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No Protection: Untested and Undiagnosed Genital Herpes in America
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The majority of people who have genital herpes do not know it. This sexually transmitted disease can spread asymptomatically, and condoms do not fully protect against it. Despite this, current health policy recommends ...
Policy Change and the Politics of Obesity in Germany and the United States of America
(Georgetown University, 2020)
What drives policy change and innovation when food policy meets health promotion and prevention? My dissertation studies contemporary and historical policy change in the context of obesity-related food and public health ...
Social Determinants of COVID-19 Policy Responses: Is Individualism Predictive of the Stringency of COVID-19 Lockdown Measures?
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The rapid, airborne transmission of COVID-19 and the subsequent pandemic forced countries to implement lockdown and stay-at-home measures to prevent the spread of the disease. However, the degree of stringency of lockdown ...
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion Provision on Access to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The United States has been in the midst of an opioid epidemic for over two decades. With nearly 50,000 Americans dying each year as a result of opioid overdoses and an estimated annual economic toll of over $500 billion, ...
The Impeding Effects of United States Sanctions on Humanitarian Trade with Iran
(Georgetown University, 2021)
I set out to examine the relationship between United States sanctions on Iran and humanitarian trade in the form of pharmaceutical imports. To measure this relationship, I used the gravity model of international trade. In ...
The Impact of Health on Political Attitudes: Does Suffering from a Hampering Health Condition Make Individuals More Egalitarian?
(Georgetown University, 2020)
The study of the impact of hampering health conditions on political behavior is particularly relevant in light of current debates about the government’s role in ensuring access to healthcare, and the extent to which it ...
Relationships Between Adolescents' Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs and Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adulthood
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Although adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) have been amply studied, most research on the topic focuses on examining contraceptive use and the risk of unintended ...
House Bill 2: The Effect of Reducing Access to Abortion Providers on Educational Attainment in Texas
(Georgetown University, 2020)
In 2013, the Texas legislature passed House Bill 2 (H.B. 2), which required all physicians providing abortions to maintain admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles as well as mandating that facilities providing ...
Death by Partisanship: Is Political Ideology a Social Determinant of Health?
(Georgetown University, 2022)
Political ideology affects individual decision making outside of the ballot box. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic highlights the impact of political ideology on individual risk perception, belief in misinformation, and health ...
Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Adolescent Marijuana Use
(Georgetown University, 2022)
About 37% of high school students reported ever having used marijuana and about 22% reported use in the past 30 days in 2019. With a significant percentage of teenagers using marijuana, surveys show that it is not difficult ...