Between nine and thirteen percent of women report symptoms of depression during pregnancy or the postpartum period, constituting a significant public health problem. Studies have found that postpartum depression is correlated with many forms of stress, including divorce, the death of a loved one, poverty and financial strain, and overall poor health. During the first…
Tag: Population studies
Honors Thesis Spotlight: The Role of Education in Improving Human Development in Central America: A Comparative Analysis of Guatemala and Costa Rica
Costa Rica and Guatemala are two comparable countries in Central America that share similar geographic and cultural characteristics, yet maintain noticeably different levels of human development. Additionally, both countries are not considered economically wealthy (2). Regardless, Costa Rica is ranked first out of 140 countries and territories on the Happy Planet Index. The Happy Planet…
Honors Thesis Spotlight: Investigating Humeral Retroversion in Archaic Populations
Based on prior research, the standard degree of humeral retroversion (the rotation of the head relative to the distal articulation) has been agreed to be between 25°- 35°, and increased retroversion is potentially correlated with several factors. Madison Hubbart’s research evaluates retroversion angles among adult male and female humeri from the Windover population to test…
Honors Thesis Spotlight: Faith Matters: Towards a Group Theory of Evangelicals’ Role in American Politics
Contemporary Evangelical Christians are often associated with having a right-wing political ideology. This association is driven by the political phenomenon observed in American known as the “God Gap”. This “Gap” refers to a political difference between those who identify with religion and those who do not; specifically, those who align themselves with a religion are…
Meet a Social Scientist: Dr. Carlson from Demography and Population Health
What is your name? Dr. Woody Carlson What kind of work do you do in the College?I am a Charles B. Nam Professor in Sociology of Population at the Center for Demography and Population Health. I teach, do research and engage in service in the department, profession and community. Why did you decide to become…
COVID-19 in Florida: Disparities in the Black Population
This article was first posted October 19th, 2020. After the COVID-19 pandemic caused statewide shutdowns and social distancing regulations across the nation in March 2020, the State of Florida reopened on May 18, 2020. Shortly after its reopening, hospitals and testing centers reported a drastic increase in positive COVID-19 tests. In July 2020, Florida became…
Honors Thesis Spotlight: Licensing the Undocumented: Traffic Safety and Auto Insurance Analysis
One of the most hotly debated domestic policies of the modern era has been determining the course of those living in the United States without proper legal documentation, a figure near 11 million people. At the core of the issue is a debate regarding whether the federal government ought to remove these people, provide them…
Big Metro Areas In Florida Keep Getting Bigger
People cluster and cities grow because of what are broadly known as agglomeration economies. Agglomeration economies include things like knowledge spillovers that make workers and firms more productive, as well as the benefits that come from a thicker labor market, such as better employer-employee matches. Agglomeration economies are the forces that pull people together.
Immigrants Fitting In: Challenging the All-Or-Nothing View of Acculturation
But when you move half-way around the world to start a new life in a strange foreign land, this process of trying to fit in is called acculturation. Researchers who studied the last great wave of immigrants to America, writing two or three generations ago in the mid-20th century, tended to give an either-or answer to this question. You could be either German or American. You could be either Chinese or American. We often assumed that becoming an American meant giving up on being German or Chinese.
Wicked Problems, Wicked Solutions 