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Research

Each year, the Department of Population Health Services hosts a poster session. Posters from students in the UW Population Health Institute are featured below.

2007 Student Posters

Author Title
Melissa Boeke Incorporating Measures of County-Level Health Policies and Programs into the Wisconsin County Health Rankings
Sara Busarow Coming Together for Better Care: The Wisconsin Collaborative Diabetes Quality Improvement Project
Anna Kocharian Monitoring the Risk of Binge Drinking in Childbearing-age Women
Peter Vila Effect of the Work Environment on Physician Self-Prediction of Future Error

2006 Student Posters

Author Title
Melissa Boeke Interpreting the Health Rankings for Menominee County
Angela Kempf The Burden of Mortality in Wisconsin: Annual Excess Deaths
Casey Schumann Wisconsin Trends in Pneumonia and Influenza Mortality, 1980-2003
Kelly Stolzmann Predictors of Kidney Transplantation Among Persons with End-Stage Renal Disease in Wisconsin
Melissa Umland Factors Associated with Maternal Smoking in Wisconsin and the United States, 2002
Peter Vila The Wisconsin County Health Rankings: Important Determinants of Health in Wisconsin Counties
Dan Zank Estimating Confidence Intervals Around Ranks: An Example From the Wisconsin County Health Rankings

Published Articles

Date Journal Author(s) Title
2002 Wisconsin Medical Journal Andersen LD,
Commons JL		 Regional Variations in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Wisconsin, 1979-1998
2002 Wisconsin Medical Journal Dawson K,
Gordon BJ,
Guend A		 Progress in Reducing Stroke Mortality in Wisconsin, 1984-1998
2002 Wisconsin Medical Journal Park H,
Safdar N,
Schmidt H		 Decline in Mortality in Disease Among Whites and Blacks in Wisconsin 1979-1998