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"Redeeming the tropics": Public health and national identity in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil, 1890--1940	Towards a balanced view of asthma in adolescence: Understanding the quality and divergence of self- and proxy-reports from African American adolescents and their caregivers

Lifecourse socioeconomic position & cardiovascular health	A participatory youth empowerment model and qualitative analysis of student voices on power and violence prevention

HIV on the move: Sex differences in patterns of migration and HIV in South Africa	"Whatever it means to you": Ethnicity, language, and the survey response in telephone-administered health surveys of African Americans

Essays on long-term care and aging	The impact of news media frames of type 2 diabetes on the public's health policy opinions

Sources and exposures of ambient air pollutants and their relationship to adverse birth outcomes and respiratory disease	Sociopolitical context and depressive symptoms in an older Mexican-origin population

Payment systems, market factors and long-term care hospitals	Resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States: A new classification, a new resistance and the implications for surveillance, prevention, and control

The social determinants of health disparities: The role of social and temporal contexts	Semiparametric methods for estimating cumulative treatment effects in the presence of non-proportional hazards and dependent censoring

Three essays on health, aging and the family in contemporary China	Cigarette smoke impairs innate host defense against pneumoccal pneumonia

Characterization of the molecular epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis and investigation of two potential risk factors associated with invasive meningococcal disease	On the intersection of race, stress, and health

The spatial and environmental predictors of adult mortality in the Northern Mexico Border Region	Molecular epidemiology, racial/ethnic differences and chemoprevention of breast cancer: Population-based studies from metropolitan Detroit

Understanding parental theories about children's health	American dreams, Latino realities: Interrogating the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, and nativity on select acculturative stressors and depressive symptoms among Mexican-origin adults

The impact of living alone on the relationship between social resources and physical and psychological well-being in the elderly	Early life exposure to lead, iron metabolism gene variants, and impacts on reproductive and infant outcomes

Urban-rural differences of female cancers in Gharbiah, Egypt	Epidemiology of polyparasitism in coastal Kenya: Determinants, interactions and health effects of Plasmodium species and Schistosoma haematobium infections

Social environmental factors and their effects on risky sexual behavior: A multilevel approach	African American public housing residents in the HOPE VI era: Relocation, social networks and health

Inhalability and personal sampler performance for aerosols at ultra-low windspeeds	Physical activity in relation to depressive symptoms in black U.S. adults: Results from the National Survey of American Life

Race, socioeconomic position and depression: The mental health costs of upward mobility	The colonial subjects: Intersections of race and ethnicity in youth violence

Social stigma and HIV/AIDS in Black MSM	The impacts of concentrated ambient particulates on heart rate variability in rats in Detroit, Michigan and Steubenville, Ohio

The development and application of a risk index to predict individualized chronic disease risk	An empirical investigation of why doctors migrate and women fail to go for screening

Epidemiologic characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Vietnam and implications for population vaccination	Health care seeking for intimate partner violence in the Tokyo metropolitan area

Urban-rural influences on driving behaviors and driving outcomes among Michigan young adults: An investigation of roadway characteristics, alcohol establishments, and social influences	Resource allocation in public health practice

Essays on race/ethnic variations in the dynamics of chronic diseases among middle and old aged Americans	The relationships between cultural identity, family support and influence, colorectal cancer beliefs, and gender and an informed decision regarding colorectal cancer screening among African Americans

Performances of comorbidity measures in healthcare related behaviors and outcomes in type 2 diabetes	Interactive associations of race and comorbidity in medication treatment and outcomes of Medicaid enrolled patients with major depressive disorder

Exposures and health risks due to traffic congestion	Alcohol use behavior growth trajectories during developmental transition from adolescence to young adulthood among Asian American adolescents

Interaction of social factors and environmental pollutants in black-white health disparities: The case of lead and hypertension	Life course socioeconomic position, depressive symptoms, and cardiovascular disease mortality in the Alameda County Study, 1965-2000

Influences of nonparental adults on the psychosocial outcomes of at-risk African American adolescents	Essays on labor market outcomes in South Africa

Deliberate engagement as a strategy for promoting behavior change while enhancing well-being	When does social capital matter for health? The moderating roles of ethnicity, income and gender

Neighborhood social and physical environments and health: Examining sources of stress and support in neighborhoods and their relationship with self-rated health, cortisol and obesity in Chicago	Children with complex special health care needs and the health services system: Unmet needs, barriers to care, and coordination of health services

Captive Audience?: Strategies for getting food and physical activity in two Detroit neighborhoods	Diabetes Health and Disability Pathways: Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Gender Disparities

A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Magazine Use and Safe Sex in Emerging Adulthood	Concepts of space and place neighborhood access, pedestrian movement, and physical activity in Detroit: Implications for urban design and research

Medicalization of birth: The social construction of Cesarean section: A qualitative analysis	The geographic context and Black-White disparities in hypertension

Performance of Thermoluminescent Dosimeters Under As-Deployed Conditions	Extreme heat and health: Understanding exposures, behaviors and vulnerability

Understanding the relationship between skin color, vitamin D, and blood pressure	Multi-Continental Multimedia Model of Pollutant Intake and Application to Impacts of Global Emissions and Globally Traded Goods

Health-related characteristics of American urban environments: Description, measurement, and associations with healthy behaviors	Travel and Travail: Mental health consequences of immigration related factors, acculturative stress, and social support among Asian American immigrants

Secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and its effects among women undergoing in vitro fertilization	Metals, noise, diet, and hearing loss

The Federal Design Dilemma: Congressional Intergovernmental Delegation	The Moral Dilemmas of Nighttime Breastfeeding: Crafting Kinship, Personhood and Capitalism in the U.S.

A Gene-environment Study of Metallothionein Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Mercury Biomarker Levels and Peripheral Nerve Function	Collaborative Help for Individualized Problems: Learning from the MythTV User Community and Diabetes Patient Support Groups

Studies in Intentionality: The Role of Pregnancy Intention, Pregnancy History, and Age of Conception the Evaluation and Utilization of Reproductive Health Services	Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare Decision-Making: Stochastic Modeling and Statistical Inference

Fertility Change in Central Asia: How Marriage Timing & Contraceptive Use Are Evolving in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan	Essays in children's access to health care

On Estimation and Inference under Order Restrictions	The health consequences of Asian immigrant integration

Linkages between extreme precipitation, water quality, and gastrointestinal illness	African Americans' satisfaction with the neighborhood fruit and vegetable environment in Detroit, MI: Correlates, modifiers, and implications for reducing disparities in diet-related disease

Information Behavior of People Diagnosed with a Chronic Serious Health Condition: A Longitudinal Study	Does where we live matter? Neighborhood context and implications for stress and health

Generalized Statistical Approaches for the Design for Phase I Trials	The effect of graduated driver licensing on teen driver crash involvement

Knee Osteoarthritis: Intersections of Obesity, Inflammation, and Metabolic Dysfunction	Analysis of marked recurrent events in the presence of a terminating event

Multilevel factors impacting workforce competence and capacity to deliver public health services	Inter-organizational Collaborations Working to Change Policies that Affect Adolescents: A Qualitative Study of Three Youth-Serving Inter-organizational Collaborations

Facility-based delivery in Ghana: A three-part study of drivers and deterrents