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Can Universal Insurance Ensure Access to Healthcare?
. . . providing health insurance does not ensure equitable access to care. Moreover, all health insurance programs are not alike and the minimal packages may not suffice. There are several types of access problems, including ...
A Machine Learning Approach to Stock Selection using Technical Analysis (thesis)
This thesis introduces a novel machine learning framework for stock selection that only uses technical indicators and chart patterns as inputs. In contrast to other papers, the machine learning model first employs a recursive ...
Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequalities in Mental Health Combining Social and Health Sector Perspectives
Through personal observations and discussion with both practitioners and administrators, I developed an informed perspective on many of the issues that exist at the intersection of poverty and mental health. At the conclusion ...
Energy Boom to Doom: The Impact of Fracking on Deaths of Despair (thesis)
Since 1999, 'deaths of despair' -- deaths from drug overdoses, alcoholic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, and suicide -- have driven increases in mortality for middle-age white Americans (Case and Deaton 2017). While the ...
What is the Promise in the Promise Neighborhoods?
This paper addresses two issues. One concerns the holistic program of the Promise Neighborhood with its comprehensive “cradle-to-college” strategy that seeks to help break the cycle of generational and neighborhood poverty. ...
Predatory Lending: Payday Lenders and Credit Card Companies
Predatory payday lenders and credit card companies target lower income earners. Wage earners who utilize these services spend a disproportionate amount of money on interest and late fees. Therefore, these low earners have ...
The Multi-Dimensional Effects of Poverty on Children With Asthma
Childhood asthma is a complicated disease caused by numerous, interrelated factors. It disproportionately affects minority and impoverished communities in a multidimensional manner, through variances in healthcare, ...
Terrestrial Mercury Cycling in Northern Michigan: Honeysuckle Creek Watershed and Burt Lake (thesis)
Mercury (Hg), a potent environmental toxicant, affects the cognition and health of both human and aquatic ecosystem populations. Despite regulation-driven decreases in atmospheric mercury levels, Burt Lake is among the ...