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El corazon de la cebolla: A mini-ethnographic study of Mexicana/o symptom interpretation and management
The purpose of this urban mini-ethnographic qualitative study was to examine Mexicana/o symptom interpretation and management utilizing the Common Sense Model of Illness Representation as a guiding framework. Latina/os are ...
Theory, Reality, Survival: An organizational analysis of a nurse-managed neighborhood health center
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the development of Erie Family Health Center as a nurse-managed, community health center. Analysis focuses on those factors within the organization itself and in the ...
Antecedents of three-year-old child health status
This study sought to assess a set of factors that were proposed to influence child health status at 3 years of age. The sample $(N=4940)$ was drawn from the 1988 National Maternal Infant Health Survey and the 1991 Longitudinal ...
Social patterns and pathways of HIV care among HIV-positive transgender women
Transgender women have the highest HIV prevalence rates of all gender and sexual minorities, yet are less likely to enter and be retained in HIV care. As a result, they are at high risk for HIV-related morbidity and ...
Evaluation of an alternative prenatal care visit schedule for low-risk pregnant women
While the current prenatal visit schedule is widely accepted as providing the highest quality prenatal care and followed by health care practitioners in this country and abroad, it is not based on sound scientific evidence. ...
Culture care values, beliefs and practices observed in empowerment of American Indian community health representatives
The World Health Organization (WHO) primary health care model emphasizes intervention at the home and family level, partnerships with the community, collaboration with lay community health workers, and prevention. Thus, ...
A cost analysis of two academic-based nursing centers
A nursing center is an ambulatory care clinic in which nurses provide health care to clients and manage the operational and financial functions of the center. During the 1980s, academic based nursing centers proliferated ...
A focused ethnography: Nursing students' perceptions of cultural competence and social justice
Disparities in health care suggest a need for greater social justice in national and international health care systems. Nurses are uniquely involved with disparities since the nursing profession has emphasized social justice ...
Using Second-transitionary Phase Cognitive Factors to Predict Adherence to a Walking Routine
The purpose of the study was to test a regression model designed to predict adherence to a walking for exercise routine. An extension of the Second-Transitionary (Adherence) phase of the Natural History of Exercise Model, ...
Navigating troubled waters: Chronic illness experience in a health care crisis
This dissertation chronicles the complexity of chronic illness experience in a western biomedically-oriented health care system. It combines an exhaustive description of what it is like to be chronically ill in the current ...