychological distress. Cohabiting and economically disadvantaged couples are at particular risk during this life transition. This study examined cohabitation as a potential risk factor for p... | Couples -- Psychology | 2015-04 |
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Pehrson, Alexandria | Providers Responses to the Implementation of one Key Question(R) into the University of Utah Healthcare System | Unintended pregnancies account for almost half of all pregnancies in the United States. An unplanned pregnancy can lead to negative health and social consequences for both the mother and child (Gold, Sonfield, Richards, & Frost, 2009). Unintended pregnancy is also correlated with an increased burden... | | 2019 |
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Olivia Hanson | Spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain & the gut microbiome: a review | Most spinal cord injuries (SCI) result in spinal cord injury-induced neuropathic pain (SCINP). SCI-NP is a major healthcare concern given the extensive burden it places on both patients and the healthcare system. This, coupled with the lack of effective and available treatments for those suffering f... | | 2022 |
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Lee, Cindie | Structured versus unstructured day: physical activity among adolescents during covid-19 | Background: Structured settings, specifically school, have been understood to promote physical activity (PA) in children. During the COVID-19 pandemic, students were required to attend school remotely, in an unstructured setting. The purpose of this study is to examine the physical activity of child... | | 2022 |
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Fernandez, Florence | Evaluation of environmental education in high school science courses across Salt Lake City, Utah | While the effects of pollution become Incredibly more evident in the air of the Salt Lake Valley, many Utah high school students still lack the knowledge and information necessary to take preventative and immediate actions to protect their health and their environment. In this study, the reasons for... | Environmental education -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Science -- Study and teaching -- Utah -- Salt Lake City; Air -- Pollution -- Utah -- Salt Lake City | 2015-05 |
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Harris, Maxene | Targeting generational segmentations in advertisements through psychoraphic attributes: the coca-cola company | Millennials have become the largest segment of consumers in the United States as of 2019, surpassing the Baby Boomer generation by over half a million people. Generation Z, while not as large in size, has become a driving influence in targeted marketing segmentation because of how influential their ... | | 2021 |
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Mailoux, Savannah | Mapping Vitality in Utah's Salt Lake County | The term vitality within the field of psychology is related to someone's energy or spirit as they move through different experiences in life. Most often, the term is associated with a sense of liveliness if someone were to possess high vitality, or a sense of dullness if someone were to possess low ... | | 2019 |
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Oritt, Madeleine | Accessibility to HIV/AIDS medications in resource-limited countries | This 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 |
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Silver, Michelle Anne | Pre-sleep arousal in healthy adults reporting childhood trauma: implications for the development of insomnia | Childhood trauma is associated with increased mental and physical illness in adulthood. Disrupted sleep may be one mechanism by which trauma adversely affects health. Current literature states that sleep is essential in restoration of cognitive functioning and stress regulation. In addition, insomni... | Insomnia; Childhood trauma | 2014-04 |
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Hopkins, Jacob | Design of a novel pediatric adaptive skiing system | Adaptive sports and recreational rehabilitation provide patients with experiences that cannot be achieved in a hospital or clinic. Of the many forms of adaptive equipment designed for children, only a few adaptive skiing systems are available and none are specifically designed for convenient adjusta... | Skiing for people with disabilities - Research; Adaptive skiing technology; Adaptive sports; recreational rehabilitation | 2016-05 |
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Scholes, Connor G. | The Ethics of Uncertainty in Clinical Genetics Testing | Recent years have seen the explosive development of genetics and its subsequent use in medical practice. In the face of such rapid technological advancement that impacts the health of thousands each year and constitutes a multi-million-dollar industry, ethical analysis of the various shortcomings th... | | 2019 |
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Jackson, Rachel | Breastfeeding and the media: race representations in formula advertisements targeting new parents | Research has shown that mediated advertisements can play a role in a woman's decision about whether or not to breastfeed her baby. Percentages of breastfeeding among African American women have been shown in national data to be significantly lower than other races in the United States. There have be... | Communication | 2014 |
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Miller, Matthew | The Affordable Care Act and the Future of us Healthcare: Consumer Driven Care and Value Driven Care | Healthcare in the United States has drastically changed over the last two hundred years. Today, the United States has the most technologically advanced medical care in the world. But, as a result, costs have soared and currently account for 17% of the GDP, which is significantly higher than in other... | | 2017 |