Laura Waldman's Publications List

Qualitative research and content validity.

2014-07-08T19:18:34Z

Brod M, Pohlman B, Tesler Waldman, L (2014) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. pp. 5257-5265

A novel community-based delivery model to combat cancer disparities

2013-12-13T14:10:50Z

Laura Tesler Waldman, Ludmila Svoboda, Brian F. Young, Gregory A. Abel, Suzanne Berlin, Aymen A. Elfiky, Rachel A. Freedman, Mark Drews, Laura Holland, Christopher S. Lathan. (2013) Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation 1: 123-129

Using FastTrack to implement an academic medical center and community health center collaborative for cancer care delivery

2013-12-13T14:09:20Z

Laura Tesler Waldman, William Bean, Anne L. Levine, Adena Cohen-Bearak, Fawn A. Phelps, Ludmila Svoboda, Rachel A. Freedman, Aymen A. Elfiky, Suzanne Berlin, Gregory A. Abel, Charles Deutsch, Christopher S. Lathan (2013) Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation 1: 130-135

The social relations of health care and household resource allocation in neoliberal Nicaragua.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: With the transition to neoliberalism, Nicaragua's once-critically acclaimed health care services have substantially diminished. Local level social formations have been under pressure to try to bridge gaps as the state's role in the provision of health care and other vital social services has decreased. This paper presents a case study of how global and national health policie...

Laura E Tesler (2010) BMC Int Health Hum Rights 10:

"Our reach is wide by any corporate standard": how the tobacco industry helped defeat the clinton health plan and why it matters now.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

Contemporary health care reformers, like those who promoted the failed Clinton era plan, face opposition from multiple corporate interests. However, scant literature has examined how relationships between corporations and other stakeholders, such as think tanks and advocacy groups, shape health care reform debate. We show how the 2 biggest US tobacco companies, Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, and t...

Laura E Tesler, Ruth E Malone (2010) Am J Public Health 100: 7 1174-1188

Qualitative research and content validity: developing best practices based on science and experience.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

PURPOSE: Establishing content validity for both new and existing patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures is central to a scientifically sound instrument development process. Methodological and logistical issues present a challenge in regard to determining the best practices for establishing content validity. METHODS: This paper provides an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding quali...

Meryl Brod, Laura E Tesler, Torsten L Christensen (2009) Qual Life Res 18: 9 1263-1278

Smoking and harm-reduction efforts among postpartum women.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

The authors present findings from a qualitative study on postpartum smoking among low-income women ( N = 44) who had been smokers at the onset of pregnancy. Interview data collected after delivery at Months 1, 3, and 6 postpartum are discussed to explore contextual factors contributing to smoking abstinence, relapse, and harm-reduction practices. By 6 months postpartum, 10 women (23%) had complete...

Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter, Shelly Adrian, Kate Goldade, Laura Tesler, Myra Muramoto (2008) Qual Health Res 18: 9 1184-1194

Corporate philanthropy, lobbying, and public health policy.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

To counter negative publicity about the tobacco industry, Philip Morris has widely publicized its philanthropy initiatives. Although corporate philanthropy is primarily a public relations tool, contributions may be viewed as offsetting the harms caused by corporate products and practices. That such donations themselves have harmful consequences has been little considered. Drawing on internal compa...

Laura E Tesler, Ruth E Malone (2008) Am J Public Health 98: 12 2123-2133

Breastfeeding and smoking among low-income women: results of a longitudinal qualitative study.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

BACKGROUND: The benefits of breastfeeding for infants and mothers have been well established, yet rates of breastfeeding remain well below national recommendations in the United States and even lower for women who smoke during pregnancy. Primary goals of this study were to explore contextual factors that contribute to breastfeeding intentions and behavior and to examine how smoking status affected...

Kate Goldade, Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter, Shelly Adrian, Laura Tesler, Myra Muramoto (2008) Birth 35: 3 230-240

Smoking among low-income pregnant women: an ethnographic analysis.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

This article presents findings from a qualitative study of 53 low-income women who were smokers at the onset of pregnancy. Study participants were interviewed during pregnancy to document smoking trajectories and factors contributing to, or undermining, harm reduction and quit attempts. Thirty percent of women quit smoking completely, 43% engaged in sustained harm reduction, and 26% reduced their ...

Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter, Myra Muramoto, Shelly Adrian, Kate Goldade, Laura Tesler, Jennifer Thompson (2007) Health Educ Behav 34: 5 748-764

Book Review: Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India by Cecilia Van Hollen. Berkeley, CA, and London, UK: University of California Press, 2003.

2010-06-20T15:13:41Z

Laura Tesler (2007)

“Now There is No Treatment for Anyone”: Health Care Seeking in Neo-Liberal Nicaragua.

2010-06-20T15:07:56Z

Over the course of the twentieth century, the quality, quantity and accessibility of health care services in Nicaragua were remarkably altered in accordance with the agendas of stakeholders in the national government and providers of "development aid", many of whose objectives were as much or more political as they were humanitarian. Much of the international health literature has focused on socio...

Laura E Tesler (2006)

Smoking as a weight-control strategy among adolescent girls and young women: a reconsideration.

2010-06-20T14:24:04Z

Many studies have reported that adolescent girls and young women smoke to control their weight. The majority of these studies are cross-sectional and report on correlational data from quantitative surveys. This article presents data from ethnographic interviews with 60 smokers, interviewed in high school and in follow-up interviews at age 21. Contrary to previous research, this study found little ...

Mimi Nichter, Mark Nichter, Nancy Vuckovic, Laura Tesler, Shelly Adrian, Cheryl Ritenbaugh (2004) Med Anthropol Q 18: 3 305-324

Locations of self in smoking discourses and practices: An ethnography of smoking among adolescents and young adults in the United States.

2010-06-20T15:06:34Z

Whereas the presence of an ashtray on every table in American restaurants was once the norm, smoking in public places has become increasingly restricted during the late twentieth century. Given the changes in numerous physical and social environments impacting on smoking messages and behaviors within the larger context of contemporary American ideologies about morality, identity, the body, and the...

Laura E Tesler (2000)