The focus of this research is the patient experience at and use of services in a (w)holistic health care setting. Although generally acknowledged to be increasing, there is little documentation of the patient experience ...

The purpose of this study is to develop and test a general causal model of criminal activity that accounts for the relationship between unemployment rates and crime rates. The model proposed here argues that when predicting ...

This dissertation argues that for ICTs to be used as a tool to empower women economically, socially and politically, there should be a bottom-up approach where poor, non-literate and rural women act as their own experts ...

The debate of what determines earning variations persists between the individualistic and structural views. My dissertation further explores this important question by incorporating into a combined framework the work ...

An unanswered question raised by women's disproportionate entry into male occupations is: "Where did the men go?" To determine which occupations men and other groups (i.e., women, white men, white women, nonwhite ...

This research focuses on the embedded stereotypical assumptions in the expression of White Euroamerican mythologies about American Indians, prejudice and racism toward American Indians, and disrespect for Indian religious ...

This work underscores the relevance of gender identity for understanding activism and the importance of superseding essentialist constructions of gender.

Thus, I regard reducing the c-section rate as the primary agenda of childbirth reform in Taiwan. I advocate the extended use of midwives as the best strategy to reduce medically unnecessary c-sections. I also suggest the ...

This dissertation presents a case study of the stevedores in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from their union's founding in 1903 to 1964. Quantitative and qualitative historical methodologies were used to assess how ...

Theories of the labor process posit that capitalists must control the workplace. Research on the labor process links the logic of capitalism to increasing bureaucratization and mechanization resulting in a loss of workers' ...