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Center for Health Research

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Past CHR Grants

2005 CHR Grants

The Influence of Demographic Heterogeneity on the Emergence of Change Readiness Norms in a Large Health Care Organization by Jennifer Chatman (Business)
Environmental and Parental Factors Contributing to Obesity in Mexican Children by Sylvia Guendelman (Public Health)
Learning to Teach (and to Inoculate, Build Roads and.) by David Levine (Business)
Biology As Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Inter-generational Correlations in Birth Weight by Enrico Moretti (Economics)
Cell Phones as Medical Data Collection Devices and Decision Support Systems for Rural Health Workers by Eric Brewer (Computer Science)
Overcoming Barriers to Knowledge Exchange and Performance Enhancement in the Adoption and Use of New Wireless Telehealth Technologies by Karlene Roberts (Business, Organizational Behavior)
Information Technology for Assisted Living at Home (ITALH) by Shankar Sastry (EECS)

2004 CHR Grants

Assessing Change Readiness in a Large Health Care Organization by Jennifer Chatman (Business)
Effects of Health Regulation on Condom Use and Economic Returns to Sex Work: Evidence from Ecuador by Paul Gertler (Business/Public Health)
Models of Distributive Justice and Health: Can they address how early social disparities "get into the body" and affect long-term health? by Jodi Halpern (Public Health)
Implementing a Social Determinants Model for Addressing and Preventing Health Disparities by Denise Herd (Public Health)
Who is Expert? Local-level Knowledge and Program Implementation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Ann Keller (Public Health)
Long-term Health and Economic Consequences of the Vietnam War by Edward Miguel (Economics)
The Built Environment and Colorectal Cancer Survival: An Evaluation by William Satariano (Public Health)
Social Networks and Health-Care Seeking Behavior: A Pilot Study in Cuba by S. Leonard Syme (Public Health)

2003 CHR Grants

Assessing Change Readiness Across Medical Centers of a Large Health Care Organization by Jennifer Chatman (Business)
Assessing the Contribution of Maternal Morbidity, Selective Migration, and Acculturation to Pregnancy Outcomes in Mexico and California by Sylvia Guendelman (Public Health)
Financial and Social Capital as Protection Against Health Shocks in Mexico by David Levine (Business)
Archiving Cuban Health Care Data for Research by Kamran Nayeri (UC DATA)
Prioritizing Resources for Safe Motherhood Interventions in Resource-Scarce Settings by Malcolm Potts (Public Health)
Social Capital, Social Ties, and Mental Health in the United States by Richard M. Scheffler (Public Health)
Social Capacities for Combating HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ann Swidler (Sociology)
Determining the Provider Attributes Which Are Determinants of Client Satisfaction Among Private Clinicians in Kenya by Julia Walsh (Public Health)

2002 CHR Grants

Defining and Assessing the Cultural Competence of Substance Abuse Services Targeting Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area by Joan Bloom (Public Health)
Did September 11 Trigger Communal Bereavement? by Ray Catalano (Public Health) and Brenda Eskenazi (Public Health)
Assessing the Stress/Preterm-Low Birthweight Relationship: The Role of Stress, Social, and Biological Factors Among Working Women by Sylvia Guendelman (Public Health) and Tom Boyce (Public Health)
Are Investments in Daughters Lower When Daughters Move Away? Evidence from Indonesia by David Levine (Business)
Changes in the Cuban Health Care System Since the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Is a Two-Tier System Emerging? by Jane Mauldon (Public Policy) and Kamran Nayeri (UC DATA)
Pre-School Health and Education in Urban India by Edward Miguel (Economics)
Chronic Disease, Patient Knowledge, and the Effect on the Demand for Physician Services by Richard M. Scheffler (Public Health)
Cross-cultural Variation in Mental Health Measurement: A Cognitive Approach by Lonnie Snowden (Social Welfare)
Social Capacities for Combating HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ann Swidler (Sociology)
Optimizing the Provision of Medical Services in Developing Countries by Julia Walsh (Public Health)

2001 CHR Grants

Financial and Social Capital as Protection Against Health Shocks in Indonesia by Paul Gertler (Business/Public Health) and David Levine (Business)
Effects of Direct-to-Consumer Drug Advertising on Prescription Choice by Paul Gertler (Business/Public Health)
Patient Anxiety and Information Exchange with the Doctor: An Economic Perspective by Botond Köszegi (Economics)
Social Networks and Health Choices in Kenya by Edward Miguel (Economics)
Progressive Politics and Health Care Reform in Western Europe by Jonah D. Levy (Political Science)

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