CHS Doctoral Dissertations

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Year	Degree	Author	Title	Publication #	Advisor's Name
2011	PhD	Huy Dang	A latent transition analysis of self-efficacy among men treated for cocaine dependence	not yet available	Martin Iguchi
2011	PhD	Loan Thi Kieu Kim	Assessing Socio-cultural landscape of obesity among Latino families in LA County: Issues of perception, acculturation and the influence of WIC	not yet available	Gail Harrison
2011	PhD	Angie Otiniano	Discrimination, Drugs, and Alcohol Among Latina/os in the United States	not yet available	Gilbert Gee
2010	DrPH	Kelley Anne Carameli	The Relationship Between Workplace and Employee Household Preparedness: Application of an Ecological and Stage-Based Model of Behavior Change	AAT3424191	Deborah Glik
2010	PhD	Kunchok Gyaltsen	The Relationship and Pathways between Maternal Education and Child Nutritional Status	AAT3431837	Anne R. Pebley
2010	PhD	Judie Hulett	The Effects of Animal Source Foods on School Performance among Primary School Children in Rural Kenya	AAT3424152	Osman Galal
2010	DrPH	Maria Koleilat	Ecological Predictors of Early Childhood Obesity among Participants of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)	AAT3441522	Gail Harrison
2010	PhD	Eunice Muthengi	Early Marriage and Early Childbearing in Ethiopia: Determinants and Consequences	AAT3446845	Anne Pebley
2010	PhD	Rotrease S. Regan	Long-term Effects of Childhood Maltreatment on Adult Sexual Risk Behavior and Sexually Transmitted Infections among Black Females in the United States: A Latent Variable Analysis	AAT3424154	Linda Bourque
2010	PhD	Archana More Sharma	Gender, Power and Violence: Intimate Partner Violence among Married Women in India	AAT3446868	Linda Bourque
2010	PhD	Pamela Stoddard	Social and Structural Determinants of Health Among Mexican Adults	AAT3394903	Anne Pebley
2010	PhD	Fathima Munsifa Wakeel	The Role of Maternal Resiliency in the Multi-level Pathways between Race/ethnicity and Birth Outcomes in Los Angeles County	AAT3394932	Michael C. Lu
2009	PhD	Amy Carroll-Scott	Neighborhood Structural Characteristics, Social Processes, And Child Well Being: A Multilevel Study In Two Urban Contexts	AAT 3351588
2009	PhD	Shonali Choudhury	Sex Work Does Not Make Me An Indecent Woman: A Grounded Theory Study Of The Process Of Forming A Positive Self-Image And Negotiating Health In The Lives Of Establishment-Based Female Sex Workers In Tijuana	AAT 3364091
2009	PhD	Laura Chyu	Cumulative Physiological Dysregulation Among Women In The United States: Sociodemographic Correlates And Implications For Self-Rated Health	AAT 3356523
2009	PhD	Jennifer Toller Erausquin	HIV Knowledge and Behaviors among Women in the Dominican Republic and Haiti: A Multilevel Study of the Importance of Individual, Relationship, and Community Characteristics	AAT 3343294
2009	PhD	Justin Harbison	The Evaluation of Mosquito Production and Measures to Minimize Mosquitoes in Stormwater Treatment Structures to Prevent the Spread of Mosquito-borne Diseases	AAT 3374878
2009	PhD	Gergana Kodjebacheva	Neighborhood and School Factors are Associated with Correctable Visual Impairment in First-Graders in Southern California	AAT 3388121
2009	PhD	Typhanye Vielka Penniman	The Impact of Family Functioning on Depression and Medication Adherence among Mothers Infected with HIV	AAT 3384016
2009	PhD	Alek Sripipatana	Factors Promoting Health and Preventive Health Service Use Among Older Chinese Americans	AAT3424202
2009	PhD	Lisa Marie Stanley	The Relationship between the Amount of Time Children Spend in Child Care and their Healthy Development during the Toddler Years	AAT 3322025
2009	PhD	Yoshiko Umezawa	Impact Of Social And Religious Support On Health-Related Quality Of Life In Older Racial/Ethnic Minority Women With Breast Cancer	AAT 3351600
2009	PhD	Mellissa Heatherly Withers	Fertility Preferences, Intentions and Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Study of Fertility in a Balinese village	AAT 3388125
2008	PhD	Jennifer L. Simmons	Gender, Sexuality and HIV Risk in Belize: A Mixed Methods Study	AAT 3322055
2008	PhD	Michele Wood	Elaborating the Relationship between Age and HIV Risk Behaviors among Illicit Drug Users	AAT 3322073
2008	PhD	Gabriel Garcia	To Smoke or Not to Smoke: Understanding Smoking and Nonsmoking Behavior among Filipinos	AAT 3349433
2008	PhD	Jennifer Lee	The Effect of Community Water and Sanitation Characteristics on Stunted Growth among Children in Indonesia	AAT 3351605
2008	DrPH	Lisa Marie Stanley	The relationship between the amount of time children spend in child care and their healthy development during the toddler years	AAT 3322025
2008	PhD	Dallas Swendeman	Structure and agency in HIV prevention: Multi-level approaches to theory, intervention and research	AAT 3304755
2008	PhD	Taigy Thomas	Risk environments and HIV: An investigation of the effects of contextual factors on fidelity	AAT 3304692
2007	PhD	Allison Buttenheim	Child nutritional status in vulnerable households in Asia	AAT 3272301
2007	PhD	Constance Gewa	The effect of micronutrients on cognitive function gains among primary school children in rural Kenya	AAT 3272317
2007	PhD	Rachel Gonzales	Evaluating treatment for methamphetamine dependence from a chronic illness perspective	AAT 3280964
2007	PhD	Yasamin Kusunoki	Contraceptive behavior among youth in the United States: The importance of relationship characteristics	AAT 3280971
2007	PhD	Cathy Lang	Using Web-based surveys to evaluate a television documentary and an Internet website: A feasibility study	AAT 3272259
2007	PhD	Dana Martinez	Racial disparities in cognitive performance over time among older adults: A multilevel analysis of neighborhood effects	AAT 3280973
2007	PhD	Beatriz Solis	Medi-Cal managed care enrollees: Diverse experiences and perceptions about the health care system	AAT 3295734
2007	DrPH	Raphael Travis	Arrested development to agents of change: Understanding the relationship between youth worker conceptual frames of African-American and Latino adolescents and program strategies in youth development and youth organizing programs	AAT 3280947
2006	DrPH	Laura D'Anna	Racial and ethnic disparities in health status among California adults: The roles of socioeconomic position and discrimination	AAT 3251515
2006	PhD	Linda Delp	Job stressors among home care workers in California's consumer directed model of care: The impact on job satisfaction and health outcomes	AAT 3247453
2006	DrPH	Megumi Kano	District- and school-level preparedness for emergencies and disasters in California: The effects of demographic characteristics, resources, and prior experiences	AAT 3235750
2006	PhD	Katherine Vittes	Preventing lethal violence against women: Firearm prohibitions against persons under a domestic violence restraining order	AAT 3240959
2006	PhD	Mable Louise Everette	Investigation of the correlates of iron deficiency among non-pregnant child-bearing age females, (18--49 years) using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III - National Data Set (NHANES III-1988--1994)	AAT 3224327
2005	PhD	Chi Chiao	An exploration of social determinants of sexual health-related behaviors and sexually transmitted infection among female sex workers in the Philippines	AAT 3196345
2005	PhD	Amanda Botticello	An investigation of symptoms of depression and alcohol use among adolescents: Relationships over time, by gender, and across contexts	AAT 3191398
2005	PhD	Anthony Distefano	Violence involving sexual minorities in Japan	AAT 3218639
2005	PhD	Katharine Hayward	A hierarchy of disability: Attitudes of people with disabilities toward one another	AAT 3190461
2005	PhD	Jinsook Kim	The influence of school contexts on tobacco and alcohol use among adolescents	AAT 3154993
2005	PhD	Ritesh Mistry	Women's autonomy, pregnancy care use and maternal health in rural India: A contextual analysis	AAT 3155010
2005	PhD	Kwa Sey	An evaluation of structural and individual-level HIV interventions in the Philippines: Utilizing mathematical modeling to estimate the number of averted potential HIV infections and the cost per averted infection	AAT 3169187
2005	PhD	Jane Steinberg	Correlates of drug use and prior arrest in a sample of California arrestees	AAT 3155045
2005	PhD	Tzu I. Tsai	The family and ecological attributes of breast cancer experience and life satisfaction among Chinese-American families	AAT 3202791
2005	PhD	Joshua Yang	A model to increase access to care for immigrants: Charting the development of San Francisco Chinatown's ethnic-specific health care system	AAT 3181765
2005	PhD	Kynna Wright	Childhood asthma and utilization of health care services: Disparities in health care among African-American, Latino and White children with asthma, ages 1--11	AAT 3224346
2004	PhD	Harvinder Sareen	Prevalence and determinants of parent-child routines in families with young children	AAT 3155048
2004	PhD	Roberto De Vogli	Socioeconomic determinants of healthy lifestyles: Does psychosocial stress matter?	AAT 3121256
2004	DrPH	Margaret R. Pereyra	Correlates of mothers' treatment behavior for childhood diarrhea in the Dominican Republic: An analysis of DHS data	AAT 3094217
2004	PhD	Julia C. Prentice	Social determinants of disparities in primary care access	AAT 3146627
2004	PhD	Jane K. Steinberg	Correlates of drug use and prior arrest in a sample of California arrestees	AAT 3155045
2003	DrPH	Brian L. Cole	The social construction of worksite health and safety problems: How problems and remedial strategies become defined by hazardous waste workers	AAT 3100683
2003	PhD	Anne Bradford Harris	Defining nutritional status and predicting nutritional risk in children with developmental delays using multivariate analyses	AAT 3133097
2003	PhD	Janni Jacqueline Kinsler	Evaluation of a school-based intervention for HIV/AIDS prevention among Belizean adolescents	AAT 3078137
2003	PhD	Carolyn Anne Mendez	Informal caregiving among women in a Mexico City suburb: Conceptualizations and meanings in a cultural context	AAT 3088973
2003	DrPH	Loc Huu Nguyen	The relationship between reported injuries resulting from the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake and the adoption of earthquake preparedness activities	AAT 3066458
2003	PhD	Tu-Uyen Ngoc Nguyen	Building relationships and cultivating trust and respect: A multi-level comparison of cultural tailoring processes by community health workers addressing breast and cervical cancer screening needs in a Cambodian and a Laotian community in California	AAT 3110805
2003	PhD	Victoria de los Angeles Ojeda	Predictors of health insurance coverage of United States-born Latino children: A special focus on the role of parents' citizenship	AAT 3104334
2003	PhD	Catherine Ann Taylor	Social norms and intimate partner violence: Examination of news and public views	AAT 3094219
2002	DrPH	Nguyen, Loc Huu	The relationship between reported injuries resulting from the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake and the adoption of earthquake preparedness activities	AAT 3066458
2002	PhD	Wu, Cynthia Chien	The effect of nutrition-related factors on preterm birth in a rural population of Kenya	AAT 3045593
2002	PhD	Wong, Shiu Shing	Exploring the protection and risk factors of cigarette smoking among Chinese or Chinese-American adolescents in the state of California	AAT 9973213
2001	PhD	Azizi-Egrari, Rita Monireh	Maternal nutritional correlates of caregiving behavior in Embu, Kenya	AAT 9998961
2001	PhD	Chen, Chiu-Ying	An exploration of the social causes of problem behaviors among adolescents	AAT 3026267
2001	PhD	Doty, Michelle McEvoy	The contexts of the timing of first sexual intercourse among Hispanic adolescents	AAT 3026239
2001	PhD	Forge, Nell Griffith	Structural and ecological frameworks: Mechanisms for understanding depressive symptomotology in African American and White women	AAT 3024117
2000	DrPH	Hikoyeda, Nancy Nobuye	The role of ethnicity in the quality of life of institutionalized Japanese American women and their families	AAT 9981671
2000	DrPH	West, Kathleen Marie	Birth and social placement outcomes of drug exposed newborns in Los Angeles County: A longitudinal study of cases from hospital through juvenile dependency court systems	AAT 9976243
2000	DrPH	Winham, Donna M.	Growth recovery and bone mineral density in Egyptian children	AAT 9979098
2000	PhD	Levin, Jennifer Rebecca	Understanding successful communication about end-of-life care: Oncologists and women with metastatic breast cancer	AAT 9976279
2000	PhD	Mudgal, Jyoti	Mothers' social status and the intergenerational transmission of emotional well-being from mothers to adolescents	AAT 9961692
1999	DrPH	Silberman, Terry Ann	Knowledge and utilization of cervical cancer screening among reproductive-age postpartum women in south east Los Angeles	AAT 9952438
1998	DrPH	Ahn, Myoung Ock	Fertility patterns and maternal practices of Korean-Americans in Los Angeles County	AAT 9905517
1998	DrPH	Martin, Margaret Allison	Factors which relate to infant birthweight in a population of low-income Medicaid-eligible women	AAT 9818000
1998	DrPH	Outland, Lauren Susan	The role of stressors and maternal depletion in pregnancy outcomes of cocaine using women	AAT 9905508
1998	PhD	Chen, Kai-Ren	Psychosocial determinants of compliance behavior and its impact on the management of diabetes among elderly patients in Taiwan	AAT 9905594
1998	PhD	Levy-Storms, Lene Faye	The influence of communication networks on the diffusion of mammography screening among older Pacific Islander women	AAT 9905523
1998	PhD	Quinn, Virginia P.	Perceived stress, coping resources, and prenatal smoking	AAT 9913070
1998	PhD	Wight, Richard Gayle	Stress and mental health among HIV infected AIDS caregivers over time	AAT 9906104
1997	DrPH	Golden, Rachel Eve	Evaluation of three immunization interventions among families participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children in south central and south east Los Angeles	AAT 9807656
1997	DrPH	Shoaf, Kimberley Irene	Predictors of disaster service utilization following the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake	AAT 9803540
1996	DrPH	Lange, Linda O.	PRENATAL CARE SOURCE IN MEDICAID LOW BIRTHWEIGHT BIRTHS	AAT 9616447
1996	DrPH	Tanjasiri, Sora Park	Acting locally: Factors promoting Asian Pacific Islander agency participation in collaborative tobacco policy advocacy	AAT 9711569
1996	PhD	White, Patrice Michele	Crossing the river: A study of Khmer women's beliefs and practices during pregnancy, birth and postpartum	AAT 9707412
1995	DrPH	Driscoll, Anne Kilpatrick	POST-IMMIGRATION FERTILITY PATTERNS OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES	AAT 9541845
1991	DrPH	Fielder, Eve Picardy	The effect of acculturation upon the sexual behavior of Mexican-American adolescent females	AAT 9200918