Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 62-71 , January 2008

A Sociobehavioral Model of Acupuncture Use, Patterns, and Satisfaction Among Women in the United States, 2002

  • Dawn M. Upchurch, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
    • Dawn M. Upchurch, PhD, is a health demographer and Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has researched many aspects of women’s health for over 20 years, most recently focusing on women’s health and well-being during midlife. Currently, she is also investigating women’s use of complementary and alternative medicine, including acupuncture.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Dawn M. Upchurch, Professor, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095-1772.
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  • Adam Burke, PhD, MPH, LAc

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Holistic Health Healing Studies, Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
    • Adam Burke, LAc, MPH, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Education and Director of the Institute for Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University. Research activities include curricular innovation, traditional medicine utilization/integration, and mental imagery.
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  • Claire Dye, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
    • Claire Dye, MSPH, is a Community Health Sciences doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health. Her work explores the impact of changes in sociodemographic and health status on midlife women’s sexual health.
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  • Laura Chyu, MA

      Affiliations

    • UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
    • Laura Chyu, MA, is a Community Health Sciences doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health. Her research integrates biological and social processes in understanding women’s health across the life course.
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  • Yasamin Kusunoki, MPH

      Affiliations

    • UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California
    • Yasamin Kusunoki, PhD, MPH, is a recent graduate of the Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan and studies reproductive health issues across the life course, with a focus on the role of social contexts and intimate relationships.
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  • Gail A. Greendale, MD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Los Angeles, California
    • Gail A. Greendale, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of research concentration is women’s health, with emphasis on menopause, osteoporosis and health-promoting behaviors.

Received 9 March 2007 ,Accepted 20 August 2007.

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 Supported by NCCAM grant K01AT002156 (D.M.U.) and NICHD grant R24HD041022 (pilot grant to D.M.U.).

PII: S1049-3867(07)00141-7

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.08.003

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 62-71 , January 2008

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