Browsing by Author "Jervis, Lori"
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CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ MIGRATION EXPERIENCES: A BIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS OF HEALTH, FOOD, AND MIGRATION
Dong, Yue (2019-05-10)The main purpose of this dissertation is to use both biocultural framework and life course perspective to investigate the dynamic relationship among migration induced stress, health, and culture with a focus on the processual ... -
Choice and Patterns in Midwife Use in the United States
Stewart, Kelsey (2019-05-10)This study explores the factors that influence women’s decisions about their pregnancy and birth, what kinds of value and beliefs tend to suggest a preference towards midwives, and, demographically, which women are mostly ... -
Dialogue as a Foundation for Development: Syrian Collective Trauma and Memory, Actor Mapping, and Perspectives on Syria
Kroeger, Anne (2017-05)In 1949, President Harry S. Truman called upon the global North to aid the “underdeveloped” global South. With Truman’s “Point Four” declaration, the United States sought to combat the rising threat of communism with ... -
Dog parks and their users: A study of four dog parks in the greater Oklahoma City metropolitan area
Burgess-Cady, Lacy Jo (2016-05)Humans have had a unique relationship with dogs for thousands of years. In the last three decades, this relationship has shifted and dogs have begun to be more widely recognized as family members by the wider American ... -
The Effects of Balance Training on Balance and Fear of Falling in Older Adults
Bogda, Kristin (2017-08)The purposes of this study were to determine (1) the effects of a 6-week balance training intervention on balance and fear of falling in older adults and (2) to evaluate the effects of a 6-week behavioral intervention on ... -
Families and Facilities: How the Parent-Child Relationship Changes Upon Institutionalization
Mastel, Maia (2017)This thesis endeavors to trace how the relationships and of the mainstream American family unit, specifically between adult children and their parents, are altered by the process of age-related institutionalization in a ... -
STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL WITH DIABETES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURAL FACTORS IMPACTING HEALTH DISPARITIES AND CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT
Gomez, Steven (2016-05)This study was designed to 1) discover the strategies diabetes patients employ as they negotiate the economic and other structural factors influencing their everyday lives and 2) find out about participants’ ability to ... -
USING ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES TO INTEGRATE THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL MODELS OF DISABILITY
Williams, Mary (2017)The medical model of disability views the challenges and solutions to disability via medical terms. Within the social model of disability (SMD), impairment is the physical condition specific to a person, whereas disability ...