Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Public Health"
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A Review of the Government Sponsored Offensive Biological Programs, Weaponized Biological Pathogens and their Countermeasures
Since the beginning of the 20th century humanity’s capacity for warfare and death has evolved at an ever increasing rate. The horse was quickly replaced by the automobile and the rifle by the machine gun. The use of ... -
A Secondary Analysis of County Health Statistics for the Galveston County of Texas Report
The health of Galveston County communities (as is common with many areas outside large urban cities) is not fully summarized in a single report; however, a descriptive analysis would benefit community partners such as the ... -
A Systematic Review of the Psychological Effects of Heat Stress on Subjects in Uncooled, Sealed, Environment Suits
This review was performed to determine if current literature is sufficient to understand the cognitive effects of heat stress for individuals in uncooled pressure suits and the timeline when these effects would occur. ... -
Acute febrile respiratory illness aboard ships in the US Navy
(2009-08-01)Acute Febrile Respiratory Illness (A/FRI) is a common but significant category of illness with world wide effect and impact on morbidity and mortality. In the shipboard environment the environmental, susceptibility and ... -
Airsickness treatment and prevention: Recommendations regarding antiemetics and/or acustimulation
(2007-03-30)Airsickness has been an important concern for aviation since before World War II. Airsickness is still a topic of serious discussion in the aviation community, despite recent advances in medical science, aircraft engineering ... -
Alcoholism treatment in native americans
(2008-04-21)The detrimental effects of alcohol misuse and dependence are well documented across all ethnicities. In particular, it is an important public health issue among Native Americans with their rates of preventable deaths (in ... -
Analysis of aspects of health care delivery and safety for space tourism and space passengers
(2008-03-13)Non-career space travelers from around the world will be venturing into space as commercial programs develop and mature. There are multiple forces promoting human suborbital and orbital flight, including; public interest ... -
Arthritis impact on the physical function, disability, and health-related quality of life among older Mexican-Americans
(2009-03-02)Background and Purpose: Arthritis is a major cause of disability with a sizable impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in older adults, especially among older non-Hispanic white subjects. The purpose of this study ... -
Biological and Functional Consequences of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of the O6-Methylguanine-DNA-Methyltransferase Gene
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DNA repair genes could alter the transcriptional levels, structure and function of DNA repair proteins and alter DNA repair proficiency. Consequently, these SNPs could significantly ... -
Can Badges in Gamified Systems Promote Weight-Related Behavior Change?
The current global prevalence of obesity among children and young adults is much higher than in previous decades. Despite efforts to prevent childhood obesity, motivation is a barrier to weight-related behavior change. ... -
Chronic Pain and The Prescription Opioid Overdose Epidemic: Addressing Provider Attitudes and Concerns
Chronic pain affects over 100 million Americans and efforts to improve pain control have led to an epidemic of prescription opioid related overdose deaths. Primary care providers manage the majority of chronic pain patients ... -
Comparison of current evidence from randomized clinical trials and observational studies for immunogenicity in variable meningococcal C vaccine schedules in children, adolescents, and adults
Even as early as age 10, older age correlated with increased duration of protection. Seroprotective antibody titers in infants were short-lived after primary schedule vaccinations were completed, and by 12 months of age, ... -
Countermeasures Against Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are a group of viruses from four different virus families that are characterized by coagulation abnormalities with often fatal outcomes. VHFs can cause both internal and external bleeding. ... -
Descriptive epidemiology and outcome of patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN): a population-based comparison to pancreatic adenocarcinoma and review of literature.
(2009-04-27)Intraductal papillary neoplasm (IPMN) is an uncommon cancer of the pancreas, histologically characterized as a distinct entity by WHO in 1996, as noninvasive (adenoma, borderline neoplasm, carcinoma in situ) or invasive. ... -
Development and Implementation of a Health Literacy Program in a Community Primary Care Clinic in Houston, Texas
Literacy is the way in which our society is able to express ideas and have them understood by others. Without literacy, and particularly health literacy, individuals cannot become full participants in managing their own ... -
Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Monitoring and Evaluation Protocol for a Malnutrition Rehabilitation Program in a Resource-Limited Setting
Worldwide, nearly 7 million children die each year and malnutrition contributes to almost half of these cases. Malnourished children have lower life expectancy, perform worse in school, and are at increased risk for ... -
Development of a NASA Flight Surgeon Quick Reference Guide and Evaluation of the International Space Station Medical Kit: A Model for Resource-Limited Populations
The development of an operational Flight Surgeon Quick Reference Guide to complement on-orbit crewmember medical checklists aims to standardize medical care on the part of NASA’s medical ground support for a unique patient ... -
Differences in Pediatric Unintentional Injury Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity
Unintentional injuries contribute significantly to childhood mortality and morbidity nationally and globally. In the United States, they are the leading cause of death in children over the age of 1, causing more than 9,000 ... -
Do condom and needle exchange provision in prisons reduce risky behavior and HIV transmission? A systematic literature review
Prison populations worldwide are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. In the United States alone, the number of inmates with confirmed AIDS is more than two times that of the general population. Furthermore, about one ... -
Effects of Stress Coping Mechanisms on Telomere length: A literature review.
Studies of telomeres in humans are inconsistently related to exposure to stressors but strongly related to cell life cycle and cell senescence. Cell level stressors are related to reductions in telomere length as well as ...