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Li, Chong. "Cliffside Community." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/88069.
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What will you think of when talking about Cliffside? A dangerous place for valiant to challenge? Or an impressive view for tourists to visit? You probably will not think of a comfortable place for people to live in, not to mention a large community for a lot of people to spend their life together, right? And that is my thesis project, a community hanging aside of a Cliffside. It seems like people are unlike to live aside from a Cliffside, it could be dangerous, people may feel horrible, and there could be a lot of difficulties of moving up and down, but that�s what makes it very interesting to overcome all these �impossible�, to let people feel safe, feel comfortable and be willing to live in such an environment.MARCH
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Snider, David E. "Architecture is Life... ...Life is Architecture." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31734.
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When thinking about architecture, I cannot help but think about my life and the things that have affected my life. How does the environment around us effect the daily decisions we make? How do the experiences throughout our life impact who we are and who we become? The people and surroundings we choose will ultimately decide the type of people we become. When we select our surroundings we are in turn selecting our ideal community. Everyone is trying to achieve community in some sense, from individuals to city planners. Council members, politicians, city officials... make decisions everyday based on their idea of what community is to them and their citizens.
In the following pages I will design a community and put in place the elements for it to prosper and grow...
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Paris, Kristen. "Life in the LGBTQ+ Community: Protective Factors Against Depression in the Community and in Everyday Life." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/511.
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In this study, we examined potential protective factors against depression in the LGBTQ+ community by determining whether outness, self-esteem, perceived social support, life meaning, courage to challenge or resilience/hardiness, life satisfaction, and hope were correlated with less depression. There were 149 participants in the study, 38 of whom identified as members of the LGBTQ+ community, and 107 of whom identified as heterosexual. Participants completed an online survey that took approximately 30 minutes. It was predicted that protective factors would be negatively related to depression. Results of both correlation and regression analyses revealed no significant relations between protective factors and depression. In a post-hoc analysis, the correlations between these factors in the heterosexual participants were statistically significant. Protective factors may be less prevalent or less directly helpful in the LGBTQ+ minority community than they are in the heterosexual majority. In addition, LGBTQ+ participants reported significantly higher levels of depression than the heterosexual participants. Thus, these findings indicate that there are significantly less protective factors present in the lives of LGBTQ+ persons than there are in their heterosexual counterparts.
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Rosa, S. Robert. "Enhancing community life at Ashland Theological Seminary moving from pseudo community to authentic community /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Kozler, Steven J. "The renewal of community in parish life towards an ecclesiology of communion /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Downey, Tamara. "Learning in community and life in community" : the concept of a community as a classroom." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2002. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/42032.
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This thesis presents the Leigh community’s view of the impact of Hayden College on Leigh. The study establishes ‘community’ as the key aspect of this atypical school-community partnership in the context of research which shows that effective school-community partnerships are socially and economically beneficial for rural communities. The research question addresses the relationship between a particular college and a specific community. Hayden College was attracted to life in Leigh as a source of learning for its students and to community life in Leigh in particular. The research demonstrates that the school’s vision for its Leigh campus was one based on use of the town environs and interaction with the local people, and that the overarching concept of a community as a classroom entailed Hayden College becoming part of the Leigh community. The nature and quality of the relationship is explored by contrasting the school’s vision with the community’s view of Hayden’s membership of the Leigh community. Inquiry into the idea of a community as a classroom was approached by studying ‘community’ as an ideal concept. The thesis argues that the Hayden in Leigh development is a coincidence of educational and social ideals, clarifying what it means to be part of a community using conceptual analysis of qualitative data collected from the field. The theoretical stance and empirical material in this research show the way in which the power of the concept of community resides at the ideal level. The research finds that the nature of this school-community partnership is characterized by learning exchange and small town renewal but that a threat to the quality of the relationship between college and community is contained in disparate understandings of what constitutes community life. The implications of these findings for the post-Hayden Leigh community and rural schools and communities more generally are that the association of curriculum objectives with community development objectives depends on a healthy reciprocal relationship.Doctor of Philosophy
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True, Stephanie M. ""Living lavender" life in a women's community /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1185808602.
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True, Stephanie M. "“LIVING LAVENDER”: LIFE IN A WOMEN’S COMMUNITY." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1185808602.
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Tokar, Ann M. "Ukrainian community life in Montreal : social planning implications." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61317.
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This study focused on the challenges facing the Ukrainian community in Montreal, within the parameters of their support and mutual aid services. Key informants from the community were interviewed. A mail-in questionnaire was administered to a sample of Ukrainians (N = 145), from the community at large. Key findings: (a) a high level of interest in community planning, (b) for women, social policy and health and social services were more important, (c) 18% were uncertain about remaining in Quebec, and (d) internal conflicts within community infrastructures. Areas of concentration for community development: (a) health and social services for independent elderly and others in need, (b) residential placement for elderly, and (c) counselling and information services for immigrants.
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Haig, Joan. "Situating strangers : understanding Hindu community life in Lusaka." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5926.
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This thesis explores the complex identities of the Hindu community of Lusaka, Zambia. It argues that current theories in migration and diaspora studies are not sufficient for understanding such groups in post-colonial Africa. The thesis proposes that we should revisit ‘forgotten’ literature, on immigrants as ‘stranger’ communities, that originates from Georg Simmel’s 1908 essay, ‘The Stranger’. Such work, which this thesis terms ‘stranger theory’, usefully contributes to more contemporary approaches by enabling a comprehensive assessment of a community’s position and how that position changes over time. Stranger theory is used in this thesis to situate Lusaka’s Hindus (and Zambian Hindus more generally) as ‘organic’ members of the nation, whose relationships with wider society are characterised by both ‘nearness’ and ‘remoteness’. The thesis first describes the emergence of a Zambian Hindu ethnic identity during colonial and immediate postcolonial (post-1964) periods focussing on migration and settlement patterns, immigrant networks and the emergence of cultural associations. A theme running throughout the thesis is that the ‘plural society’ of the colonial era (a society consisting of separate, racially-categorised groups with limited interaction) has persisted in Zambia in a postcolonial form, and that this is a useful way of understanding the position of the Hindu community in Zambia today. Following the historical discussion is an analysis of how the contemporary city of Lusaka is experienced by its Hindu residents, through mapping out spaces, social structures and practices that remain unique to Lusaka’s Hindus. Lusaka’s Hindu community is presented as both cohesive and fragmented; the thesis goes on to analyse the ways in which community identity itself is frequently broken down and reconfigured by its members. Zambia’s Hindus comprise diverse sets and subgroups of immigrants with uneven and ‘flexible’ approaches to, and experiences of, migration, citizenship and belonging, rather than embodying a single, quantifiable ‘diaspora’ entity. Yet, in local terms, Hindus in Lusaka are often treated as part of a general ‘Indian’ group; indeed, the thesis shows how Hindus’ relationships with other groups in Zambia emphasise the ‘stranger’ dimension of the community’s position in society. Finally, the thesis asserts that Zambian Hindu ‘twice migrants’—those who migrate onwards to new destinations—reinforce the existence and identities of the ‘home’ community in Zambia. Indeed, these twice migrants must be considered as African and Zambian transnational migrants as well as part of a South Asian ‘diaspora’. Methodologically, the thesis is driven by situational analysis, and brings two separate versions of this approach (from Sociology and Anthropology) together, drawing on data collected in Zambia between 2006 and 2008.
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Lee, Kiu-sim Mabel, and 李嬌嬋. "Return culture to life: home. studio. community reformulation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985889.
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Stylidis, Dimitrios. "Tourism and community life : building a conceptual framework." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2012. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/771377/.
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Tourism is widely considered as a means for enhancing local economies but as previous research has shown, is not always a panacea. The development of tourism at a destination, in particular, has considerable positive and negative impacts of economic, social, cultural and environmental nature that an increasing number of host communities are experiencing in their daily life. The significant effects tourism can have on a destination and its population led researchers to examine hosts' perceptions of the impacts of tourism in order to understand the influence of the industry on the life of residents, as well as identifY their level of support for tourism development. Aiming to understand the formation of residents' perceptions of tourism impacts and support for tourism development, which is vital for local authorities and planners in planning and developing tourism at a level that residents will endorse, previous studies examined a number of factors as potential antecedents of these perceptions. Even though researchers have so far highlighted the effect that the context of the destination (rural-urban) or its particular conditions (e.g. state of the local economy) have in forming residents' perceptions, no previous study has examined the way residents perceive their place as a place of residence and how this affects the formation of residents' perceptions of tourism impacts and support for further tourism development. In fact, as a destination image study has found (Schroeder, 1996), the way residents perceive their place as a tourist destination positively affects their intention to support tourism development as well as to recommend the destination to others. The first stage of this study, involved a thorough review of the literature on residents' perception of tourism impacts, aiming to identify the potential impacts of tourism as perceived by residents, the factors that influence residents' perceptions and support for tourism, and the major theories developed for understanding the formation of these perceptions. In addition, since there is a paucity of research in measuring residents' perception of their place as a place of residence, the researcher reviewed the destination image and community satisfaction literature as a theoretical background for establishing a construct termed residents' image of their place as a place of residence. Building on the social exchange theory, this study developed and tested a model with the aim to examine how factors (residence image, potential economic benefit, community 11 attachment) identified in the literature affect the formation of residents' perception of the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts of tourism which in tum were hypothesised to affect residents' support for further tourism development. After having established the theoretical framework, the researcher selected the quantitative research approach as the most relevant for the needs of this study. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to the adult residents of Kavala, and 481 usable questionnaires were retained for data analysis. The research findings confirmed most of the initial hypotheses, apart from the role of community attachment, and provided evidence to support the proposed model. Among the theoretical contributions of this study is the development of a construct (residence image) which is deemed useful for understanding the way residents perceive their place as a place of residence. Capturing residence image reveals the positive and negative images residents hold of their place, information which is useful for local authorities and marketers for improving the image of a city and building a successful brand image. This study contributes also to the body of knowledge by providing a theoretical framework for understanding the way specific elements (personal benefit from tourism, community attachment, residence image) affect residents' perception of tourism and support for tourism development. The examination of the effect that these factors, and especially residence image, have on perception of impacts is deemed useful in deciding which type of tourism development is appropriate and relevant for the destination and its population, in understanding how residents' perceptions of impacts and support for tourism development are formed, as well as how residents' support for tourism will increase. Finally, this thesis contributes to monitoring, planning and management of tourism, as the finding can assist local authorities, tourism planners and developers in the design and implementation of tourism development plans that will be supported by the majority of the host population. All in all, the theoretical framework developed contributes to planning and developing tourism to a level that residents will endorse, helping thus in maintaining a harmonious relationship between the host population and the tourist industry which is vital for the development of a sustainable and successful tourist destination.
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Lee, Kiu-sim Mabel. "Return culture to life : home. studio. community reformulation /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25949718.
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Chen, Huafang. "Residents' behaviour in community outdoor spaces in Shanghai." Thesis, online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?MR34688.
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Spirit, Congregation of the Holy. "Information Documentation -- 2002 v.59." Congregation of the Holy Spirit, 2002. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/cdm-id,393.
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I/D 59 -- General Council, December 2002 -- INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNITY LIFE -- 1. A new look for our family -- (pg. 1) -- 2.1 Benefits and advantages for mission and life together -- (pg. 2) -- 2.2 Benefits for the individual -- (pg. 4) -- 3. Challenges in international and intercultural communities -- (pg. 4) -- 4. Clarification of certain points -- (pg. 6) -- 5. Looking to the future -- (pg. 7) -- Conclusion -- (pg. 8) -- A LOVE THAT IS GENUINE – A Call to Integrity in our Relationships -- (pg. 1) -- Introduction -- (pg. 1) -- Consecrated Life: A Challenge to the Contemporary World -- (pg. 1) -- Formation -- (pg. 3) -- Role and Responsibility of Confreres in Leadership -- (pg. 5) -- Conclusion -- (pg. 8)
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Suter, Casey Ryan. "Economic evaluation of a community-based, family-skills prevention program." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2010/c_suter_042010.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in human development)--Washington State University, May 2010.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 8, 2010). "Department of Human Development." Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-52).
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Brown, Philip. "Life in dispersal : narratives of asylum, identity and community." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2005. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/5934/.
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This study explores how the immigration status of the 'asylum seeker' impacts upon notions of 'identity', 'community' and 'belonging' whilst claiming asylum in the UK. By taking a narrativedialogical approach this research explores the stories that have been constructed around 'asylum' by policy, those working with 'asylum seekers' and 'asylum seekers' themselves. This research looks at how the 'official' narratives of asylum are operationalised and delivered by workers contracted to implement government policy. The study also explores how those making a claim for asylum narrate their lives whilst living in dispersal sites in one region of the UK with particular focus paid to exploring how asylum and dispersal impacts upon 'identity' and 'belonging'. The data for this project was generated in three phases. In the first phase of data generation ten asylum support managers participated in semi-structured interviews. These managers worked for local authorities in the Region planning the strategy and delivery of the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) policies to 'asylum seekers' accommodated locally. The second phase of the research also included workers involved in delivering NASS support but in a service delivery role. Twenty-two people from across the Region were invited to attend three separate focus groups. The third and final phase of the research involved the participation of ten 'asylum seekers', living in dispersal sites across the Region, in lengthy narrative interviews. The data was analysed using narrative analytical techniques informed by the work of Clandinin and Connelly (2000) and Riessman (2004) around thematic narrative analysis and guided by the theory of 'dialogism' (Bakhtin, 1981). The research revealed that integrating a narrative-dialogical approach to understanding the casylum' experience has allowed space for a piece of research that appears to 'fit' into the fife worlds of the 'asylum seeker'. Moving toward a theoretical stance of dialogism has made it possible to explore an alternative way in which the production of narratives relate to both the personal and the social world of the individual. Rather than discounting the possibility that conflict and contradiction can exist in personal narratives simultaneously this research has shown that by taking a narrative-dialogical approach embraces the schizophrenic quality that appears to punctuate the narratives of exiles and 'asylum seekers'. The research has also shown that those contracted to operationalise and deliver NASS support to asylum seekers are not reduced to simple ventriloquists in the support process. Instead what has emerged are support service workers that take a creative and active role in interpreting their 'roles' to be conducive with the perceived needs of their organisation, the 'community' and the 'asylum seeker'. Narrating their work as a 'quest' support service workers can be seen as active and often 'heroic' in the way in which they act as a 'buffer' between the policies designed by NASS and the asylum seekers they support. By using Bakhtin's notion of authoritative and internally persuasive discourse (Bakhtin, 1981), support service workers can be seen to be adhering to components of the 'official' or authoritative discourse whilst at the same time transforming other components that are not seen as internally persuasive. From the narrative accounts generated with 'asylum seekers' it emerged that conflict and contradiction appeared to confound their attempts to produce narrative coherence. This conflict and contradiction appeared to suggest a good deal of psychological tension as 'asylum seekers' attempted to narrate; feelings of belonging, the balance between security and uncertainty and their feelings of 'home' and identity. What appeared was a dialogical quality to their narrative accounts which emphasised simultaneity but due to their restricted inunigration status did not have the 'privilege' of being both/and. Rather what emerged was a dialogical structure that can be seent o be characterisedb y the tension of being 'in between' but being 'neither/nor'. Such a position restricts the ability to 'move and mix' (Hermans and Kempen, 1998) in their new milieu as they are held in stasis and limbo by the multiple voices spoken by the 'asylum system'.
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Evans, Sherrill. "Quality of life and mental health in the community." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407656.
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Ganey, Sean. "Life on the streets : rebuilding community in America's cities /." Thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135139/.
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Ross, Beth E. "Assessing Changes in Waterfowl Population and Community Dynamics." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2174.
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Studying long-term ecological studies allows for a better understanding of processes driving populations and communities, and this understanding can be used to improve conservation eorts. These studies can describe how changes in the environment have led to current states of populations and communities, and indicate if the current state or trend falls within expectations based on past dynamics. Studies of long-term datasets also help ecologists predict how populations may shift with climate, water, or land-use change and determine necessary management action to maintain sustainable populations and community interactions. Serving as a \test of time," long-term monitoring can provide insight into the in uence of predation, intra- or interspecic competition, and other interactions on system dynamics. Studies need to explicitly include these drivers and sources of autocorrelation in data (e.g., spatial autocorrelation) to obtain unbiased estimates of ecological processes for guiding management. Fortunately, new statistical analyses for ecological applications are available that help ecologists make full use of the information present in long-term studies while properly accounting for sampling error and autocorrelation. In this study, I use advanced statistical methods to analyze a long-term dataset, the Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey, and address questions about waterfowl population and community dynamics. In Chapter 2, I use multi-state occupancy models to determine how the presence of lesser and greater scaup (Aythya anis and A. marila) has changed on their breeding grounds in North America since 1955. In Chapter 3, I use a Bayesian hierarchical model to determine the drivers of the breeding scaup population in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Lastly, in Chapter 4 I incorporate more waterfowl species into the hierarchical model from Chapter 3 to determine the drivers of the pochard duck community, along with the role of species interactions. My results indicate that the occupancy of scaup has decreased in the boreal forest of Canada and increased in the prairie parklands. Additionally, scaup in the Northwest Territories are largely in uenced by density dependence and snow cover extent. Finally, the pochard community in the Northwest Territories is regulated more by environmental drivers than intra- or interspecic interactions. These results indicate that management of the species through hunting regulations likely deserves further study, as scaup likely exhibit some sort of compensation in response to hunting.
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Garchar, Kimberly Kay. "A dying community : a Roycean critique of the medical community at the end of life /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1232405801&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-179). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Kacela, Xolani. "Seasoned faith relationality, practice, and community /." Fort Worth, TX : [Texas Christian University], 2008. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04212009-091411/unrestricted/Kacela.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2008.Title from dissertation title page (viewed May 4, 2009). At head of title: Brite Divinity School. Includes abstract. "Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Brite Divinity School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Counseling." Includes bibliographical references.
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Cohn, Rachel Leah. "Fragments of Social Life." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3032.
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This paper examines selected events from biography and how those events have influenced my philosophies about art-making as well as the work I have produced while a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University. This thesis is an attempt to give an expanded context for my work through various lenses, including the personal, the traumatic, the historical and the material.
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Russell, Jacqueline Ann. "The ties that bind, Jamaican elders' testimonies of community life." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ52224.pdf.
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Chan, Pei-Ying. "Predicting quality of life for clients in assertive community treatment." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2002. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65609.pdf.
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Münzberg, Peter, and Heike Engelien. "INTERREG LIFE - Eine Community von und für Menschen mit Behinderung." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-141694.
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Hatton, Foye Thomas Robert. "Redefining the good life : an ethnography of Brithdir Mawr community." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446493.
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Taylor, Euan Robert. "Helen Cam, the academic life, and the idea of Community." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621074.
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Horlor, Samuel Patrick. "Community in Chinese street music : sound, song and social life." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11984/.
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Jiqing guangchang is a form of amateur music performance event in Wuhan, a major city in central China. Groups of singers take turns to perform well-known Chinese popular songs for a few hours each afternoon and evening in squares, on street corners, and in parks around the city. Audiences take an active part by offering performers cash tips. Certain discourses surrounding contemporary urban life have portrayed experiences with popular music in these modern city contexts as distant from communal meaning. My ethnography of these performances and their surrounding social worlds is geared towards assessing the significance of community here, while also contributing to an understanding of the notion in contemporary urban China. Musical activity in jiqing guangchang is mundane, mainstream and rarely inspires fervent commitment or responses from participants. I analyse material from its spatial and sonic, economic, performative and social sides to look beyond understandings of community that are based on ideologies of kinship and belonging. I develop the discussion towards community’s embodied and material-level foundations, manifest in the mutual orientation and coexistence strategies of participants, their modes of sociability, and the designation and sharing of social territories. Thus, various limitations in current discourses of music and community can be transcended, particularly those tied to binary understandings of community’s position in relation to society, individualism, and several other key concepts. I aim to highlight that in contemporary urban situations, music’s ability to engender collective meaning is not only tied to ritualised contexts or those where divisive identity issues are prominent. Instead, my analysis of jiqing guangchang brings to the fore underlying and everyday modes of collective engagement that may be of deep-seated significance in interpreting all kinds of musical contexts.
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Münzberg, Peter, and Heike Engelien. "INTERREG LIFE - Eine Community von und für Menschen mit Behinderung." Technische Universität Dresden, 2009. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27978.
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Rennick, Kimberly L. "Process: A Strategy for developing Community Life and Place Attachment." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33638.
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Inner-city neighborhoods are being recognized for their potential to contribute visually, economically, and culturally to the urban core. Efforts to revitalize these neighborhoods will need to address the economic, cultural, and social structure of the neighborhood. Resident groups, in particular long-time and newer residents, will likely be affected by the cultural changes that inevitably accompany revitalization. This project explores the processes of community life and place attachment, and their role in fostering healthy communities. Residents, depending on their length of time in the neighborhood, will be at different stages of these processes. Design and planning may support community life and place attachment by understanding this continuum and providing for the processes that engender them. This project began with a review of literature on the subject of inner-city neighborhoods, gentrification, community life, and place attachment. From this literature design and planning criteria were extracted. These criteria were then applied to the Belmont-Fallon neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia, and were evaluated based on the conditions of the neighborhood and levels of attachment of long-time and newer residents. Design implications were developed that may support the process of place attachment within this community. These implications were then illustrated and tested through design.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Roberts, Kathryn Martinez. "Children's Oral Health Quality of Life in a Community Setting." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd_retro/73.
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The purpose of this study was to assess the baseline oral health quality of life of high-risk children and examine differences in oral health quality of life according to the child's treatment needs at an oral screening exam. We hypothesized that a child's oral health related Quality of Life (QOL) would be correlated with dental treatment needs. This study was a cross-sectional design with subjects who were 8-14 year old patients of Virginia Commonwealth University and/or members of the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Richmond. The oral health quality of life was measured using the Child Perception Questionnaire (CPQ). It is a multidimensional scale that includes items concerning functional aspects including oral pain and discomfort, but also includes psychological and social aspects. The four domains tested are: oral symptoms, functional limitations, emotional well-being and social well-being. The children were asked to report on these domains as they related to their oral health in the past 3 months. The dental treatment needs of the children were categorized as (0) no future needs, or (1) restorative or orthodontic needs. Those with no future needs were scheduled for a 6 months periodic exam and prophylaxis (cleaning). The children in need of restorative treatment were scheduled for such (restorations, stainless steel crowns, extractions), and those in need of orthodontics were referred for consult to an orthodontist. The final sample population consisted of 107 children, predominately African American (84%). The intra-oral screenings revealed 75% of children required future dental treatment, specifically 84% restorative and 12% orthodontic work and 25% in need of preventative recall (cleaning and exam at 6 months). Overall, children reported high levels of oral health quality of life. When asked about the overall health of their teeth, lips, jaws and mouth, 39 % (n=42) reported excellent or very good, 50% (n=53) reported good, and 9% (n=10) reported fair or poor. When asked how "overall life" was affected by oral health, 72% (n=77) reported very little or not at all, 13% (n=14) reported some, and 15% (n=16) reported a lot or very much. There were no significant correlations between the oral health quality of life domains and the children's dental treatment needs.
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Zgonc, Emma. "Life, Food, and Appalachia." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1618852289908274.
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Waldren, Jacqueline. "Insiders and outsiders in a Mallorquin village community." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305818.
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Koch, Gerry Conrad. "Evaluating the effectiveness of a discipleship seminar program at Valley Community Baptist Church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Lear, Howard Barry. "Global alienation and community system response /." Thesis, Connect to Dissertations & Theses @ Tufts University, 1999.
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Thesis (Ph.D) -- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1999.Adviser: Scott Thompson. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-304). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;
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KAWANO, Asuka. "Children's life and Community Education in Uzbekistan's Mahallas from Historical Perspectives." 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科附属生涯・キャリア教育研究センター, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/16898.
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Dennis, Elizabeth. "Music, dementia and everyday life within a community day care setting." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23873.
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This multi-method ethnographic study explores the everyday lives of people with dementia living in the community, cared for by a spouse or family member. It examines three case studies of individuals with early to moderate stage dementia. The latter were attending a weekly day-centre group and this thesis explores their interactions with each other, individual histories, tastes, habits and daily habits. The primary aim of the research was to explore the natural role of music in the lives of these subjects as individuals and as a group. In doing so, this undertaking shows how, in supportive environments, agency and capacity can flourish, leading to constituents of ‘re-covery’, to use mental health terminology. This highlights some of the important matters that are overlooked where perspectives emphasise dementia as a disease of the brain. By contrast, it illuminates the role of social and environmental factors and their contribution to well-being. After initial interviews with each individual and in some cases, members of their families, five months of participant observation followed, primarily located in a home-based day care service. The data set was formed from 178 hours of field observations, a number of audio-recordings made during the sessions, and detailed field notes. This study shows that a close-up focus on the minute details of how a person lives their life and ‘dwelling’ with them for an extended period will illuminate many of the processes that work toward maintaining the well-being of people with dementia and facilitate their revitalisation. Significantly, it was the integration of music within and alongside the everyday tapestries of activities and events which helped create a space for connection and pleasure. The thesis findings reveal how the participants in this research repeatedly demonstrated expertise and insight, albeit not always verbally expressed, but shown in and through forms of practice as regards what was required for their well-being and how to achieve it. This achievement, however, also relied upon thoughtful and creative collaboration with others (carers, family members, etc.), working alongside the participants for mutually beneficial ends. The thesis concludes that what is required for people with dementia and their well-being does not differ substantially from what is generally required by humankind, but there are certain skills and modes of co-operative assistance that are necessary to ensure and maintain the well-being of people with dementia.
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Williams, Jennifer Ann. "The Chiltern Standard newspaper 1859-1860 : an expression of community life /." Connect to thesis, 1986. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2387.
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This thesis is a study of a Victorian country newspaper, the Chiltern Standard during the period 1859-60. Using the Indigo-Chiltern goldfield (discovered in 1858) as a case study, it investigates how the life of the community was expressed through the pages of its local paper.
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Lifshitz, Pleet Judy Charna. "Quality of life of intellectually challenged adults living in the community." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33463.
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This study examined the relationship between the principle of normalization and the concept of quality of life of intellectually challenged adults living in the community. The effect of demographic variables on the quality of life of this population was examined. The sample consisted of sixty respondents from four agencies (one from Montreal and three from Ottawa) providing services to intellectually challenged adults. Cummins' (1997) Comprehensive Quality of Life---Intellectual Disability Fifth Edition (ComQol-I5) was used.Both objective and subjective quality of life scores were calculated. The major findings were: (1) the subjective scores were higher than the objective scores; (2) a number of subjective scores were positively correlated with the objective score for community (attending leisure/social activities, belonging to a group and/or holding a position of responsibility) and (3) higher functioning respondents (income, diagnosis, education and living arrangements) had significantly higher overall quality of life scores. Results were compared with two outside samples (Italian and Australian); all three samples showed a similar pattern of lower objective scores and higher subjective scores.
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Robertson, Nicola Jane. "Rural women teachers : their narrative identities and reflections on community life." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Department of Sociology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4239.
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This study explores the narrative identities of two generations of rural women teachers who
live in a small Canterbury mixed farming district that also serves tourists. These eight
women's stories were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews. The women
have all married local farmers after arriving as newcomers to teach, in either the 1960s to
early 1970s or the 1990s, at the secondary or primary schools within the area. This thesis
explores how the women narrate multiple identities as teachers, wives, mothers, farmers
and community members. These identities shift over time, space and in relation to the
women's context, whether they are relating with other people locally in the rural community,
with their family of origin in the city, or elsewhere. Yet, the majority of these women also
negotiate their identities into what appears to be a more essential "me." The women's own
concept of community is explored, in addition to the number of communities they each
belong to (defined either geographically or symbolically). The way the women identify
themselves as "newcomers or outsiders" and "locals or insiders" is also analysed in relation
to their sense of belonging. Throughout this thesis an intergenerational comparison of the
women's stories is made.
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Avery, Amanda J. "Community weight management, obesity prevention and treatment, across the life-course." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41842/.
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Obesity results from complex interactions between biological, behavioural, social and environmental factors. The focus of this thesis, both the collection of papers presented and the extended abstract, is on community-based approaches to the prevention and treatment of obesity across five important key life stages. The importance of early life influences, including the intrauterine environment, and the subsequent impact on body fatness across the life-course is discussed. Published research included considers the impact of interventions which aim to limit gestational weight gain on baby’s’ birthweights and the wider influence on sustained breastfeeding. However research presented also suggests that pregnant women receive limited information from healthcare professionals and whilst pregnancy should provide an ideal opportunity for public health intervention, the postnatal period may be more acceptable as a time to provide support and advice. The prevalence of childhood obesity has continued to increase. The most significant predictor of childhood obesity is parental obesity. A paper is presented which demonstrates that engaging adults in lifestyle programmes can have a positive impact on both the diet and activity habits of their family. A systematic review considers how TV viewing during meal-times may influence the foods and drinks consumed with the findings suggesting that the practice of eating whilst watching TV has a negative impact on the diet quality. It is recognised that sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) contribute significantly to the free sugar dietary intake, particularly the %total energy intake of children and adolescents. A further published review asks the question, which interventions that aim to reduce the intake of SSBs lead to reduced body fatness in children. There is a need for both primary prevention activities to prevent unhealthy weight gain and interventions to treat overweight and obese children/adolescents. Published data provides evidence for an intervention which does lead to weight loss in obese adolescents, leading to enhanced self-esteem which helps to improve their lifestyles behaviours. Young adulthood represents a period of change with increasing independence. There may be few occasions to discuss weight management with young adults but a presented paper explores the opportunities in primary care. Obesity is associated with a number of chronic diseases, one example being type 2 diabetes which is now presenting in adolescents and young adults. Losing weight can have a significant clinical impact on the glycaemic control of people with diabetes and thus reduce the health burden associated with the condition. Type 2 diabetes is now reversible if significant weight loss is achieved. A paper is presented which evaluates weight management in people with diabetes and the associated impact on glycaemic control. Prevalence data suggests that 25 million adults in the UK are either overweight or obese. Given the health burden to both the individual and society, scalable solutions are required which are delivered in a community setting. Through collaboration with a commercial weight management organisation (CWMO), a series of papers are presented which explore the feasibility and effectiveness of referral from primary care to CWMOs. CWMOs, using behavioural strategies, are well placed to support the large numbers of people who need weight management guidance and a referral scheme may address the health inequalities seen in obesity prevalence. One example of a well-established behavioural strategy, target setting, is considered in more detail with evidence of the importance of target setting presented. As with all research, weight management research is confounded by methodological issues. Community- based programmes are often more complex than clinical trials and contamination may be an issue. The extended abstract explores the methodological issues related to the presented papers in more detail. Whilst we can continue to improve our methodology it is important that we advance our knowledge as to what works to reduce the obesity epidemic. Sadly there will probably not be one solution which is effective at an individual level given the psychosocial complexities of obesity. Ideally we need to promote a nutritionally balanced diet and adequate levels of daily activity which enable children and adults to maintain a healthy weight across the life-course starting at the very beginning of conception.
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Ko, Myeong Chul. "The Effects of Community Quality of Life on Local Policy Decisions." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28673.
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There have been extensive debates on the factors that influence local policy decisions. Although many researchers have contributed to uncovering various influences such as political, economic, institutional, and demographic factors on local policy decisions, however, the concept of QoL rarely has used in extant literature. Local government spending is likely to be affected by citizen demands for achieving community well-being. Additionally, given that different policy functions variably affect local circumstances, the impact of QoL on local policy decisions will depend on the policy area. Hence, this study examined the relationship between QoL and local budgetary decisions based on Petersonâ s (1981) policy scheme of, three distinct policy arenas (developmental, allocational, and redistributive policy). In examining the relationship of QoL and city spending across policy functions, I also considered economic, political, institutional, and demographic factors, derived from various theoretical perspectives on local policy decisions.
The relative influences of community QoL as well as other factors on local policy decisions were estimated by two-stage least squares regression analysis (2SLS) for developmental spending and by ordinary least squares (OLS) for allocational and redistributive spending. To measure community QoL, this study used 89,066 completed surveys from 167 communities in the United States for 2002-2008 are used. QoL appeared as a critical factor influencing local government expenditures in the three policy areas. The impact of QoL on local spending in the three areas differed depending on city income levels; city income levels then moderated local policy decisions.
These findings suggest that local policy priorities adjusted in accordance with economic growth. Allocational policy functions also should be thought to be functions of cities geared toward giving them a competitive edge over other cities by meeting evolved citizen preferences for city amenities. These findings also point to distinct patterns of political activities in each policy arena. Given that community QoL reflects adjusted citizensâ demands, I contend that community QoL can contribute to performance management by providing additional public information and a complementary performance indicator.Ph. D.
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Taylor, Carol S. "Medical practices and beliefs of everyday life in a midwestern community /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487323583622496.
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Foley, Amanda K. "“Ruin Your Life for the Better:” Transformation in an Interfaith Community." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin154272375517359.
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Pascale, Andrew. "Life cycle analysis of a community hydroelectric system in rural Thailand." Thesis, Pascale, Andrew (2010) Life cycle analysis of a community hydroelectric system in rural Thailand. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2010. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/3486/.
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This study iteratively applies life cycle assessment (LCA) to a three kilowatt community hydroelectric system located in Huai Kra Thing (HKT) village in rural Thailand. The cradle to grave analysis models the hydropower scheme’s construction, operation and end of life phases over a period of twenty years and includes all relevant equipment, materials and transportation. This study asks whether the HKT hydroelectric power system has the fewest environmental negatives of equivalent electrification options for the village over its 20 year life span.
The study results in the enumeration of the environmental credentials of the HKT hydropower system and highlights the need to place environmental performance, and LCA itself, in a proper context. Credentials are established though comparison with rural electrification alternatives and sensitivity analyses.
In the broadest sense, LCA results for the HKT hydropower system are in line with a common trend reported in hydropower LCA literature, namely that smaller hydropower systems have a greater environmental impact per kWh than larger systems. Placed within a rural electrification context, however, the HKT hydropower system yields better environmental outcomes than all surveyed alternatives. Sensitivity analyses reveal that only when worst system design and performance are approached do the environmental credentials of the HKT hydropower system become questionable.
Successful community electrification rests on the locally led adaptation of globally sourced technology to meet the specific environmental, social and economic challenges of rural areas. The further useful application of LCA to rural electrification in Thailand requires similar intervention. Local stakeholder involvement is needed to adapt LCA to rural electrification conditions, collect Thai specific manufacturing data, normalize results to Thailand and report findings in an appropriate manner for local populations. Undertaken collaboratively with local stakeholders and integrated with tools such as life cycle costing, LCA can be an indispensable input into rural electrification decision making in Thailand.
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Malakoff, Daniel. "Discordant cities: how chain stores affect community life in urban neighborhoods." Thesis, Boston University, 2002. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27709.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Thomas, Sarah E. "Community and Culture: Material Life in Shenandoah County, Virginia, 1750-1850." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1530192713.
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This dissertation explores material life in the northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia from 1750 to 1850 through extant objects and those found in the documentary record. In the process, it highlights diverse processes of community formation that took place among artisans in Shenandoah County. This work provides three different perspectives on the processes of community formation in Shenandoah County, focusing on the impermanent buildings of early settlers, the growth of permanence at an ironworking community at Redwell Furnace and Pine Forge, and cultural markers in the furniture and material life of artisans Godfrey Wilkin and Johannes Spitler. The project brings together ideas about the development of a community with its own distinct regional culture by exploring the material life of Shenandoah County’s residents. There was a transition from distinct ethnicities to more homogenous regionalism that occurred from the earliest settlements beginning in the 1730s to generations later in the 1850s with a growth of a regional culture distinctive to the Shenandoah Valley. A major contribution of this work is that people, not their buildings or objects, have an active voice in a rich and detailed history of material life. Objects, buildings, and landscape, both extant and long gone, allow historians to explore the everyday life of people that have often been overlooked and previously inaccessible. This dissertation thus provides a snapshot of the varied material life of a community of artisans and consumers in Virginia’s northern Shenandoah Valley.
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Roberts, Max T. "Contributors to Wisconsin’s Persistent Black-White Gap in Life Expectancy." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6756.
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For decades, blacks have faced shorter life expectancy than their white counterparts. This persistent disparity has led to a gap in life expectancy between the two groups. Nationally, this gap has decreased over the last 40 years. However, this is not the case at the state-level as some states have experienced little or no improvement in the life expectancy gap. Such is the case in Wisconsin, where the life expectancy gap is the largest in the nation for males, and the gap actually has grown for females over the last two decades. This study seeks to examine this persistent gap in Wisconsin by looking at different causes of death and the ages when they contribute most to the gap. Additionally, this study will examine how the contribution of certain causes of death have changed over time, both between blacks and whites, and also within each group. Using 1999-2001 and 2009-2011 data from the National Center for Health Statistics, this study found that heart disease and malignant neoplasms (cancer) contributed most to the life expectancy gap between blacks and whites and also over time within each group. For females, diabetes and perinatal conditions were found to be top contributors to the black-white gap. Diabetes contributed most after the age of 50. For males, homicide was found to be a top contributor to the black-white gap, particularly among youth aged 15 to 29. Homicide among males frequently ranked near heart disease and malignant neoplasms as a leading contributor to the gap. These findings tell us that by reducing death rates from these causes at particular moments in the life course, the life expectancy gap between blacks and whites can be reduced. This study provides important evidence that health policy makers can use to address racial disparities in life expectancy.
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Naito, Tsuyoshi. "Life quality recovery : progress towards life styles in which people find value /." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02022010-020307/.
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