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Bridging Communities and Scholars through CBPR: A Systematic Review of Communication and Participation Practices within Community-Based Participatory Research Teams
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an approach to health research that prioritizes translation and community partner participation. The field of CBPR is multidisciplinary, so traditional definitions of communication within...
One of the key determinants of health and wellbeing for adolescents is the utilization of preventive health services. While adolescents are generally healthy, public health officials warn that access to health insurance, preventive care, ...
This dissertation examines the needs, preferences, policies, programs, and institutions surrounding localfood systems to better understand how they align with sustainability principles and goals. Both food system governance at the local...
Although leisure spaces provide a degree of liberation through their relaxation of norms, women are more likely to experience behavioral and emotional burdens that limit their freedoms in these spaces. Little is known, however, about how...
This dissertation contributes to the fields of medical sociology, environmental health, and public health by examining the effects of social stratification on environmental exposures and physical morbidity. Although previous conceptual...
Global politics is a complex game, particularly when conflict dominates the relationship between countries. South Asia is no different as both India and Pakistan have fought four wars since achieving independence from the British in 1947...
This dissertation proposes a new theoretical approach to the study of coproduction; it does so by providing a refined definition of the phenomenon, and responds to two of the largest criticisms of the literature, and incorporating the...
Every year, millions of Americans get sick from foodborne illness and it is estimated half of all reported instances occur at restaurants. To protect the public, regulators are encouraged to conduct restaurant inspections and disclose...
The dissertation investigates what forms the relationship between collaboration risks and collaborative action takes and what patterns of collaborative action emerge, to what extent of political homophily affects the pattern of networked...
Nitrate (NO3-) and uranium (U) are priority co-contaminants at U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) managed nuclear legacy waste sites, where nitric acid was extensively used to process uranium waste. This combination of a low pH and mixed...
Since the start of the 21st century—and mostly in the past five years—Sigur Rós, Dan Deacon, Sō Percussion, and Nick Zammuto actively investigated their homes and found them to be inspiring, if sometimes difficult to confront or...
Human life and diseases are inseparable. For millions of years, humans and their ancestors suffered from diseases, caused by infectious pathogens (e.g., bacteria, viruses, parasites) and caused by our own bodies as they age and...
This study contributes a critical geographic perspective to understanding possibilities and constraints for achieving more sustainable and just urbanization through New Urbanism, a market-oriented, Smart Growth approach consistent with...
In this dissertation, I compare three case study-based analyses of collaborative governance arrangements between municipal government parks and recreation departments and civil-sector disc golf associations. I utilize theories of...
Rural areas have experienced dramatic economic and demographic change over the past half-century. Since the 1970s, globalization trends have moved manufacturing industries away from rural areas and sometimes outsourced their labor to...
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